Ha! Ha! Haaaaaaaaa! An OBE in exchange for the State Pension?

I don’t know how that one leaked to the press unless it has prior publication. It's part of work done by the think tank Compass called:

100 Ideas for 100 Days of the Burnham Government.

Last month, we called on Compass Members and our friends in the civil society space to combine and suggest a whole range of policies and ideas that this Government should undertake quickly to drag Britain out of the difficult political situation it finds itself in.

The Compass website shows the ideas are being published over three weeks. The first 33 ideas are:

Week 1: How Britain is governed (democratic reform, accountability, devolution, immigration, foreign policy & defence)

Then:

Week 2: Week 2: Shaping Britain’s economy, technology, and environment (Tax, inequality, ownership, technology, AI, sustainability etc) (Coming 21st August)

Week 3: What does a good society provide? (housing, public services, health, education, community etc) (Coming 28th August)

There are some good ideas in Week 1, ideas on PR, Citizens’ Assemblies, political donations, restrictions on appointments to the House of Lords etc:

www.compassonline.org.uk/100-ideas-for-100-days-of-the-burnham-government/

A lot in there to stimulate some interesting discussion.

Trust the media to focus on something that sounds daft but without seeing the details of the proposal, it’s hard to comment. As it’s been reported it sounds like cash for honours.

Goodness. That just indicates the worth of an OBE! Bit of an insult to those for whom it was a genuine accolade.

Some think tank has suggested that wealthy pensioners give up their pensions for 3yrs in exchange for an OBE.

I wondered if Crumbly was feeling ok a few strange posts this morning 😂

It must be the heat..