Who would you honour this year? We’ve got brass baubles for booby prizes and gold stars aplenty for our PRSD honours and dishonours list. So far all we’ve given out though are brass baubles for boobery. Who would you add to the list? And who gets a gold star?
First on our PRSD Brass Bauble list is (Sir) Anthony Steen, whose appalling use of public money to beautify his already enviable house was only slightly outdone by his attitude that the ruckus was because everyone was jealous of his enviable house. (Our resident Freudian also points out that boasting about the size of one’s ‘dwelling’ is tantamount to ‘pensione envy’. And apparently, if you look at it from a certain angle and in the right light, it could be mistaken for Balmoral, said Sir Anthony about his penis)
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Second PRSD Brass Bauble goes to Western Morning News editor Alan Qualtrough, whose abortive blog started with a half-witted attack on the internet and ‘displayed moral outrage while pimping tragedy’. It quickly resorted to football and socks, before limping to an early demise. Who’d a thought the editor of a regional daily would have so little to say… even while saying it! (At the time of going to press it was still being advertised on the front page of the Western Morning News’ website, although it hadn’t been updated since October 21, 2009)
Our third PRSD Brass Bauble goes to Councillor Roger Croad, who, despite being a Town Councillor for Ivybridge and a County Councillor for Ivybridge hasn’t been fighting the decision (along with townsfolk, prospective parliamentary candidates and the sitting MP) to site an incinerator just two miles from the centre of… you guessed it… Ivybridge. Do we need to say that he’s also in charge of waste in Devon and is chair of the organisation which is looking to site incinerators?
Our fourth PRSD Brass Bauble goes to David Dodd, principal of the newly-named Petroc. It’s not the name that troubles us so much (a combined college is a rose by any other name, right?). It was the appalling marketing drivel that he came out with to justify the decision, with breathless nonsense like: “On its own, the name Petroc instantly redefines this heritage, transforming it into something contemporary – something timeless. Petroc is now, the times we’re living in. Though ancient in origin, Petroc has the look and sound of a modern word. It could be coined today. And, having reinvented itself, Petroc is now redefining us.”
We got a sackful for (notional) PRSD Brass Baubles and famed PRSD Gold Stars to give away, but who should we put on the list? And should any of these four come off the list?
Comment below for a truly democratic New Year’s Honours List.
Come and enjoy Devon – book a hotel and get away!
