When Iain Duncan Smith famously announced that “the quiet man is here to stay and he’s turning up the volume” at the Conservative Party conference in 2003, everybody rightly turned off.
Now news that ‘IDS,’ the chairman of Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign and a man best known for ‘Betsygate,’ has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list, there has rightly been outrage at this plainly nepotistic action.
A petition, started by a psychiatrist named Dr Mona Kamal Ahmed, has since been started on Change.org calling for the blocking of this honour. We urge all readers to join those who’ve signed it and we the urge the powers that be to put a stop to this clear example of moral bankruptcy.
Two stories to keep beside you
Brexit Blues
Iain Duncan Smith, Peter Bone, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg captured looking exasperated; an exact reflection on their beloved Brexit Summing up the mood of the nation in relation to the blessed mess that is Brexit, this photograph features the most unlikely foursome. Looking worn out and exasperated and pictured with a ridiculously […]
Celebrating Champions in the Community
An event to support the unsung heroes in our community On the 8th November, The Steeple Times will be the media partner for a fundraising event jointly hosted by Gina and Alan Miller and The Rt. Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP at The Hurlingham Club in London, SW6. 100% of the funds raised by […]
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6 comments
His face says it all – cretinous creep!
You can polish a turd and it will still be a turd
One of the best articles I read recently Matthew!
Ghastly person!
Dodgy bloke who has done nothing for nobody gets honoured. Nothing new there sadly. The system stinks.
Meh. Speak to me when they take away Olly Robbins’s knighthood.
Put him in the stocks for what he did to the poor