REGARDING Hyndburn MP Greg Pope's complaint about East Lancashire losing out in the Honours List (LET, June 3), the system has been a shambles for a long time now and, in my opinion, should be done away with, except in really deserving ones.

It has become a farce.

You don't give football managers knighthoods -- they do a job like anyone else and get very well paid for it.

How can you award the OBE? We don't have a British Empire any more.

They only mean very little today because they are given so freely.

GLADYS ROBINSON (Mrs), Edge End, Great Harwood.