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.
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