Ian Fleming Knighthood Petition

minigeff

Hi guys, sorry if this has been posted before, i did a search and couldn't find anything, so here goes.

Over on mi6.co.uk, a threads been started regarding getting Ian Fleming knighted.

Basically, an online petition is running, and if enough signatures are recieved, it could stand a good chance of us getting a knighthood for Ian.

The basic rules are;
firstly, anyone from around the world can sign it, so add your sig to help out! and

secondly, please ONLY SIGN IT ONCE. the regulators check by random to see if there are any repetitions, so please refrain from signing several (or even two) times, because if there are several repetitions picked up, the bid gets thrown out.

so follow this link;

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fleming_knighthood/

and hopefully we'll get Ian the title he well deserves.

Cheers,

MG B-)

ps, maybe simon could sticky this, gain it a bit more attention?

ke02eww

Done...

and Absolutely JB Essential...

However, sadly this Government is too busy with scandals to bother...

What we need is an MP who is a Bond fan....

Anyone know one?..

minigeff

sadly, i don't know an MP worthy of my breath.

Hardyboy

Does the British government award posthumous knighthoods? If they do, isn't 45 years since the man's death kind of late? I dunno: I want to believe that Bond was voicing Fleming's own feelings when he turned down a knighthood in TMWTGG.

minigeff

Hardyboy wrote:

Does the British government award posthumous knighthoods? If they do, isn't 45 years since the man's death kind of late? I dunno: I want to believe that Bond was voicing Fleming's own feelings when he turned down a knighthood in TMWTGG.

yeah posthumous knighthoods are possible.

7289

In QOS Bond says "The dead don't care about revenge."

I doubt they care much about a Knighthood either.

I think it is somehow fitting that Fleming, one of the great novelists Great Britian has produced was NOT given a knighthood.

I'm with Hardyboy on this.

bondaholic007

Shows over folks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6537281.stm

This will explain why.

agent 00

bondaholic007 wrote:

Shows over folks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6537281.stm

This will explain why.

Looks like the dead don't care about knighthoods,and if they do they don't get it.

ke02eww

bondaholic007 wrote:

Shows over folks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6537281.stm

This will explain why.

Game set and match, new balls-up.


To think, the rarely right and totally dishonourable TB actually wrote that excuse...


I understand the others comments, and share their logic, that IF wouldn't care.


As regards "rules is rules, guv'nor", I'm afraid the way the Honours system is abused these days offers little support to the "rules"...

Hardyboy

Ian Fleming's name is world famous; his novels are still in print and being read nearly sixty years after the first one was published; and his character has become an international icon. Really, can a knighthood compete with all that?

Napoleon Plural

I mean, we have Sir Fred Goodwin. Need I say more?

ke02eww

Napoleon Plural wrote:

I mean, we have Sir Fred Goodwin. Need I say more?

Actually, that says it all really......

and for those footie-fans who saw the Bob Paisley pettition, my point about the honours system being totally corrupt and worthless would be summed up as follows;

Sir Matt Busby Bill Shankley

Sir Alex Fergusson Bob Paisley

Sir Bobby Charlton Kenny Dangish

Sir Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Ian Rush

(yes even he's been knighted.... http://www.manutd24.com/category/ex-reds-and-legends/

and now
Sir Ryan Giggs

next......Senor Ronaldo of Cheatdom... )

Mister White

Yes, but Skojsjaer was awarded a Norwegian knighthood thingy.

They have only just been a country for a century now, so give them a break. They need all the knights they can get... :v

And I agree, IF wouldn't care.

Dan Same

A knighthood would be a wonderful thing, but to me, it's similar to the Nobel Prize for Literature, in that genre writers rarely get the recognition they deserve. 'Serious' writers almost always get the accolades. Fleming, along with writers like Agatha Christie, are more deserving of the Nobel Prize, or in this case a knighthood, than most 'serious' writers but they always miss out.

But then again, why would Fleming want to receive a knighthood considering that Salman Rushdie has received one? 8-)

Oracabessa

Those who are in favor of his knighthood seem to do so solely based on his literary merits. However, would any of his WWII actions justify such an honor?