Dirk GentlySouth Coast RoyalRoyal Rother
Massively OTT, and didn't they all get MBEs or something? Ridiculous.
But if the parade was well attended and gave a nice feel good factor for a short while who are we to moan I guess?
It's probably an age thing where you and Dirk seem to be in the same camp as me.
As you say, if it makes people happy then why not and put it down to people nowadays ,desperately needing that sense of belonging and a requirement for a feelgood fix which maybe they don't get from their own lives, with an element of National pride thrown in.
There may well be a political dimension to it, also, This was not too long after Blair had his Britpop-inspired Downing St receptions etc - probably just another facet of trying to big up Britain as a "brand".
Don’t have a problem with celebrating the 2005 Ashes in a big way.
For the previous 15 or 16 years we hadn’t had a look in.
Extracted this from Wikipedia -
Before the 1989, the win–loss ratio was pretty even with 87 test wins for Australia to England's 86.
Between 1989 and the start of the 2005 series, Australia had won a further 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws. And only one England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake.
So the history leading up to 2005 was not surprisingly doom and gloom. And even after the first Test it looked like the same old story. The manner of victory in the following games was astounding so why wouldn’t you celebrate in a big way? We’d recovered the Ashes after a long period of total domination by the Aussies and in the most exciting way.
As for being awarded honours, well I couldn’t give a stuff about them in any circumstances.