Gong snub is another broken promise

I defy anyone to read the Times this morning and feel a sense of injustice has taken place.

When Gordon Brown came to power he promised to recognise the civilians that turned from commuters to heroes of the 7/7. Instead they have been snubbed! Again!

What I find disgraceful, more than anything is that this was a personal promise from Brown that has been broken, not just a manifesto one that we are used to being broken. These people are the true embodiment of the word hero.

To date a number of people have been honoured for their contributions on that day from London Underground staff to emergency services personnel. But their heroic acts where made in the call of duty. After all, I speak from an informed point of view as I was on of the many LU staff that answered that call of duty of that day, and worked my knackers off in some very unsavoury conditions. However, these people didn't have a call of duty, they were simply commuters. Their call of duty was to get to their place of work, instead they dived in, helped out wherever they could, and by their actions they probably prevented more lives meing lost.

So, what thanks do they get, none!

The ethos behind getting an honour is going beyond the call of duty, and giving service beyond the expectations of your role. So how did they not get an honour? It becomes even more of a disgrace when people that have been honoured are pen pushing civil servants who have simply done their job for the government, or in the case of Richard Summersgill puts half of the nation's personal details at risk and gets a CBE as a thank you.

Sometimes this government's actions don't just make me cringe, on days like this it makes me physically sick. But then the government has been doing its level best to brush the whole events of July 2005 under the carpet, with their insistance of not holding a public inquiry, ever since.