What a total joke it is for Eric Pickles to receive a knighthood.

He is one of the most arrogant and unlikeable politicians going, all he has ever done is make thousands of council workers jobless by his spending cuts with help from the conservative government. He is vastly overpaid.

All our war heroes , charity workers and unpaid people who deserve a knighthood must be thinking how the hell does somebody like him deserve one. The system is definitely broken for this to happen.

Tommy Howarth

Westhoughton