Phil Coulter says he declined OBE because he didn't like Margaret Thatcher

PHIL COULTER HAS said he turned down the offer to receive an Order of the British Empire in 1990.

Speaking on last night’s Late Late Show, Coulter said: “I got a letter from 10 Downing Street, from the office of Maggie Thatcher, saying that she was of the mind to recommend to her majesty that I was to be given an OBE, and she would like to have confirmation of the fact that I would accept it. Given my background, given the fact that right then Maggie Thatcher would not be my favourite politician, given the way she had reacted through the hunger strikes, the way she had treated the miners during the miners’ strike, I thought for me to accept an honour from this woman somehow would be tantamount to me saying, ‘Well, she’s okay by me, I’m on her team’, and I wasn’t. “So I thought, you know what? My ego is in good enough shape, I don’t need this OBE so I politely declined.

A man with integrity you like to see it

He's Irish, why would he accept an OBE in the first place ?

maith an fear

We’ll done Phil your a man and after that refusal you’re even a bigger man today a through gent Irish

Loved this interview with Ryan

Good on Phil. Sound man!

Good on him 👏🏽👏🏽

Imagine that?!

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