AND lo it finally came to pass — the commons gathered yesterday to “discuss” and vote as to whether fat-cat Top Shop supremo and tax-dodger extraordinaire Philip Green should be compelled to hand back his knighthood.

The conclave resulted from the “recent revelations” regarding Green’s business practices following the collapse of British Home Stores and the loss of thousands of jobs, not to mention the wholesale plundering of pension funds.

It has been argued, with a fair degree of understatement, that Green has shown himself to be unfit to operate a business and now stands accused of bringing the honours system into disrepute.