Re: Unjustified enrichment/'gong' fever (The Weekend Sun, January 6). R Paterson stating one of the few things the Labour Government of 2000 got absolutely right was the abolition of knighthoods and damehoods is debatable. However, the correspondent failed to advise that following the reinstatement of the former honours system in 2009, by the National-led John Key Government, the offer to transfer honours received under the Labour party rules to the reinstated honours system was taken up by virtually all the recipients of the Labour Party-introduced system. Even more glaringly was the acceptance of a knighthood by one of the assumed architects of the Labour honours system being, Sir Michael Cullen. How things change.

M Baker, Bethlehem.