LOl me too Louis.
It's about time this patronage was halted.
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LOl me too Louis.
It's about time this patronage was halted.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Yes, this patronage system is unbearable. Despite my criticism of mr. Patel, I do hope this will have some repercusions for Bliar and Labour.
Blair has been the biggest dispenser of political patronage in the Lords since life peerages were created in 1958.Despite their being nominated by Blair, the Appointments Commission, an independent body which vets potential peerages, has refused to ratify the honours for Patel, Garrard and Townsley. It has declined to give its reasons.
The disclosures will provoke calls for another shake-up of the honours system.
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government gives financial backers rewards... I hope you'll see my complete lack of shock.
I'm no fan of Blairs, but i don't see how this lot are any different to the governments of the past 100 years.
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Except that life peers were only created 50 years ago.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Call me out of date, but I think KBEs and OBEs should be there for doing something exceptional.
Being a senior Civil Servant does NOT count.
Nor does running a care home, fostering kids, helping after a bombing etc etc. Doing exceptionally well at sport may just about qualify.
If you really want these things to be remembered make some civic award that they can receive.
I'd make the list again somewhat more traditional in that the PM presents the list to the Monarch who then decides who they want, and can add to it as well.
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
"If you can't trust the local kleptocrat whom you installed by force and prop up with billions of annual dollars, who can you trust?" Lemur
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. Winston Churchill
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:p
and how did the hereditary peers originally get their seats? patronage?
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Slaughter was another good one of course. Nothing beats mass murder to make one a hero to the side that you're on.
Most things we have can be regressed to their venial roots, but then one has to make the choice: reform them or scrap them.
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
"If you can't trust the local kleptocrat whom you installed by force and prop up with billions of annual dollars, who can you trust?" Lemur
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. Winston Churchill
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So you can buy yourself a peerage and get to vote on what happens in the land?
So when is USA going to invade to put democracy in place in the UK?
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Pape for global overlord!!
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