Cash for honours scandal
We should stop our hypocritical attack on Tony Blair for his alleged "Cash for Honours" activities - and do all we can to encourage him in this practice.
I am no admirer of this Prime Minister (or any member of his creepy Cabinet) but there is no doubt in my mind that selling peerages is preferable to the alternative: Blair will have to go cap in hand to the Unions and beg them to finance the Labour Party again.
People are beginning to forget the 1979 Winter of Discontent when the Unions were Labour's paymasters and, as a result ran the country. Wildcat strikes brought us to our knees; our economy began to collapse and we could not even bury our dead.
New Labour are now 27 million in debt and if Tony Blair cannot repay this in any other way, he will surely be obliged to strike a one-sided deal with the Unions. So its 1979 here we come again!
If we must criticise a politician for the "Cash for Honours" debacle, a better target would perhaps be Gordon Brown. He is responsible for all the finances in the country and he expects to be Leader of New Labour and Prime Minister one day.
If he did not know how his party was being financed, he should have done. If he knew about it and did nothing to correct it, not only should he not Become Prime Minister, he should step down as Chancellor as well.
By: ORACLE 2006
Cash for Honours - further reading
Cash-for-honours row rumbles on - Article from the BBC news web site. The front pages do not make good reading for Tony Blair and Labour.
Cash for honours are they all at it? - The loans-for-honours probe inching closer to number 10 and police to quiz Tories as the investigation widens.
Downing Street Says - The unofficial site which lets you comment on the UK Prime Ministers official briefings.
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counting machine - 17-May-10 02:45
This is what MP's are good at it...
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Anonymous of UK - 12-May-09 17:53
They just seem to get away with everything they do and always bounce back. Archer (though he did some bird if you can call it that) and Mandelson too.
If it was you and I our feet wouldn't touch the ground. I wouldn't give them the time of day.
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House of Turds - 1-Feb-09 08:23
Do we all feel so small, so inferior when confronted with one of these people with an appellation signifying nobility?
Do we always show deference to them by saying "Yes, your Grace"? "Certainly, My Lord"?
Let them flood the market with people with titles, even if they bought them. Don't allow them to sit in Parliament though.
The more poeple that have titles will eventually devalue the whole system, and they'll become as common as dirt.
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Master of Dissent - 25-Jun-07 17:43
Yes, I know that a long time ago (a few hundred years ago infact) this was how lordships and such other titles were dished out, but those days were all very unjust. But hang on, I thought we were living in a "developing Britain"?? In my eyes, Mr. Blair is only taking us back in time.
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Gloustershire Sauced - 13-Oct-06 22:12
Lets face it the House of Lords has no real political clout nowadays.
One of the few politicians that I admire is Tony Benn who was once Sir Anthony Wedgewood Ben.He had the courage of his convictions and rejected his peerage because he didn't believe in the peerage system.
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Attila the Mum - 5-Aug-06 12:15
The placenames that come with the titles should be up for grabs, like car number plates.
So to buy the Countship of Little Nothington should go for, let's say, £5,000
And to buy the Royal Dukedom of Ascot, a price tag of, let's say, £5,000,000 might be more appropriate.
Adding 50% more for hereditaryships.
Arms, Symbols, and so on, all at extra plus VAT, and Stamp Duty.
As for "landed" bit, current market rates for the acre, in whatever neck of the woods you want the lordship to lord it over to be.
Transfer fees would be payable, on resale.
Butlers, Gamekeepers, Landscape Architects etc.. all at market rates.
Other paraphernalia available at discount.
Coronets: Made in China
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