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Tony Blair and that cash for honours thing
Cash for honours scandal

Tony Blair

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. People are beginning to forget the 1979 Winter of Discontent.



We should stop our hypocritical attack on Tony Blair for his alleged 'Cash for Honours' activities. If we must criticise a politician for the 'Cash for Honours' debacle, a better target would perhaps be Gordon Brown.

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25-6-2007Who really gives a monkeys nowadays whether someone has a title or not? 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&qu...moreMaster of Dissent
24-6-2007Sorry if this upsets anyone, but this whole "cash for honours" thing is the stupidest, most unhonourable way that Tony Blair could ever make money, apart from taxing! Yes, I know that a long time ago (a few hundred years ago infact) this was how lordships and such other titles were dished...moreAlastair
13-10-2006"I cannot tell: The world is grown so bad that wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch. Since every Jack became a gentleman,there's many a gentle person made a Jack...great promotions are daily given to enoble those that scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble!"Gloustershire Sauced
22-8-2006I think that this issue is only of real importance to politicians who want to make political capital out of each other. 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 cour...moreBob
09-8-2006As long as its legal, what's the problem? People often pay for what they want or need and if they have the money so what. Cash for honours is just hype.Gordon Brown
05-8-2006Well said, Grouch, but can you imagine some of the people snapping the titles up? Richard Desmond, Duke of Ascot, anyone? How about Bernard Matthews, Earl of Sniffington? Read the rich list... and be VERY afraid!Attila the Mum
21-7-2006All the titles and lordships should be for sale. They have always been so, at least for 400 years. That is nearly all the hereditary lordships, dukedoms, earldoms, marquis etc. were bought by the rich men of the latter half of the seventeenth century. These aren't ancient families as one might s...moreGrouchosaurus



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