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2006-12-15 Britain

Blair grilled by police in cash for peerage case

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Posted by .com 2006-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Any relation to Bill Clinton's "Cash for Notice"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-15 01:14|| 2006-12-15 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Seriously, are there any Poor Peers?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-12-15 06:24|| 2006-12-15 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Brighton pier is a little down-trodden , Jim :p

Posted by MacNails 2006-12-15 08:59|| 2006-12-15 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 These are those lifetime peerages, I assume, not the inherited kind. Cash-for-honours goes back to the establishment of the thing, I suspect -- certainly it rated a bit of a going over in Lynn & Jay's Yes Minister books from the BBC series, published in the early 1980s.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-15 11:55|| 2006-12-15 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 How much?

Posted by Sir DMFD 2006-12-15 18:15|| 2006-12-15 18:15|| Front Page Top

#6 TW, Jim Hacker for PM! It's the only way.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-12-15 22:35|| 2006-12-15 22:35|| Front Page Top

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