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2010-05-17 Britain

Coalition creates 100 new peers to pass legislation

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Posted by lotp 2010-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 How long to Huey's "Every Man A King"?

Posted by mojo 2010-05-17 01:42|| 2010-05-17 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 About bleedin' time.

Posted by The Duchess of Detroit 2010-05-17 08:29|| 2010-05-17 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, so what are they? Baronets?

As long as there's no income promised them, who cares?

Posted by mojo 2010-05-17 14:55|| 2010-05-17 14:55|| Front Page Top

#4 As long as there's no income promised them, who cares?

The ermine.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-17 15:52|| 2010-05-17 15:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Geez, that's pretty raw. The next time Labour gets in, it'll be another three hundred or so Labour peers, and so on.

Thank the hypothetical deity for republican government. This life peer baronage business is for the birds.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-05-17 16:05|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-05-17 16:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought the Queen ~~appointed peers~~ knighted people.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-17 18:34|| 2010-05-17 18:34|| Front Page Top

#7 It's the same way she writes the Queen's Speech every year. The PM writes it for her.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-05-17 18:41|| 2010-05-17 18:41|| Front Page Top

#8 The Queen better start writing her own speeches. The PM's versions stink.

[And I paid good money for this peerage.]

Posted by Lord Alaska Paul 2010-05-17 22:06|| 2010-05-17 22:06|| Front Page Top

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