Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Lords, "Loans" and New Labour
I am trying to work something out here. A number of billionaires have made "loans" to New Labour Party because, it is alleged, they want peerages. Now let's unpackage what it means to be a lord. (I hasten to add that the Conservative Party has attracted "Loans" in similar amounts)
- You retire to a glorified elderly day centre
- You get your "expenses" paid which is a decent salary.
- You have a good selection of subsidised boozers; it's not for nothing that the term "drunk as a lord" was coined.
- You have a library in which you can sleep off your alcohol haze
- You have a subsidised restaurant in which you can have a cheap feed.
- You can have fun frustrating the government in passing legislation with which you do not agree.
- You can dress up in a kitschy costume and pretend to look extremely important.
- You have the "Lord" in front of your name as well as the area from which hark "Lord Shit of somewhere"
Now, some poor sap like moi would be only too happy to have a peerage, I would gladly "loan" twenty quid to New Labour if they give me a peerage.
Yet there are these millionaires / billionaires who have donated millions to New Labour and have allegedly asked for peerages. Where are they get the time to "work" as peers when they have all that lovely money to spend. Surely if you have lots of lovely money, you need lots of time to enjoy it. The biggest irony is that becoming a lord is that you are not obliged to work as a one.
Something is not right here
- You retire to a glorified elderly day centre
- You get your "expenses" paid which is a decent salary.
- You have a good selection of subsidised boozers; it's not for nothing that the term "drunk as a lord" was coined.
- You have a library in which you can sleep off your alcohol haze
- You have a subsidised restaurant in which you can have a cheap feed.
- You can have fun frustrating the government in passing legislation with which you do not agree.
- You can dress up in a kitschy costume and pretend to look extremely important.
- You have the "Lord" in front of your name as well as the area from which hark "Lord Shit of somewhere"
Now, some poor sap like moi would be only too happy to have a peerage, I would gladly "loan" twenty quid to New Labour if they give me a peerage.
Yet there are these millionaires / billionaires who have donated millions to New Labour and have allegedly asked for peerages. Where are they get the time to "work" as peers when they have all that lovely money to spend. Surely if you have lots of lovely money, you need lots of time to enjoy it. The biggest irony is that becoming a lord is that you are not obliged to work as a one.
Something is not right here
