Lording it

I don't think I've mentioned it before, but like many Brits, I have a peerage. My full title is Baron Rashbre of London and I even have one of those Latin mottos : "illic est fun progressus". For those not familiar with the titled ranks, a baron is a fancy word for a Lord.

Of course, a lot of this has been in the papers recently, including allegations that some people have paid money to a political party in order to get a peerage. There has even been suggestion that there have been coded emails floating around in Downing Street talking about Ps and Ks (Peerages and Knighthoods). But surely if this was the case then chief of staff Jonathan Powell and director of government relations Ruth Turner would know about it, yet there seem to be strong denials.

Now that the police are involved, I'm sure we will all hear what has happened, once those unfortunate embargoes have been lifted, which stopped even the BBC from reporting on this for a while. I suppose now the Guardian newspaper has managed to get its story printed before the judge had a chance to ban it, then we will start to get more information.

And I suppose there will be changes at Downing Street soon enough, when Mr Blair decides to hand the keys over and presumably quite a few of his staff will line up for their redundancy cheques as a replacement set of advisors are brought in by his successor.


Perhaps it was prescient of Becky, 24 who commented from within Page 3 of the Sun a full year ago, on this very matter.

Or another way to find out what has been happening may be to enquire directly to existing Lords and Ladies who have blogs, websites and email addresses.

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