We the undersigned…

‘…petition the Prime Minister to sell honours openly and use the money to complement the national lottery’s good causes. To make them accessible to all we suggest a starting price of a pound a peerage.

‘[T]hey should be sold at newsagents, from a dispenser next to the lottery scratch cards. That way anyone could walk up to the counter and ask for “Twenty B and H, a lighter and a Companion of the Order of the Bath please.”‘


Posted on February 25th, 2007 at 8:56 am

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One born every minute
   
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4 Comments

  1. ziz on 25.02.2007 at 12:18 Permalink | Reply

    Lord Patel simply assumed his title and sent along £5 to new Labour Party Funds. No need to involve newsagents.

    The main , and perhaps only advantage accrues to lady Patel wjo can now very readily get an appointment at Rigby & Peller.

  2. ejh (331 comments.) on 26.02.2007 at 09:34 Permalink | Reply

    If you’ve got a BA from Oxford you can get an MA for about twenty quid, so personally I don’t see the problem.

  3. AMX on 26.02.2007 at 18:17 Permalink | Reply

    HAHAHAA

  4. james higham (15 comments.) on 27.02.2007 at 19:00 Permalink | Reply

    Now that’s one hell of a good idea.

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