Baby steps towards democracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/08/house-of-lords-peerages-nominations-appointments-new-rules

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#EveningStandard smear campaign against #SadiqKhan is in full swing ...
... its owner - Lord Baron Lebdev of Hampton - doing his best to return favours to B Johnson and fellow Tories...

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/63182/page/19918

#LondonMayoralElection
#Democracy

#Peerages
#CorruptMediaMoguls
#CorruptPoliticians
#Brexit

'But Mr Rees-Mogg insisted that the system was fair – and warned that stopping party backers from entering the Lords would see donations dry up.'

'“It is not right to say because people donate money they cannot receive peerages,” he said. “You don’t want to discourage people from donating to political parties."'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-honours-rees-mogg-b2471257.html

'Meanwhile, the #Conservative Party is facing claims of #cronyism'

#JacobReesMogg #ReesMogg #LizTruss #Conservatives #Tories #peerages #Lords #HouseOfLords

Charles Tennyson, the uncle of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was disliked in his home county, and he didn’t fare much better with those in met in his political career either. Would you like a man who thought he could be successful just because of who he was?

This is what he wrote to his father about his expectations of higher office.

‘I have reason to think that Canning has thought of offering me a situation with him in India’

‘They will have it I am to be their next member when the time comes....’

‘I have now made up my mind most reluctantly to give up all thoughts of contesting Lincoln. I am most vexatious because I am confident of success but of the absurd prejudice that has arisen against me on the part of several inferior class of voter... ‘

Charles Tennyson’s self-importance was based on his perceived notion of entitlement. He had his heart set on a peerage that was linked to the Barony of d’Eyncourt, a title that had been in abeyance for over a century. He would pester his father to change the family surname to d’Eyncourt, which he didn’t. He did eventually persuade him to add a codicil to his will to that effect though.
He failed to achieve any of the above.

Tennyson was the uncle of Alfred, Lord Tennyson whose work he called ‘horrid rubbish indeed, a discredit to British taste.’ I bet the roof lifted off his fine manor house when he heard Alfred had been offered a peerage.

#18thcentury #lincolnshire #Tealby #englishvillages #tennyson #peerages #parliament #delusionsofgrandeur #coatofarms #daincourt

Yorkshire Bylines
Lords of the lies: Brexit propagandists could get peerages in Truss honours list
The men behind Trussonomics and Brexit, the two great man-made catastrophes of recent years, are to be honoured for their ‘great work’

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/lords-of-the-lies-brexit-propagandists-could-get-peerages-in-truss-honours-list/

#peerages #brexit #Trussonomics