"Can you keep a secret? Good! Well your in then!" (Nod to Monty Python)

Ok, imagine that you are involved with a highly powerful and influential organisation, you do not get paid apart from a daily allowance of £300 and you are approach by representatives of an outside body want to influence the decision makers in that organisation into changing the rules in their favour.

During the course of the conversation you say ' well, though it is against the rules for me to show any favouritism, I am able to bend, stretch and distort the rules until it fits what these bodies require and every time I do this, they pay me around £100,000.'

However, this conversation has been recorded and this statement becomes public knowledge and comes to the attention of your peers.

In a normal working environment, your peers would judge you as working against the interests of that organisation, report you to the chief decision maker and you would be removed from your post and everyone would feel that such action would be appropriate.

So why is there one rule for the majority of people living and working in the UK, who would would be sacked immediately from their post and escorted off the premises, and another for the Lords, who cannot?

They make an apology to their peers, and all is forgiven.

Maybe when some single parent who gets caught taking £3.00 per hour for some crummy little cleaning job to help feed her kids, or buy presents for Christmas can use the same defence as these unaccountable Lords.

Do you think it would wash? No, it wouldn't and the full weight of the law would fall upon their shoulders.

It is a clear case of one rule for our Feudal Overlords, and another for the peasantry.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!!

Taken from BBC News

BBC NEWS | Politics | Peers respond to cash allegations

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Revealed: Labour lords change laws for cash - Times Online

It would appear (a peer, get it ?) the the old ways of raising yourself a bit of ready cash in hard times still remains firmly in the hands of our Feudal Masters.



Do they still get first dibs on the peasants brides too?

From the Times

Revealed: Labour lords change laws for cash

LABOUR peers are prepared to accept fees of up to £120,000 a year to amend laws in the House of Lords on behalf of business clients, a Sunday Times investigation has found.

Four peers — including two former ministers — offered to help undercover reporters posing as lobbyists obtain an amendment in return for cash.

Two of the peers were secretly recorded telling the reporters they had previously secured changes to bills going through parliament to help their clients.

Lord Truscott, the former energy minister, said he had helped to ensure the Energy Bill was favourable to a client selling “smart” electricity meters. Lord Taylor of Blackburn claimed he had changed the law to help his client Experian, the credit check company.


Revealed: Labour lords change laws for cash - Times Online

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