Comments on: Our fame spreads….

By: Senex

Senex — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:30:38 +0000

Yes! I would say you have ’street cred’ in the wider sense especially amongst the bloggers here. However, it might be a challenge to you to blog with a Chav who’s correspondence had the term ‘innit’ in it.

By: Bedd Gelert

Bedd Gelert — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:20:29 +0000

Lord Norton,

You are bang on the button here about the EU – which makes it all the more worrying when any developments appear on the horizon proposing the further emasculation or ‘reform’ of the House of Lords. These specious plans usually are all about limiting democracy, not increasing it..

By: Reversepsychology

Reversepsychology — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:44:05 +0000

Lord Norton:

Id like, if I may, to ask an unrelated question, concerning publicly registered charities.

Theres a lot of talk around the internet at this present time, about an organisation run by Julia Middleton, called Common Purpose.

Is it a Left Wing Conspiracy or just a vapid none event??

Perhaps when you stick: New Labour – John Prescott – Julia Middleton – political correctness and Demos, into one large melting pot and stir it around for ten years, the word conspiracy for some people, is just too finer an opportunity to pass up.

However, there is one point surrounding this issue of which I’m a tad confused about.

If Common Purpose is a publicly registered “Charity”, and over the years has received a large number of lottery grants. – Then why is it seemingly afforded the benefits of coming under the Chatham house rules?

Is that not unusual for a registered charity?

By: lordnorton

lordnorton — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:45:34 +0000

Senex: I think you will find he is referring to Lord Tyler as being a Liberal who entered the House in 2005. He accurately refers to me as a Conservative. Mind you, I was surprised to see my name and the words ’street cred’ appearing in the same paragraph.

By: ladytizzy

ladytizzy — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:53:20 +0000

How exciting to think thousands are reading my comments! Blush.

You might guess that my knowledge of the Bundesrat is seriously less than that of the Lord’s. I do wish for future informative exchanges from Germany and other nations.

Tiz

By: Senex

Senex — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:03:38 +0000

You seem to have captured Von Stefan Marx’s admiration, no doubt he has a coat of arms too. He seems to have you down as a Liberal peer though entering the House in 2005. He is definitely a fan of yours.

“Der Liberale war früher Fraktionsgeschäftsführer seiner Partei im Unterhaus und wurde 2005″

Not sure about ‘political pensioners’ though:

“Die Polit-Rentner berichten als ” Lords of the Blog” täglich von ihrer Arbeit.”

Uses Lord Soley and Tony Blair in the same sentence?

“Lord Soley of Hammersmith, sein linker Gegenpart, war unter Tony Blair Sprecher der Labour-Abgeordneten im Unterhaus.”

He even has a go at Angela Merkel’s weekly podcast saying the blog is better; has nice words to say about Lord Lucas too. It seems at least one German aristocrat has found something inspirational in the blog. Gut für ihn!