We require that the headline match the article:
"‘Government pays!’: hereditary peer faces questions over expenses claim for business trip
Earl of Shrewsbury offers to reimburse taxpayer over use of first-class ticket and his ‘erroneous’ claims"
It’s possible they changed it up on you so I’ll give you time to fix it instead of just pulling it.
Dude is collecting last names like Pokémon.
hereditary lawmaker
It’s pretty bad when an American looks at your government and thinks, damn that’s backward AF.
Yes - but it is meant to be deliberately backwards as a check and a balance. The idea is that if every law was made and passed by the currently elected politicians only then there’d be a flood of kneejerk reactionary populist laws only. The idea is to have some people with an eye to the bigger picture…
In general I’m not against how the lords operate - just pointing out these are specifically hereditary peers (of which there are 92) in addition to the life peers. Oh and the bishops, can’t forget the bishops.
The single most British headline I’ve ever read
Even over here, that’s an excessive number of names.
Every name you have past 3 is pretty much a chance of toff multiplier
Lord Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot
Chetwynd Chetwynd-TalbotForget Toff, he’s giving former UN Secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali a run for his money (you can make that phrase rhyme if your pronounce it right)
We wanna say big up yourself, Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros Ghali. Respect. - Ali G
On that note, Picasso’s full name is quite impressive
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
I see your Picasso and I raise to you Pedro I, first Emperor of Brazil: Pedro de Alcântara Francisco António João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim
Spanish names are different because they’re familial. Most of this guy’s names are given. Strictly speaking, in the Anglosphere, only the final name is familial (though it may rarely have spaces in it), the rest are given.
Picasso is cool because Guernica
Also his part in the Catalan independence movement
The fuck kinda name is that
With a name like that he’s guilty. He just has to be.
“Oh, he’s gonna get it now…”
“Whats he gonna face?”
“Yeah, he’s gonna face questions.”
…but it’s pronounced “Throatwobbler Mangrove”
That’d be quite the monogram
