The practice of kneeling and kissing the floor is standard practice in Islam.

The previous Pope made a bit of a habit of it, and I’m fairly sure that he wasn’t a Moslem.

Red Hunter will, I am sure, be delighted to learn that the 2010-2011 Champions’ League has already started with the Montenegran Champions Rudar beating Tre Fiori of San Marino 4-1 on 7 July (7-1 on aggregate) in the First Qualifying Round.

His joy will surely be magnified by the news that the group stage of the 2010 European Under-19 Championship will start in France on 18 July.

And yes, England are in it. 🙂

Did political appointees to the Lords only start in 1997?

Asquith and Lloyd George threatened to create a flood of Liberal Peers if the Lords blocked the latter’s radical budget of 1909-10 for a second time.

Lord Melbourne made a similar threat in 1832 to forestall any attempt by the Upper House to block the passage of his Great Reform Bill.

So no, they didn’t. 🙂

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Peerages are regularly bestowed on even less-deserving figures, and no-one bats an eyelid.

Like him or loathe him, at least Prescott has a personality and isn’t just another grey identikit party apparatchik.

Anyway, Labour aren’t in power any more so it’s time to move on and extract the urine from the current regime.

God knows there’s plenty of scope….. :rolleyes:

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I don’t see them either.

There’s an ‘Error 403’ box generated by ImageShack instead.

The image from post #1 has gone the same way.

Ah, you mis understand, or I wasn’t clear enough….this is my version, my suggestion.
I was not trying to replicate the official version as I think it looks too drab.

Ah, right.

Sorry about that, me old mucker.