Nova Scotian greeting. Response: nu'h'n. Best Bett MacDonald joke. Tony Blair can't say that. Big Tone is having a bad week:

Police opened an investigation yesterday into allegations that Tony Blair sold seats in the House of Lords in exchange for secret loans to his governing Labour Party, another twist in a political furor that has prompted calls for the British Prime Minister to leave his job. Public trust in Mr. Blair has taken a pummelling in the days since the loans became public, adding new weight to long-standing charges that those who support Labour financially are frequently nominated for peerages in the House of Lords or titles within the Order of the British Empire.

That is the problem perpetuating an advantaged class - they need to be advantaged and take a rigourus attitude to their own advantaging. Not unlike our own former Federal Privacy Commissioner whose not a commissioner nor involved in much in private anymore. Having had the passing acquaintance of a few members of the bar whose confusion as to which dollar was theirs and which was others led to matters tribinal, I have always been amazed by thems that have getting shakey on the money for merit and effort principle. Is it just the human condition? I dunno - comparatively even this seems to have at least had a point.