Climate sceptic Lord Monckton told he's not member of House of Lords

arenean

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Mon Jul-18-11 07:46 AM
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Climate sceptic Lord Monckton told he's not member of House of Lords

From todays Guardian:

Climate sceptic Lord Monckton told he's not member of House of Lords

Clerk of parliaments publishes letter on Lords' site saying peer is not and has 'never been a member of the House of Lords'

Climate sceptic Lord Monckton told he's not member of House of Lords

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ret5hd

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Mon Jul-18-11 07:53 AM
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1. Well, he does have that multi-generational inbred look thing going on.

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muriel_volestrangler

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Mon Jul-18-11 08:04 AM
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2. oh, please, oh, please ...

Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen. The Buckingham Palace website states that any misuse of the emblem is prohibited by the Trade Marks Act 1994, meaning Monckton could potentially be liable for fines and a six-month prison term if the palace pursues the matter and successfully prosecutes him.

http://static.guim.co.uk.nyud.net:8080/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2011/7/15/1310724434951/British-climate-change-sc-001.jpg

British climate change sceptic Christopher Monckton Official logo of the House of Lords (left) and that used by Christopher Monckton (right). Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images

Monckton has since been using a slightly altered portcullis emblem on his lecture slides. The two chains hanging either side of portcullis are now kinked instead of straight. It is not known whether the Lord Chamberlain is content with the change. A spokesperson told the Guardian that the palace was "aware of the issue", but it had a policy of not commenting on private correspondence between it and an individual.

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Ghost Dog

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Mon Jul-18-11 08:20 AM
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3. He's just another hereditary wanker.

Edited on Mon Jul-18-11 08:21 AM by Ghost Dog

And a fraud. No Lord.

Some sort of hard-up n'th son of a Viscount looking for US sales, isn't he?

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muriel_volestrangler

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Mon Jul-18-11 09:47 AM
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5. Yes, but it'd be so good to see him fined for making a false claim

He bullshits about all sorts of things, and it would be very, very funny to see him have to pay for some of it.

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Ghost Dog

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Mon Jul-18-11 05:37 PM
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7. Yup. n/t

:silly:

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DCKit

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Mon Jul-18-11 08:46 AM
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4. Too funny. nt

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hunter

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Mon Jul-18-11 10:49 AM
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6. Appealling to the Authority of an Upper Class Twit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqObJtGrKaA (Monty Python)

The "Climate Change Skeptics" are a special lot...

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