Gulam Noon is a new Labour Peer

[Gromit]

never heard of him? Here is a list of his achievements:

1. Loaned the Labour Party £250,000
2. Er...
3 That's it

http://www.timesonlin...cs/article5254231.ece

Cash for Honours all over again?

[DTCwordfan]

Lord "Anon Mogul" perhaps being an anagram oh is name - also just done the new Lord Edmonist - who is nopw Lord Demonist

[Zeuhl]

Don't be so ignorant

<<The man who invented Bombay mix and chicken tikka masala>>

the man is a legend; he has helped shape British eating habits not to mention generating millions of pounds of business for British dentists.
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[Gromit]

No he didn't

// The origins of chicken tikka masala are disputed. An Indian expert on street food from Delhi, Rahul Verma, has stated that the dish originated (probably by accident with subsequent improvisations) in Punjab during the last 50 years. Another view is that it originated in the first Indian restaurants in Soho, London, during the 1970's. //

http://en.wikipedia.o.../Chicken_tikka_masala

// Bombay Mix is the name used in the United Kingdom for a traditional Indian snack known as chiwda, chevdo, or chevda (चिवडा),(Chivdo),चिवडो in India, or chanachur in Orissa and Bengal. //

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_mix

[Zeuhl]

I stand corrected G-Man

But his PR people say he did, so I think they should get a gold medal for effort.
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[jno]

Labour get him to provide curries, the Tories get Lord Downton Hall to draw up a national strategy for table-laying etiquette; there's synergy all over the place.

[ludwig]

// “I told her to call me Noon, but she said, ‘No, you have a knighthood, you are Sir Gulam’.” //

..and then he said - 'er..no your majesty, I meant phone me at 12 o'clock tomorrow'.

It could happen.

[ludwig]

Actually - 'cash for honours all over again' - it never went away did it? - the police investigation of Tony Blair and his chief peerage seller/fund raiser (can't remember his name) proves that as long as you don't put anything in writing, they basically can't prove a thing so it's been business as usual ever since.

[naomi24]

^^ Yep. Why aren't we surprised?

[sandyRoe]

Isn't there a committee which vets proposed candidates for honours? They must have thought he was OK.