Okay, not so explosive after all.

[freshwest]

21. Thank you very much for your reply. Just the person we needed to hear from.

Is the House of Lords prone to these kind of unusual or provocative pronouncements?

Is this the kind of thing a member there can go on about for years?

I'm guessing they don't face election. I thought they got into that position by inheritance. But I don't know.

Must make for some interesting news there, to have some people doing this. Isn't the Queen in charge of both houses of Parliament, but without any power?

This story appears to be something that 'gold' traders like Glenn Beck and the CT people in the USA live on to get money out of gullible people here. These CT things are part of the Tea Party mythology.

But this kind of thing, if the man really has any power, seems like it could start a panic, both here and there.

I don't understand how the financial world operates. Neither do I pretend to know, but often ask people I know in the UK, NZ and Australia about these stories.

And some other stories and find the level of discourse and different point of view refreshing for the most part.

I like talking to folks in Canada online, but even though I love to visit B.C., their political scene is harder to understand than that of the UK.

Thanks again.