One of the oddities of Commonwealth nations is they often try to ape the notion of bicameral legislatures, but leave one more or less subordinate to the other and a sinecure for politicians past their sell-by date.
In the UK, it's the House of Lords, which the Labour Party has been threatening to abolish for decades. Even as they have diminished the number of hereditary peers, they continue to find places for their own in the life peerages.
When your government gets dissolved, you get one last payoff chance, and Gordon Brown's now extinct government list has become public.
One can only imagine the joy that animates the House of Lords that the arch-hater of Northern Ireland, Rev. Ian Paisley, is now willing to dress up in ermine robes like a drag queen.
The only good news out of this cynical payoff is that Paisley is 84.
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