Brilliant!!!

Man, them Brits is jus' brilliant. Check it out, Tony Blair an' company may have been runnin' a cash-fer-honors scheme. Shoot, here in the U.S. we give out honors so that we don't have to pay out cash, but them Brits figured out you could get other people to pay good money fer the kinda stuff we give away fer free. Now why didn't we think a that?

Update: Oh yeah, I forgot. We went with the lobbyist system.