Rees-Mogg explaining why 12th century battlefield valor means that their very distant descendants have a natural and historic right to be in parliament.
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@kaia he got mogged
@kaia what does nobility mean for you in the 21st century 
@kaia I don't think it's true (because I haven't found any other reference to it), but I once read that, in Japan, it is one's own actions what give honour to one's ancestors, as in, if you do well in battle, your parents, grandparents, etc., would retroactively become dukes or whatever, but not your children, because they did fucking nothing to earn it. I personally like that idea better, even though it is very much useless in practical terms and the author I read it from probably made it up.
Without being too sterotypical a poastie, are we really going to pretend that the rest those allowed in the British parliament these days have better claims?
I much prefer 12th century valor to quite a few of the alternative benchmarks
I much prefer 12th century valor to quite a few of the alternative benchmarks
@kaia it's unique and interesting for a country to keep its connection to history alive. given the trajectory of britain, severing this connection will result in no real improvement, only causing a permanent loss of heritage.