I don’t think so @LordAshcroft Winston was my great uncle and I knew him well, he would be appalled at the constant hijacking of the Churchill name to justify such insanity and the needless loss of life. https://t.co/W98L8O3dzS
— Duke of Marlborough (@MarlboroughOf) March 2, 2025
Is it better to be a duke or a lord tho?
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Duke is a subcategory of Lord. Duke is the highest tier of Lord though.
But it's a moot point as Ashcroft is an appointed lord so he could sit in the House of Lords as a thank you for donations to the Tories. He thus isn't aristocracy. Meanwhile the Duke of Marlborough is a hereditary peerage and he is real aristocracy.
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Interesting! Yeh knew some became lords cause of achievements like werent born into it. The actual ones probably look down on them innit lol
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Which they should as it's pretty nakedly corrupt at this point. Appointed lords are just a political patronage system to get a salary and nice title with the only remaining power being to slow down legislation. The House of Lords really needs scrapping or reduced to something exclusively ceremonial.
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