The problem with bribery and cash for honours recently has been that the money has been going to the wrong people - the political parties. Now we are to have an elected Lords we should reinstate the honourable tradition of bribery, with the money going to the constituents - which is right and proper. Candidates should make promises- ie pay for a hospital wing or a swimming pool or free pints of beer and deposit bonds to pay for it, if elected. Independent people with the interest of the community at heart would get elected. The parties would have no hold over them because they could not possibly afford to subsidise the bribes and money would flow to those areas which the people themselves consider most important.