@BashStKid@HighlandLawyer@glitzersachen@cstross they'll all have to go because there's no place for an appointed legislative chamber in a democracy. The whole institution is systematically corrupt.
The House of Lords is full of people nominated for their financial contributions to a political party, rather than their public service. This is an abuse of democracy and undermines public trust in parliament.
I just signed the open letter calling on the #HouseOfLords to ban #MichelleMone now, until the criminal investigation into her deception over #PPEContracts concludes.
Will you join me?
The Electoral Reform Society suggests that the House of Lords might be best repurposed as a Senate of the Regions & Nations, to represent a better range of regional views than the current second chamber.
And of course as other countries already have such arrangements in place, the problem is the old British problem of 'not invented here' undermining political support.
Nonetheless a potentially sensible solution to the second chamber problem!
Labour have said that if they come into power they will reform the House of Lords. BUT there’s already rumours that they might drop it. If we can join together, in one HUGE petition, we can show Labour, as well as all the other parties, that the public want to eradicate a pay for access political institution. https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-party-donors-2 #HouseOfLords#UKpolitics
Over the weekend #KeirStarmer abandoned plans to abolish the House of Lords, and now will merely seek some 'reforms' in the first Parliament of a Labour administration.
I assume that the increasingly narrow, substance-free #election manifesto is part of the remnants of any #green policy.
Its thinness is going to saving them a fortune in printing & paper!
Starmer may be adhering to the maxim "Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself".
Just as many would support abolishing the House of Lords, many other folks would like a House of Lords bursting with erudite experts, motivated solely by the best interests of the UK populace, who they trust more than politicians to write the laws that will govern future generations.
To be sure Johnson's abominable decision to put Lebedev in the Lords ought to put the kibosh on anyone who so believes voting conservative, but the background around Lebedev's wealth received precious little media attention.
Nevertheless; from Starmer's view, courting controversy when he is not required to do so would be a strategically poor choice.
Those hoping the #HouseofLords (and Labour peers specifically) might continue to obstruct the #RwandaBill, look like they may well be disappointed as Labour peers kook ready to respect the 'will of the commons' in the final stages of the bill's progress (although they may offer some braking criticisms).
Labour, it seems is frightened of a post-electoral revenge by (younger) #Tory peers, forcing elderly Labour peers into late night sittings to defend new legislation.
"In its report on the UK-Rwanda treaty on an asylum partnership, the House of Lords Committee concludes that the arrangements it provides for are incomplete and accordingly the treaty is not ready for ratification. The Committee highlights that the Government has provided no indication of the timeframe for the completion of these steps, but the evidence suggests it will clearly take some time."
As they crawl nearer to power, Labour ever so slowly abandon ‘pledges’
Environment, House of Lords, Executive declarations of war, you name it, ‘promises' from Labour are being carefully backed away from. It is a ‘frog in the slowly heating pot' syndrome.