@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
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."
David Cameron has returned to British politics with his appointment as Foreign Secretary. To commemorate this here's a cartoon featuring him and a pig, because of course.
The dubious relationship between Boris Johnson and the Lord of Siberia.
The former British prime minister appointed Evgeny Lebedev, the son of a former KGB officer turned oligarch, to the House of Lords, against the advice of the intelligence services, who were convinced of links between the Lebedev family and the Kremlin.
Lots of 🐦&🐘 folk dunking on the #Coronation & calling not just for a #republic but for the abolition of the #HouseOfLords, forgetting HoL has recently been one of the few checks that worked against an authoritarian, law-breaking executive, and how the #UK govt routinely exploit every constitutional opportunity to evade scrutiny and accountability. Do you really want President #TonyBlair? President #BorisJohnson? President #LizTruss?