Current Affairs The House of Lords

[orchard]

Post your thanks for outstanding stewardship and attempting to reign in a ludicrous government in here:

 

[Gouldy]

Generally i’m against this unelected chamber, but sometimes a broken clock is right twice a day...

 

[orchard]

Generally i’m against this unelected chamber, but sometimes a broken clock is right twice a day...

Another politicised and elected chamber would be pointless though mate. Selection criteria could be refined like.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Some old folk are actually alright.

 

[zzr45]

How ironic those that wanted it scrapped are now it’s biggest supporters

 

[orchard]

How ironic those that wanted it scrapped are now it’s biggest supporters

Who? Nice over-generalisation BTW, Mail headline?

 

[zzr45]

Who? Nice over-generalisation BTW, Mail headline?

Was more of an observation based on my FB feed more than than a directed barb. People I know that have slagged the Lords off something for years for being an unelected mob of know nothing’s now hold them in the same reverence as nurses and soldiers. As you state, they’re doing exactly what they are supposed to do - put a handbrake on madness.

 

[orchard]

Was more of an observation based on my FB feed more than than a directed barb. People I know that have slagged the Lords off something for years for being an unelected mob of know nothing’s now hold them in the same reverence as nurses and soldiers. As you state, they’re doing exactly what they are supposed to do - put a handbrake on madness.

I suppose the irony works the other way too, with unreflective 'Conservatives'.

 

[edge]

Needs closing down , ridiculous situation in this day and age that just because of birthright or that fact that you have done a job for the establishment, gives you the right to affect the government of this country.
If we need a second chamber make it electable .

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Needs closing down , ridiculous situation in this day and age that just because of birthright or that fact that you have done a job for the establishment, gives you the right to affect the government of this country.
If we need a second chamber make it electable .

Have you seen the kind of people that get elected into the Commons?

 

[edge]

Have you seen the kind of people that get elected into the Commons?

Really not fussed on most of those, but at least we can get rid of them

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Really not fussed on most of those, but at least we can get rid of them

So you're saying that even though 'we' do an apparently awful job of choosing candidates in the first place, we should still continue with the process because we can vote someone else to be replaced by someone equally awful?

Heck, even our apparent input into the process is a bit of a joke tbh. In my immediate constituency, there are ~ 87,000 registered voters, so my vote has 1/87,000 input (or the better part of bugger all if you prefer). Scale that up to the 30 million or so people that vote across the country and each single vote is practically meaningless. You having a vote will have no input on the outcome for the country whatsoever, and what little input we do have seems to uniformally elect tossers into government.

 

[Walken]

Some old folk are actually alright.

the Inuits had the right idea, leave the useless old fossils out in the snow, stop them clogging up atms and supermarkets

 

[orchard]

Haha, the irony writ large:






George Osborne
@George_Osborne
Brexiteers complaining about the unelected House of Lords tonight will I’m sure remember that the rebellion against the Tory plan for elected peers in 2012 was led by Jacob Rees-Mogg, supported by David Davis, as this editorial @EveningStandard pointed out

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Haha, the irony writ large:






George Osborne
@George_Osborne
Brexiteers complaining about the unelected House of Lords tonight will I’m sure remember that the rebellion against the Tory plan for elected peers in 2012 was led by Jacob Rees-Mogg, supported by David Davis, as this editorial @EveningStandard pointed out

'Twas ever thus. People complain about stuff when it's not going there way. If something is helping them out, then their morals don't really count for much.