THE ONE PARTY STATE
Labour has now created so many Labour Nouveau Toffs that it is now the largest party in the House of Lords. As if that is not enough, Labour is also now planning to limit the ability of the Upper House to delay legislation for up to a year.
Lord Falkener has stated that in future, the House of Lords will only be able to delay legislation for up to 60 days.
The UK is increasingly starting to resemble a one party state, where all government institutions are enveloped and controlled by the ruling party for the benefit of the ruling party. The constitution is altered and manipulated for the benefit of the ruling party, as is the voting system.
Labour further plans to remove the remaining hereditary peers. Labour’s election manifesto promised a free vote on the future composition of the Upper House.
It is the latest batch of Nouveau Toffs that has given Labour its dominance. This batch, 16 Labour, and only 6 Tory and 6 Liberal Democrats, includes the controversial Andrew Adonis. There is no justification at all for Labour to be creating so many new peers, nor such a disproportionate number of Labour peers.
It is ironic that former Marxists, such as Neil Kinnock, have taken so well to being made lords. Their real complaint about the House of Lords was not the lack of democracy, but the fact that its hereditary status meant that they were not able to get in on the act.
But now they can literally lord it over us themselves.
They can of course comfort themselves that the reason they are lords is not because they inherited a title, but because they are so clever and important.
Lord Falkener has stated that in future, the House of Lords will only be able to delay legislation for up to 60 days.
The UK is increasingly starting to resemble a one party state, where all government institutions are enveloped and controlled by the ruling party for the benefit of the ruling party. The constitution is altered and manipulated for the benefit of the ruling party, as is the voting system.
Labour further plans to remove the remaining hereditary peers. Labour’s election manifesto promised a free vote on the future composition of the Upper House.
It is the latest batch of Nouveau Toffs that has given Labour its dominance. This batch, 16 Labour, and only 6 Tory and 6 Liberal Democrats, includes the controversial Andrew Adonis. There is no justification at all for Labour to be creating so many new peers, nor such a disproportionate number of Labour peers.
It is ironic that former Marxists, such as Neil Kinnock, have taken so well to being made lords. Their real complaint about the House of Lords was not the lack of democracy, but the fact that its hereditary status meant that they were not able to get in on the act.
But now they can literally lord it over us themselves.
They can of course comfort themselves that the reason they are lords is not because they inherited a title, but because they are so clever and important.
posted by erc @ 12:32 pm
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