The House of Lords – a care home for superannuated members of the Establishment.
This picture would be funny if I didn’t know that these people are being paid £305 a day of taxpayers’ money to kip on the red benches.
As early as 1649, the House of Commons opined…
“[We find] by too long experience that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the people of England.”
In March of that year, less than two months after the execution of King Charles I, the House of Lords was abolished. Let that sink in. In the 1650s, England was in some ways more democratic than it is in 2019.
The House of Lords is an absurdity. As far as I am aware, there is no other country in the world where the upper house of parliament is larger than the lower. And only the Chinese People’s Congress is larger. There are still 92 hereditary peers in the Lords, people who get to vote on UK laws because a remote ancestress slept with Charles II. The absurd Church of England has 26 seats, including braindead Islamophile Archdruid Justin Welby, despite attracting less than a million visitors to its dusty pews each Sunday. The vast majority of the rest of are placemen, 12.3% of whom are Liberal Democrats despite that party getting only 7.4% of the vote in 2017. To crown this idiocy, there are only 230 seats for 800+ members.
In October 2017, I wrote a post called A Proposal For Change in which I suggested that the entire British political system is in need of reform. The House of Lords simply cannot be allowed to continue and is an even worse affront to ordinary working people than the ridiculous Mountbatten-Windsor clan, although Preach and Leech (aka Meghan Markle and Harry Windsor) are doing their best to change that. By the way, I was amused to see that the ‘prince’ who ‘cares passionately’ about the environment is using 11.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide to fly to Japan for a rugby match. Wonder how many trees that will cost his mate Fat Reg? Silly me, I forgot – carbon footprints are for the plebs. At the rate Harry Windsor is going, he’ll soon be less popular than his tubby uncle, ‘friend’ of convicted sex criminals and dodgy dictators.
Once again, nothing in this post should be read as an endorsement of Brexit.
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