House of Lords
I have always believed that it was just a retirement home for old Tories and recent events have convinced me that it is time to get rid of it. Why what has just happened to reinforce my prejudices. Well can I recall an occasion when they have rejected Tory legislation. No, they vote loyally for the Tories and they always get their legislation through.
The recent bote on the education bill was the recent event that convinced me. We had silly old war horses like Lady Williams, she can always talk the talk BUT has never in her life done anything right. She was incompetent as a Minister of Education under Callaghan and she has got everything wrong ever since but she stills sits in the House of Lords and votes with this Tory government. She used to be against fees and academies but she manages to vote for them.
How long did it take the previous government to get he fox hunting bill through and that was in the manifesto. The nature of the house of lords is conservative. This is because people are appointed for life and many older people don't like change. They still somehow thing that the Tories represent a return to the old values which they were brought up with.
That is the trouble with the House of Lords, the idea is that because they are their for life they can vote for what they believe in but no they follow some party line. And they get older and older and as someone who is also getting older, many just think things were better before.
If we are going to have an appointed house like this then the least we could do is to only allow limited terms with no reelection. It shouldn't just be a gravy train with a title. Some of us recognize that there is a time to slow up and stop taking the Queen's shilling. Seven years would be quite long enough AND they should lose their titles afterwards.
The recent bote on the education bill was the recent event that convinced me. We had silly old war horses like Lady Williams, she can always talk the talk BUT has never in her life done anything right. She was incompetent as a Minister of Education under Callaghan and she has got everything wrong ever since but she stills sits in the House of Lords and votes with this Tory government. She used to be against fees and academies but she manages to vote for them.
How long did it take the previous government to get he fox hunting bill through and that was in the manifesto. The nature of the house of lords is conservative. This is because people are appointed for life and many older people don't like change. They still somehow thing that the Tories represent a return to the old values which they were brought up with.
That is the trouble with the House of Lords, the idea is that because they are their for life they can vote for what they believe in but no they follow some party line. And they get older and older and as someone who is also getting older, many just think things were better before.
If we are going to have an appointed house like this then the least we could do is to only allow limited terms with no reelection. It shouldn't just be a gravy train with a title. Some of us recognize that there is a time to slow up and stop taking the Queen's shilling. Seven years would be quite long enough AND they should lose their titles afterwards.
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