The Useless Lords

  Once again the House of Lords have failed Britain and democracy. What is  their excuse this time for letting through the totally iniquitous bill about health. They cannot oppose the House of Commons, the democratically elected chamber.

 The difficulty is that the members might be democratically elected but once elected they behave totally undemocratically. There was nothing about health service reform in either of the coalition parties manifestos, in fact David Cameron went so far as to promise that there would be no top-down reforms.

  Clearly Clegg, over Tuition Fees, and Cameron over the health service are unreconstructed liars. Surely it is the job of the Upper Chamber to protect the public from such unsavoury behaviour. The need for a proper upper chamber which can take on the dictatorial House of Commons is greater than it has been since Lloyd George set about the early reforms. 

  There are two issues which need to be addressed, one is the professional MP who will do anything to claw their way up[ the ladder. This will get even worse with a smaller house since even more of the winning side will be part of the pay roll debate. 

  The second issue must be the role of the public school boy, it is not surprising that both Clegg & Cameron are public school boys who obviously believe that behaving honourably to the public is of no consequence, after all the lower classes are just there to be used and abused.  This government shows a complete lack of interest in the poorer members of society, it is all very Victorian.

   If Britain want to move into the 21st century it needs to do two thing urgently, create a proper upper chamber and get rid of the monarchy, at least the hangers on and houses they seem to have access to.