Lags in the Lords?

[Kayless]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15651315
Will a spell in HM Butlins have equipped Lord Taylor with wisdom that would help M'luds? Should he have been stripped of the pearage? I suppose the "other place" has it's share of crooks too though!

[sandyRoe]

Archer's still entitled to sit on the red benches. Maybe he could team up with Taylor?

[bazwillrun]

If he hadnt been caught hed still be doing it.

so now he can go back and pick up tens of thousands a year just for turning up, doesnt have to do anything, just turn up

[emmie]

it's a farce, go to jail, do not pass go, but once out resume career as if nothing had happened. should be stripped of peerage, job, and kicked out the party and of politics, no wonder people have no faith in the system.

[Gromit]

Em10

He HAS been kicked out of the Conservative Party.

[Kayless]

Yeah, he's joing noo Labour!

[Gromit]

// Taylor is determined to make a political comeback. Next May, he is planning to walk back into the House of Lords, take his seat on the red benches //

Geezer, don't be a twit, why would Labour want him. All the seats in the Lords are red, not just Labour ones. You may have a new persona but you persist with the tired old 'Noo Labour' Jibe (circa 1997).

[Gladeian]

Any of these peers who have been convicted of criminal offences should be stripped of their peerages - it is ludicrous that people who have been so convicted have a right to be part of the law-making process which affects honest people.

[Old_Geezer]

I can understand an ex convict who would have personal experience of the system could be useful as an advisor, but I'm in two minds as to whether they should remain a member of The House. That said one doesn't bar other occupations from taking up their trade again after paying their debt to society.

But this could easily be solved by having a fully elected House of Lords. In that case an ex-con could offer themselves as a candidate again and the public could decide their suitability.

[bazwillrun]

"// Taylor is determined to make a political comeback. Next May, he is planning to walk back into the House of Lords, take his seat on the red benches 2

no doubt he'll get plenty of black looks

[Kayless]

now if I said that baz......

[barney15c]

He's not the only one who has stated he wants to return to the house of lords... Lord Hanningfield has stated the same as well. In an article on the BBC website, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15690654

He is still pleading ignorance to the fact he fiddled his expenses while at the same time bleating on about his personal hell he has been going through for the last 2 1/2 years. It makes you sick that a politician with a criminal record and a prison sentence to boot should be allowed to go back to the House of lords and still has a certain arrogance . If i had been sent to prison (I am a civil servant) there is no way i could go back to my job. The government should step in now and strip all those guilty of their peerages and ban politicians in the commons too as this has the potential of being as big a scandal as the expenses one that put these individuals in prison in the first place.

[DaisyNonna]

Paying their debt to society! Society is paying to house and feed them. Possibly also to educate them. An inherited peerage needs to remain. Others should be scrapped.

[barney15c]

Quoted from the first link....

"Peers approved their suspension - to run concurrently with their sentences - on Wednesday without a vote. Under current laws, peers cannot be permanently excluded from the House.

So theortically you could commit murder and provided you serve your time you could go back to the house of lords, how f******g absurd. Could someone explain to me why the law allows this.