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Abolish The House Of Lords?
Or reduce them?
These people are unelected and sit sleeping in lovely upholstered leather chairs, have a ‘ smoking’ room, have the best of the best meals and the best ales and spirits all subsidised from the tax payer.....
Whilst not far away on the Thames embankment , lies dozens of homeless people ,
These people are unelected and sit sleeping in lovely upholstered leather chairs, have a ‘ smoking’ room, have the best of the best meals and the best ales and spirits all subsidised from the tax payer.....
Whilst not far away on the Thames embankment , lies dozens of homeless people ,
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Halve their money or better still do away with it altogether. Then see how many are willing to turn up for the sessions.
11:09 Thu 16th Jan 2020
// the ones left could then tackle certain things like Medical matters and legal matters//
hmm I wrote to dead leg Lord Deshant previously Leonard Alexander posonby goodbody smythe (sir) and said
sir, you are a one - you pioneered elections for the GMC 1970 and here you are thirty years later pioneering legislation to discenfranchise them! DO you have any sense of irony you old fool or is it a short memory?
and the now dead Lord Deshant wrote back
my Lord please ! and not Sir!
I am a medical lord and that means I have agreed to pioneer steer but not change legislation introduced by the current govt.
which I do very very well in my medical opinion
go awa y and be governed sir, we do it your very best interests!
so there you are Bobbi
you now know what medical lords do
hmm I wrote to dead leg Lord Deshant previously Leonard Alexander posonby goodbody smythe (sir) and said
sir, you are a one - you pioneered elections for the GMC 1970 and here you are thirty years later pioneering legislation to discenfranchise them! DO you have any sense of irony you old fool or is it a short memory?
and the now dead Lord Deshant wrote back
my Lord please ! and not Sir!
I am a medical lord and that means I have agreed to pioneer steer but not change legislation introduced by the current govt.
which I do very very well in my medical opinion
go awa y and be governed sir, we do it your very best interests!
so there you are Bobbi
you now know what medical lords do
Do we need the HoL ? Well, the problem with a democracy is that the majority can totally disregard/exploit/beatup the minority, which is hardly fair (we saw that with the Brextremists trying to suppress the Remoaners' riight to free speech for example).
I understood the HoL was there to prevent this imbalance (not saying whether it's effective or not, that's a different argument possibly).
But the present arrangement does seem to outrageously reward some fairly lazy duffers, so I do think we need a different selection/qualification method.
I don't think an Industry/Commerce Bigwigs panel is the answer, the CBI seem pretty influential already.
I would like to try a random selection from General Public for a trial period, with service being limited to a year (with sabbatical leave from job and guaranteed return, a bit like maternity leave). We could then review it after a few years. It does need careful thought - e.g. do we exclude anybody (similar to jury duty for example), is it compulsory, etc etc.
It would IMHO be an interesting experiment.
Thought ?
I understood the HoL was there to prevent this imbalance (not saying whether it's effective or not, that's a different argument possibly).
But the present arrangement does seem to outrageously reward some fairly lazy duffers, so I do think we need a different selection/qualification method.
I don't think an Industry/Commerce Bigwigs panel is the answer, the CBI seem pretty influential already.
I would like to try a random selection from General Public for a trial period, with service being limited to a year (with sabbatical leave from job and guaranteed return, a bit like maternity leave). We could then review it after a few years. It does need careful thought - e.g. do we exclude anybody (similar to jury duty for example), is it compulsory, etc etc.
It would IMHO be an interesting experiment.
Thought ?
