Who should elect members of the House of Lords?
David Cameron has been heavily criticised today for appointing 45 new members to the House of Lords which includes 26 former Conservative ministers and supporters, bringing the total number of Lords to 826.
Only the Chinese National Peoples Congress is larger as a parliamentary chamber than the House of Lords.
The new Lords include the disgraced Tory MP Douglas Hogg who used his parliamentary expenses to get the moat round his manor house dredged for £2,115.
The Labour MP John Mann has said “Creating ‘Lord Moat’ is an absolute disgrace. It is rewarding one of the very worst offenders of the expenses scandal. This brings Parliament into disrepute.”
Baroness Deech said it was becoming increasingly difficult to get work done because of “too many people trying to be heard”. “The place is simply overcrowded to an extent that you can’t do your job properly,” she said.
“You have to queue for two hours to be able to get an oral question tabled.”
Many critics have said that there should be under 500 Lords and it desperately needs reforming again, however David Cameron has rejected this and said there is “no point” in reviving efforts to reform the House of Lords.
What are your views? Should the government be appointing even more of its own “cronies” to the House of Lords when many feel it is too large and members are out of touch already? Should David Cameron be making disgraced MPs like Douglas Hogg a Lord?
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And as for the H of P, that could easily be reduced to say 350.
I could go on and on for reams of lines of the many wrongs and rights of life today we all live with in the lovable land of ours, dearly fought for in two dreadful world wars, with loses to countless familes, many of whom you out there will say, yes ours were of those too. And here I say is that of what my contribution on this subject revolves around. What on earth were you the citizens of this GREAT NATION thinking and dreaming of,with re-elcting Cameron and his buffoons, back to government and number 10, with his party declarations and political procrastinations of masterminding a sound good economy, and resounding phrases of 'WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER', and not many of you, or should I claim..THAT MOST OF YOU..chose to ignore Camerons continued statments that the BILLIONS OF FORIEGN AID WILL CONTINUE TO BE PAID..(to all these despot dictators and self appointed leaders of numerous nations, who used all that foriegn aid given them, to firstly pack out their own individual bank balances in countries of dubious banking qualities, and a goodly amount remaining to the purchase of luxurious aircraft for themselves, dreamland motor-cars for their own use..I wont dwell on the many wives they chalk up either)..to Continue with Camerons declaration of the continuance of this financial foriegn aid, he (Cameron) then declres that this foriegn aid commitment will go through parliament and be carved onto stone tablets as PERMANENT and will be LAW. Meanwhile fellow citizens, we will all have to notch in our belts and take the strain with CUTS and MORE CUTS, and MORE AND MORE CUTS,some Shangri La economic revival that will be. Dear Mr Cameron and all his ilk will still flourish, he is not short of a few bob....he will no doubt with fellow comedian Osborne go around to the fancy dress Joke Shop and bothwill hire again and again their standing ordert kit of HIGH-VIZ jacket and HARD HAT and have a PR day out with enormouse expenses to claim too, at some factory or place of construction, to constitute the picture of 'YOU WILL ALL SEE WHAT GOOD CHAPS WE ARE' ...And now we see how Mr Cameron has now moved a great number of his cronies into the Lords...and theres more to it with all the other useless political cronies and hangers on also in there!!!...dont know about you lot of my fellow out there, but methinks this great nation of ours seriouslly needs and requires another person somewhat like that man from ELY in the 1600's...but one to target the politicians, our MAJ is to be untouchable. So long...have a nice and happy 5 YEARS TO COME..