ten thousand articles sitting in drafts waiting to be released on the 31st to cry senselessly about someone's personal emotional attachment to a political union

is it me... or is it weird that labour are trying to put a tory in as a peer?

not weird when you consider he's a red tory

what makes a red tory?

someone who isn't conservative who resides inside the conservative party

I think hes certainly a remainer... as most tories were... I dunno what else he lines up on the labour side

social policy

he's married to a labour mp

(former? sp)

@wacka it just goes to show how poor bercow was that a party who HATE TORY SCUM RAAAAARRRR would put one forward for peerage

they saw him as their ally

i think its tremendously poor taste to put him up for honours. is that it then - hes getting them, or is there some kind of approval?

I think it's just Corbyn's Boris Delusional Syndrome showing

Boris is for Brexit, well I'm against it

Boris is for cutting taxes on the low paid, well I'm against it

Boris is against a lordship for Bercow, well I'm for it

That was his entire party

ye

honestly if bercow gets a peerage that strengthens the case against having the house of lords

and also puts labour in a weird position because obviously they'd want to denounce yeeting it to block bercow being a peer but then that'd go against their whole ranting against that house being a thing

Get rid of the fake lords

Dame Lawrence et al

Lord achmed of Rotherham who was implicated in child abuse, is peak new labour

The House of Lords is a major problem

Electing it would make it worse but allowing it to continue how it is still pretty bad

the house of regions and nations is a better idea since it keeps london out of it

It should be cut down to a small number of hereditary Lords with advisory powers only

Each lord and his line can be ousted by vote

And replaced by vote

Why don't we just give the biggest industries of the UK the seats? As a major part of the British Economy i think they should be entitled to a say in policy

no

that

that's an awful idea

Why?

It would encourage businesses to stay

because they would just try and fudge it to suit them the most

they create jobs

Do y'all want Oligarchs?

That's how you get oligarchs

Hereditary lords only

i dont care anymore, i just dont want the progressive left