lords are protected by parliamentary privelege just like the commons

Isnt the privilege just as fragile as the rest of our laws?

Thus they can just decide to not do that now and do.something else?

looks like they'll all harumph at him, but there'll be nothing they can do legally

what was it he was supposed to have said?

Idk

inb4 it was innocuous boomer trolling

oh ffs

he called her "queer"

called it

Gay SNP MP gets called a "queer", and goes "REEEEEEE!"

All respect for Rees Mogg GONE

Yep, he has given in

Given the relentless class-based shit and accusations of nazism Mogg gets, it's hard to see why he even entertains these clowns

Spose he's just trying to be the bigger man

*FIX BAYONETS*

https://twitter.com/RLong_Bailey/status/1216315472586604549

ha ha ha

AKKADED

TBH the HoL should be abolished

It should be reformed, abolishing it leaves a pretty sizeable vacuum

aka abolish

Reformation would keep the core ideas intact, that's not what should happen

idk the house of regions & nations feels like a good idea

seems like it addresses every grievance appropriately

Can we abolish Mayday as a Bank Holiday?

We could just use the Commons alone

We don't necessarily need a second house

You'd need one to keep the other in check, which is the Lord's supposed purpose

The Lords can't do that anyway though

The Commons can easily bypass the Lords

Ye, 'supposed', but having one house is a bad idea if there isn't a way of checking and vetting what they pass

I suppose you could have the Monarch do that, but I don't think that'd last long

What we could do actually is have one house elected by FPTP and another elected by PR

yah, tbh the commons can bypass the lords, but the lords have a microphone to sound alarm bells that can fuck up the commons optics

https://youtu.be/-vz8OdSartk

The issue is PR still would not work then. Because all that would happen law would be made in the tory commons, then when its passed up to the second house that would be PR (and therefore 45% approx tory) it would fail. You would have the same issue that we had with BRexit and a minority government

And no laws would get passed, the opposition would rail on the government saying "see, cant do anything" and eventually they would win by blocking everything else

PR only works when parties are not polarised, and it is fair to say Labour, LibDems, SNP, and nearly every other opposition party is so polarised they would never work *with* the government unless they got everything they wanted- which isn't how coalitions etc are supposed to work

We could just keep the power the same and ensure that the second house can't block the commons

My musing: say the houses be such: the lower is PR, the upper is FPTP. What would that look like?