| Reform and the Lords 17:10 - Jan 26 with 367 views | Zx1988 |
With the threat of a Reform government in 2029, a thought occurred to me over the weekend:
What is to stop Farage then proceeding to stuff the Lords with Reform peers, either throughout the course of his parliament, or as a final hurrah as part of his dissolution honours?
Could an upper chamber stacked with Reform nut-jobs allow Farage to keep his hand on the tiller of UK politics, even if the electorate end up seeing through Reform after a single term? |  |
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| Reform and the Lords on 17:37 - Jan 26 with 284 views | flykickingbybgunn |
You mean a bit like they have seen through Starmer ? [Post edited 26 Jan 17:43]
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| Reform and the Lords on 17:45 - Jan 26 with 245 views | J2BLUE |
It's not like the Supreme Court where there is a limited number and you can stitch things up until someone dies.
A new government could add their own. Or try and get rid of the house altogether. |  |
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| Reform and the Lords on 17:45 - Jan 26 with 245 views | GlasgowBlue |
Any party can and does exactly that. Since winning the election in 2024 Labour created 96 new peers, with 25 appointed just last month. |  |
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| Reform and the Lords on 17:47 - Jan 26 with 226 views | positivity |
he wouldn't need to do that, just get the nuttier defective tories aboard instead! | |
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| Reform and the Lords on 17:56 - Jan 26 with 174 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Reform and the Lords on 17:37 - Jan 26 by flykickingbybgunn |
You mean a bit like they have seen through Starmer ? [Post edited 26 Jan 17:43]
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You know that the Lords is heavily weighted in favour of the tories, right? | |
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| Reform and the Lords on 18:03 - Jan 26 with 143 views | flykickingbybgunn |
| Reform and the Lords on 17:56 - Jan 26 by redrickstuhaart |
You know that the Lords is heavily weighted in favour of the tories, right? |
Actually no. There are more Liberals. | | | |
| Reform and the Lords on 18:09 - Jan 26 with 118 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Reform and the Lords on 17:56 - Jan 26 by redrickstuhaart |
You know that the Lords is heavily weighted in favour of the tories, right? |
Yes. Because the Tories were in power for 14 years and overloaded it with Tory peers. Before that Blair appointed 374 life peers, the most of any Prime Minister. Labour will do the same and whoever wins the next election will follow suit. [Post edited 26 Jan 18:11]
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| Reform and the Lords on 18:30 - Jan 26 with 58 views | Churchman |
| Reform and the Lords on 18:09 - Jan 26 by GlasgowBlue |
Yes. Because the Tories were in power for 14 years and overloaded it with Tory peers. Before that Blair appointed 374 life peers, the most of any Prime Minister. Labour will do the same and whoever wins the next election will follow suit. [Post edited 26 Jan 18:11]
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Johnson even stuffed a Russian in there! I wonder why?
The government(s) bleat on about lack of money but conveniently forget about the cost of that privileged, unelected shower, HoL. The dining room alone (for the finest dining in London) costs you and me £2.6m a year - about half what it would cost to elect a replacement in Manchester for Burnham, not that one is needed since he has a Deputy.
Back to the point, of course the monstrous Farage would fill the place with his wackos. Perhaps if they put bars on the windows and locked the doors the cost would be justified. |  | | |
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