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MPs voted last night in favour of a completely elected House of Lords. The decision will not pass directly into law, but heavily influence the Government's reform plans for the second chamber.

Personally, I could not be more worried. The Labour Party have already destabalised and weakened this country with their slapdash attempt at Lords reform, and are now planning on furthering the lunacy. I've said it before, and I'll keep on saying it.

 

 

The pre-Labour arrangement of the House of Lords wasn't perfect, but then what is? It certainly didn't have anything so monumentally wrong with it that all of this can possibly be justified. The upper house has worked fine for hundreds of years, keeping successive Governments in check. But this corrupt Labour administration knew that the Lords were too experienced and too wise to allow their ridiculous legislation onto the statute books. And so they ruined it. Pulled the foundations out and proceeded to sell off seats in order to do what they wanted. Further, it would appear that the House of Lords were - and to a lesser extent still are - far more in touch with the electorate than the House of Commons!

 

The present situation, and moreso the prospect for the future, is deeply, deeply disturbing. Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money and hundreds of hours of Commons time has been given over to this lunacy already, and there's no sign of it drawing to a swift conclusion. Far from it, in fact, for a second elected chamber would mean one of two things. If, as is likely, any elections took place at the same time as the General Elections, then we would be left with an extremely expensive room of yes-men, and this would suit no one but an undoubtedly increasingly corrupt series of governmentss. The other option would be to have seperate elections - perhaps the two at least 12 months apart. This would be marginally more democratic, but hugely expensive and complex to operate.

 

And so here we are. We have a second chamber which has been reduced to little more than a joke by the most corrupt Government that this country has ever seen, and the plans for the future are even more grim. Every day, this country grows weaker under the corrupt, pseudo-conservative Labour Party, and more and more people get even more disillusioned with politics. I honestly do not know how they get away with it. Perhaps the most depressing fact here is that it was voted on by the whole of the House of Commons. Do none of them have any sense at all?

 

How utterly depressing.