Our 2nd chamber needs to be elected. It’s so incredibly not-at-all democratic. #AbolishTheLords #AbolishFirstPastThePost

Hereditary peers to lose their seats in the House of Lords Upper chamber accepts final draft of bill, which offers life peerages to some of those who would otherwise be removed

Hereditary peers to lose their seats in the House of Lords

A step in the right direction…

#AbolishTheLords
#DismantleTheAristocrasy

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Conservative peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.

“Despite having eluded previous investigations by staying silent, someone saw through my dishonesty and found real evidence

“The only way to protect my honour is to run away with the money I earned in the #Lords while hiding my duplicitous behaviour”

#AbolishTheLords

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#AbolishTheLords #AbolishTheMonarchy #EnemiesOfDemocracy #EatTheRich

#AbolishTheLords and create a real UK democracy!

#AbolishTheLords

Fallen on his sword, taken one for the team, yeah, nothing surprises me anymore 🙄

#AbolishTheLords

Peter Mandelson is fleeing the House of Lords: now let’s throw out all the other rogues and idlers | Jenny Jones The disgraced politician throws all that is wrong with our present system into sharp focus. We need a second chamber the public can trust, says Jenny Jones, a Green party peer

By definition, that's all.of them, Jenny. Including you.

#AbolishTheLords

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Peter Mandelson is fleeing the House of Lords: now let’s throw out all the other rogues and idlers | Jenny Jones The disgraced politician throws all that is wrong with our present system into sharp focus. We need a second chamber the public can trust, says Jenny Jones, a Green party peer

“The real question is why the system of patronage and an unelected second chamber is still allowed to exist. It’s way past time to abolish it and urgently replace it with something elected and modern”

#AbolishTheLords

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Isn't this spying, or treason?

#mandelson #treason #abolishthelords

How about urgently getting rid of this entirely corrupt institution, Starmer? Hmm?

#corruptUK #AbolishTheLords

Starmer wants Peter Mandelson to be permanently removed from the Lords amid Epstein scandal - UK politics live The prime minister called for the House of Lords to modernise procedure so that peers can be more easily removed from the upper chamber

Peter Mandelson “leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans”

Isn’t this treason?

There are a few who shouldn’t be there:
#AbolishTheLords

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It's time to:

Abolish the Lords
Abolish the Monarchy
End the 'special relationship'
And replace FPTP with PR.

In fact it's past time and long overdue.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
#AbolishTheLords
#EpsteinFiles

a man in a white hat is standing on a wooden platform ALT: a man in a white hat is standing on a wooden platform

Time to end this undemocratic farce.
#AbolishTheLords

These unelected Peers can claim an allowance of £361 for every day they turn up. They do not have to vote, speak, or do any work beyond entering the building in order to be able to claim this money. They can also claim travel expenses.
#AbolishtheLords

Over 1,000 amendments?
That’s ridiculous!
#AbolishTheLords - At least get rid of the 29 Bishops still sitting there.
Separate State and Church.
#DignityInDeath
#AssistedDying

Pigs at the trough.
#AbolishTheLords

Alister Jack's expenses for first 3 months in House of Lords branded 'ridiculous' ALISTER Jack’s House of Lords expenses have been branded “ridiculous” – after the Tory peer claimed more than £17,000 in just three months

Tories best at managing money?

Pull the other one:

Tory Alister Jack’s House of Lords expenses have been branded “ridiculous” – after the Tory peer claimed more than £17,000 in just three months.

#AbolishTheLords

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While you count pennies after Christmas, 800 unelected Lords in Westminster are collecting £342 a day just to turn up. We have no House of Lords in Scotland, yet we pay for this medieval nursing home for failed politicians. Abolish the Union. 🏰🤡 #AbolishTheLords

Hallelujah 👇
#abolishthelords

#AbolishTheLords and while you’re at it #AbolishTheMonarchy and #AbolishPublicSchools as they all perpetuate the feudal, entitled, selfish mindset that embeds inequality within our political, economic, social and environmental systems.

US House of Representatives: 435
US Senate: 100
US population: 342,000,000

UK Lords: 825
UK Commons: 650
UK population: 69,000,000

The #UK is over-represented!
#AbolishTheLords - replace it with a wholly elected Upper House (100 Senators)

Keir Starmer unveils peerages as Iceland boss to join Lords - see full list Keir Starmer has appointed more than two dozen new peers - including Iceland boss Richard Walker and ex-No10 comms chief Matthew Doyle - as he seeks to boost Labour’s numbers in the Lords

Ffs
Just #AbolishTheLords
Let’s have an elected second chamber, not one stuffed overfull with cronies.
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There are loads of sportswomen who could be handpicked to become legislators. So which one gets chosen? The extremely vocal bigot. On-brand.

#transphobia #fascistUK #AbolishTheLords

Sharon Davies to get peerage! FGS stop all these ppl in the Lords . Better still #abolishthelords and let's have an elected second chamber , you know like they have in Democratic systems!

#AbolishTheLords

WTF is that Lord Cryer on about? He said “what the hell is going on in Birmingham city hall”. He called for an official inquiry into “an evil plot” by “a bunch of bigots and racists” to turn Britain’s second-biggest city “into a no-go area for Jewish people”. Plleeease...
#AbolishtheLords

Expensive dressing up ! Time to #abolishthemonarchy and #abolishthelords! So sick of a country so stuck in the past and fools who celebrate such inequality.

#AbolishTheLords

Two peers suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules Lord Evans of Watford and Lord Dannatt were filmed breaking rules, in undercover footage recorded by Guardian

Two peers suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules

Another corrupt institution!
#AbolishTheLords

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