With #LordsReform in the news, a plug for my recent @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article on an area where reform has previously been proposed - to make the Lords a chamber of the nations & regions - and the extent to which the upper House already functions as a territorial chamber #devolution

300 peers, ⅓ elected proportionally every two years on six year terms. Done.

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oN Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk - 5h { Starmer campaigned on Lords reform. It would be the easiest thing in the world to make peerage removal an option for conduct breeches. Recently: Duke of York, Lord Mandelson, Baroness Mone, Earl of Shrewsbury Nazir Ahmed even went to prison for the sexual assault of children. He is till a Baron. =] =19 O29 @ & ao

Would be an easy win with the Public but "fuck those wankers" Labour thinks...

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #PeterMandelson #Corruption #Treason #JeffreyEpstein #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #ClanOfPaedophiles #HouseOfLords #LordsReform

This, please.

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This Wednesday: The last best hope for Lords reform No-one is paying attention. No-one gives a damn. But one man is valiantly trying to make Labour stick by its manifesto commitment.

This Wednesday: The last best hope for Lords reform. Lets hope it's Burns' Night
#LordsReform #ElectoralReform open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

If ever there was an argument to close the Lords...

Insulting.

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Fifteen peers claimed a total of £585,985 in allowances and expenses during the last parliament despite not speaking or doing other committee work. Only three of the 15 sent a written question to the government over the period. All but one voted during the parliament, on average taking part in a third of voting days. The figures cover the 2019 parliament, which sat until the summer of last year, and exclude peers who had been appointed for fewer than 50 sitting days by the end of the parliament. Just 10% of lords made more than half of all debate contributions. Removing the quietest half of peers would have had little impact on the numbers contributing to debates but would have reduced the allowances and expenses bill by 28%, the analysis suggests.

15 peers claimed £585k while not speaking in a single Lords debate www.theguardian.com/politics/202... (UK) by @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

Data on claims for attendance allowances etc. www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-an...

APIs: voting data etc. developer.parliament.uk

#LordsReform #ddj #opendata

Tories fight abolition of hereditary peers as Labour’s Lords reforms stall Keir Starmer’s plan to replace upper house was scaled back to scrapping hereditaries – but even that is proving difficult

#Tory peers delay the abolition of hereditary peers to allow them more time to find new jobs. A few questions. 1) Where were they when Maggie closed the pits? 2) How many of these hereditary peers need to work for a living? 3) What is it they hate about meritocracy?

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a group of people are sitting around a table that says sanctum ALT: a group of people are sitting around a table that says sanctum

I think one way of reforming the House of Lords and ending the outrageous gifting of life time peerages would be to introduced weekly, televised round table banishments a-la #TheTraitors #LordsReform #Banishing

Profiles in Discourage Labour's punting of social care reflects a bigger problem of indecision

Unfortunately, I think Ben Ansell has hit the nail on the head of the elephant in the corner here. Nobody will thank Labour for dithering open.substack.com/pub/benansel... #socialcarereform #Lordsreform #housingreform #watercompanies #railnationalisation

If ever there was an argument for #LordsReform…

Headline, The Independent, 6 December 2024, accompanied by a photo of the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, speaking in the House of Lords. Headline reads "Senior clergy accuses outgoing Archbishop Justin Welby of 'making light' of abuse victims in speech". Welby has resigned following the publication of an independent report that concluded he could have helped bring the child abuser and rapist John Smyth to justice. In the upper house of the British Parliament, 26 seats are given to bishops and archbishops of the Church of England.

Get the bishops out of our legislature *now*. #lordsreform #HouseofLords #democracy

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Time for #LordsReform is well overdue.
👏👏 Tortoise Media for reporting this stuff.

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Limiting numbers and at least some proportional election next. #LordsReform

The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords The Labour government has plans to end their ‘outdated and indefensible’ lawmaking position in the upper house For centuries in Britain, the country’s noblemen have sat in parliament by virtue of their bloodline – but not for much longer. The last…

#HouseofLords #Lordsreform #Politics #UKnews The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords: The Labour government has plans to end their ‘outdated and indefensible’ lawmaking position in the upper house

For centuries in Britain, the country’s noblemen have sat in parliament by virtue of…

I see 'Dame' Margaret Hodge has decided to slither out of this particular skin and take up her lifetime pension of £300 per day for doing absolutely nothing... #LordsReform

Andrew Marr Show: paper review (20 Dec #livingwage, #Brexit, #Corbyn, #Lordsreform)

#r4today

James Hand and Donal Coffey: Miliband’s senate of the reg... Ed Miliband’s recent proposal for ‘an elected Senate that...

James Hand and Donal Coffey's latest piece on #lordsreform is now up on the UK Constitutional Law Association blog http://wp.me/p1cVqo-Nh

Halsbury's laws of England | LexisNexis Halsbury’s Laws of England is the only comprehensive narr...

Short post on Ed Miliband's proposed Senate by James Hand now up on Halsbury's Law Exchange http://bit.ly/1qOBwoK #lordsreform

Working peerages announced: 2014 A list of the latest peerages bestowed by The Queen.

22 new peers appointed today www.gov.uk/government/news/working-... - recent posts on #lordsreform inc
theconversation.com/with-a-little-more-work-... and...

With a little more work the House of Lords could be a dem... It didn’t feature in the last Queen’s Speech and the chan...

James Hand & Donal Coffey 'With a little more work the House of Lords could be a democratic institution' theconversation.com/with-a-little-more-work-... #lordsreform

Halsbury's laws of England | LexisNexis Halsbury’s Laws of England is the only comprehensive narr...

UoPLaw academic blogs on House of Lords reform – time for evolution rather than revolution @HLEThinkTank www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk/house-of-lords-reform-ti... #lordsreform

Parliamentary democracy in action: to achieve a democratic second chamber simply limit debate in the first #lordsreform

Two political hot potatoes #LordsReform + Prisoner Votes combine to create rare refusal to declare compatibility w/ HRA www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013...

The House of Lords Reform White Paper and Draft Bill 2011... A consideration of the House of Lords Reform White Paper ...

Also in Amicus Curiae issue 88: James Hand on the the House of Lords Reform WP + a simpler alternative (port.academia.edu/JamesHand/Papers/1480381... #Lordsreform