Yet Another 'peer' Into The House Of Lords.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11777733/Lingerie-tycoon-Michelle-Mone-to-be-made-Tory-peer.html

[mikey4444]

AOG...this is maybe one of the rare times when we both agree !

The Lords is quite full enough as it is....we don't need anymore new appointments. According to Wiki, there are already 782 members, and dave is reportedly going to appoint a further 40 (all Tory apparently, although that really isn't important )

I can't see a single reason why there should be more appointed Members in the Lords, then there are elected Members in the Commons. Its costing us tax payers a small fortune each year, and it just isn't needed.

[jno]

mikey, the fact that they're all Tory does have some importance. It's being done, it seems, to redress what's seen as an imbalance, presumably in the light of the general election results. So if Labour won the next election they'd have to pour in more Labour peers to redress this new imbalance. And so it goes on ad infinitum.

But of course neither Lords nor Commons have any interest in stopping this nonsense.

[mikey4444]

no...maybe this is the reason that the Lords are full to overthflowing then, if every time there is an Election, yet more are appointed.

The situation in the Lords is better than it used to be, before Labour started the reform of the 2nd chamber. I am not one of those people who think that all the Lords do is to simply turn up, get their money, and then sleep all day. There are various committees that they are active on and there is a case to be made for a 2nd revising chamber.

But the numbers are getting out of hand...they are simply not needed in such quantities. There isn't even enough room for them all to sit down, if they all turned up on the same day !