Nigel Farage For The House Of Lords?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3886780/Call-Lord-Farage-Ukip-leader-finally-enter-Parliament-leadership-runners-pledge-secure-peerage-Mr-Brexit.html

[gulliver1]

MR FIXIT. for himself,

[naomi24]

gulliver1, how so?

[anotheoldgit]

Baron Farage, Lord of Brexit.

Got a certain ring to it.

[gulliver1]

Calm down naomi, it was just that Mr fix it rhymed with Mr Brexit

[anneasquith]

"" got a ring about it "" yeh as a fairy tale. LOL

[naomi24]

//Calm down Naomi//

Pardon?

[gulliver1]

AOG/ BRILLIANT!

[gulliver1]

Pardon, why what have you done? naomi !

[Khandro]

Easily the most successful politician of his generation, he had a dream, turned it into a plan and carried it through, with the majority of the country behind him all without even being an MP. What more do you want?

[mikey4444]

If the British people haven't seen fit to send him to Parliament by the usual route, ie by a democratic vote, in his seven attempts, then why should he get in by default ?

Getting into the Houses of Parliament by the back door, it would seem to me.

[mikey4444]

K....he couldn't persuade enough people to vote for him and his party....why should he circumnavigate the usual route ?

[hereIam]

Well done Nigel !

[EDDIE51]

He'll be ideally suited to the Lord's claiming his £350 a day just for signing in!

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// he couldn't persuade enough people to vote for him and his party....why should he circumnavigate the usual route ? ///

Ukip deserves representation in the House of Lords because it won more than four million votes at last year's General Election.

How many votes did the Bishops and persons such as Baroness Lawrence achieve?

[mikey4444]

AOG....rubbish.

UKIP has one seat in the HOC. The make up of the HOL doesn't take into account the Parties that come 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Farage's best bet for Membership of the Second Chamber, is to serve in the 1st Chamber for a while, and then brown-nose the Tories, so that they let him into the the Upper Chamber at some date in the future.

[mikey4444]

No mention of minor parties here, like UKIP, the Greens.

http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/lords/composition-of-the-lords/

Not even the SNP and PC, who have 56 + 3 between them, so why should UKIP have any representation ?

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444....Rubbish!!!

I repeat have any of the Bishops or even the likes of Baroness Lawrence ever served in the 1st Chamber?

[ichkeria]

Baron Boddington of Brexit

Or whatever his favourite brewer is :-)

Can he lead UKIP from the Lords? I guess so. The last lord to become PM renounced his peerage (not that Nige is going to have that problem) Lets face it, he'll probably have to come out of "retirement" again in the near future.

I've no problem with UKIP peers.

[mikey4444]

NO...on to the next question AOG !

Why should UKIP have seats in the HOL's, if the SNP and PC don't ?

[mikey4444]

Ichkeria....Farage is only a caretaker Leader at the moment, due to UKIP's inability to vote a real leader in for more than 18 days at a time.