Bishops and Establishment
The established church has reserved seats in our legislature and the Church of England currently reserves these places for men. Some churches claim that episcopal authority can only come through men...
View ArticleBuying your Lords Seat
The appointment of new Lords today has provoked significant criticism (see for instance, Electoral Reform Society, BBC Have Your Say). Much of the criticism has focused on the appointment of...
View ArticleAnachronisms – windmills for political bigots
something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time Dictionary.com : Anachronism If you hear a politician...
View ArticleA Programme for the Majority?
Just imagine the following programme for government: Reform A shake up of Westminster Abolition of the House of Lords A fair voting system Public Services No tuition fees Educational Maintenance...
View ArticleWhat does a Lord do when they disagree with their party’s membership?
Today (20 October 2015) we have seen a Labour Peer “resign the Labour whip” – but not apparently resign from the party. This strikes me as strange because from the noise that Lord Warner is making this...
View ArticleTax Credits
The Government seemed to be hell-bent on two objectives: Imposing severe income cuts on those least able to accommodate such cuts A truly ghastly political car-crash Then they seek to create a...
View ArticleFinagling
verb (used with object), finagled, finagling. 1. to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune. 2. to get or achieve (something) by guile,...
View ArticleJo Cox: Others can speak of her far better
I did not know Jo Cox, the MP murdered whilst doing constituency duties. I am not a fan of party politicians but I have to lift my cynicism when talking of the constituency work which the vast majority...
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