Parliamnt is prorougued for a week today before returning for a new State Opening and King's Speech next week.
There are two consequences.
The first is that desperate Labour MPs can return to their seats to campaign for their futures in parliament via the local council elections, knowing that they have very little chance of ever seeing the inside of the House of Commons chamber again after 2029, if, that is, the next Labour government lasts that long.
Second, today marks the end of the line for the 88 remaining hereditary peers, who have now had their right to sit in the Lords ended by Labour, 27 years after Tony Blair promised he would deliver this reform, such is Labour's progress on any issue of significance.
Farewll, and good riddance, I say. Next, it's time for the monarchy to go, and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to have the chance to leave the Union.
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I very rarely comment nowadays, although still read on a daily basis, but can I just say I fully concur with your last two paragraphs.
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Given the state of UK politics under Starmer – or the Starmfuherer, as I call him – I can’t help picking up an almost James Joycean “Finnegan’s Wake” sort of pun in your mis-spelling of prorougued as “prorougued”, making Parliament sound like a rouged-up pantomime dame.
And actually, even the correct spelling of prorogued is Joycean, containing as it does the word “rogue”
Before the Civil War we had the Long Parliament, and then the Rump Parliament, dismissed by Cromwell.
The Starmfuherer’s Parliament is surely deservedly called the Rogue Parliament.
Oops
I will have to leave it now
I can’t help picking up an almost James Joycean “Finnegan’s Wake” sort of pun in your mis-spelling of prorogued as “prorougued”
Yes indeed Richard. But the ‘honours’ system has just extended the scope for corruption by the all- powerful executive – the ‘elective dictatorship’ – resulting in a grotesque number 800 ‘peers’. Rampant bribery . <p>
Its clear no one is going to ‘reform’ or abolish this ridiculous 2nd chamber.<p>
The best way in might be to campaign for the abolition of all ‘donations’ to politicians and political parties. Difficult to argue against getting dark money out of the system.