Reply to: 8 unbelievable things you never knew about House of Lords

[DimPrawn]

104% there.

FTFY

And we are there. I fank you.

[SueEllen]

It is a real comfort to know that we have the HoL to act as a check and balance against the Commons...........

I use to sit in lectures like them.

Then some smart arse lecturers use to ask me what they had said thinking I wouldn't know as obviously I was asleep - and I use to repeat it back to them.

[DimPrawn]

90% there.

[NigelJK]

So there can be no complaints now that the HoL is in control?

As has been pointed out this is part of the process (brought about because some solicitor some where wanted some publicity and went on and on about parliamentary democracy, the practical effect of which is to bring on a hard Brexit) and is in line with the plan the commons already put forward. They are not in control, someone deliberately left that clause in to give them something to wibble about, it's easily amended as has also been pointed out.

[DimPrawn]

It is a real comfort to know that we have the HoL to act as a check and balance against the Commons...........

Were they hearing about Darmy and Scooter boy's latest pro EU ramblings?

[shaunbhoy]

It is a real comfort to know that we have the HoL to act as a check and balance against the Commons...........

[DimPrawn]

75% there!

Come on people, let's watch them chinless coffin dodgers squim as the elected MP's debate ridding the country of them.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170686

Vote! Vote! Vote!

[northernladyuk]

Most who voted. HTHBIDI.

So there can be no complaints now that the HoL is in control?

[suityou01]

Most who voted. HTHBIDI.

Yes indeed. The democratic majority.

Bleedin' leftie liberal facists.

[NigelJK]

Who wanted parliament to take back control from the EU?

Most who voted. HTHBIDI.

[NickFitz]

Free rep to all voters.

House of Lords belong in the dark ages of serfdom bowing down to the lord of the manor.

They have no place in democracy.

(Two months later, the HoL prevents the Commons doing something of which DP disapproves): "Thank God for the HoL, last bastion of our democracy, defenders of our rights against those idiot MPs, where would we be without them" etc.

[darmstadt]

The Tories, you've got to love them, really rather like the House of Lords especially when they decide to fill it with their own in order to get them to vote on their terms. Now, when it doesn't go their way, they become little snowflakes. The right, got to laugh really...

Lords by party, type of peerage and gender - UK Parliament

[GB9]

Well, it has to be seen to do something.

Of course if it does something else, it gets wiped out.

[suityou01]

The irony is delicious.

[northernladyuk]

Which is an unelected body also

The irony is delicious.