I say we elect the Lords by lottery-everyone gets a number, and if yours comes up, you serve for a few years. Keeps the non-elected nature of the house, without having them appointed. Should result in a pretty decent cross-section of society too.
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I say we elect the Lords by lottery-everyone gets a number, and if yours comes up, you serve for a few years. Keeps the non-elected nature of the house, without having them appointed. Should result in a pretty decent cross-section of society too.
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Ha!
You think we've got some muppets serving now, I can't imagine the dolies who live down my street serving in the Lords *shudders in fear*
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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*looks at Patriot Missile silo*
Silo ???? besides which maybe you should choose a weapons system that has a better track record .
And anyway I thought Blair was the Whitehouses pet poodle , you wouldn't really want to kill your presidents lap-dog would you ?
More to the topic , scrap the House of Lords .
Can any of the British tell me , are Lord Archer and Mark Thatcher still allowed to take up their seats ?
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Yes, amazingly they are. No law against someone who has broken the law taking their seat, if that makes sense ;pCan any of the British tell me , are Lord Archer and Mark Thatcher still allowed to take up their seats ?
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INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
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Well, Mark Thatcher broke the law in another country, so that would make his situation a legal minefield, but that a crook like Archer should be allowed to keep his seat is a disgrace - although I would fully expect the Lords to to blackball him at every opportunity
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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Sir Mark Thatcher never held a seat, since he was never a peer. He merely is the 2nd Baronet Thatcher, inherited from his father. Lord Archer still holds his seat, however, which is rather silly. But one can hardly say that this is grounds against the system. Tony Blair lyed about going to war, yet he is still Prime Minister.
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Sir Mark Thatcher never held a seat, since he was never a peer.
But doesn't he get the seat when Maggie goes to hell ?
Well, Mark Thatcher broke the law in another country, so that would make his situation a legal minefield,
But are not himself and Archer both the subjects (among others) of an inquiry and possible British trial in relation to the coup plot ?
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