I was right, they are trying to spam us into submission!
Whatâs the procedure for getting rid of a Lord or four? The Parliamentary procedure, I mean, not the Game of Thrones version.
I donât know about you, but anybody else scared â nay, terrified â of these jokersâ abuse of their power? One who causes terror for political gain â isnât there a word for that? And arenât there laws designed to imprison people who cause terror for political gain?
A friend has just suggested starting a petition to remove them.
It is probably more realistic than my desire to do what William Morris suggested, turn the Houses of Parliament into a manure heap.
I always thought Ian Blair was a complete tosser when he was in charge of the Met. Seems nothing changes.
Shameless: rogue Lords sneak Snooperâs Charter back in AGAIN
Corrupt: Fuckwitted fascists abuse unwarranted plutocratic power in service of megalomaniacal old boys network. AGAIN.
This is fun.
Well I disagree, but Iâm American. Itâs easy to imagine, here.
EDIT: Aha, I think I found your problem:
The four peers in question all come from the security establishmentâŚ
Note to England: Do not give patents of nobility to power-hungry thugs. Here in the US, our power-hungry thugs are commoners like everybody else.
You need an Act of Parliament, which is authorized by the monarchy, to remove an individual Lord. The last time this happened was during WW1, when the Dukes of Cumberland and Albany were both removed for committing treason by allying with the Germans.
I donât know if Iâd consider them ârogue Lordsâ - that implies theyâre out of control / disobedient to those in charge. Iâd think this action shows that theyâre doing exactly what their masters want them to do.
[quote=âNelsie, post:2, topic:51069, full:trueâ]Whatâs the procedure for getting rid of a Lord or four? The Parliamentary procedure, I mean, not the Game of Thrones version.[/quote]I dunno, with guys like these, the GoT method keeps looking better and better.
naked abuse of the democratic process
Iâm American, but⌠the House of Lords is not elected, so that part of the process is not democratic. Not that it matters much - I know how my own government;s elected officials act.
i thought lording mindless bigoted fools is a time honored tradition in England
Carlile was the supposedly independent advisor on terrorism legislation who never once found against the government of the day in either the planning or execution of our appalling anti-terror laws.
And Blair was a supposedly non-political head of the Metropolitan Police who repeatedly lobbied to the press for the introduction of ID cards in the run-up to an election where these were a political issue.
West is the sort of person who if they didnât exist couldnât be written into fiction because they seem too far-fetched. He once went on national radio talking about non-lethal weapons and said: âLets say now weâre off Weymouth in 2012 and weâre doing the Olympic games, and we suddenly find a boat,â he told the Beeb, adding that there were âstupid individualsâ about at such times - offering as an example âa bunch of topless lovelies heading around having had too much to drinkâ.
(Thank-you âThe Registerâ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/14/lord_west_topless_tangler_bazooka/ )
As for King, he pontificates about social media but admits he doesnât use it.
Theyâre all washed up securicrats who seem to share a disturbing fetish for police states.
The kind of people doing this get a hard on at the moral outrage of humane libertarians freaking out as they discover, again and again, that democracy is merely a veneer for a bedrock of feudalism.
Well certainly, old chap, the hoi polloi rarely musters a sufficient attention span to register who is running the countryâŚ
I had two Irish and Scottish friends who both used to say that Guy Fawkes was a man ahead of his time.
No one on here seems to know fuck all about the history of English politics. Not even the author.
The thing about history is that thereâs an awful lot of it. Which particulars bits do you feel weâve missed?
Normal course of business, Iâd say. How many times do we have to defeat CISPA, SOPA, TPP here in the US? All of the times.
