House of Lords: will Keir Starmer abolish it, or is it another broken promise?
Keir Starmer in a hospital: his policies belong there – on life support.
One of the (many) pledges Keir Starmer has made as leader of the Labour Party has been to abolish the House of Lords, to be replaced with an elected Upper Chamber (if I recall correctly).
It seems to be another pledge that he is breaking, though.
The Times is reporting that, rather than eliminate the Lords along with the archaic system of appointing them, Starmer now intends to stuff the already-overfilled Chamber with new Labour peers, in order to ensure that all of his legislation has a smooth passage through Parliament:
You simply cannot believe a single word @Keir_Starmer says. https://t.co/Rg4kieYkEl pic.twitter.com/TAN7G0TbTL
— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) June 21, 2023
It’s true – you really can’t trust a single word that come out of Starmer or the Labour Party he leads.
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The most worrying part is that Labour Peers are in the minority and if Cuckoo-in-the-nest Starmer shoves in his own people, it will be even more Right-Leaning than it is now, so what’s the point?
Indeed, no point at all. Starmer’s cronies told they can join the gravy train, for life, but only for the purpose of abolishing it. You can just see that happening, not!
A “Starmer-pledge” = Used by those who want power and who then disregard the pledge outright once in power as their rulers didn’t think it was a good idea and didn’t benefit from them. It’s a posh way of saying, LIAR.