I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,512

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 20th November 2022, 5:05 PM

More worryingly what are they going to replace it with. Not more elections and politicians on the gravy train? And the divisive electioneering that will go with it.

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Labour would abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a "new, reformed upper chamber", the party has confirmed to the BBC.
Sir Keir Starmer told Labour peers that he wanted to strip politicians of the power to appoint people to the chamber in the first term of a Labour government.
He said that Tory leaders have handed peerages to "lackeys and donors".
The party is expected to confirm its plans in its next manifesto.
The Observer first reported that part of the reason for reform was because the public "have lost faith in the ability of politicians and politics to bring about change", according to Sir Keir.
It plans to hold a consultation on what a reformed new chamber would look like - including on its size and composition - in addition to reforming the current appointments process.
Sir Keir also told peers there was strong support for reforming the House of Lords and that any new chamber should be elected by voters not fellow politicians, but that the second chamber would remain a place for scrutinising and amending new laws rather than forming governments or setting budgets.

Quote: lofthouse @ 20th November 2022, 5:59 PM

Sir Keir also told peers that any new chamber should be elected by voters

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My point exactly.

We already have elections for the Commons, county councils, district councils, town councils, police commissioners (for goodness sake), mayors, devolved governments and goodness knows what else. Some even want to elect a president as well. Apart from anything else there are not enough willing, capable, dependable & honest people to go round, which is why we're lumbered with the ones we've got now.

Quote: lofthouse @ 20th November 2022, 3:59 PM

If... sorry , when, Labour win the next election, they are going to abolish the house of lords

Well it's decades too late but - thank goodness

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Half of them are ex-Labour or Labour luvvies anyway.

Lords Sitting members
Conservative Party267
Crossbench184
Labour Party172
Liberal Democrats83
Democratic Unionist Party 6
Green Party2
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Plaid Cymru1
Non-affiliated39
Independents2
Lord Speaker1
Lords Spiritual25
Total number of sitting members: 784

It'll never happen.
"Blah blah, democracy,
Blah blah, served us well for hundreds of years,
Blah blah, reward for selfless public service."

Quote: paulted @ 20th November 2022, 8:35 PM

"Blah blah, democracy,
Blah blah, served us well for hundreds of years,
Blah blah, reward for selfless public service."

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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 22nd November 2022, 4:24 PM

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Brilliant.

Good joke

No doubt the Daily Mail and The Scum are praying to the All Seeing Eye that there is a power surge at half time in the England Wales game forcing a power cut that they can blame on the French as they are our emergency provider and they currently have two reactors are undergoing maintenance.
If it happens they can say that it was done out of spite, a notion their readers understand completely.

Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ 29th November 2022, 6:26 PM

No doubt the Daily Mail and The Scum are praying to the All Seeing Eye that there is a power surge at half time in the England Wales game forcing a power cut that they can blame on the French as they are our emergency provider and they currently have two reactors are undergoing maintenance.
If it happens they can say that it was done out of spite, a notion their readers understand completely.

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Surely you would be better off waiting for it to actually transpire before posting? Otherwise, it's all just low-effort wishful thinking/shitposting. Or shiteposting, I guess.

Bad guess to be honest mate, it was written in a bid to be funny.
Whether it is funny or not is a total case of subjectivity.
This is comedy site so you should use that for your extrapolation.
That way you might not laugh and I expect few will, but you will see the reason.

Brexit has added almost £6 billion to UK food bills over the past two years, new research has found.

Household food bills are up six per cent since the UK's formal departure from the European Union, a study from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) revealed.

Low-income households have been hardest hit by the uptick in costs, with Brexit-induced price rises adding 1.1 per cent to their total cost of living -- more than the 0.7 per cent increase felt by the wealthiest decile of households.

In all, UK consumers paid £5.8 billion in additional food costs over the two years.

Commenting on the findings, Jacob Rees-Mogg - who previously said we will get cheaper food and clothing outside of the EU - argued that Brits will avoid a 2 per cent extra cost to fish fingers thanks to Brexit, as well as bagging savings on some cheeses....

Like he even knows what a f**king fish finger is!

Brexit you say, that's new.
Take ya 6 yeat old tatty blinkers off and maybe look around for other possible causes.

Quote: lofthouse @ 1st December 2022, 7:00 PM

Household food bills are up six per cent since the UK's formal departure from the European Union, a study from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) revealed.

In all, UK consumers paid £5.8 billion in additional food costs over the two years.

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The UK's formal departure from the EU was 31 January 2020.

Within six weeks the government opted to shut down the British economy for the best part of two years and to pay people not to work.

I wonder which is the more likely reason for the economy crashing over that two year period?