#houseoflords — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #houseoflords, aggregated by home.social.
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#Churchill was the Prime Minister when the British caused a famine in Iran during WWII by forcibly requisitioning stores of grain there.
Churchill was also the Prime Minister when India exported food ignoring a famine in Bengal during WWII. But 50 peers organized "a row": https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/23/artwork-removed-national-portrait-gallery-helen-cammock-churchill-bengal-famine
#whiteFragility #London #India #Bangladesh #BritishEmpire #famine #Cromwell #history #HouseOfLords #WWII #UK
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#Starmer's ''reforms' have taken the UK's #HouseOfLords from 85% appointed cronies to 96% appointed #cronies. He ejected the 92 #HereditaryPeers, but kept the 26 bishops and about 700 cronies.
It's over a century since the Parliament Act 1911 promised the UK an elected upper house, but not "immediately". The number of elected members remains 0%. Zilch. Nada. Nothing.
96% appointed cronies. And they call it "democracy".
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#Starmer has just made the #HouseOfLords even worse.
In 1958, the Lords was a set of #HereditaryPeers & bishops. On Tuesday, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill passed, making the Lords a bunch only of #LifePeers & bishops. 68 years from a club of #inbreds to a club of #cronies & donors.
The #ParliamentAct1911 promised an elected upper house, but it never arrived. 115 years later, the so-called "#LabourParty" leaves bishops as the only independent Lords. This is not #democracy.
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“Michael Gove to be awarded peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours.” Lord Coke of Cokeshire. #Gove #HouseOfLords #Tories
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UK Survey - House of Lords
Share your thoughts on how you feel about the unelected House of Lords.
This is a quick, multi choice survey. Less they 30 seconds to complete.
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/139578/-/1
#UnitedKingdom #UK #corruption #dystopia #Lords #HouseOfLords #democracy #DemocracyLost #ToryDictatorship #ToryScum #ToryFascists
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Former PM David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary has triggered fresh calls to abolish the House of Lords
There is no requirement for cabinet ministers to be a MP
It is rare senior offices of state are held by unelected politicians
#Lobbyist Cameron has been handed a seat in the Lords for life to take up the role
This joins a string of outrages about the urgent need to ditch the Lords
#UK #dictatorship #ToryDictatorship #democracy #PR #Lords #HouseOfLords