The sorry state of the Government’s reform plans on both the House of Lords and the constituency boundaries reminds me that constitutional reforms like this are more likely to be achieved if a serious effort is made to get cross party consensus. I am not surprised that it has ended in tears.
For the immediate future Lord Faulkner below offers a sensible way forward.
For existing peers, yep. Keep taking the money.
Cameron’s easy solution – axe your expenses.
For the
“immediate future” ?
SURELY such Governance Reform of Houses of Parliament needs to be for the Longest-Term*,
and be quite urgently entrenched thereto, and be made written-constitutionally so ?
Our Governance abilities need to go much deeper and further-forward than ever before;
because there is very probably no further chance to ‘try try and try again’ if we don’t pull ourselves together both conservationally and preservationally.
Given a Longest-Term Sustainworthy and Sustainable Constitution, and a Governance-Improvable Regulation of Powers,
then some of the four points collected and advocated**
need to be included in the final entrenchment of Parliamentary reform, for the Longest-Term.
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But,
since the longest-Term need is so clearly
that the Optimum World population be regulated back, such that the Consumption,
and therein Likely-Continued Additional Wastage, Destruction & Extinction,
of both the non-renewable and renewable Lifesupports of this Finite Earth,
is regulated and rationed;
and this be done such that
BOTH
Life on Earth may continue to provide full-support*** our Optimum Human Population for 10,000 years (long-term)
AND
our Human Technological ‘Space-Race’ achieves a Thrival-Survival Emigration extra-terrestrially.
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* Longest-Term = until our Human-Race’s Final-Selected-Community successfully Space-Emigrates; and until those left behind can perish in reasonably comfortable-frugality or euthanasially.
** by the ‘Faulkner school’
(albeit win-lose compromisingly, at huge and possibly Human-Race-Extinctional costs and losses**) –
Due to present-day Governments’ repeated omissions of much hard-survival-evidence,
and Careerist-Government-Classes’ obviously selfish clinging to entrenchment of sinecurally-guaranteed multiple-human-livings for themselves and the already wealthy,
and because the Upper-Classes’ comparatively small numbers, would be more ‘sustainable’ than the ‘sprawling-billions of Underclass ‘natural-victims’;
and also thereby under the age-old and repeatedly-proven Traditional Conservative Policy of “Let the weak go to the wall”.
*** more realistic wording would be “frugally comfortable” (support).
Here is my suggestion for a whole new agenda for reform:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/rupert-read/what-next-after-cleggs-lords-reform-open-letter-to-deputy-prime-minister
Yet another peer coming out in favour of things which pose no risk to his seat 😉
What if the upper house were specifically tasked with representing and protecting the needs of future generations?
Would you Adam and Eve it?!
Just about the most reactionary, superficial and trivial argument I have ever heard from an otherwise apparently sensible Doctor of philosophy.
Take a holiday! It’s the silly season!And Lords Reform is about the silliest!
@Gareth howell:
Hold on a minute, the Lords reform idea written above is out of the realm of reality I agree, however, the silly season it isn’t. Something has to be done to find out just exactly what is going on in the Lords, and the Commons as well come to that.
It reads as if the entire country is indeed being sold down the river and we, the public, are feeling the brunt of those treacherous moves. This can’t go on without some kind of wash the buggers out of the closet and quick move.
What has this, Lord Green, been up to? Executive Director of HSBC and of course, he knows nothing. Yet is he supposed to police bad behaviour and ensure rules were followed.
These Lords appear not to have a grasp on what they are doing at all. Each one pleaads the same game. I know nothing, it was not in my remit. Oh, really, and this guy was watchdog on £188K pa for part time supposedly on the risk committee, what did his job entail I wonder, and why, if he knew nothing, was he being paid so much for so few hours? Is he now going to say this was simply a money spinner?
No wonder, Taylor, told the court they were all doing it. That semingly is an understatement. Time for some criminal charges being mde here.
no wonder the small fry think they can get away with being paid off by coup organisers.
Then we go on to read that Deloitte’s was also up to their neck in it with them.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2185174/Deloitte-linked-Standard-Chartered-money-laundering-scandal.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
A rogue institution is right. And this is just the tip of the iceburg.
An error in above post. I wrote HSBC in respect of, Lord Green, when it should be Standard Chartered.
Egg on face.
sold down the river and we, the public, are feeling the brunt of those treacherous moves.
Since Maude does not usually mix her metaphors
I can only presume that she is a Severn bore.