Author Archives: Lord Soley

Lords reform – continued

Lord Soley 26/04/2012 – 12:24 pm

This section deals with another problem associated with the Government draft Bill. It follows on from my post below. I agreed to go to the Lords in 2005 and I remember going in for the first time and seeing a line of wheel chairs plugged in to charging points – and the debate was on [...]

Lords Reform – a mugs game

Lord Soley 21/04/2012 – 8:56 pm

As a newly elected MP in 1979 it seemed obvious to me that we needed to elect the Lords. No question about it! Unelected legislators in the age of democracy – it must be wrong! So like most MPs I took it for granted that Labour’s election manifesto of 1910 must finally be honoured. I [...]

Flagellation can be fun!

Lord Soley 21/03/2012 – 1:04 pm

My good friend Baroness Murphy observes that just because you are mad it doesn’t mean you are necessarily wrong! (See her post below) My evidence for the Health and Social Care Bill being a  mad policy choice is that everyone including the Government will suffer for bringing in a Bill that was quite unnescessary. For those [...]

Health and Social Care Bill

Lord Soley 20/03/2012 – 10:48 am

This Bill finally completed its weary journey through the House of Lords yesterday. I am still trying to work out whether the Government was mad or bad in pushing it through. It is bad because it will increase bureaucracy and costs without improving front line services. It is mad because the Government has alienated the very [...]

Make Bradford British

Lord Soley 09/03/2012 – 11:13 pm

How to live together in multi racial Britain