Author Archive for Lord Soley

Egypt

Lord Soley

Fantastic! I know it might go wrong as many revolutions have  but my guess is that it won’t. I think we are seeing a real ray of hope in the Middle East.  I have nothing but admiration for the perseverance, courage and skill of the demonstrators who have achieved so much. I wish I was…

Multiculturism

Lord Soley

I would like to think there is a straight forward explanation for the alienation of some of our young people whose family origins are from other countries/cultures but I’m not too sure. Saying multiculturalism has failed raises more question then it answers. I have never been too sure what multiculturalism is. Does it mean allowing…

Egypt

Lord Soley

Trouble in Egypt puts trouble in the Lords into perspective! At the time of writing the President is still clinging onto power. I rather fear this is going to have a violent end. The army either has to let people power take its course or they have to impose the Presidents will. So is the…

Trouble in the Lords

Lord Soley

Last nights debate underlines my concerns about the governments proposal to arbitrarily reduce the number of MP’s without cross Party support and without reducing the number of Ministers. The following link will take you to Lord Strathclyde’s speech saying the government are not prepared to commit to a reduction of Ministers – so the power…

Continuing trouble in the Lords

Lord Soley

Talking to members on all sides I am clear that negotiation on this Bill could provide a solution. I could make a ‘blame list’ but it won’t get anyone any further so let me just talk about the type of movement that needs to take place. The important one for me is that we have…