Tag Archives: Parliament

Lords and Commons out of sync

Lord Knight 18/07/2011 – 10:56 am

This week sees the beginning of the long summer recess for both the Lords and Commons, but with the Lords working an extra day. This ought not be remarkable as long as events are proceeding in a normal way. But they are not. The Commons finish on Tuesday. For a small group of backbenchers who serve on the Culture Media and Sport select committee they finish with a flourish when their proceedin […]

Uncharted Territory for the Lords

Lord Soley 16/01/2011 – 2:19 pm

 Rumours began to circulate last week that the Government was going to introduce a guillotine on House of Lords business for the first time in its history. I still don’t know how serious or real the threat was but it is now virtually certain that they will force through a constitutional Bill (the Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituency Bill) with three consecutive days of scrutiny possibl […]

My past has caught up with me!

Lord Soley 07/10/2010 – 11:00 pm

This is scary! I just found the Hansard site giving all my Parliamentary contributions sine 1979.  I am doomed! http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-clive-soley

The Screeching Hawks of Parliament

Lord Soley 07/10/2010 – 8:44 am

No, I'm not talking about MP's and Lords screeching abuse at each other but about two new new members of parliament who have refused to take their seats in either chamber. Instead they circle the building emitting the most incredible screeches and dive on pigeons and kill them. The feathers of the doomed pigeon float down past windows and some of the staff I am told find the whole rather bloody […]

Expenses

Lord Soley 30/05/2010 – 11:29 pm

As I feared and predicted in my last post (see below) David Laws MP has had to resign. I don't want to add much more to what I have said below except that if we don't get our expenses system onto a more logical and rational basis we will continue to have cases like this with all the damage they do to Parliament's reputation. We should also bear in mind that Gladstone, Lloyd George and Churchi […]