Labour plans to axe all hereditary peers from the House of Lords, reports have suggested.

But the 92 hereditary lords who sit in Parliament’s upper chamber would still be allowed to retain their access to the Palace of Westminster as a sweetener, the Financial Times has reported.

This would allow them to still enjoy access to Parliament’s bars and subsidised restaurants.

Labour has previously vowed to abolish the unelected upper chamber of Parliament, with Sir Keir Starmer having branded it “undemocratic”.

  • @mannycalavera
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    143 months ago

    Not going to happen. Use this line to draw in the last few far left hold outs that were on the fence for the election then quietly say:

    Now is not the time. The country has bigger priorities. We don’t think the electorate care about this above a properly funded #NHS. Etc etc

    Politics playbook 101.

    • Echo Dot
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      22 months ago

      You say this but I can’t see why they would need the votes. It’s not like this is going to swing anything so what would be the point in declaring it only to then not do it?

      It’s entirely possible they might actually go through with it after all they’re only getting rid of hereditary peers it’s not like they’re completely reworking the entire thing. The Lords will still exist.

      • @mannycalavera
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        22 months ago

        Labour are going to win, and they’ll have a large majority. But why, as a strategy for election, would you rest on your laurels especially when there’s rumblings of losing votes due to their inaction on the Gaza question.

        A good election tactic is to identify something that appeals to the hardcore of their voters and promise to change it. These might have potentially not voted or voted Green (or George Galloway 😩) but this way you might save their vote and win a better working majority rather than a Theresa May majority.

        I don’t think they’ll do it because it sounds like a last minute election line precisely to appease these voters. If they had a thoroughly thought out timeline and action plan rather than just Labour will eat the rich, who’s with me comrades? then fair enough, but I might have missed that.

        Think about it the other way around, Tories looking to stave off election calamity and get their hardcore voter base to vote rather than not vote or vote Lib Dem (or Nigel Farrage): We will stop the boats, we will make criminals of people who don’t have the means to look after themselves, we will give old people ever increasing sums of money as a thank you for their service during the decades of peace after WW2 where they gave nothing and took as much as they could amassing wealth beyond your wildest dreams. You wouldn’t believe a word of that would you?

    • @frazorth
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      12 months ago

      The lefties want to reform the House of Lords.

      We would like to pay for an incubation chamber for this dying baby.

      Yep, they already trotted that out twice. It could easily come out a third time and the 51% wouldn’t even notice.