In other news, Charlotte Owen, former 'adviser' to Boris Johnson, has just taken her seat as the youngest peer in the House of Lords. (Quiet at the back, she's NOT his illegitimate daughter).
Also introduced as a peer to the house was Ben Houchen, Mayor of Tees Valley, and described by Andy Mcdonald MP as involved in 'industrial scale corruption'.
#BorisJohnson still treating us with contempt.
#UKPolitics #HouseOfLords #ToryCorruption

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66292492

RT Natalie Bennett
Very bad news. Every vote on #IllegaMigrationBill lost. It will now go through.
Conservatives whipped viciously, I hear. Saw lots of people never seen before, or heard speak, walking through their lobby.
#democracy & #RuleofLaw - they’d be a good idea
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Natalie Bennett: Sadly bad news from #HouseofLords #IllegalMigrationBill
First vote - on having regard to international law - lost. But talk is we might do better in later, narrower amendments. Stay tuned…
#RuleofLaw #HumanRights
https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Lords/Division/3010
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/natalieben/status/1681084321153572866

RT Natalie Bennett
Today #HouseofLords, #ILLEGALMigrationBill back in "ping pong", Commons having undone most of our previous good work.
Please tell @LabourLordsUK you want them to stand firm on basic principles, like not breaking international law!
https://lordsbusiness.parliament.uk/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/natalieben/status/1679053381858369537

The dubious relationship between Boris Johnson and the Lord of Siberia.

The former British prime minister appointed Evgeny Lebedev, the son of a former KGB officer turned oligarch, to the House of Lords, against the advice of the intelligence services, who were convinced of links between the Lebedev family and the Kremlin.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/06/30/the-dubious-relationship-between-boris-johnson-and-the-lord-of-siberia_6040133_4.html

#UK #Russia #BorisJohnson #EvgenyLebedev #Lebedev #KGB #Oligarch #Kremlin #HouseOfLords

House Of Lords-Can't Find My Way Home HQ

#music #cover #houseoflords #mastoradio

https://i.devol.it/watch?v=lj66pOiOUMk

@Richard_Littler but we’re stuck with the haunted pencil, Fabricunt and Priti Aweful in Parliament for the rest of their lives… not to mention Benjamin Houchen?!? WTF. They are the swamp. #HouseofLords #ToryCorruption #borisjohnson #ToryScum #fascism #sovereignindividual #illiberaldemocracy

@worldnews

"Reform, you say!" RightRight. First, approve my #LordsList, *then I'll be set for life and you can do what you like whilst I enjoy the kickbacks from former PM's appointments! Deal?"

#BorisJohnson #HouseOfLords #SpittingImage #UK #UKPol #Tories #Peerage

RT @natalieben: #HouseofLords

I asked about the environmental and labour impacts of extracting materials for electric car batteries.

Interesting the answer turns quickly to company rather than government responsibility

#MindfulMining @DrSimEvans @londonmining https://t.co/kVHgQuAxLB

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1659216780391518211

It's only really the upper classes who can pull off the "trousers pulled above your belly button" look

#ukpolitics #houseoflords

#ClimateDiary An amendment to the #energybill currently going through the #HouseofLords means that it will not be possible to open a new #coalmine in England.

The amendment may still be reversed in the House of Commons, but it marks the growing frustration of politicians as they press the government to move faster and harder on the climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/17/lords-amendment-to-energy-bill-may-stop-new-coalmines-in-england

RT @natalieben: #GoodNews #CampaigningWorks

Many voices in #HouseofLords, including @GreenJennyJones and I, pointing out this environmentally and socially disastrous plan, was also undeliverable

#BrexitReality
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/09/tories-in-retreat-from-brexit-bill-to-scrap-thousands-of-eu-laws

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1645416059229413376

#HouseofCommons and #HouseofLords should uphold the #UnitedKingdom's international #HumanRights obligations when scrutinising the "#IllegalMigrationBill"
#UK #migration 👇https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/parliamentarians-should-uphold-the-united-kingdom-s-international-obligations-when-scrutinising-the-illegal-migration-bill-

Liz Truss ‘trying to create a new peer for every 10 days in office’ | The Independent
#Truss
#Peers
#HouseOfLords
#ResignationHonoursList
#Sunak
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-new-peer-lords-honours-b2307700.html

So the architects of the disastrous Mini Budget of Sept '22 - which cost the country £30bn and which screwed up mortgages and pensions for millions - *are being ennobled*.

Literally couldn't make this shit up. They should be jailed.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/fury-49-day-pm-liz-29545181.amp

#UKPolitics #Truss #HouseOfLords #Budget #ToriesOut

RT @natalieben: #Privatisation of public land - 2 million hectares since late 1970s, about half the total.

Got some attention when I set out the figures in #HouseofLords in #LevellingUp Bill.

#inequality

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1638454623240351744

RT @natalieben: "People are always quoting various scientists at me."

Lord Callanan's view (for the government) on the UK's methane emissions from oil and gas studies by @Princeton and @ColoradoStateU

Twice stated.
#HouseofLords #ClimateEmergency #FossilFools

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1634483797428170752

It's TODAY. Good luck to all students (and judges) taking part in @UKHouseofLords @DebatingMatters event. #HouseOfLords #20for20 @havering6thform, @RuT_College, @qegs_faversham #Burgate School. Free Speech in action.
RT @acadofideas: Academy of Ideas: Debating Matters at the House of Lords https://clairefox.substack.com/p/debating-matters-at-the-house-of?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share&r=eylcj

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1634115713018347521

"Proponents of change need to be under no illusions: achieving House of Lords reform is difficult. When reformers seek perfection, change inevitably eludes them. Hence a pragmatic approach is required. Small-scale reform of the Lords is not the enemy of large-scale reform – indeed, it is the only thing that has ever succeeded."

#HouseOfLords

https://constitution-unit.com/2023/03/03/why-labour-should-adopt-a-two-stage-approach-to-house-of-lords-reform/

#islamophobia #HouseOfLords #infiltration #Nazis
Secret House of Lords circle ‘shown to have worked with far right’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/25/house-of-lords-worked-with-far-right?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Crypto firm with links to parliamentary groups appears to have vanished | House of Lords | The Guardian
#CryptoCurrency
#CryptoFirm
#AllPartyParliamentaryGroups
#HouseOfLords
#MPs
#PhoenixCommunityCapital
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/23/crypto-firm-with-links-to-parliamentary-groups-appears-to-have-vanished