UK 'HONOURABLE' HOUSE OF LORDS Update 18 Sept., 2020

Update 18 Sept., 2020 - Theresa May added another load and New PW Johnson, in the last list, announced 36 more to be in the House of Lord. By now they are over 800 with 650 MPs in the House of Commons it is the second biggest Gov after China. The real number of Peers is kept secret.

The Freedom of Speech - Freedom of Press - Freedom of Information has been cut down and is controlled started with Cameron. It is always the first step towards Dictatorship

UPDATE: 19 May, 2016 --
David Cameron plans to curb the power of the House of Lords because they turned down 19 bills of his in the last year. Curbing the HoL is not democracy anymore. It is becoming a dictatorship. Already he passes bills through without debates and votes.

To start with the House of Lords has been overcrowded for years and recently it was renovated to seat them all This cost the taxpayers over £1million which was crossly contradicting at a time when the government demanded austerity. 

At the same time the House of Lords was asked to combine the restaurant with the House of Common which would have saved a great amount. Of course, it was turned down because the champagne was not the top quality as in the House of Lords. So much so for the care and consideration from the Lords about taxpayers’ money who have to survive on hand-outs from food banks to survive.

It is estimated that the House of Lords cost £100million a year.

Over 240 peers never attended or voted in the House of Lords.

The  Mail on Line revealed that peers who never spoke in the House of Lords claimed £1.3million expenses last year. 

All this monies mentioned in this articles could improve the economy and help the hard-up public. These Lords and Ladies bound to be all millionaires and billionaires and therefore do not need to grab more money.

David Cameron at his election campaign promised to reduce the House of Lords which could be part of him winning.  The moment he won he disregarded his promise, like so many others, and added another 45 to the list. At the moment there are 868 Lords and Ladies.  It is the second biggest chamber after China which emphasizes the madness. China’s population in 2013 was 1,357 billion.

The House of Commons increases just as fast only the public is not aware because it is not so obvious..  PM David Cameron keeps splitting the constituencies into two to give his pals a constituency. By now the UK has 650 MPs. 

The peers are entitled to £300 a day if they attending; but auditors discovered that they received £300 and were not even there and others did not receive the payment who were there. The Daily Mirror also caught Lord Hanningfield clocking in and left soon after.

Furthermore, the Lords are also entitled to receive £150 per day without even turning up. It also can be added to travelling expenses when they visit all over the globe.  120 peers cashed in on it legally and the total amount was £112,950 for the last year and all on taxpayers’ money.

Since the attendance record is so badly recorded by the Parliament clerks, Lords bosses are planning an electronic system to accurately record the attendance. Will that ever come about?

ON AN AVERAGE WORKING DAY - HARD AT WORK AT £300 PER DAY

By now these honourable Ladies and Lords are quite a number who were not honourable. There were fraudulent claim of expenses, also imprisonment, one was caught with a hooker and snorting coke and so on but none of them were expelled.  It certainly tarnished the reputation and people demanding to “get rid of them”.

Most of them spent freely without any thought to the taxpayers who are a great majority, on starvation, homelessness or can not afford to heat their homes adequately

One example, Baroness D’Souza is paid £101,664 a year for her largely ceremonial role.  She spent £26,000 on a ten-day trip to the Far-East all on taxpayers’ expenses.  She claimed to be an ambassador for the Lords; another £4,267 for a two-day trip to Oslo.  Her taxi expenses even out-strip the Common Speaker John Bercow who charges for £172 for a 1.4miles to Carlton Terrace House.  Baroness D’Souza spent £259.20 for the same distance to Buckingham Palace for a state banquet and kept the driver waiting to take her home.

The Daily Mirror is running a campaign to axe the House of Lords. Although 10,000 readers signed it but according to the disagreement with the House of Lords there should have been hundred times more. Evidence shows that the British public increasingly calling for the abolition of the House of Lords. While David Cameron keeps adding more of his friends and Tory donors to the House of Lords therefore the demand for abolition will increase.

Even Tory Boris Johnson calls for a voluntary euthanasia in the clinic “Dignitas” in Switzerland.  Speaking on LBC radio he said: “Something radical needs to happen there – in the sense of pruning. There are a great many of these geezers and women who don’t actually do anything much at all. They take the money – and they don’t do much.”

He added: “Elderly peers who don’t turn up should be encouraged to use recently introduced rules which allow them to retire on age or health grounds. The whole thing has got completely out of control.”

Mr Johnson is of the opinion that it should be cut in half to “about 400 legislators.”  However, the next minute he stated that the Prime Minister was right to add 26 Tories, 11 LibDem and 8 Labour new to the House of Lords. He said: “The Government has got to be able to get its business through.” He also did not deny accepting a Lordship.  Another hypocritical Tory.

On record it cost us £1.3million a year for the lavish eating facilities and 17,000 bottles of champagne were consumed in the last five years. Did they last five years?