Wednesday 16 October 2024

Lording It Over?

Has the House of Commons stopped dividing on Second Reading itself? On the last two occasions, MPs have bothered only to defeat the reasoned amendment, and then headed straight to the bar.

But on that amendment, in the only division that was held last night on the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill that is the talk of every foodbank, while Reform UK voted with the Official Opposition, three out of four stripes of Unionist from Northern Ireland voted with the Government, and the DUP abstained. They know who has never done a thing for them, and never will.

In similar vein, when the old Queen was still alive, then Richard Tice repeatedly went on record that she should be succeeded by President Nigel Farage. Yet look at him now. Do not try and look at Farage, though. Not on that or most other Division Lists, anyway. Any more than in Clacton. If you want to see him, then you need to look at Freeview 236. He should have been given a peerage instead.

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