Role Call

These are the 11 multimillionaires, including at least one billionaire, who voted for the tax credit cuts, and who could each claim £300 merely for having turned up.

By far the most famous, and one of the richest, almost never attends. He has been a member for 14 years, during which he has voted 30 times out of a possible 1,898. He had flown in from New York.

100 new Peers? Jeremy Corbyn should have some fun with that one.

In each of the 99 areas having a Lord Lieutenant, the local Labour Party ought to compile a shortlist of two working-class women (concepts that are officially now as fluid as each other, but most of us do still know them when we see them), to be submitted to a ballot of all registered voters in the area, with all 99 of those ballots to be held on the same day.

Corbyn ought then to demand to know why the 99 winners of those ballots were not being given peerages, and that David Cameron explain exactly what was undeserving about each of them in turn.

They would thus become public figures even without the ermine. The women of the rural working class? National political discourse would not know what had hit it.

When Lloyd George wanted to swamp the House of Lords, then the King told him that he had to have a General Election on the People's Budget first.

Is David Cameron going to have General Election on the tax credit cuts, if he intends to proceed with them? He certainly did not have one in May.

And the Lib Dems, like the Liberals before them, have never felt bound by the Salisbury Convention, which they see as purely a bipartisan deal between Salisbury and Attlee.

Presented with that argument, many Crossbenchers would doubtless also agree with it.

Hold on to your coronets.