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Mark Lansbury

November 21, 2023 6:12pm

UK Survey - House of Lords

Share your thoughts on how you feel about the unelected House of Lords.

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https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/139578/-/1

#UnitedKingdom #UK #corruption #dystopia #Lords #HouseOfLords #democracy #DemocracyLost #ToryDictatorship #ToryScum

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Mark Lansbury

November 19, 2023 12:29pm

David Cameron’s Appointment to Cabinet 'Another Reminder Why the House of Lords Must Go'

Former Prime Minister David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary – despite having left Parliament in 2016 – has triggered fresh calls to abolish the House of Lords.

Cameron replaces James Cleverly, who has moved to ousted cabinet minister Suella Braverman’s former role of Home Secretary.

There is no constitutional requirement for a cabinet minister to be an elected MP, but it is very rare that senior offices of state are held by unelected politicians. Lobbyist Cameron has been handed a seat in the 800-odd member House of Lords for life to take up the role.

Today campaign group Republic demanded a written constitution and elected upper house following the move.

Republic’s CEO, Graham Smith, said: “This appointment joins a string of recent outrages that remind us of the urgent need to ditch the Lords in favour of an elected upper house.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/11/13/david-camerons-appointment-to-cabinet-another-reminder-why-the-house-of-lords-must-go/

#ElectoralDictatorship #UnitedKingdom #UK #dictatorship #authoritarian #Tory #Tories #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascists #democracy #PR #DemocracyLost #ToryCronyism #BylineTimes #Lords #HouseOfLords #Republic #lobbying #lobbyist #Cameron #DavidCameron

David Cameron’s Appointment to Cabinet 'Another Reminder Why the House of Lords Must Go' – Byline Times

The disgraced former Prime Minister has been handed a seat in the Lords for life.

nowisthetime

June 20, 2023 5:09am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAEIrp4MFBE
Abwoon D'Bashmaya - The #Lords #Prayer in #Aramaic

Avvon d-bish-maiya, nith-qaddash shim-mukh.

Tih-teh mal-chootukh. Nih-weh çiw-yanukh:

ei-chana d’bish-maiya: ap b’ar-ah.

Haw lan lakh-ma d’soonqa-nan yoo-mana.

O’shwooq lan kho-bein:

ei-chana d’ap kh’nan shwiq-qan l’khaya-ween.

Oo’la te-ellan l’niss-yoona:
il-la paç-çan min beesha.

Mid-til de-di-lukh hai mal-choota
oo khai-la oo tush-bookh-ta
l’alam al-mein.

Aa-meen.

Oh Thou, from whom the breath of life comes, who fills all realms of sound, light and vibration.
May Your light be experienced in my utmost holiest.
Your Heavenly Domain approaches.
Let Your will come true - in the universe (all that vibrates) just as on earth (that is material and dense).
Give us wisdom (understanding, assistance) for our daily need, detach the fetters of faults that bind us, (karma) like we let go the guilt of others.
Let us not be lost in superficial things (materialism, common temptations), but let us be freed from that what keeps us from our true purpose.
From You comes the all-working will, the lively strength to act, the song that beautifies all and renews itself from age to age.

Sealed in trust, faith and truth.
(I confirm with my entire being)

https://www.thenazareneway.com/lords_prayer.htm

Mark Lansbury

June 18, 2023 11:48am

The row over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list highlights why it should be the last

'Grubby horse trading' in UK government

The recent days have seen the national focus pulled onto the House of Lords through the public row between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson over the latter’s resignation honours list.

While the spat has provided high political drama it has also shown how low our constitutional politics has sunk. The varying accounts of what Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak agreed over the honours list have pulled back the curtain on the grubby horse-trading that goes on around choosing who sits in the upper chamber.

Yet, the impact of this list will last long after the melodrama between the Prime Minister and his predecessor has subsided. For instance, each of the seven new peers has been handed a job-for-life in parliament, which means potentially decades of influence legislating for the public, with which most have had little meaningful contact.

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/the-row-over-this-resignation-honours-list-highlights-why-it-should-be-the-last/?utm_medium=Diaspora

#Honours #Lords #ToryFascistDictatorship #constitutional #DemocracyNotAutocracy #peers #legislating #parliament #ToryScum #ProportionalRepresentation #PR #voting #vote #FairVotes

The row over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list highlights why it should be the last

The recent days have seen the national focus pulled onto the House of Lords through the public row between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson over the latter’s resignation honours list.Whi

ramnath

April 7, 2023 2:42pm

https://soundcloud.com/one-who-wakes/aramaic-lords-prayer-by-rosie-maria-love
#Aramaic #Lords #Prayer by #Rosie-Maria #Love - SoundCloud

Rosie-Marie Love delivers a #Divine and moving rendition of the Aramaic #LordsPrayer. It was recorded in May 2015, in the Chanting Cistern of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, Israel.

Aramaic Lords Prayer by Rosie-Maria Love

Mark Lansbury

March 30, 2023 10:48am

Just 7% want Boris Johnson's resignation honours - do you want them?

The public are sick and tired of political patronage and seeing prime ministers pack the House of Lords with their friends and supporters.

Our exclusive new polling found that found just 7% of people support Boris Johnson’s plans to hand out dozens of new peerages, months after he left office.

It is time to end this squalid, undemocratic practice and replace the bloated Lords with a smaller elected second chamber where the people of this country, not ex-prime ministers, decide who shapes the laws we all live under.

Add your name to those opposed to these appointments:
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/124207/petition/1?utm_medium=diaspora

#ToryCronyism #DemocracyNotAutocracy #BorisJohnson #Lords #UnitedKingdom #ElectoralDictatorship #ProportionalRepresentation #undemocratic

Add your name: Are you in the majority opposed to Boris's new peerages?

Enough is enough. There are reports that the former Prime Minister is trying to hand out dozens of peerages to his supporters - and we'll have to pick up the tab.

ramnath

December 30, 2022 7:28pm

#lords #prayer #Aramaic

Bert Ernste

April 30, 2022 5:24am

Legendarische cricketer: W.G. Grace

Foto van deel poort van Lord’s cricket stadion

Londen (Engeland) 2019

We blijven even bij de edele cricketsport na het mozaïek van gisteren. Dit is een deel van de ingang van Lord’s Cricket Ground in London: de Grace Gates, een eerbetoon aan de fameuze cricketer W.G. Grace (1848-1915). W.G. Grace had enorme invloed op de sport.

(De foto van Grace komt van Wikipedia.)

Zoals ik eerder op dit blog schreef:

‘Wie een gevoel wil krijgen voor de grote rol, die cricket vroeger speelde in Engelse dorpen, moet The cricket match van Hugh de Selincourt uit 1924 lezen. Een boeiend boek over de dorpssamenleving, klassenmaatschappij, onderlinge rivaliteit (wie mag meedoen in het team?) en de spanning van sport. Een ‘remake’ uit 1977 van John Parker met de titel The village cricket match is minder geslaagd.’

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