Rant 194 12/7/12 Subject: The house of 'Lords'

Rant number 194


This week, the conservatives managed to kill off one of the only Lib Dem policies. Lets face it, the Lib Dems have been the bitches of the coalition from the start, and at each and every turn their policies have been vetoed by the Tories.

That I voted for the Lib-Dems was merely a sign that I hated the Labour party and the Tories more, so don't get me wrong. Many of their policies are just as terrible and self serving.

Rather irritatingly though, I actually wholeheartedly agreed with this one.

The policy concerned increasing the amount of voted representatives in the House of Lords - and decreasing the amount of Hereditary Peers. I only have one problem with this policy - which is that it doesn't go far enough in my opinion.

Now, I may be naive - but personally I think that the House of Lords is an affront to democracy. We vote for our government (as best as we can,) we vote for our council but we don't vote for the Lords. The Lords seats are passed down from father to son.

Fucking great.

You take an overprivileged, out of touch, underworked, interbred overpaid upper class idiot. Give him a seat in the Lords and let him serve him and his.

Then, when he is too fat and old to continue. They give it to his son.

Now, this to me lacks quite a lot of logic. I can play trombone pretty well, fix computer problems, repair bicycles and build websites. None of these things are unique, but they are all skills that I have had to accumulate over time and work on. They aren't in my blood.

So there is no guarantee that my son would be able to play trombone, or fix computers, or repair bikes, or build websites. He's my son, not my clone!

So why are the Lords able to put their bloody overprivileged spawnlings in their seats.

I really hope that the bill to reform the Lords system goes through. It would be really nice if they had to work hard to get their highly paid, powerful jobs.

Lets oust the rotten core of our society!

Rant over.