Claims in an investigative report have alleged that four Labour peers were prepared to accept cash from business clients in return for modifying legislation as per their wishes.
It's a sad time we live in when, somehow, this would not surprise me in the slightest, should the allegations prove to be well-founded (which I privately suspect they are).
What, exactly, are property rights?
12 hours ago
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Cash for peerages used to confuse me. I could never understand why successful entrepreneurs would put up hard earned cash for a peerage. It all becomes clear now - it was done as an investment.
And yet I still dont think we should remove the permant nature of the peerage; if anything the only thing that should stop a peer from entering the House of Lords is the fact that they are in jail for whoring out their peerage.
The penalty for criminal behaviour whilst in political office should be much more draconian; in earlier times you would have had your head and entrails removed, now I think a long stretch amongst the dregs of society will do.
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