Lord Jeffrey Archer

EPM46 said:
If legislation can be introduced to strip Mandelson of his title, why cannot the same have been done to the convicted jailbird Archer?
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because his books are more worth reading?

Haven't a clue really. Do you need an act of Parliament to do it? Maybe it's a bit late to take action now though.
 
Albert Ross said:
Stupid I know but, under historical law knighthoods can be removed, peerages can’t not even by the monarch, who bestows them. It’s time many of these archaic laws were removed.
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Peerages can be removed but only by Act of Parliament. It shouldn't be too difficult for the Government to have a law enacted to change this arrangement. Of course, it would be very low on the list of priorities. The truth is, no Government would go anywhere near changing the current arrangements.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Peerages can be removed but only by Act of Parliament. It shouldn't be too difficult for the Government to have a law enacted to change this arrangement. Of course, it would be very low on the list of priorities. The truth is, no Government would go anywhere near changing the current arrangements.
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That’s why it hasn’t happened under previous governments. Although if they were to ask the public I would hazard a guess an overwhelming majority would be in favour.
 
Archer?? The most ridiculous sentence ever for his offence and in mitigation he has the best cottage pie recipe ever, leave him alone... on second thoughts his books, put him back in prison!! Oh and Mandy has resigned from the Lord's.
 
bill40 said:
Archer?? The most ridiculous sentence ever for his offence and in mitigation he has the best cottage pie recipe ever, leave him alone... on second thoughts his books, put him back in prison!! Oh and Mandy has resigned from the Lord's.
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But he still keeps the title.
 
bill40 said:
Fairs fair, he gets to keep his title, I get to torture him forever for the one book of his that I read, he can do some more prison diaries.
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You could derive great satisfaction by torturing him in the worst way I can think of, make him buy, and use on pain of death, a nobbers season ticket.😊
 
EPM46 said:
If less gislation can be introduced to strip Mandelson of his title, why cannot the same have been done to the convicted jailbird Archer?
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I'd love it if they did a sweep of the House of Lords to remove the utter shite that are able to sit in there.

Boris Johnson's pals can fuck off to start with.
 
Albert Ross said:
You could derive great satisfaction by torturing him in the worst way I can think of, make him buy, and use on pain of death, a nobbers season ticket.😊
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Archer lives about a mile from me in Granchester and he’s not very popular around here - bit of a dickhead and his wife isn’t much better!
Having said that, he’s rarely seen these days and is no longer in the news
 
Albert Ross said:
Stupid I know but, under historical law knighthoods can be removed, peerages can’t not even by the monarch, who bestows them. It’s time many of these archaic laws were removed.
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There is a simple solution. Abolish the Lords . These entitled, unelected buffoons have no place in a democratic society. And if we didn’t already know it, recent goings on have emphasised just how totally brainless and self serving they are. No one with half a brain would actually want to be associated with that organisation in the first place.
 
traffordtang said:
There is a simple solution. Abolish the Lords . These entitled, unelected buffoons have no place in a democratic society. And if we didn’t already know it, recent goings on have emphasised just how totally brainless and self serving they are. No one with half a brain would actually want to be associated with that organisation in the first place.
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I agree to a certain extent. All governments need a second chamber of some description, before we abolish the one we have, we have to find a democratic replacement. What it would look like, who knows. The sooner the process is started the sooner it will be done.
 
Albert Ross said:
I agree to a certain extent. All governments need a second chamber of some description, before we abolish the one we have, we have to find a democratic replacement. What it would look like, who knows. The sooner the process is started the sooner it will be done.
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Democratic is the object word here. There absolutely nothing about the Lords that’s democratic and I personally don’t feel they have any right to stand in the way of parliament
 
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Albert Ross said:
I agree to a certain extent. All governments need a second chamber of some description, before we abolish the one we have, we have to find a democratic replacement. What it would look like, who knows. The sooner the process is started the sooner it will be done.
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Would the act have to pass through the HOL's to abolish it though. Just saying!
 
traffordtang said:
Democratic is the object word here. There absolutely nothing about the Lords that’s democratic and I personally don’t feel they have any right to stand in the way of parliament
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That’s why a second chamber is required to scrutinise what the commons does. As I said and you reiterated democracy matters.
 
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