Just been listening to Labour supporting Jim Naughtie repeatedly saying Labour should be voting ‘no’ in the House of Lords on the question of tax credits.
He had the LibDem leader Tim Farron and Labour’s Owen Smith on to chat at 08:10.
Curiously, in light of both parties decision to break with constitutional precedent to not vote down financial legislation voted for in the Commons, Naughtie didn’t ask the right, important, questions, over eager as he seemed to be for them to vote down the government.
Tim Farron just a few months ago in July said that the House of Lords was rotten to the core, corrupt and undemocratic and ‘above the law’….
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has urged other party leaders to throw their weight behind a constitutional convention after the resignation of Lord Sewel sparked fresh calls for reform of the House of Lords.
Mr Farron welcomed Lord Sewel’s decision to quit but said his downfall had wider implications for an undemocratic system which was “rotten to the core” and allowed peers to feel they were above the law.
Corbyn himself has expressed a similar attitude demanding either reform or abolishment…
Jeremy Corbyn MPNo case for unelected patronage in politics – time to end undemocratic House of Lords but not replace with party lists and 15 year terms.
So both Labour’s leader and the LibDem’s think the House of Lords is undemocratic, unrepresentative and corrupt…and yet they both want to use it to destroy the elected government’s legislation that was democratically passed in the Commons.
Why no comment from Naughtie on this rather obvious, relevant and important point?
It is an axiom of these people that there are no enemies on the left. As long as the House of Lords is supporting leftist policies it is not their enemy, and will be tolerated. Obviously, when the time is right, it will be liquidated, but for the moment their Lordships serve a purpose as useful idiots.
Naughtie is that classic archetype of BBC Tartan Raj.
How the hell that dangleberry on the national anus continues to flaunt his Flaubert and his Fleidermas pretentions and presumptions upon the rest of us-and pose around as Renaissance man come down from Edinburgh Morningside, is beyond me.
At least Fry IS a cartoon impression of what thick people think “clever people” might sound like.
Naughtie is an ignoramus-his combovered head up his own arse when it comes to BBC Bias-to African drum workshops apps being the same as being a Zulu warrior.
Naughtie is the very embodiment of priviledge and berth squatting being rated beyond an education or a purpose to your life.
Nah-don`t care for Tartanazi#665 at all…reeks of damp shortbread.
National Socialism has failed (except in Scotland), Soviet Socialism has failed (except in the Labour party). Labour lost the election (despite the opinion polls and the BBC). Labour and Libdems down to one MP in Scotland (equal to the Tories).
The LibDems are down to one MEP and 8 MP’s, but with over a hundred in the House of Lords, who would have thought that the most undemocratic legislature in the Western World, the House of Lords would become the last bastion of Socialism in the 21st Century.
Depends whether you believe we have a true capitalist system in place. I for one do not. It stinks of cronyism and our tories are moving further to the left than ever before. Socialism is alive and well in most countries unfortunately.
To be fair, both Farron and Newby (sic?) have been given a kicking on this on the Daily Politics.