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Written by Austin Mitchell
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12 March 2007 |
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Jack Straw blew Lords` Reform just as I warned. We voted for maximum screw up – 100% elected – and knew that that would cause a revolt of the life peers which would screw up government business. That in turn ensures that Gordon Brown won`t touch it with a barge pole so it`s kicked into the long grass.
It also ensures that it`s going to be difficult to persuade the oldies to give up their seats to bright Brownites in exchange for a peerage. Who`s going to want a job that`s going to be extinguished next Parliament? Unless, of course, there`s a huge redundancy package – not payment for peerages but payment for not being peers.
What a mess. |
