The Government are fixated on Parliamentary reform, specifically targeting the House of Lords. Well, of course they would never admit there is anything wrong with the House of Commons, would they? ‘It’s the other lot who need reforming, there’s nothing wrong with us!’
So obsessed is he with ejecting the remaining hereditary peers, Sir Kier Starmer has just nominated dozens of cronies to tip the voting balance. Aristocracy, bad. Chumocracy, good.
Reform UK go even further, saying there is no place ‘in our modern democracy’ or words toi that effect, for the House of Lords. But are they both attacking the wrong target? Is this mindless constitutional vandalism? After all, those people who set it all in place, step by step, just might have known better than us:
Prov 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Christian Voice National Director Stephen Green takes a sideways look:
He says: ‘Since Tony Blair expelled most hereditary peers, the chamber has become populated with place-men, friends, business associates, and donors to the party of the current or previous prime minister.
‘Labour will force out all peers over 80, which is puzzling given their manifesto commitment to give pensioners “the dignity and security they deserve”. Up to eighty, it seems, then they are too old to be dignified and secure.
‘What would the Bible’s Caleb have thought about that, who at the age of eighty-five could reminisce about the time he went to spy out the land forty-five years earlier and announce:’
Jos 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
‘But not to come in to the House of Lords, so it seems.’
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Appointment of life peers
Mr Green goes on: ‘They will also turf out the remaining 92 hereditaries, who are currently chosen by the rest. Labour will also ‘reform’, their word, the process of appointing life peers to ensure “quality” and representativeness. I smell another little quango of the elite springing up, don’t you?
‘The Labour manifesto also promises “an alternative second chamber that is more representative of the regions and nations”. I don’t begin to know what that means, except that it seems to mean some kind of a vote. And that would set up the House of Lords, or whatever it would be, as a democratic rival to the House of Commons.
‘But I wonder, if we are talking about parliamentary reform, don’t you think it’s all the wrong way round? What does the Bible say are the qualifications for leadership? Here’s Jethro, advising Moses in the book of Exodus:
Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness;
‘I imagine those men have proved themselves able in some sphere of commerce, or farming, or in battle, and ‘such as fear God’ means they are also humble. They don’t believe absurdities, but in truth, and they don’t do bribery and corruption.
‘Right then. How many of those people we elected to parliament in July 2024 meet those criteria? Do you see where I’m going?’
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Our humble suggestion
‘Here’s my humble suggestion.
‘Firstly, Set up a commission to remove the cronies from the House of Lords,
‘Secondly, bring back all the hereditary peers and jolly-well set them to work running the country. Let’s see some biblical noblesse oblige, eh?
‘Thirdly, Expel all those who do not match up to Jethro’s criteria, that is the stupid, the incompetent, the godless, the arrogant, the power-crazy, the liars and believers in absurdities, the elitists, the globalists and the warmongers, the greedy, the self-centred, the self-absorbed, self-satisfied and plain narcissists from the House of Commons.
‘Let me know of anyone who you think would be left.’
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READ:Exod 18:21; Josh 24:15-25; 1Sam 08:03;Jeremiah 23:1 Psa 144:12 ; Isa 42:01; Proverbs 11:2; Matt 20:25-28; Luke 02:51; Romans 12:16; 1 John 2:16; 1 Tim 4:12; Gal 6:9; Philip 2:3
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When studying constitutional law, I proposed that Lords are elected for life from constituencies based on counties, cities, and from defined professions. Hence you might have Lord Bath and Lord Somerset, Lord’s elected by doctors, police, nurses, builders, business leaders, non-conformist ministers, rabbais, sports professionals, etc. So they have a democratic basis, and are elected as experts in their field but do not need to seek reelection, but will be replaced by election when they retire. After a certain age, (80?) they may continue if declared medically fit. A commission would need to be set up to allocate lordships to organisations to run lordship elections e.g. BMA, Royal Society, CBI, TUC, etc.. County elections for their Lord would be run in parallel with local elections.
What is wrong with pressing the aristocracy to work? So long as the people consent?
Exod 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD