{"id":33573,"date":"2025-03-04T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=33573"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:18:02","slug":"parliamentary-reform-lords-or-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/parliamentary-reform-lords-or-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary reform: Lords? Or Commons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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? &#8216;It&#8217;s the other lot who need reforming, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with us!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So obsessed is he with ejecting the remaining hereditary peers, Sir Kier Starmer has just nominated <a title=\"Opens in a new tab: Telegraph (\u00a3)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/03\/03\/starmer-lords-reform-executive-power-grab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>dozens of cronies<\/b><\/a> to tip the voting balance. Aristocracy, bad. Chumocracy, good.<\/p>\n<p>Reform UK go even further, saying there is no place \u2018in our modern democracy\u2019 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:<\/p>\n<p><b>Prov 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Christian Voice National Director Stephen Green takes a sideways look:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch video on Rumble\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v6nvupw\/?pub=23ze4e\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He says: &#8216;Since <a title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/06\/21\/labour-plan-modernise-lords-blair-constitutional-vandalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Tony Blair<\/b><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Labour will force out all peers over 80, which is puzzling given their <a title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/labour.org.uk\/change\/kickstart-economic-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>manifesto<\/b><\/a> commitment to give pensioners \u201cthe dignity and security they deserve\u201d. Up to eighty, it seems, then they are too old to be dignified and secure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What would the Bible\u2019s 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:&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><b>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.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But not to come in to the House of Lords, so it seems.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffff00; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; background-color: #1f7f4c; border-top: 9px solid #1F7F4C; border-bottom: 9px solid #1F7F4C; border-right: 18px solid #1F7F4C; border-left: 18px solid #1F7F4C; display: inline-block;\" title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/arrange-a-meeting-at-your-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask us to come and speak at your church \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Appointment of life peers<\/h2>\n<p>Mr Green goes on: &#8216;They will also turf out the remaining 92 hereditaries, who are currently chosen by the rest. Labour will also \u2018reform\u2019, their word, the process of appointing life peers to ensure \u201cquality\u201d and representativeness. I smell another little quango of the elite springing up, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Labour manifesto also promises \u201can alternative second chamber that is more representative of the regions and nations\u201d. I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But I wonder, if we are talking about parliamentary reform, don\u2019t you think it&#8217;s all the wrong way round? What does the Bible say are the qualifications for leadership? Here\u2019s Jethro, advising Moses in the book of Exodus:<\/p>\n<p><b>Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness;\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I imagine those men have proved themselves able in some sphere of commerce, or farming, or in battle, and \u2018such as fear God\u2019 means they are also humble. They don\u2019t believe absurdities, but in truth, and they don\u2019t do bribery and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Right then. How many of those people we elected to parliament in July 2024 meet those criteria? Do you see where I\u2019m going?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stewardship.org.uk\/pages\/nccss\" style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffff00; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 9px; background-color: #800080; border-top: 9px solid #800080; border-bottom: 9px solid #800080; border-right: 18px solid #800080; border-left: 18px solid #800080; display: inline-block;\">Support NCCSS \/ Christian Voice \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Our humble suggestion<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;Here\u2019s my humble suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Firstly, Set up a commission to remove the cronies from the House of Lords,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Secondly, bring back all the hereditary peers and jolly-well set them to work running the country. Let\u2019s see some biblical noblesse oblige, eh?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Thirdly, Expel all those who do not match up to Jethro\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Let me know of anyone who you think would be left.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffff00; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 9px; background-color: #0000ff; border-top: 9px solid #0000FF; border-bottom: 9px solid #0000FF; border-right: 18px solid #0000FF; border-left: 18px solid #0000FF; display: inline-block;\" title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.petitions.net\/uphold_christian_freedom_or_repeal_the_woke_laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign our petition against woke laws \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories<\/h2>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; 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