- James is now friends with James Maxwell and Paul Skull Gutteridge.James wrote a recommendation for Liberal Democrats.James liked Conservatives.
- The history of the United Kingdoms peerage -1999.
In 1999 there was a reform of the House of Lords that reduced the number of hereditary members from 8-900 to 92, reducing its size to then approx 500
Now with 800 peers with subsequent appointments in the other, life peer category (created after world war two as part of the Harold Wilson government reforms), it is time to revisit why the reforms...have been delayed again and why reform is ongoing since its inception. Edward 1st gets a slightly better reputation as a result from this analysis on this particular topic as he listened to concrns post Braveheart.
1) The saxon and norman parliaments
With the saxon kings trying to rule over a larger area of England, and regional rulers with the Danish invasion, each ruler had to have their own earldom and courts, these earls, dukes and lords had differing standing (as codified after the Norman invasion), and attended the witan or Kings council to advise him.
Since Norman times these councils sometimes also moved round the realm of England, known of as Royal progress. The modern day equivilant is the Royal family owning a palace in practially evey part of the Kingdom, either as a state one or private residence.
2) The pre Edward 1st dispensation, three houses of parliament
Until Edward 1st and Braveheart, the monarch had three houses of parliament, the Commons, lords and Bishops / Judges, this proved unworkable and in some cases, created an English inquisition. As public revulsion grew to this structure created by Henry IIIs first parliament, Edward 1st and his heirs further reformed it.
3) Plantagenant Kings reforms, lords spiritual obeying the rule of law of state, set by their peers.
The Plantagenants reformed the Kingdom so that Lords spiritual had to sit in the Lords and advise them in the same way as Law Lords till the creation of the supreme court in 2008-2009. The triumvirate structure was kept or resurrected for the sperate internal church structure, the General Synod of the CofE, which gained greater prominence since the reformation and then again with disestablishment of the church in Wales and Ireland. There it is laity, clergy and bishops.
4) The case for Lords Abolition, the simple advice
That in the current situation there is no need for the Lords to coninue in the leigislature so that these ancient prerogative powers are best abolished under a written constitution. Alternatively vested with the head of state such as Ireland, and used upon advice of an appointed element within an elected second chamber (such as the Law Lords, now retitled, justices of the Supreme Court)
5) The real case for backing the governments reforms, the honest advice
Whatever the orders of chivalry are or suggest, as far as the legislature of the United Kingdom is concerned there is only one class of lordship now, membership of the house of Lords, as approved by an independant appointments commission.
6) Why this defends the realm and isn’t fictional treason
It allows for regional grand cttes which can then recall and take evidence from MEPs so that they too are accountable to parliament and that regional EU funding is obtained more readily.
James Ware
Saturday, 25 August 2012
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