Time to close down the rest home for peers in the House of Lords

Possibly the most expensive rest home for MPs at the end of their political careers in the world.

Why do we still keep around 800 members of the House of Lords or more commonly known as peers, when they have no real purpose anymore as their power to override the Government was taken away in the Parliament Act of 1911?

So as seen in the most recent use of the Parliament Act in the 2004 Hunting with Dogs Act, where the Lords campaigned right up to the bitter end to keep fox hunting, forcing the Government of the day to use its powers to get the bill through the elected part of parliament.

All the Lords achieved in the end was a costly delay to the tax payer, unfortunately the Lords where out of touch with the government and public back in 2004 and are still out of touch with the government and public today over the independence day referendum to leave the EU.

The total absurdity of keeping 800 unelected, retired has-beens who can claim up to £300 per day in expenses, is that the whole EU Parliament only has 750 MEPs to represent all the 27 EU countries and our own elected House of Commons has only 650 MPs elected to represent England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

The Lords want another referendum – how about this for a Lords referendum - vote on dumping the Lords second chamber altogether to replace the 800 unelected peers with a hundred extra independent MPs that are barred from being members of any political party and the millions of British tax payers' pounds saved from closing down the archaic unelected House of Lords be pumped into the National Health Service.

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