Coalition Creates More Than 100 Peers with Lords Deal

David Cameron and Nick Clegg will create more than 100 peers to ensure that controversial legislation gets through Parliament.

The coalition government has agreed to reshape the House of Lords, which is currently dominated by Labour, to be “reflective of the vote” at the general election. That saw the Tories and the Liberal Democrats together get 59 per cent.

None of Labour’s 211 existing peers can be removed, so the coalition must appoint dozens of its own to rebalance the upper chamber. Lib Dem estimates suggest that the number of Tory peers would need to rise from 186 to 263 and Lib Dem peers from 72 to 167.

The first wave is expected soon, to enable additional ministerial appointments to take place, with further announcements within the parliament.'

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Peers Claim Thousands for Mortgage-free Homes

PEERS are claiming hundreds of thousands of pounds in expenses for staying overnight in London when they already own homes with no mortgages near the House of Lords.

The Sunday Times has found that many London-based peers routinely claim accommodation allowances intended to finance peers based outside the capital.

Among them are two House of Lords couples who are each claiming large sums for running shared properties in expensive parts of London.

The Conservative peers Viscount and Baroness Eccles made separate expense claims on the same Westminster flat totalling more than £44,000 last year. Since 2001 they have received about £220,000 to maintain the property, which has no mortgage.

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Corrupt and Fraudulent Peers Will NOT Be Stripped Of Peerages

Lord Truscott - Corrupt
Lord Taylor- Corrupt

Lord Snape - Corrupt

Lord Moonie - Corrupt

There were calls for the law to be changed to allow unelected peers to be removed from the House of Lords if they are found guilty of breaking anti-corruption rules.

The four peers, including two former ministers, face a Parliamentary inquiry into allegations that they pledged to amend laws in return for payments from lobbyists. They were secretly recorded in an undercover newspaper sting apparently pledging to seek changes to proposed laws as paid consultants for a foreign businessman.

Senior MPs said that the actions of the peers would amount to "corruption" if proven and Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman, called for the police to investigate the claims.

The public standards watchdog described the allegations as "serious" and threatened to intervene if necessary.

However, despite a recent review of the system of investigating complaints against peers, the most severe punishment that can be served is to demand a public apology.

Even if a Lord is prosecuted and jailed they are still free to return to the House upon release.

One of the Lords implicated in the lobbying scandal boasted to an undercover reporter that there was nothing that the Parliamentary authorities could do "but jump up and down".

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And you can bet your bottom dollar that Cameron's and Clegg's Mob will be no better. They Just haven't been caught yet!

Revealed: Labour Lords Change Laws For Cash!

LABOUR peers are prepared to accept fees of up to £120,000 a year to amend laws in the House of Lords on behalf of business clients, a Sunday Times investigation has found.

Four peers — including two former ministers — offered to help undercover reporters posing as lobbyists obtain an amendment in return for cash.

Two of the peers were secretly recorded telling the reporters they had previously secured changes to bills going through parliament to help their clients.

Taylor told the reporters: “I will work within the rules, but the rules are meant to be bent sometimes.”

The other peers who agreed to assist our reporters for a fee were Lord Moonie, a former defence minister, and Lord Snape, a former Labour whip.

The disclosure that peers are “for hire” to help change legislation confirms persistent rumours in Westminster that lobbyists are targeting the Lords rather than the Commons, where MPs are under greater scrutiny.

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The whole system is corrupt to the core . This is why it must be taken down!

You can bet your bottom dollar that the conservative and Liberal peers are just as corrupt!