The Lords didn’t start as a quirky side-room of Parliament.
It started as power — and slowly turned into restraint.
That shift explains a lot of today’s confusion.
#LetsRethink #UKConstitution #HouseOfLords

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/lets-rethink-the-lords-logic-of-the-lords/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-lords-they-are-a-leaping-to-frustrate-ministers

This kind of conservatism makes the UK a hard country to love. It's not difficult to understand why so many Scots and a growing number of Welsh want to head for the exit.

>>...they have sought to dismember key elements of the employment legislation, one of the government’s flagship laws. For the third time in a row, the Lords supported a slew of Conservative-backed amendments to weaken workers’ rights. The opponents included dozens of hereditary peers, among them the 9th Duke of Wellington, descendant of the more famous one who battled Napoleon at Waterloo. <<

Not for the first time, I feel warm and wistful about Bonaparte.

#UKPolitics #UKConstitution #Parliament #Lords #Labour

"Wouldn’t it be good,” suggested Ryder, “if someone had the overarching #nonpolitical role of identifying to #parliament and #government unfairness that ought to be redressed.”

(2) New #ruleoflaw centre? - by Joshua Rozenberg
https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/new-rule-of-law-centre

#LawFedi
#UKlaw
#ukconstitution
#UKJudiciary
#laweducation

#GeneralElection2024 #IndependentsDay #ToryBackBenchers do not appear to understand the #UKConstitution; a change of #ToryLeader will NOT allow the #GeneralElection to be called off.

https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/2024/05/23/do-the-tories-just-not-understand-the-constitution/

I would like to see a future Labour government shift power from Westminster to the UK's other nations and regions. Yet how this might be done remains a daunting question - or set of questions.

Getting sensible answers requires us to look back twenty years to the North East Devolution Referendum of 2004. What went wrong there? Was it, as this piece suggests, a matter of campaign tactics and communication ? Or was there something amiss with the devolution proposal in itself?

North East Devolution Referendum 2004: The First Modern Election - Young Fabians

https://www.youngfabians.org.uk/north_east_devolution_referendum_2004_the_first_modern_election

#UKPolitics #NorthEastDevolution #NorthEastDevolutionReferendum
#Devolution #UKConstitution #Labour

The UK establishment live the fact that the British constitution founded on parliamentary sovereignty has remained unchanged for hundreds of years, but it simply isn't fit for purpose. #UK #ukconstitution

https://socialhumanities.home.blog/2023/11/04/why-having-a-centuries-old-constitution-is-nothing-to-shout-about/