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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Won't Someone Please Invoke Magna Carta?

Despite the fact that the House of Lords has long been a blatant sinecure farm whereby governments reward their donors, quieten their catamites, and ensure that their legislation is scrutinised by the right sort of people; and despite the upper chamber's insistence that Team Starmer's dilute employment rights bill needs watering down even further, and that suicide should continue to be facilitated only by induced hopelessness and shrugs of over-diagnosis - despite all this, there seems lately to be a whiff of possibility that the House may risk appearing somehow undemocratic. Yet worse, there are rumours of the Lords being thought unconstitutional as well, presumably because the nation's nonexistent constitution grants the electorate not a scintilla of influence over which ermine-clad buffoons infest the maundering-chamber or simply sit back and wait for the taxpayer-funded benefits to flow in. Alas, since meaningful constitutional reform would be no more moderate or sensible than nationalising the water supply or paying for a functional justice system, Team Starmer has little alternative but to whine about the unfairness of it all.

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