Starmer Plans Biggest Purge of Parliament Since Cromwell Under Labour’s Lords Proposals – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Starmer Plans Biggest Purge of Parliament Since Cromwell Under Labour’s Lords Proposals

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As Britain lurches towards multiple economic and social crises under Starmer, the government is forcing yet more legislative time to be spent on parliament debating its own existence. It’s a crunch day in the Upper Chamber as their Lordships tackle day one of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill. The title is misleading, it’s not really about abolishing hereditary peers…

In fact, Labour’s Lords reform bill is an unprecedented attempt to gerrymander the political composition of the upper chamber. Guido has seen analysis circulating among peers opposed to the government: “We do not accept the Government removing active parliamentarians for political advantage. Removing members of our House by legislative force is a very different proposal and sets a dangerous precedent. If this executive can expel one group of peers by virtue of their majority in the Commons, future executives could use the same argument to expel any other group.” Chilling…

As things stand, the stats show the Bill will remove 79 Conservative and or Independent peers from the legislature – and just four who regularly vote with Labour. Despite all the fuss about Tory peerages, Starmer has been appointing his own new peers at a faster rate than any PM in the past three decades, meaning he will soon gain a majority in the Lords…

Under some of the proposals up to 46% of the current chamber could be removed by the end of this Parliament – the biggest purge of active lawmakers by the executive since Cromwell, and a huge executive power grab by the Labour government. Starmer is reshaping the House of Lords as a Labour controlled chamber – meaning parliament will be dominated by Labour in both Houses. One source described the move as a ‘Soviet style’ power grab. Labour’s not interested in Lords reform, just in removing political opponents who hold the government to account..