The House Of Lords Is Under Attack. This Is Nothing Less Than A Constitutional Coup

February 3, 2009

Thomas Mathew writes: We are witnessing a coup against the House of Lords, orchestrated by the clique that runs the Labour party.

Using the revelations in The Sunday Times, which has carried out an undercover sting and got four Labour peers to confirm their readiness to help assist in ‘introducing changes’ to legislation going through parliament, the government has unleashed a hate campaign against the unelected chamber, hoping to deliver a fatal blow to parliamentary democracy in Britain.

The whole affair with the revelations about corrupt practices in the House of Lords was blatantly used by Labour to whip up a hysteria and prepare a package of ‘emergency reforms’ that would pave the way for introducing an elected upper chamber in parliament. It is absolutely remarkable to witness how the British press is being fooled and manipulated in order to create a favourable atmosphere for dismantling the House of Lords in its present form and turning it into a mirror image of the Commons that has proven to be totally impotent in the face of Labour’s destructive rule.

Let us analyse the situation from the point of view of common sense: a Sunday newspaper stages an undercover investigation and reveals that four members of the House of Lords were ready to accept money for helping to introduce changes to the bills. The moment the story breaks, the Labour party moves into action and promises to reform the upper chamber. One story in a newspaper was enough for the government to get all excited about corruption in the Lords and start working on a package of constitutional changes. Should we from now on expect that every time a newspaper comes up with some revelation Labour would be immediately introducing new legislation, even without waiting for an inquiry to take place?

This looks very suspicious. It beggars belief that not a single newspaper in the land has mentioned it. The British media seems to have lost its desire to uncover the truth and prefers to draw the obvious conclusions.

The cunningness of the plan lies in the fact that the so-called journalistic sting targeted Labour peers. It is supposed to demonstrate that the government could not have benefited from this ‘investigation’. But to believe this would be naive. The government does not care who got caught in the net. The whole idea was to discredit the upper chamber at a time when the House of Commons has turned into a parody of on parliamentary activity. The recent disgraceful way in which MPs tried to cover up their expenses revealed total moral bankruptcy of the lower chamber. In this respect it is quite puzzling why the journalists from The Sunday Times did not target members of the House of Commons as well. They are the people who have a much bigger say in the legislative process and who have revealed themselves to be ready to use any means to cover up their own corruption. As fiddling expenses amounts to corruption.

I find it strange that a newspaper can run a sting and then advocate for a change of the constitutional arrangements on the basis of that very same sting, practically days later, without even waiting for results of an investigation. This has nothing to do with freedom of the press. This is about spin and that plays into the hands of the government. Labour is already using the BBC as its propaganda mouthpiece but to start dragging in privately owned newspapers smacks of abuse of power that is bordering on the criminal.

StirringTroubleInternationally will continue to monitor events closely.

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