The House of Lords is now on Bluesky. Follow here for updates and content from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. We will be sharing a range of content about the work of the House and members. If you have feedback or want to tell us what you’d like to see, please get in touch via Chat. - ThreadSky

houseoflords.parliament.uk • 77 days ago

The House of Lords is now on Bluesky. Follow here for updates and content from the UK Parliament’s second chamber.

We will be sharing a range of content about the work of the House and members. If you have feedback or want to tell us what you’d like to see, please get in touch via Chat.

Comments

trooper58.bsky.social•77 days ago

I would like to see an elected second house and an end to political appointees. In particular, those appointed by the likes of Johnson

jackyjacky.bsky.social•76 days ago

And why is Mathew Elliot in there , lawbreakers should not be lawmakers

jackyjacky.bsky.social•76 days ago

So why is Charlotte Owen in there , asking for a friend

stevehook169.bsky.social•77 days ago

I wondered why I could hear snoring.

xxiainxx.bsky.social•77 days ago

Abolish yourselves.

al--s.bsky.social•77 days ago

You should be abolished

roybennett.bsky.social•76 days ago

Why bother ? You don`t act in the interests of the citizens, your very name illustrates that. This is just PR to deflect from the gross inequalities you work hard to maintain, several hundred years of history demonstrate that pattern of subjugating the population to the will of the establishment

forsardines.bsky.social•77 days ago

Delete your account you unelected parasites.

highfield1.bsky.social•77 days ago

A cesspit of vice and patronage

ninaneena.bsky.social•77 days ago

How much is a seat now?

trisstock.bsky.social•77 days ago

Please keep updated on member sleeping arrangements.

aggiee.bsky.social•76 days ago

No thanks. Bunch of spongers and an institution that should have been consigned to the dustbin decades ago. Don’t suppose many of you are worrying about your heating bills?

myhist.bsky.social•77 days ago

Welcome. Got to visit the chamber a few years back, and stand right in the middle. Amazing. While the title may be anachronic at least for Americans, the important legislative function the body provides is not well-understood and should be.

maviscruet.bsky.social•77 days ago

It is anachronistic. And the members that aren't are a disgrace to democracy!

scarlettfreya.bsky.social•77 days ago

Give Cass my regards 🖕🏼🖕🏼

nonecompliant.bsky.social•77 days ago

Abolish the house of free loading posh Tw@Ts

#Abolishthehouseoflords

fallingdolphins.bsky.social•77 days ago

Any chance you could fuck off back to several centuries ago where you belong?

lashan.co•76 days ago

You know it's over for Twitter when an ancient, outdated institution is on the other platform

stortfordandrew.bsky.social•76 days ago

Great to see the UK parliament (HoC & HoL) joining BlueSky. Frankly the "welcome" is shameful So much for BlueSky having a different culture.

survivingboomer.bsky.social•77 days ago

'Work'?!?! Most of them only turn up to claim their £300 daily attendance allowance, subsidised restaurant and snooze on the benches. Time this old waxwork was replaced by an elected second chamber.

nova42069.bsky.social•76 days ago

Is that what the smell is

pbastronaut.bsky.social•77 days ago

Neat. Every single one of you should go fuck yourselves.

paulduane.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is not the right place for you, i hope you understand that

nicolekidmansnose.bsky.social•77 days ago

House of Horrors, where Michelle Mone and Claire Fox get paid £313 per day to warm up a seat. Abolish this undemocratic monstrosity, no serious country has anything equivalent.

truegoode.bsky.social•76 days ago

The late John Prescott lost his seat in the Lords due to non attendance.
Please make this a 'thing' that is ruthlessly applied unless their is an overriding excuse e.g. illness.

truegoode.bsky.social•76 days ago

Oops, typo their/ there.
Sorry folks.

nicolekidmansnose.bsky.social•75 days ago

I barely noticed, it's rare that one of my posts does not have typo 🙈

nicolekidmansnose.bsky.social•76 days ago

I agree that would be a good rule to enforce but, in my opinion, that institution is beyond reforming and must be abolished.

kenhbro.bsky.social•15 days ago

It's a pity MPs don't lose their seats for non attendance, including weekly surgeries. Mentioning no members of Reform in particular.

nicolekidmansnose.bsky.social•15 days ago

I 100% agree with this. MPs and peers are very well-remunerated and this should come with an expectation of attendance - as any regular job.

montrose.bsky.social•76 days ago

What for

It's sleeping therapy 🥱

emptypandorabox.bsky.social•76 days ago

So outdated and unnecessary.... Ridiculous, even.

thechiller.bsky.social•77 days ago

Awesome. The House of Russian Agents, Boris Johnson's spare children, and Bishops Who Cover Up Child Abuse.

I used to have so much time for you. That ship has sailed.

phlebas.bsky.social•77 days ago

And yet, for all its faults, the HoL is much better at holding governments to account than MPs. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

thechiller.bsky.social•77 days ago

Was once.

Is it still? I'm not seeing evidence.

paulcwgb.bsky.social•77 days ago

Roll up Roll up Sign in, for the all new HOL Bsky quiz in this weeks game is called Name the Lord!
https://youtu.be/MGoCwNHE4ys

blackorkney.bsky.social•77 days ago

🥳

mcornbeef.bsky.social•75 days ago

An upper chamber should reflect those it represents. Not the upper class.

paoloalessandro.bsky.social•47 days ago

While I do not approve of how the current second chamber is constituted, I am glad British institutions are moving to Blue Sky. You are setting an example for others, that I approve of.

analdank.bsky.social•77 days ago

how's that heirloom tweed smelling with this rainy weather we've been having you pissy old toffs?

redman-zoomer.bsky.social•77 days ago

Get outta ya here ya monarchist freaks.

biggreenbooks.bsky.social•77 days ago

Only if you follow me back.

I share a range of content about the work of Big Green Books. I also talk about horses, and my mum. If you have any feedback or want to tell me what you'd like to see, please get in touch with my mum.

mrrobertbob.bsky.social•77 days ago

Welcome to BlueSky. 👍🙂

consuelomarias.bsky.social•47 days ago

Welcome

danbowyer.bsky.social•77 days ago

Fabulous. All excusing the fact you shouldn’t exist, really.

paulcwgb.bsky.social•77 days ago

The Choice of Photo don't take the piss!
The reality is after so many Tory PM's handing out peerages for tidy bungs is, you have run out of space !

stockfttp.bsky.social•76 days ago

The greatest number of peers created by a PM was under Blair and on average Labour PMs create more peers/yr in office than Tory.

paulcwgb.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yes they have well done, now how many of the ones that bought their way in with donations turn up to vote ! and Ill not mention the Owen woman! Shit I did well never mind !

paulcwgb.bsky.social•77 days ago

Why are some pocketing £300+a day and asleep for most of it, & what about the ones that pull up in a taxi sign in and leave as the Taxi waits !
And who will get the contract to build the extension to make seating for the extra places needed after a rash of Tory PM's getting bungs for peerages?

nigel-hewlett.bsky.social•77 days ago

Excellent. Welcome.

I have a question.

Who is Charlotte Owen?

gillmh.bsky.social•74 days ago

Nobody knows, she just landed in the HoL one day.

amias.net•75 days ago

Well done , this is a far more sensible place.

dudleydebeau.bsky.social•77 days ago

Well done.

Time to show how you earn your stripes m’Luds.

Time to show which shysters care for the poorer of society & those who look after themselves.

How is Baroness Mone? Anyone received a postcard?

dudleydebeau.bsky.social•77 days ago

Credit due, you did catch the HoC napping on this one.

Maybe they prefer the other Dark site

timmorton2.bsky.social•47 days ago

they're here too @houseofcommons.parliament.uk

sadmark.bsky.social•76 days ago

Will you be live streaming all the toffs asleep , and the cheap boozing at our expense....

Or perhaps just counting our cash as they leave.

ambridgeolwen.bsky.social•76 days ago

Good to see you on here. I hope other accounts follow.
The abuse in the comments below isn’t typical of BlueSky, in case you were wondering. It’s normally quite nice here.

sazeracla.bsky.social•76 days ago

Hello.

Your unelected house is grotesquely undemocratic and should not exist. The House of Lords should be abolished.

Goodbye.

fitgeekuk.bsky.social•47 days ago

I'd like to see why Charlotte Owen is in there for starters, and then Evgeny Lebedev

karendshipp.bsky.social•47 days ago

You, and a majority of British voters, I suspect.

thekally.bsky.social•77 days ago

I wish you the very worst 🥰

taniapdx.bsky.social•47 days ago

Here to see if the @houseoflords.parliament.uk is committed to climate action. Someone needs to steer the dang ship.

terraloper.bsky.social•77 days ago

Could you lot please fuck off to the actual blue sky

protopigeon.lol•77 days ago

Piss off back to Twitter you dusty old ghouls

adrianics.bsky.social•77 days ago

I genuinely resent and mourn the fact that you exist

johnkelly.co.uk•77 days ago

Ian Dunt's book "How Westminster Works...and Why it Doesn't"'s last chapter is largely supportive of the Lords and the work it does.

@iandunt.bsky.social

forsardines.bsky.social•77 days ago

lmao

lamentablyawake.bsky.social•77 days ago

Well if Ian Dunt said it, it must be wrong.

jacklikesfilms.bsky.social•77 days ago

Imagine reading a book by that indescribably ignorant twat lol

gordbrush.bsky.social•77 days ago

lmao a damning indictment of the Lords if ever there was one

pieist.xenoplasm.com•77 days ago

If only it its appointments had been anything other than an undisguised scheme for rewarding party donors and buying private sector sinecures for the past 15 years.

lamentablyawake.bsky.social•77 days ago

A lot longer than 15 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-Honours_scandal

pieist.xenoplasm.com•77 days ago

It all makes Boris idly handing a Baronetcy to a simple homespun office assistant who happened to be wandering by as he pondered an empty nomination sheet with no good ideas seem almost Honourable by comparison.

marcuserve.bsky.social•77 days ago

Oh Lord...

alxtratrstrl.xyz•77 days ago

Just a few questions:

What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you exercise it?
To whom are you accountable?
How can we get rid of you?