- I pissing love the House of Lords sometimes:
"The amendment to be debated today will tap into cross-chamber insistence that resisting calls for estimates of the full costs of such a massive initiative not only prevents proper scrutiny but aborts discussion of alternatives. It also seems to be unprecedented. The Home Office minister Baroness Scotland tried to justify the intransigence on the grounds of commercial secrecy during the tendering process. Besides wondering at the presumption of embarking on tenders long before the bill is through, to think that commercial convenience trumps parliament's right to know is a baleful reflection on our democratic ill-health.Keep your eye on the Lords.
"Although the government seeks to pretend otherwise, our ID card project is uniquely vast, complex and intrusive. It risks outscandalising the Eurofighter, the Millennium Dome, the Scottish parliament, the driving licence and NHS computer projects and a host of other less daunting cock-ups."
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Judging by the preformance of the Lords (an interestingly, the remianing heriditaries), it seem that being descended from a bastard of Charles II *is* as good a qualification for the legislative as being elected to a dog-with-the-right-roset-would-get-in constituency
Which is, of course, why Labour wants rid of the Lords.
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