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Trying to be more #BillieEilish and ask the big hard questions: would any #MPs or #HouseofLords members like to explain why they feel it's OK to expense the public for their booze and biscuits and charitable donations when we already pay them at least 3x national average income? #BeMoreBillie
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM Everybody can reply
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🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:    

🟥 financial support to London boroughs
🟥 AI training for the UK’s workforce
🟥 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
🟥 Planning and Infrastructure Bill
🟥 Tobacco and Vapes Bill

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November 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM Everybody can reply
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#BBC #R4Today

The #HouseOfLords blocked a bill to improve employment terms and conditions.

Why did we hold a #GeneralElection, if the party and policies we chose can be overturned by unelected stooges for opposition (‘losing’) parties?

#AbolishTheLords #AbolishPeerages #AbolishTheMonarchy
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM Everybody can reply
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🕚 #HouseOfLords from 11am includes:

🟥 #PlanningBill
🟥 UK-EU youth mobility scheme
🟥 looting funds from low income countries
🟥 water companies
🟥 antisemitism on university campuses

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October 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM Everybody can reply
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Today #HouseOfLords continues with the #PlanningBill, with amendments aiming for positive impacts for climate & nature, inc. ensuring developments provide access to green & blue spaces, proposals to place a climate duty on planning decisions, and protections for chalk streams
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM Everybody can reply
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UK government has longterm terrible record on delivery of major projects.

Baroness Kramer has long record of fighting for whistle-blowers, often best-placed to expose problems.

As I said in #HouseofLords, a pity government is not listening to her

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Proposal for Nista to establish whistleblowing framework not taken forward following debate | New Civil Engineer
The proposal was made as a suggested amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill by Baroness Kramer, who ultimately decided to withdraw it following
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October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM Everybody can reply
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“The government wants to let developers do what they like — and we all lose out.”

Part 3 of the Planning Bill must be stopped.

#ProtectNature #HouseOfLords
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM Everybody can reply
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🕙 #HouseOfLords from 10am includes:

🟥 licensing hours
🟥 unauthorised entry at football matches
🟥 secure school funding

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October 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM Everybody can reply
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Now hosting Women's Environmental Network at #HouseofLords hearing groundbreaking research from Dr Katherine Schilling on heavy metals in period products, particularly tampons
#PublicHealth #WomensHealth
October 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM Everybody can reply
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🕚 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:    
    
🟥 HIV testing rates
🟥 musical instrument certificate fees
🟥 GDP per capita
🟥 healthcare inequalities
🟥 Planning and Infrastructure Bill #PlanningBill

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October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM Everybody can reply
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#RighttoProtest - we have to allow people to make a noise, to disrupt: that's democracy, says @greenjennyjones.bsky.social in #HouseofLords debate on Crime and Policing Bill
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October 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM Everybody can reply
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🕚 #HouseOfLords from 11am includes:

🟥 limiting stablecoin ownership
🟥 ownership of the Telegraph
🟥 reducing youth unemployment
🟥 police vetting, training and discipline
🟥 #CrimeandPolicingBill
🟥 use of starvation as a weapon of war

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October 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM Everybody can reply
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🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:

🟥 deforestation
🟥 refugee family reunion scheme
🟥 preventing prisoners from reoffending
🟥 Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack
🟥 #RentersRightsBill
🟥 #CitizenshipBill

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October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM Everybody can reply
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🕚 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:

🟥 asylum claims based on religious conversion
🟥 Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis times
🟥 UK jobs market
🟥 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

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October 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM Everybody can reply
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The entire @greenparty.org.uk #HouseofLords team now at Green Party conference.

@greenjennyjones.bsky.social and I the two people representing one of the major parties in the House. More Green peers? Entirely within SIr Keir's control.

#democracy - it would be a good idea
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM Everybody can reply
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Responding to the scandal surrounding #MichelleMone and #PPE Medpro, the Scottish Greens constitutional spokesperson, Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social underlined why the #HouseOfLords is totally unfit for purpose

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Time to finally scrap the House of Lords
Time to finally scrap the House of Lords - The House of Lords is a broken relic of an institution.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM Everybody can reply
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What the actual Foulkes is going on .

What does this man do for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, for you and for me. What has he ever done to get over £1/2 million of our tax’s. Time to abolish the HOL . Time for a new start , Tome for Independence. #vote #Snp #eu #independence #europe #YES #houseoflords #nounion
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM Everybody can reply
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Thanks Mike for sharing my @yorkshirebylines.co.uk piece, backing an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill that I am aiming to bring back at report stage in the #HouseofLords
September 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM Everybody can reply
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