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Today many of our media outlets are reporting on the unexpected historic vote last night by the House of Commons (337 to 224) in favour of a wholly-elected House of Lords. This decision will likely both overturn centuries of tradition (the decision does not automatically become law) and also goes against the wishes of the Government that the upper chamber be a 50/50 split between elected and nominated members. Many of the comments in today's press are claiming that the decision is a reaction by MPs to the recent peer-purchase scandal involving the Government, and it's not too difficult to see how this may indeed be true. However, this is a long cry from the comments of one MP that the decision was "brilliant" as it would ensure there was no further need for reform in the "foreseeable future". More accurate would be to say that the decision is a reactionary one, and until recent times the UK has not been known to act in such a clumsy manner. Indeed, the only real winner of last night's vote is likely to be chaos. It is hard to see how having two elected chambers will help smooth the wheels of a cumbersome and, at times, dreadfully political process. What is for sure is that having two wholly-elected chambers will inevitably lead to a British democracy that is even more sclerotic that it ever was. Now that might not be a prospect that many considered before last night!
On a more positive note.
Veronica has completely redesigned the non surgical treatments part
So the police haven't been able to stop a newspaper publishing a story concerning the cash-for-honours scandal - how sad! Although the tabloid papers could do with being muzzled with their half-truths and insinuations, the respected papers such as in this case the Guardian, should be allowed to publish any accurate information deemed of interest to the public. Have we moved into a communist society where what we, as a nation, are only allowed to read what is approved? Are we to be treated as children with supervised watered-down media?
Whether or not the publication of this story is bad timing because it could damage an on-going investigation isn't the issue at stake here. The main issue that people ought to be concerned about is that an attempt was made to silence the freedom of the press - one of the main educators in our democratic society that allows us to make informed choices. This time it was about an ongoing inquiry, but if the action had succeeded - what would it have been next time? And it's that question that makes this ruling so important to all of us.
At last progress on the site.
Bren has redesigned the problem prone skin pages
Well according to the BBC, Tony Blair has set a date to be out of
Wait a minute isn't this like the 5th date we've had? And wait a minute don't we see news reports ever 20 second that say that Iraq is a mess they are all killing each other and that it is completely unlead. What the hell are we doing getting out of there, aren't we to blame?
Personally i think if we are stealing there oil, the bleeding least we can do is give them a good police service and health care. This is a mess. Much as i am loathed to take blame for this myself since I haven't really done anything, apart from benefited from our crimes agaisnt humanity, I still think we need to make ammends in some way for what Blair and Bush have done. Maybe we coudl send over some of our criminal to work in Iraq paying off our delt to them, you know cleaning there houses, or giving them foot massages. I think that would be fun and would reduce the pressure on our prison service.
On a positive note.
Emma has completely re-designed the oak masters page