Theresa May nominates new Tory peers; government has suffered a series of defeats in House of Lords

Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

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Downing Street has nominated nine new Conservative peers, including a number of former ministers, to sit in the House of Lords. Among those put forward for a peerage are former communities secretary Sir Eric Pickles and former trade and industry secretary Peter Lilley. Read full article

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Juana
The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?
May 20th, 2018 - 01:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Voice
Jobs for the boys...
Sick to death of seeing politicians getting a peerage, it's not what I call outstanding service for their fellow countrymen/women...
Plenty of folk do outstanding work for their country, but are not politicians and they never get a look in...
It's not like these politicians have even done great work for their country...the shit state it's in...
May 22nd, 2018 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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