• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    It’s actually slightly more complicated than even that. It wasn’t as if she was going to stand down as an MP at the next election, and then have a peerage (although that would have been bad enough), she wanted to remain an MP for an unspecified length of time (she never explained why) and then be able to just switch over to having a peerage whenever she decided.

    They might have been prepared to slightly twist the rules in the first instance but what she was demanding was just so far beyond reasonable that no one was prepared to even consider it. Also the lord’s actually do have a reputation to upkeep and she’s a brainless tit, so they weren’t exactly prepared to go out of their way to assist.

    Both Boris Johnson and Nadine Doris supposedly were professional politicians, it’s utterly ridiculous that they didn’t understand the rules.

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      Also the lord’s actually do have a reputation to upkeep and she’s a brainless tit, so they weren’t exactly prepared to go out of their way to assist.

      I mean, yes obviously, but that doesn’t stop this lot. In the same resignation list, they ennobled Boris’s 29 year old intern who has never had a proper job but now is a lifelong member of our legislature.