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Post by northwestman on Jan 27, 2024 11:48:32 GMT 1
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/63063/if-youre-not-upset-by-charlotte-owen-you-should-beBaroness Owen of Alderley Edge her seat in July, and it is fair to say she has made little impact so far. Her parliamentary page is empty—no listed experience, no voting record, no questions, no speeches, no interests to register. There is, it seems, no way of contacting her. There is almost nothing to know about Charlotte Owen. She is a blank sheet of paper. She has done very little of note. She has no discernible views about anything. The sum total of her achievements would barely stretch to the full 280 characters of a tweet. Yet we can’t vote her out. And we will have to fork out £332 a day every time she steps foot inside the House of Lords, plus travel expenses and subsidised food. Boris Johnson's parting gift to the nation was to nominate a rum bunch of cronies, donors, time-servers and toadies to the Peerage. At least eight of them were deemed unappointable. But it was presumably difficult to argue against Charlotte, being such a blank sheet of paper. So we’re stuck with her for the rest of her life.
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Post by servernaside on Jan 27, 2024 13:46:09 GMT 1
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/63063/if-youre-not-upset-by-charlotte-owen-you-should-beBaroness Owen of Alderley Edge her seat in July, and it is fair to say she has made little impact so far. Her parliamentary page is empty—no listed experience, no voting record, no questions, no speeches, no interests to register. There is, it seems, no way of contacting her. There is almost nothing to know about Charlotte Owen. She is a blank sheet of paper. She has done very little of note. She has no discernible views about anything. The sum total of her achievements would barely stretch to the full 280 characters of a tweet. Yet we can’t vote her out. And we will have to fork out £332 a day every time she steps foot inside the House of Lords, plus travel expenses and subsidised food. Boris Johnson's parting gift to the nation was to nominate a rum bunch of cronies, donors, time-servers and toadies to the Peerage. At least eight of them were deemed unappointable. But it was presumably difficult to argue against Charlotte, being such a blank sheet of paper. So we’re stuck with her for the rest of her life. You seem to forget "Tony's Cronies' elevated to the House of Lords after he left office, but then in your usual manner, you only seek to criticise Conservative appointments. Myself, I think that most members of the HoL are a complete waste of space regardless of political affiliation.
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Post by neilsalop on Jan 29, 2024 7:32:02 GMT 1
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/63063/if-youre-not-upset-by-charlotte-owen-you-should-beBaroness Owen of Alderley Edge her seat in July, and it is fair to say she has made little impact so far. Her parliamentary page is empty—no listed experience, no voting record, no questions, no speeches, no interests to register. There is, it seems, no way of contacting her. There is almost nothing to know about Charlotte Owen. She is a blank sheet of paper. She has done very little of note. She has no discernible views about anything. The sum total of her achievements would barely stretch to the full 280 characters of a tweet. Yet we can’t vote her out. And we will have to fork out £332 a day every time she steps foot inside the House of Lords, plus travel expenses and subsidised food. Boris Johnson's parting gift to the nation was to nominate a rum bunch of cronies, donors, time-servers and toadies to the Peerage. At least eight of them were deemed unappointable. But it was presumably difficult to argue against Charlotte, being such a blank sheet of paper. So we’re stuck with her for the rest of her life. You seem to forget "Tony's Cronies' elevated to the House of Lords after he left office, but then in your usual manner, you only seek to criticise Conservative appointments. Myself, I think that most members of the HoL are a complete waste of space regardless of political affiliation. Boris Johnson made 7 new life peers when he resigned, all of them Tories.
Liz Truss made 3, 2 of them having been leaders of the Leave campaign and the other her deputy chief of staff.
Go back a bit and Theresa May made 19 new life peers, 8 being Tories, 5 cross bench, 1 Green, 3 Labour and 2 non-affiliated.
Cameron made 16 of which 13 were Tories.
Say what you like about May, but at least she seemed to have some semblance of dignity at the end.
That's three for three of your recent posts over here on the politic board answered. Are you going come back and fight your corner or are just going to run off and sulk?
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Post by Worthingshrew on Feb 6, 2024 14:44:43 GMT 1
You do have to wonder what Charlotte Owen did for Boris to deserve a peerage.
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