Time to reform the House of Lords - it's full of rot

Today I was sickened to discover Polly Neate, the former CEO of the fake charity Shelter, is now elected to the House of Lords. 

Given the Mandelson scandal it seems that anybody of dubious morals is given a peerage or rather a job for life.

For those who don't know - Shelter is a "homeless" charity however they don't actually house any homeless people. Instead they are basically a law firm using tax payer money and charity donations from the naieve general public, to encourage tenants facing eviction for non-payment-of-rent to make fraudulent disrepair court claims against landlords and generally obstruct legal proceedings in the court to delay eviction and run up the landlord's legal bill.  

I've had first hand dealings with Polly Neate and Shelter.  The woman has no shame.  After I finally won my legal case and finally evicted my scumbag tenants, I shared photos of my house that was trashed by my rogue tenant with Polly - she simply didn't care. She has zero moral compass.  

My fabulous tenant had left me lots of wonderful things.  She had shit all over the floor. The house was full of flies and rats due to 2 skips full of nappies and rotting garbage filling the house and garden.  I couldn't go into the house as the stench made me vomit.  A friend of mine is a crime scene investigator.  She commented that murder scenes and drug dens she had attended were tidier and cleaner- she had never seen anything so bad in 30 years of policing.

This is the kind of scumbag clientele Shelter represents and now the former head of this organisation is sitting in the House of Lords.

I kind of agree with the idea of the House of Lords where it is supposed to hold the House of Commons to account and be impartial from day-to-day politics however successive governments has stuffed the House of Lords full of people with dubious morals eg Mandelson.  

We therefore need a great purge of the House of Lords. Pretty much like the imaginary vetting for Mandelson as USA ambassador there needs to be deep vetting and screening of all House of Lords candidates. All elections to the Lords need to be time limited and they need to voted in. 

The King needs to start taking a greater role in the appointments and revocation - this is too important to leave to politicians.

Our democracy is at stake - our democracy and governance  is rotten-to-the-core with politically motivated peerages.

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