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LeftishBrit

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5. Just goes to show...

Reply to Denzil_DC (Original post)

Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:35 AM

Oct 2015

that when someone on the far left of the Labour Party is chosen as its leader, the next thing that will happen is a ferocious attack on traditional British institutions like the House of Lords, if they dare to do anything that contradicts the government....

Oh, you mean it isn't the Labour Left who are doing this???

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David Cameron to curb powers of House of Lords after tax credits defeat [View all] Denzil_DC Oct 2015 OP

I agree most with your second to last paragraph. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #1

Yup. It's carts and horses. Denzil_DC Oct 2015 #2

Tax credits deal with the greater needs of a family, however muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #3

such a prideful purge MisterP Oct 2015 #4

Just goes to show... LeftishBrit Oct 2015 #5

All I can say to that is ... Denzil_DC Oct 2015 #6