English Trade Union Congress calls for the abolition of the House of Lords.

Apparently the English Trade Union Congress will be in their battle bus outside the Houses of Parliament today campaigning to abolish the House of Lords.
  

Eddie Bone, Campaign Director for the English Trade Union Congress, said:

"The House of Lords no longer speaks for the people of England and it threatens to misuse its position to undermine the triggering of Article 50.  This is a provocation which shows that the self-important and unelected House of Lords should be abolished."

I entirely agree, back in August 2014, long before Brexit and the Article 50 furore, I had the following letter published in the Western Daily Press expressing my views on the House of Lords and the need for an English Parliament.

Organisations or individuals campaigning for an English Parliament are always rebuffed by the British political establishment whose members, including those from Scotland and Wales, argue that there are enough politicians already, that it would be too costly and there is no public demand for one. However, if any of those objections are made regarding the unelected and unreformed House of Lords that very same British establishment steadfastly ignores them.

The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour are forever happy to find a place in the Lords for yet another group of life peers made up of retired MPs, those who have been voted out of office and various party donors and cronies. Moreover, the next batch of appointments to the burgeoning House of Lords will see its members outnumber those in the House of Commons, Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly combined.

The three main parties pay only lip service to any concerns about costs, numbers and lack of public demand or democratic accountability.

Since devolution nearly two thousand politicians, more than one third of them unelected peers, operate at national level in Westminster, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. This political circle is content to have seen itself expand but hypocritically conspires to prevent England from having its own dedicated parliament able to speak with a collective voice for the interests of the English people.

So, good luck and success to Eddie Bone and his fellow campaigners from the English Trade Union Congress.