Positive equality

An interesting letter by Cllr Tahir Maher, Lib Dem councillor for Maiden Erlegh, Wokingham Borough Council (Wokingham.Today, Thursday, June 11, 2020). I like his idea of Lib Dems “positively promoting equality”.

Therefore, I hope that the good councillor is as good as his word.

You see, I've always fancied being a Lord, just like the ones who sit in the House of Lords.

You know, the ones who Lord it over us plebs.

The ones who sign in, get £300 and then clear off home, or to their club, immediately after (allegedly).

As Cllr Maher is so keen on “positively promoting equality” it therefore cannot be right that we still have a House of Lords as I, and others of my standing, cannot be one. As the Cllr should know, this is not equality.

Therefore, I expect to see a letter in Wokingham.Today next week written jointly by Cllr Maher and whoever is the so-called national leader of the Lib Dems.

This letter should state that because the House of Lords is electorally an unequal institution, out of step by promoting inequality by its very being, ALL of the Liberal Democrats presently sitting in the Lords will immediately give up their titles and privileges and sit no longer.

By this action, the electorate will then find out just how serious Cllr Maher and his Lib Dems are about “positively promoting equality”.

With something like 100 Lib Dem peers currently sitting it is quite obvious that some Lib Dems are more equal than the majority of the population. This cannot be right and just if the Lib Dems believe in what they claim about “positively promoting equality”.

Deeds, not words then Lib Dems. Abolish ALL Lib Dem Peers immediately and NEVER ever reinstate them, in the name of justice and equality. It might even make the national press! Paul Clarke, Wokingham