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Paul H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

@MadeyeTheCarnaptious

That would be interesting - if SNP and PC MPs refused to take their seats at WM. It could send a powerful message, especially if such MPs formed a "balance of power" in a no-majority HoC.

The one thing to be careful of is "cutting off your nose to spite your face" though

@Henrysbridge @MadeyeTheCarnaptious ha. PC has just sent a representative to the Lords. She's excited to be there.

@CloudyMrs @MadeyeTheCarnaptious

True. The former leader of PC (Dafydd Wigley) is also there.

I don't approve of the way the HoL is constituted, though I feel a second house is important to "moderate" the HoC.

Here's an article about this:
nation.cymru/news/plaid-cymru-

There seems to be an extra dimension causing controversy here in the voting by PC members for this nomination.

Better to follow the SNP example, I think, though I can understand the desire for PC to have representation.

Nation.Cymru · Plaid Cymru row over House of Lords nominationsMartin Shipton A row has broken out in Plaid Cymru after an internal election for nominees to the House of Lords saw a lobbyist for a controversial wind power company elevated to first place on the list – even though she was decisively beaten in a members’ vote by former MP Elfyn Llwyd. Although the […]

@CloudyMrs @MadeyeTheCarnaptious
Not so much lately - a little slowing down of some of the more toxic stuff (Rwanda etc).

I guess I'm talking more in principle.

I stress again, I do not approve of or support the current way the HoL is structured. I can think of lots of options to replace it (one to exclude is simply a repeat of the HoC )