Should a wife beater get a peerage?

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Boris Johnson has nominated his wife beating father for a peerage. He beat her so much that she spent nearly a year on a psychiatric ward.

He also nominated his siblings.

10% of the House of a Lords are Johnson appointees including the son of a KGB official. Isn’t it time the House of Lords was scrapped?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8802033/amp/Boriss-dad-broke-mums-nose-Explosive-new-biography-lifts-lid-PMs-affairs.html

No member of a PM’s family should be given a seat in the Lords. Johnson is trolling us. He just doesn’t care.

I don't really care if it's Boris Johnson's family or someone else. It's not like it affects me directly.

What has Sidney Johnson done to warrant a Peerage? Aside from being the father of an ex Prime Minister. Nothing that I can think of.
Does his son think he’ll it’ll pass to him via osmosis?

The problem is Boris Johnson, not the House of Lords. You are conflating the two.

Rishi will block Johnson appointments - but I thought Stanley’s was a knighthood not peerage - as just too embarrassing.

Obviously not - and also what he’s nominated for exactly? But to be honest the honours system has been ridiculous and controversial for years, if not forever.

Words fail me

So I take it you’re not a British citizen and are not impacted by any votes going through the House of Lords?

Of course they shouldn't. But your sources are hardly credible. No criminal allocations or charges have ever been brought, so it's a pretty hard reason to ban someone

The only reason rancid old Stanley has been nominated is that he’s rancid Boris Johnson’s rancid old father. It’s not a good enough reason and should be blocked.

He has never denied breaking his wife’s nose.

His Dad is a domestic abuser, and BJ is a text book narcissist

Boris, by this account, grew up unable to forge close relationships with men so sought out women as his soulmates instead, which explains his notoriously prolific love life, in which he recklessly poured out his heart to lovers in poems and letters, even threatening suicide to deter women from abandoning him.

This is straight from the narcissist handbook 😬

And we let him be prime minister!

Honestly, those men are cut from the No Fucks Given cloth. It's astounding that the world gives them a platform; utterly mind-boggling that they are beloved by people. They're both walking, talking, living, breathing, space-taking, oxygen-sucking arseholes... running shit and wrecking lives (that's the part that I mind!).

“Every country gets the leaders it deserves.”

He is a rancid old bastard

@MavisM@MavisMcMinty@MavisMcMinty@MavisMcMinty@MavisMcMinty@MavisMcMinty”

Harsh

He's also never admired it, and the widely accepted story is that it was a defence to her attacking him.

Now, I'm not saying I believe that or that he deserves to be in the House of Lords. He doesn't for a lot of reasons. But court of public opinion is a dangerous way to make decisions

He shouldn't be nominated for any form of honour, for many reasons.

House of Lords needs to be scrapped for sure

MavisMcMinty · Today 09:49

No member of a PM’s family should be given a seat in the Lords. Johnson is trolling us. He just doesn’t care.

Unfortunately, he gave his brother a peerage in 2020. It was nodded through. You're right, he doesn't give a tuppenny damn, because he's always got away with all of his shitty behaviour.

The only reason rancid old Stanley has been nominated is that he’s rancid Boris Johnson’s rancid old father. It’s not a good enough reason and should be blocked.

I couldn't agree more.

I am a British citizen but it still doesn't bother me.

Corruption and corrupt behaviour doesn't bother you?

Sadly I imagine there are many with similar mindsets.

I don't think Boris or his dad are corrupt. We have a royal family who do a smashing job that the country love so what's the issue here.

It angers me that someone can just choose who they want to be given a peerage. I couldn't care less if it was just a title, but the fact it then gives them the right to sit in the HoL is outrageous.

There needs to be a better system of merit, so people given titles for their achievements are allowed to vote, rather than people given titles as gifts (yes, I know they're all gifts, but hopefully you know what I mean).

They need to scrap a PM being allowed to gift to whoever. It should be a PM nominates people for their achievements and a group of "normal people" are chosen to okay them or not. A bit like jury duty.

Did you vote to Take Are Country Back and gain £350m a week for the NHS, by any chance?

I don't think Boris or his dad are corrupt.

Oh dear! Have you ever read a newspaper?