Silent minority: 15 peers claimed £585k while not speaking in a single Lords debate

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/11/silent-minority-15-peers-claimed-not-speaking-lords-debate

by socratic-meth

7 comments

  1. > Labour has set out plans to remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the chamber. Since 2019, hereditary peers have claimed more in allowances and expenses on average than non-hereditary peers (£95,800 per hereditary peer, compared with £92,300 for non-hereditaries).

    > Hereditary peers also spoke less often (155 times on average, compared with 191 for other peers) and were less likely to pose written questions to the government (18 letters on average, compared with 45 for other peers).

  2. The fact we still have a house of lords let alone hereditary peers is a joke. Incredibly undemocratic

  3. The House of Lords should be abolished and restructured, and it should be filled only with individuals who have made significant contributions to improving the lives of UK citizens.
    A sitting PM should not get to decide who gets a peerage. This is how we ended up with a ‘Lord of Siberia’

  4. It is not hereditary peers that are the issue – many take the job seriously because they have nothing else interesting to do. There are only 92 of them, a drop in the ocean.

    It is the huge numbers of non-contributing, political appointees who are just there to network, schmooze and use the facilities that we should be worried about. You can probably identify 300-400 crossbench and political peers that do regularly turn up to work when their expertise is needed. The rest ought to be sacked.

  5. These free loading parasites, they should get real jobs! Instead of claiming benefits, sitting around all day and being a burden on the tax payers!

  6. While Trump talks about people claiming money for nothing, we have our government giving itself money for nothing

  7. Instead of going after these individuals they make the disabled scapegoats for the problem.. If we got rid of the House of Lords we would save a ton of money to help with the welfare bill. Also a land value tax would be great too. Liz Kendall claimed 3k in heating expenses alone… Maybe the biggest benefit cheats are actually in Whitehall.. It’s easy to blame the vulnerable when they have no voice.

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