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The Week in Politics: Misery in the omnishambles

Fear and loathing: The government's misery in the omnishambles

Everywhere you look, the fates conspire against the government.

Lords reform overshadows Queen’s Speech 2012

Members of the Lords, their existence threatened by this Queen's Speech, watch the monarch deliver her address to parliament

The looming Lords reform struggle is overshadowing bills and legislation which the Queen has said will “restore economic stability” in her Queen’s Speech to parliament, which also includes reforms pushing through internet snooping, energy market reform, banking reforms, scrapping much regulation of businesses and a crime and courts bill boosting criminal justice.

PM’s father-in-law warns of BNP ‘train crash’ over Lords reform

Viscount Astors says the reforms are meant to appease the Liberal Democrats

Government plans for an elected upper house could lead to the British National Party (BNP) gaining its first seats in parliament, according the Viscount Astor, the stepfather of the prime minister’s
wife Samantha.

Comment: Put down the milk pint and get on with the policy

Mike Indian is freelance journalist and editor of The Groucho Tendency.

The lesson for disgruntled Conservatives is that the easiest way to stop a message is to shoot the messenger.

Lords reform’s death by a thousand cuts

Does a 21st century Britain need a reformed Lords

It was a grisly, tortuous demise meted out on criminal miscreants in late Qing dynasty China. In 21st century Britain, the death by a thousand cuts is reserved for another purpose: polishing off the coalition’s Lords reforms.

Comment: Public must have their say on Lords reform

Lords reform would change the way Britain works: the public deserve a referendum

Ministers must avoid a referendum at all costs if they are to succeed in reforming the House of Lords. But that doesn’t mean the public doesn’t deserve one.

Deep divisions reveal rocky road ahead for Lords reform

Lords reform hasn't been achieved for over 100 years - and counting

Fundamental divisions among MPs and peers over proposed elections for the Lords are signalling a tough road ahead for the coalition’s reforms.

Tories signal massive revolt over Lords reform

Reforming the Lords could trigger massive Tory revolt

The coalition’s Queen’s Speech relaunch appears under threat after Conservative MPs threatened to rebel en masse against its centrepiece, Lords reform.