Your Grace, please Reform the House of Lords

Power 2010 UnlockDemocracy is sending letters to the Bishops, pressing them on House of Lords reform. It only takes a minute, and it could help save lives mend our broken politics.
And this gives me a chance to republish one of my favourite poems:


The Noble Lord Lord Lawlor lauds the law.

The Noble Lord Lord Lawlor lauds the law.
He holds it vastly better than the law that held before.
He likes the lift in income for the rich across the board,
In many ways a modest, almost trivial award
And he likes the Lamborghini that his lad can now afford.
(Haw haw)
The Noble Lord Lord Lawlor lauds the law.


The Noble Lord Lord Lawlor lauds the law.
He deems it far superior to the laws they have  abroad;
As for the lower orders, well he really was appalled
That anyone should cavil at what was after all
A just remuneration, not a licence to defraud.
The Noble Lord Lord Lawlor lauds the law.

Richard Lawson 

2006