We are in an economic maelstrom yet the two questions below exemplify the problems for all the wrong reasons.
Point one. An immigrant can get into the Lords and start influencing
fiscal and legal matters. Look around the world and ask this question.
If they behave as they do in there own countries, when will they get to
pervert our culture towards their own? In Libya today they caught and
executed Colonel Gaddafi and celebrated it by firing shot and volleys
into the air. As a civilised race we would be summarily tried for
murder and tried for endangering life by being so reckless with a
fire-arm. That is unless you are already a threat to this nation, a
criminal or a mass murderer and leader of a Political Party.
Point two. What the fu*k are we doing in the Congo with more of our pensioner's money being wasted?
Compensation
Question
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps
they are taking to address any growth of a compensation culture in the
United Kingdom. [HL12187]
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord McNally):
The Government are implementing a fundamental reform of no-win no-fee
conditional fee agreements. Under these changes, meritorious claims will
be resolved at more proportionate cost, while unnecessary or
unavoidable claims will be deterred from progressing to court.
As part of our
commitment to curb the compensation culture, the Government have also
announced their intention to ban referral fees in personal injury cases. |
Democratic Republic of Congo
Question
Asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool
To ask Her Majesty's Government what response
they intend to make to the request of the Episcopal conference of the
Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo to increase the
number of international observers monitoring the forthcoming elections
in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to disarm and neutralise armed
groups threatening to destabilise the elections and initiate dialogue
with Rwanda and Uganda to seek their assistance in
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neutralising
militias, and to ensure that minerals and resources of the Democratic
Republic of Congo are not used for illicit purposes.[HL12321]
The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Howell of Guildford):
The UK is one of the major donors to the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) election process. We have already provided £26.1 million with a
further £5 million committed by end of 2012 for the 2007-13 electoral
cycle. While we are not funding election observation directly, we pushed
strongly for the EU election observation mission. This is deployed for a
period of three and a half months, from the end of September 2011 until
mid-January 2012. The first long-term observers are now in the country.
We also remain in close contact with partners, including the Carter
Center, African Union, and the Southern African Development Community
(SADC), the Catholic Church, and the Electoral Institute for the
Sustainability of Democracy in Africa (EISA) about their observation
missions.
We are funding
disarmament, demobilisation, repatriation, resettlement, and
reintegration (DDRRR) programmes to encourage the surrender of members
of the armed groups in eastern DRC. These programmes combined with the
continued military pressure from the Congolese army (FARDC) are helping
to reduce the threat of armed groups, substantially reducing their
number over the past two years. We welcome the improved relationships
between DRC, Rwanda and Uganda and the strengthened co-operation this
signifies. We will continue to engage with these countries to encourage
greater co-ordination on regional security issues.
We, alongside
international partners, are working to ensure that the DRC's mineral
wealth is brought under legitimate control, as a source of revenue for
the state and the local population, and to restrict financial support to
armed groups. Further information about our work on conflict minerals
is available online at ww.fco.gov.uk/conflictminerals. |
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