Saturday 22 October 2011

Lords wasting time, energy?

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

Asked by Lord Sheikh
    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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