Hah! House Of Lords Sends Cease-And-Desist Order To Denial Clown "Lord" Monckton - UR Not A Lord!

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The House of Lords has taken the unprecedented step of publishing a "cease and desist" letter on its website demanding that Lord Christopher Monckton, a prominent climate sceptic and the UK Independence party's head of research, should stop claiming to be a member of the upper house.

The move follows a testy interview given by Monckton to an Australian radio station earlier this month in which he repeated his long-stated belief that he is a member of the House of Lords. When asked by ABC Sydney's Adam Spencer if he was a member, he said: "Yes, but without the right to sit or vote … [The Lords] have not yet repealed by act of parliament the letters patent creating the peerage and until they do I am a member of the house, as my passport records. It says I am the Right Honourable Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. So get used to it."

The letter, sent by David Beamish, clerk of the parliaments, to Monckton last Friday and now published on the Lords' website, states: "You are not and have never been a member of the House of Lords. Your assertion that you are a member, but without the right to sit or vote, is a contradiction in terms. No one denies that you are, by virtue of your letters patent, a peer. That is an entirely separate issue to membership of the House. This is borne out by the recent judgement in Baron Mereworth v Ministry of Justice (Crown Office)."

In May, Mr Justice Lewison threw out an action at the Royal Courts of Justice brought by Baron Mereworth, who maintains that it his hereditary entitlement to attend the Lords, despite the House of Lords Act 1999 debarring all but 92 of the 650 hereditary peers, including his late father Lord Oranmore and Browne. Mr Justice Lewison ruled: "In my judgement, the reference [in the House of Lords Act 1999] to a 'member of the House of Lords' is simply a reference to the right to sit and vote in that house … In a nutshell, membership of the House of Lords means the right to sit and vote in that house." The letter from Beamish to Monckton continues: "I must therefore again ask that you desist from claiming to be a member of the House of Lords, either directly or by implication, and also that you desist from claiming to be a member 'without the right to sit or vote'. I am publishing this letter on the parliamentary website so that anybody who wishes to check whether you are a member of the House of Lords can view this official confirmation that you are not."

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jul/18/climate-monckton-member-house-lords

[Gothmog]

1. Monckton is a joke

[SkatmanRoth]

2. That would " Mr. Lord " to you.

I think we should start calling him LOAD Monckton.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Monckton is a hateful homophobe; even UKIP chucked him out

Former UKIP deputy leader: Gays sleep with up to 20,000 people in their ‘short, miserable lives’

Lord Christopher Monckton – a former Conservative advisor – joined UKIP in 2009 and served as the party’s deputy leader, and President in Scotland.

Writing for right-wing site WorldNetDaily, Lord Monckton launched a scathing attack on the gay community, dismissively referring to LGBT people as “QWERTYs” after the letters on the keyboard.

He said: “Official survey after official survey had shown that homosexuals had an average of 500-1,000 partners in their sexually active lifetime, and that some had as many as 20,000. One wonders how they found time for anything else.
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Defending anti-gay Australian politician Rosalie Crestani – who is attempting to ban the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality – Lord Monckton said: “Councillor Crestani was so shocked by the official mortality figures for homosexuals that she proposes to circulate a memorandum to all councillors and staff giving them detailed statistics for promiscuity, prevalence of HIV and many other sexually transmitted diseases, and for the consequently short, miserable lives and high death rate of homosexuals.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/11/26/former-ukip-deputy-leader-gays-sleep-with-up-to-20000-people-in-their-short-miserable-lives/

[GliderGuider]

4. Next up, the House of Lords sues the Catholic church for trademark infringement

Said the House spokesman, "They are taking our Lords' names in vain! Lord thunderin' Christ on a bicycle, have they no sense of decency? At long last, have they left no sense of decency?"