Revealed: paid peers tried to change laws 50 times

[frigidmagi]

time.uk

[quote]PEERS have proposed more than 50 amendments in the past two years to change the law in favour of the organisations paying them.

The peers have tried to change planning, transport and construction laws. In one case, Lord Berkeley, a peer paid by the rail freight industry, tried to make at least nine amendments to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 2008.

Lord O’Neill said this weekend that he now considered eight or nine amendments he tabled to a construction bill earlier this month to be “inappropriateâ€