I love it when the unelected Lords stands up for elected MPs against the interests of Labour UK.

The UK is in effective constitutional crisis on the eve of a crucial budget.

Andy Burnham, the newish PM, just suffered a withering attack from one of his own for serving up bad law to the Upper House of UK parliament—the Lords.

The law being discussed last night was about court reform and erosion of juries for corporate wrongdoing. But crucially this is a criticism that has run and run for weeks and months about Labour’s authoritarian pivot.

Lord Rooker said during the debate that Britain’s government rams through changes to legislation at the last minute, denying elected MPs in the commons (the lower house) the chance to debate those adjustments properly.

He proposed a motion to pull the Labour administration into line with voters, then withdrew it later ….hmmmm. It is a classic move by the Tory-Labour uniparty to allow a dissenting voice or two to become loud ….just to make doing something that is actually very naughty seem like it was actually properly debated beforehand.

Rooker continued to excoriate the Andy Burnham administration’s lawmaking: “I am not interested in what the Commons said on second reading or in Public Bill Committee. What I am interested in is what they put in the bill at the last minute, without any debate or scrutiny. That’s all I’m interested in. How they conduct their affairs in public committee to give the idea and to say they had a full day of report, two and a half hours, 52 new clauses. I mean, it’s a joke.”

His point is the Labour government is behaving like an authoritarian dictatorship instead of letting British people and their elected MPs actually have a proper say BEFORE the bill moves to the upper house.

The Tories and other Lords want to support Rooker’s initiative…

…stay tuned….

…will the government bulldozer win or will Rooker, who backed down temporarily last night (to be sure), claw back power for UK people over the next few weeks?

Or is he a tease?