🕝#HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:

🟥 neighbourhood health services
🟥 public/private partnerships machinery
🟥 funding cuts to creative arts teaching grants
🟥 reducing taxation on rural businesses.

➡️ See full schedule and watch online
https://orlo.uk/jIhkV

🕚 #HouseOfLords from 11am includes:

🟥 @officestudents powers to investigate academic misconduct
🟥 summer drought and water company supplies
🟥 compulsory voting
🟥 training and education for disadvantaged communities
🟥 #CyberSecurityBill

➡️ See full schedule https://orlo.uk/053fT

The #HouseofLords is nearly 1,000 years old. Life peers were only introduced in 1958 & women were first able to sit as life peers that year. The Peerage Act 1963 then allowed hereditary peers/peeresses who disclaimed their titles to sit in or stand for the Commons.
Not a lot of people know that.

The green #chambers of the #CaliforniaAssembly take note from the #UK's #HouseofCommons. However, it is pretty much identical to the #Senate Chamber, minus the red taking from the #HouseofLords. #bwphotography #americana #wa #california #architecture #californication #canon80d #trivia #politics