British 1986

Allen was multitasking. While paying attention to the previous confrontation, he picked up the copy on the table. This was the first draft of the newly introduced plan to reduce the seats of noble members in the House of Lords.

The content mentioned in it is that due to the continued sluggish economic situation, in order to save the budget and save the empire's finances, the number of aristocratic members in the House of Lords is now being adjusted.

In the past, there was no quota limit for noble members of the House of Lords. As long as they were hereditary nobles, each of them was a natural member of the House of Lords from birth. As long as they were over 21 years old and had a title, they could come to the House of Lords for meetings ( pointing fingers).

There are at least 700 or 800 hereditary noble families in Great Britain. With so many families, each family has a House of Lords. Although it is usually difficult to get together, the allowance for so many people is not a small amount of money.

For every official member of the House of Lords, the allowance is calculated on a daily basis during normal sitting days. Allen remembers that his allowance has now increased to more than 300 pounds a day, right?

He couldn't remember such a small amount of money anyway, it would increase every year, and no one would care.

But everyone seems to have a small amount of money, but when added up, it is not a small amount for ordinary people. If the allowance of a member of the House of Lords is counted for thirty days a month, it is almost 10,000 pounds.

This amount of money can be said to be higher than the salary of most ordinary people in the UK, and this is just a subsidy.

Not counting the travel expenses, food and accommodation expenses for nobles from other places to come to London for meetings. Although they are not a lot of money, the amount has increased and it adds up to a lot.

The preliminary opinion given in this first draft is to reduce the unlimited number of noble members to 99 permanent members.

These 99 aristocratic members who are resident in the House of Lords are still treated according to the old rules, but this candidate has a statement. The previous natural system must be changed into an electoral system.

Let the nobles conduct internal elections first, elect a parliamentary representative among several nobles, and then come to the House of Lords for a meeting.

The first draft was written in a high-sounding way, saying it was for the purpose of saving finances, improving administrative efficiency, etc.

Allen looked at the copy and sneered. Isn't this the simplified British version of the grace order plus two peaches and three soldiers?

First, eliminate nearly 90% of the number of members of the House of Lords, and then let the dogs eat dogs within the aristocracy, and throw out the parliamentary positions that no one cared about before as dog food for them to grab.

When there is contention, there is fighting, and it is easy to understand the conspiracy.

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If this document is really implemented, will the lower-ranking nobles, like those barons and viscounts, really be able to defeat the top nobles at the top?

Anyway, Allen is not afraid. After several visits to the whole of Wales, their local nobles also have twenty or thirty large and small families. It’s not that he looks down on these people. These families are all tied together. Do they dare to compete with him?

Even if they had ten more courages, they wouldn't dare!

Even though times have changed now, if Allen calls these local nobles to his castle to meet them, and encounters those timid Welsh nobles, he might really scare the piss out of them!

This is the family's confidence in suppressing a region for hundreds of years, and it has accumulated such terrifying power.

But that's not necessarily the case elsewhere.

Anyway, Allen's idea is that if these old people can get any benefits, then as a member of the aristocratic class, he must take him with him, and he will have to eat meat. If these old people don't get any benefits, Then Allen went to Boss Cha to sell them and eat their flesh!

He wants to eat meat from left to right!

"If the number of members is to be reduced, it will be a loss to the entire aristocracy. Historically, there has been only weakening without compensation. If the aristocracy does not exist in the long run, will Great Britain still exist?"

"Calm down, this is not a weakening. The current economic situation is not good. This is all to save finances and improve administrative efficiency. Anyway, people usually come to meetings and are not active. If there are fewer people, the efficiency will be higher."

The Minister of the House of Lords bit the bullet and said a polite word.

"We don't have to come to the meeting, but we can't run out of places! I'm so old, let alone come to meetings every day. Even if I come to London once a week, do I still need my body? Are you going to torture me to death?"

"Then what do you think we should do? If you have any opinions, you can put them forward and I will record them."

The minister of the House of Lords picked up the copy and threw it on the table. He looked at the copy and said: "The first draft has come out and the House of Commons has passed it. There has been no response from the royal family, but the Queen obviously has no objection. Such a move Come on, even if we want to stop it, we can't stop it for long. It can take two to three years, or one or two years, and the formal documents will almost be formed into a bill. What else can we do?"

All eyes were fixed on the old guy in front, watching him argue with the minister of the House of Lords.

The two of them are not hostile. The people sitting here now are all nobles!

The quarrel between them is not only to express their opinions, but also to tell outsiders. There will be a written record of today's meeting. People who should see or want to see it will be able to understand the content of this meeting through the written record. , they already know what to do next.

To put it simply, the ministers of the House of Lords are responsible for admiring, the old guy is responsible for negotiating conditions, and everyone else present today is considered to be on the side. The symbolic significance of this meeting is far greater than the actual significance.

"What should I do? If things can't be done, then we need compensation! Lower the inheritance tax standard first. I'm already old. I can't keep the inheritance left by my ancestors. I can't leave a mess to my descendants. Otherwise, I'll see you in heaven. How should ancestors speak?”

The Minister of the House of Lords simply recorded this request in his notebook. It was a very reasonable request.

The number of members will be reduced, and it is really unjustifiable to not provide some compensation.

No matter how the outside world perceives the British aristocracy as a class group, they are the absolute main force in stabilizing society.

There are so many nobles sitting here today, so many industries under their control, how many workers are there, and how many families do they support?

If they are all dishonest and each family hires dozens of workers, tens of thousands of unemployed people can be created in this country in just one day.

This is no longer a trivial matter!

If they are more ruthless and wait for them to join forces and lay off tens of thousands of people, the Prime Minister will not be able to handle it.

The nobles were severely suppressed and the factory went bankrupt. This layoff was normal and no one could fault it.

But if they dare to do this, it will be great fun.

This is also the reason why many nobles like to invest heavily in assets. It seems that they are not profitable, but this thing is equivalent to a talisman. It usually looks inconspicuous. Some people also laugh at the noble gentlemen as being corrupt and unable to keep up with the times. Wait. When something goes wrong, a little tampering with these heavy assets will attract much more serious attention than those with light assets!

Allen remembered what the Duke of Marlborough said before the meeting just now, that even if his teammates died, they had to die to be worthy. Looking back and forth, he always felt that something was missing. If only such a small amount of compensation was needed, these old people would not be destroyed. With all the guys attracted, there must be something more important!

What he is most concerned about now is what is the purpose of these old guys.

"Is there anything else? I will write it all down and report to His Majesty when the time comes."

"The issue of inheritance tax has been delayed for decades. We don't think it is safe to compensate for this alone. What's more, it is easy to reduce the number of parliamentary seats, but it will not be easy to add more in the future. Many low-level Nobles rely on their status as members of parliament to make a living. Without this status, how do you want them to live?"

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The minister of the House of Lords was speechless, but did not dare to refute.

What does it mean to make a living by being a member of parliament?

It is because they have the privilege of being members of parliament that they can take care of their own business. But when this person came to his mouth, the noble nobleman who was originally aloof has turned into a pitiful person who makes a living by doing this.

It's just a difference between making more and less. Compared with ordinary people, who is pitiful?

Just like Allen, no matter how poor his family is, compared with ordinary people, he can't be more privileged. Even if he wrote a letter to Boss Cha back then, saying that he couldn't eat meat, Boss Cha didn't do the same. Send people to deliver truckloads of supplies to him?

Which ordinary people need the crown prince to personally send someone to deliver food?

What if this is miserable? What do ordinary people call them? Living in hell?

Is this what you are saying in human terms?

Allen looked at the old guy in front of him, and when he got to the key point, he started to talk about how difficult life is for lower-level nobles. After so many years of inheritance tax collection, many noble families can no longer bear it, and how many noble families have gone bankrupt. After traveling to other places, the extinction rate of nobles in the country skyrocketed, and so on.

Even if it is as noble as a duke, there are only 31 existing dukes out of the 37 in Britain. It seems that there are already six, more or less, because of these things, they have become extinct!

What is extinction? All descendants or blood relatives of their family have died. This is extinction, just like the extinction of animals. It sounds scary, but it actually happens.

Just like Duke Angus, if Allen hadn't helped him back then and he had reached a certain level of poverty, their family would most likely have been extinct.

Usually people rarely talk about these things, because everyone is used to it. This is still the upper class nobles, but the lower class nobles are even worse than this. The number of people who are extinct is even greater. Even if some of them are extinct, they cannot be counted.

Now after this old guy mentioned it, many of the nobles sitting here, whether they have good family conditions or poor family conditions, feel a bit sad anyway. Even Allen feels a little uncomfortable when he hears it. He is not Sympathy, but every extinct aristocratic family will have some old people in the family. If he can catch up, how much benefit can he get?

Pity.

"If the number of parliamentarians needs to be reduced, then we need some economic compensation. Isn't the empire's finances not rich? Isn't the current economic situation bad? Then can some state-owned enterprises be transferred out, privatized, and handed over to us to operate? I You have to leave something to your descendants, right?”

Finally, when it came to drama, Allen was shocked, and finally understood what this old guy wanted to do after he had been laying the groundwork for so long.

That turned out to be the idea.

Many parliamentary seats have been reduced, which is irresistible. In other words, if you want to gain value from the "death" of these people, you have to objectify them, and then use their remaining value and historical issues to gain sympathy. Then in exchange for some benefits.

As for whether these benefits will eventually fall into the hands of those nobles who have lost their "livelihood", then it will be up to each of them to use their own methods.

As long as he can make such a request today, and if the request is approved, there is a high probability that some state-owned enterprises will be opened to the nobility next year, such as electricity, water power, railways, gas and other industries. These are all possible.

The economy is not good now, but if these businesses are handed over to the nobles and run by individuals, it can really stimulate the economy.

As for who suffered the loss in the end?

Anyway, the politicians have made achievements, the aristocrats have been "compensated" by new industries, and many ordinary people have kept their jobs. That's all. It doesn't matter who suffers the loss.

Even if the situation changes in the future, it will be something that people in the future need to deal with. Now it just needs to get better.

The more Allen thought about it, the more he felt that this routine was okay. No wonder so many people came to stand today. This was a collective effort to support this old guy, and then put on a posture to compensate. The benefits in the end

He has begun to think about the industries in Wales that he could not get involved in before, but now he can try, such as railways, electricity and even docks!

These businesses don't seem to be very profitable, but their status is very important. If they really win these properties, it's hard to say what kind of rights he, the Earl of Carmarthen, will have in the end.

When the Prince of Wales is around, everything is fine. If the Prince of Wales is not around, then he is just another Prince of Wales!

A prince with more power than a prince!

Alan returned to Carmarthen the day after the meeting.

On the same day, he summoned several secretaries and Councilor Thomas and asked them to make preparations in advance and conduct a thorough investigation of all state-owned enterprise information in Wales so that they could prepare in advance.

Although the old guy just proposed compensation in the parliament, the final result has not yet come out.

But opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

Sometimes, when the official results are announced, it won’t be as hot as eating shit!

Although few people dared to compete with him in this three-quarter acre of land in Wales, the necessary preparations had to be made in advance, whether it was selecting an industry or preparing funds.

Allen touched his chin and looked at several corporate information that Thomas compiled casually.

He doesn't have much money now. Allen has been short of money recently, and he has been working hard to make money.

But now that the money has not been received, a new place to use the money has come.

You can’t miss this great opportunity just because you have no money, right?

Opportunities like this kind of group harvesting, or fair and honest exchange of interests, don't come around very often. If you miss it, you don't have to wait for a year. It's hard to say whether it will happen after ten years!

Now, he doesn't want to miss this opportunity, but he doesn't have that much money now. What should he do?

Grabbing it openly?

He can rob things from ordinary people or nobles, but this time the target is the country's, and there is no way to rob it openly.

How to do this?