Lord Popat is to be commended for speaking up for the Hindu community regarding the Caste issue. Baroness Flather was put in the House of Lords by the Conservative Party. She has now abandoned it. So here we have an individual who represents no one. She said that if Hindus claim that there is no Caste discrimination then they should not object to Caste Law! So Laws should be made to please certain groups even if they are not needed! UK would become a laughing stoke if that logic was followed! Lord Desai also spoke for the Caste legislation. The University where Lord Desai was teaching had dealings with the Gaddafi regime. Lord Desai never spoke out against the atrocities of the regime. A recent survey found that there is massive Class discrimination in this country. Would Lord Desai and Baroness Flather ask for a Law to ban Class discrimination? Lords who abandon their sponsors should have to leave. Lords should not be, ' life' time Lords. House of Lords itself is a symbol of Class discrimination. The Lords in the past kept the commoners in their place. It is a mockery of democracy that an unelected body can legislate in this country. Every year more and more Lords are appointed making it the biggest unelected legislative body in the world. Lords in its present form is no fit for purpose.
Nitin Mehta
Croydon
