JEREMY KYLE HEADING FOR HOUSE OF LORDS

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Is Jeremy Kyle about to be put into the House of Lords as a Reform UK member?

[00:00:08]Well, I think there is increasing evidence to suggest that is precisely what is going to happen. I'm going to go through in this video a few issues, not just about Jeremy Kyle, but about the House of Lords in general. As you know, it's something that I think is a major major issue headache for Nigel Farage, but also an enormous opportunity. Hello everyone, this is Andre Walker. Thanks so much for watching this video.

[00:00:33]Remember yesterday I told you that Gloucester police are attempting to jail a man who stood up to a PDF in the area who was attempting to groom his 15year-old son. Please do donate to Patriot Fund. We're going to support this guy and fingers crossed not only get the dad exonerated but also ensure that the correct action is taken against the person responsible for causing this problem in the first place. Patriot fund details are below. Please give generously. Okay. So, on the House of Lords, look, I've noticed over the past couple of months, and I'm sure you have as well, an increasing role within Reform UK for Jeremy Kyle. Now, Jeremy Kyle is is a little bit of an unusual character in that whilst he was very heavily associated with, if you like, trash television, reality television, actually a he's quite an intelligent bloke, AND B HE'S GOT A background which you might imagine is a little bit different to what you might expect. His dad, his dad, Patrick Kyle, was deputy chief of staff to uh the Queen Mother and was often said that I had the most difficult job in the royal household because the Queen Mother earned half a million a year and spent 2 million a year and he had to do the accounts.

[00:01:43]Anyway, so Jeremy K is from Ascot and grew up in the area and he and he's does all those usual things into horses, went to private school, all that sort of thing. So he's not the point I'm making is he's not just some tabloid guy who uh who has got no background in Britain and understands nothing about politics. The Jeremy Kyle show I think was a great show but I think it gave the wrong impression of who Jeremy Kyle is and I think his subsequent work at talk TV where I also have a show has shown him to be something quite different. Now as you know uh it's quite difficult to be a serving politician and be a broadcaster.

[00:02:17]GB News and Talk TV have arguments with Offcom about it all the time, but obviously David Bull decided that he would be the full-time chairman of um Reform UK rather than uh continue at talk. And obviously uh that will be something that will weigh on the minds of anybody in the media considering going into politics. Just to be clear, um if I were to run uh Ofcom, Ofcom don't know what the law says. What Ofcom think the law says is that you cannot run for office if you're on TV or radio.

[00:02:49]What it actually says is is slightly different to that. But but nonetheless, what Ofcom would tell talk to do is if I was going to run for parliament or going to run for council for the full eight weeks of the election, I would be required to take my job off. And I I just don't see that anyone who takes eight weeks off would be given their job back at the end of it. So somebody like Kyle, somebody like me is effectively disbarred from public office as a result. The only difference being the House of Lords. Now you've seen over the past couple of months that Jeremy Kyle has arrived on all sorts of things. He he often appears as speakers at events.

[00:03:25]He often comes down and does stuff for reform. He broadcast from reform conference. All that sort of thing. And that is um goes far and beyond. But in the members survey today where incidentally um Nigel Fraj asked reform members to talk about their views on the House of Lords, he also asked members to rank um their favorite politicians from reform in order of top 10 preference.

[00:03:50]There was about 15 or 20 names. What was interesting was there was only one broadcaster on it and that was Jeremy Kyle. might have said that Darren Grimes is a broadcaster, but in reality, he's now resigned from GB News and gone and been full-time deputy leader of the council, plus doing his YouTube channel, and he's on the board of Reform UK. So, I don't think you could necessarily include him in that list. And so, it's clear that Jeremy Kyle is being promoted for something, but what can he be promoted for? Well, my point being that he can't be promoted for council. He can't run. He can't run for the London Assembly because he doesn't live in London. Um, and obviously he doesn't live in any other devolved area. I'm not going to say exactly where he lives, but he can't run for council. He can't run for devolved assembly. Um, and he can't run for parliament because of offcom uh rules. So, the only thing he can run for is the House of Lords. And now, let me talk you talk to you a little bit about the House of Lords because in this member survey, it asked whether the House of Lords should be abolished. No, no, no. the quangocratization.

[00:04:50]Quangocratization of that's almost as bad by the way as Alan Mabotization. Alan Mabotization is when political parties give up on having any policies whatsoever and instead just use datadriven analytics in order to say what they think you believe. But anyway, um quangockization is where whichever way you vote, nothing changes because Quangos run society. That quang occatization under Tony Blair came handin glove with um reform of the House of Lords to make the House of Lords less effective removing the hereditary periage. It no longer became about how good they were. It became about who they were. It was more of a representative council and a gift for blur cronies. But if you restore the House of Lords to being able to run things properly, being able to come up with details on policy, details on legislation properly, then actually you can start getting rid of all these quangos. And the Richard Ty desire to get rid of quangos would suddenly become possible. So I say the House of Lords needs to bring in experts. And Jeremy Kyle, to be fair, is an expert in the media. You could make him director general of the BBC under a Farage government and a member of the House of Lords. That would drive them absolutely bananas. But I think that that is something that's extremely important. I also want to say it's important to bring back the Lord Chancellor. This idea of combining the Lord Chancellor with some sort of justice secretary role is ridiculous.

[00:06:14]Let me tell you why that happened. By the way, Tony Blur appointed Derry Irving, his former flatmate, to be Lord Chancellor. But Lord Chancer outranks the prime minister and he used to drive Blur mad that a man who was more intelligent than him and was more senior than him used to tell him what to do. So he got rid of the position of Lord Chancellor. Queen Elizabeth II stepped in and said it couldn't disappear without full legislation. And of course they weren't able to do that. So they've come up with this odd situation. But the Lord Chancellor could bring back independent uh appointments to the judiciary and also chair the House of Lords and run things in a far better way. And so I think that Farage has to start thinking in terms of reforming of the House of Lords. And look, I personally think what David Starky said to him, Farage that is, is absolutely right that when he goes into uh King William presumably, we don't think King Charles will last that long and he says Mr. Farage having won the election are you in a position to form a government?

[00:07:15]He has to say no because there is no prospect of my legislative agenda passing. Now on current polling it looks like Farage will get about 280 members of parliament. The Conservatives will get about 70. So between the two of them they would have enough MPs. The big advantage of going into coalition with the Conservatives is they're good at management terrible at policy. Whereas Farage is obviously brilliant at policy and terrible at management because they're very new to it and also you get all the Conservative peers to vote with you and there's quite a lot. But what Farage needs to say is I've got no prospect of passing my legislative agenda without passing without creating a a large number of reform peers and I think Jeremy Kyle would be somebody who would be ideal in that. There is a massive massive fly in the ointment which is this.

[00:08:06]Would Ofcom allow a sitting member of the House of Lords uh to be a um a presenter on talk? It is legal, but but Offcom don't know that. Offcom think it's illegal. Um and they may well attempt to fight News UK over it, which I think would be a significant problem for Kyle because the issue is what we want in the House of Lords is people who have a proper job and then occasionally turn up when they're needed to amend legislation. So when you watch the House of Lords, it's not unusual to have sort of a bill being debated in 15 people in the chamber, but they will be the 15 people with expertise in that area. What Blur sought to do was get rid of the experts and just bring in party cronies.

[00:08:51]And so you may end up in a situation with Kyle where he would only turn up when you were doing things like the BBC charter renewal. He'd only come to questions about uh me culture, media, and sport. But he but he would be an expert in those fields. And I think that that would be a worthwhile thing to push forward. But overall, when members are being asked about reform of the House of Lords, what we have to do is turn the House of Lords back to what it used to be, a revising chamber that was that was elders of the world, elders of the country who are politically subservient to the democratically elected House of Commons. If we can bring that back, I think we've got a real real chance of having a successful future for this country. A fully elected House of Lords upper chamber becomes once again a den for cronies and den for cronies is what we've had since 1997 and it really hasn't worked. Please do donate to Patriot fund below. We are going to start sending out um membership details for the patriot club because obviously it is a now a club. It now has a constitution. So, uh, please do donate.

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