A shocking recent report has confirmed what many people already knew. The government in the UK is set up to benefit the population of London and the South East.
The North East region has the lowest representation in the unelected House of Lords than any other part of this country.
And London and the South East has the highest representation in the Lords, so no surprise there.
Apart from the fact that no one should be to have a say in the running of the country unless they are willing to put themselves up for election, the evidence that the Lords is packed with weatlthy southerners can offer no reasurance that our region will ever figure very highly in the decisions that outdated body of people will ever make.
The time has come to make the second chamber of the government of Britain elected and representative, it really is time for the North East to be treated fairly .
The southern dominated House of Lords