BARROW MP’S PEER PRESSURE

CRUMBRIA: 13.3.2026

BARROW Labour MP Michelle Scrogerm has been mounting her high horse about hereditary peers.

People should not get into political power because of the family they were born into, she thundered as she welcomed Government plans to scrap hereditary peers from the House of Lords.

(Hear, hear, btw).

With chips falling from her shoulders, the MP’s vaguely ‘class war’ remarks duly resulted in an unquestionably approving article in the alleged Barrow ‘newspaper’, the Evening Snail.

Accidentally overlooked by the local rag was that the MP’s husband and daughter both sit as, er, Labour councillors on Ulverston Town Council.

Labour might be clearing out the family peers. Ulverston TC, meanwhile, remains reassuringly well stocked with Scrogerms.

Of course, there’s a big difference between hereditary peers who inherit a cushy number in the Lords and unpaid councillors who at least have to face voters.

Let’s be clear: the Scrogerms didn’t gain town council seats on their surname alone. Even so, the family is not exactly under-represented in local politics.

The two lesser-known Scrogerms were recently among the Labour councillors on Ulverston Clown Towncil to vote down a proposal from the Green Party.

The Greens wanted the Labour-dominated council to pen a furious letter to the Labour Government condemning budget cuts to Wokemoreland & Farcical Council.

Yet the town council’s Labour bloc – including the Scrogerms – decided that complaning about a Labour Government was not a good idea at all.

So the MP’s recent lording it over us has a slightly hollow ring about it.

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