So an unelected house composed of Unionist party donors and cronies, friends of former PMs, failed MPs, Church of England bishops and aristocrats should sit in judgment on a democratically elected party that has just won its fifth consecutive democratic election.
Response to calls for a House of Lords inquiry into the SNP.
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Pursuing such an inquiry risks undermining the reputation for balanced and inclusive scrutiny that the Committee has worked hard to establish.
Embarking upon an inquiry into matters that properly belong to the jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament, and doing so without its consent, risks reopening old divisions and damaging relationships that have been carefully rebuilt.
The answer to that vulnerability cannot be to remain permanently dependent on the fossil fuels that expose us to precisely this instability.
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