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Saving money is the real reason.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182388/Families-told-help-care-elderly-relatives-rely-NHS.html   Lord Darzi, said the state should ‘demand’ people take ‘greater responsibility’ for the health and social care of themselves and their families. The House of Lords, seems to be populated with pea brained morons who occasionally wake up from their almost  perpetual state of semi comatose slumber to issue words of meaningless, ill informed garbage, before slipping back into their torpid state to dream about their next method of claiming expenses. For the benefit of Darzi , to read on his next visit to the real world, the majority of families already help to care for their elderly relatives. For those families who do not, it is of little value for Darzi to stamp his foot and mumble that, " the state should ‘demand’ people take ‘greater responsibility" etc., without sharing with us what measures the state should use to ensure that this happens. If...

Cameron was not happy.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jul/11/cameron-clashes-with-lords-reform-revolt-leader An angry prime minister confronted Jesse Norman just outside the House of Commons division lobbies. PM and Tory whips reprimand MP who masterminded rebellion over Lords reform. This is disgraceful and demonstrates the extent to which a Prime Minister considers all his parliamentary party to be no more than "lobby fodder" to troop, lemming like, through which ever lobby the government and the whips dictate. Like a spoilt brat the PM and his little gang of thug whips, jump up and down frothing at the mouth in a collective temper tantrum. The motion was not all that Cameron lost last night.