Stratos wrote on Dec 13
th, 2015 at 10:20pm:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton/
'"The House of Lords Act 1999 debarred all but 92 of the 650 Hereditary Peers, including my father, from sitting or voting, and purported to – but did not – remove membership of the Upper House. Letters Patent granting Peerages, and consequently membership, are the personal gift of the Monarch. Only a specific law can annul a grant. The 1992 Act was a general law. The then Government, realizing this defect, took three maladroit steps: it wrote asking expelled Peers to return their Letters Patent (though that does not annul them);
in 2009 it withdrew the passes admitting expelled Peers to the House (and implying they were members); and
it told the enquiry clerks to deny they were members: but a written Parliamentary Answer by the Lord President of the Council admits that general legislation cannot annul Letters Patent, so, as my passport shows, I am The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley." '
http://lordmoncktonfoundation.com/blog/view/319/ye_olde_chestnut_returns___is_lo...He has, since 2011, won a court case confirming he is a Lord of th Realm and is therefore a non-sitting member of the House of Lords