Once again it is reported in the news that the governmenmt are to start tinkering around with the minutiae of House of Lords legislation, by allowing life peers to resign and removing the right to heredity peerages.
If the government is serious about electoral reform, it should carry out the only acceptable solution by emptying the House of Lords and making it into a fully elected second chamber, based on proportional representation. Only with these moves will we have a democratic legislative, rather than the farcical affair we have at the moment, with a chamber full of unelected, unaccountable peers.
Of course Labour will not do this. The status quo benefits both main parties with a selection of nodding dogs willing to approve most of the legislation passed to it.
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