Abolish Lords

@moonbus said
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British lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve in principle a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords after more than 700 years. The Labour Party government says the decision will complete a long-stalled reform of Parliament’s upper chamber ...

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https://apnews.com/article/uk-lords-hereditary-aristocrats-eebad ...[text shortened]... cannot be serious!!

Con: It's worked for 700 years. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Discuss.

If the House of Lords preforms legal or legislative action of real substance, I'd have no objection to keeping them, but it looks to me that most of these duties happen in the House of Commons. Count me as undecided.

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Hmm, yes, I see the point now. Ultimate accountability at the ballot box is missing here.

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Wm. and Kate are certainly assets to the kingdom. Harry, Meghan, and Charles's wife rather less so. Andrew became a liability.

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Every family is a mixed bag, but not every family has its laundry hung out for everyone to see.

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Why would you object or not object


Please go back and read what I just wrote. "Undecided" means I'm not taking sides. 🙄

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Well, not really. - The Parliament Act of 1911 removed from the House of Lords the power to reject/veto a Bill. The best they can do really is delay a Bill it disagrees with, but in the end the elected House of Commons can reintroduce it in the following session and pass it without the Lords' consent.

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You have no reason to object or not to object.



OK - I'll manufacture a reason: "I want to"

Yankee ingenuity - it'll get you every time! 😆