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Labour could axe all hereditary peers from House of Lords, reports suggest
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And replace it with what?
A second FPTP psuedo-democracy isn't going to help.
It's worse than that - they rowed back on fully reforming the House of Lords, this is just binning hereditary peers, all the others get to stay. So it's the same mess, just with slightly fewer leeches hang off it.
They have the opportunity to make a sweeping change and show people there's a different way of doing democracy. They aren't taking that though.
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I never thought of it before but your comment just made me realise this would be a great backdoor way to get the PR ball rolling. Make the lord's elected with a full PR system. Maybe with half the seats going up for election every 7 years or something.
I which case it should become the primary chamber. Having the second chamber be more representative of public opinion would be yet another way the commons would repress the views of the people.
The issue with this is the same as with the mayoral system. The next tine the Tories get a turn, they replace it with FPTP and claim it's "more democratic".
I'm pretty sure I've seen that suggested before, it would make a lot of sense, so obviously it will never happen.
No, they're not even proposing to replace the House of Lords here. All they're proposing is to remove the remaining 92 unelected hereditary peers (out of around 800+ total unelected peers) who survived Blair's 1999 cull of most hereditary peers.
It doesn't need replacing. It just needs binning.