#Starmer has just made the #HouseOfLords even worse.

In 1958, the Lords was a set of #HereditaryPeers & bishops. On Tuesday, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill passed, making the Lords a bunch only of #LifePeers & bishops. 68 years from a club of #inbreds to a club of #cronies & donors.

The #ParliamentAct1911 promised an elected upper house, but it never arrived. 115 years later, the so-called "#LabourParty" leaves bishops as the only independent Lords. This is not #democracy.

#ukpol

Sounds like good news. The last of the UK's hereditary peers pose for a group photo before being stripped of their political privilege.

Reality: it's bad news. The #hereditaryPeers and the #bishops are the only members of the #HouseOfLords who are not cronies appointed by the#PrimeMinister.

The whole House of Lords should be replaced by a democratic chamber, but until then the hereditary peers and bishops are the least stinky part of the stinky sewer of corruption. #TheMadCountry

The #ElectoralReformSociety (#ERS) have another #HouseOfLords petition

#HereditaryPeers should go — Yes
As should those appointed by former PMs

BUT
"Our legislators should be chosen and thrown out by the people"
NO, NOT in the revising chamber: partisan party-politicians can't effectively revise the decisions of partisan party-politicians.

All important decisions require thinking not believing:
'All politicians must be elected' is a religion.

Don't Sign the #Petition

https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3342/petition/1

#HouseOfLordsReform

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water

Remove #hereditaryPeers YES
Remove Prime Minister's cronies YES
Remove religious leaders MAYBE

But, a #bicameral #parliament needs a TRUE #Senate; a house of wise elders:

Two #elected chambers fight each other along #partyPolitical lines — #evidence and #reasoning are the casualties — everyone pays the price

Argue with me 🙂

#ElectoralReform #ElectoralReformSociety #HouseOfLords #UKpolitics #politics #Congress

#HouseOfLords

Ministers introduce plans to remove all #HereditaryPeers from Lords

Government’s bill would prevent the 92 remaining peers who inherited their titles from sitting in upper chamber
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/05/ministers-introduce-plans-to-remove-all-hereditary-peers-from-lords