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Originally Posted by Damien
2 years vote them out. An option not their for the lords.
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And when a bill is passed calling on a state of emergency due to bombings etc, and for elections to be suspended?
Imagine if the Lords were elected in 97, you'd have a landslide Labour majority in the commons, and again in the Lords, with no reason not to be sympathetic to Bliar's cabinet.
You'd be stuck with a government that the people can't get rid of.
Add to that your idea of preventing the monarch dissolving government, and we the people are pretty stuffed.
I take it you've seen V for Vendetta?
Remember the part that explains how Norsefire got to power?
We had a certain member of this forum, who when given a list of policies, some good, some blatantly racist, said he saw no reason for voting for that party because of the good policies and ignored the bad ones?
The Lords have a tradition of not preventing bills which were in the manifesto from going through.
Labour (if they weren't so inept) could have used that to gain absolute control of the Lords, and therefore as long as they had a majority in the commons, they'd get bills passed.
How do you vote out a party if elections aren't being held?