Originally Posted by BBKing

The Lords isn't perfect, though - it's too full of people who can't be bothered turning up, political placeservers given peerages as rewards, etc. This is, however, better than having a copy of the Commons there.

Something with long terms (15-20 years even), constituencies and that doesn't throw (all) the existing Lords onto the street might be good compromise. Throw in meagre expenses and peanut salaries to encourage people with real jobs to attend purely out of duty and we might be talking real improvement.