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Originally Posted by Damien
I think we also need to have a more powerful House of Lords (maybe elected but longer terms and only 1/3rd up for re-election at any one time akin to the American Senate). As well as abolishing the parliement act.
We need to take power away from the commons so that they can't introduce knee-jerk reaction policys whenever a election is due  |
The problem with this is that the independence of the HOL may well be affected if we go for elected candidates especially if it comes down to members being promoted by either of the three main political parties.
What I like about the present system is that each hereditary lord is not bound to support any party because their position is already secure and not reliant on support from a political party.