[danielf]

Originally Posted by Chris

To be fair to them, they did announce this off the bat - the intention is to alter the composition of the Lords so it is broadly proportional with the recent election results. You can't, at the moment, simply sack peers for reasons of proportionality, so the only solution is to create (lots of) new ones.

I'm alright with this if it is a step towards reforming the Lords to an elected chamber. If the idea is simply to create a majority so difficult legislation can be pushed through, it is just wrong and undemocratic, whatever the history of the Lords.