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Originally Posted by Kursk
The democratically elected Government has been frustrated by a bunch of old rambling handbags who sleep in the chamber. When awake, they mumble with the self-important strangulated elocution of a very bygone era.
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Someone remind me which half of the former coalition government rejected reform of the Lords to a democratically elected chamber in the last parliament?
Fascinating how the Lords being unelected goes from being useful when a government is stuffing it with their appointments to an issue when things don't go their way.
Chances of genuine reform are of course slim. I can think of few things a government would find more alarming than a proportionally elected second chamber with senate powers. It runs a strong risk that our legislature will actually start to be more genuinely representative rather than being entirely winnable through targeted, intense, expensive campaigning in a small subset of seats.