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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
Thing is Joey, there is nothing democratic about the lords, it never has been. Its just a like minded gentlemen's club type of thing. The Tories and Labour have been using and abusing it for years as it takes their fancy.
It needs to be an elected house, then it can actually perform a meaningful function.
On the subject at hand, the tax credits, if the government don't realise by now that its a mistake then they deserve all they get. Its one thing to make a bad judgement call, its another to persist down the same road with head in sand.
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halving the Lords did that in 1999, 'life peers' can be bought, how democratic is that and how can you elect a judiciary?
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