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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed
The last PM who did a large cull was Tony Blair and although he had sinister intentions that never materialized, he did get rid of the chaff.
The problem with dismantling the Lords is, Cameron, just like Blair intended, would likely replace it with a body of people nominated by himself and if this happens, we start to move into a dictatorship government.
More recently the Lords have pro-actively been scrutinizing and forcing the governments hand (iron fist) and with a government like this, that has to be good doesn't it or do you think we shouldn't have this upper body of parliament
speak and ask questions on behalf of the British public?.
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From the news recently though, the government can just overrule anything the lords say, so no forcing, and no iron fists if they can just be ignored and whatever the Torys want to do now gets shoved through anyway.. so whats the point in having them at all?
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