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Bloody revolution is not really appropriate here, the majority of the House of Lords is already not hereditary - of 780 seats, 90 are occupied by hereditary pee
by Nursie 3y ago
Bloody revolution is not really appropriate here, the majority of the House of Lords is already not hereditary - of 780 seats, 90 are occupied by hereditary peers and AFAICT they will no longer pass their seats on.
The issue is whether the leaders of the commons should be able to appoint people to the upper chamber for life, whether the church should have a seat at the table etc. Or whether the upper chamber should be directly elected. It’s a matter of governance and constitution more than embedded privilege.
So as much as “Guillotine the nobs” would be a popular cry, most of them aren’t nobs in the first place.
- mcpackieh 3y agoThis kind of cope is why you'll continue to be stuck with them.
- Nursie 3y agoI don’t live there, and explaining the situation, which you clearly don’t understand, is not ‘cope’.
- mcpackieh 3y agoI am confident that you have accurately conveyed the British mentality towards their circumstance, and therefore the reason their circumstance will continue.
- Nursie 3y agoI am confident you don’t understand what their circumstance is, such that your comments comparing it to the French situation a couple of centuries ago are born from nothing more than ignorance.