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> not entirely how the system is supposed to work Are you sure? I think that’s exactly how it’s supposed to work and is how it’s always worked.
by lostlogin 2y ago
> not entirely how the system is supposed to work
Are you sure? I think that’s exactly how it’s supposed to work and is how it’s always worked.
- louthy 2y agoYou are getting down voted unfairly I think, the selling of peerages has been a problem for over 100 years [1], it would be entirely reasonable to conclude that this is exactly how the system works. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Gregory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Gregory
- lostlogin 2y agoIt’s bad enough that they are sold, but the people they are sold to seem like caricatures of the non-ideal candidate. Quite how the House of Lords persists in a ‘democracy’ is troubling enough on its own.