• Zip2@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    There’s also bishops from the Church of England in there having a say in what happens like it’s still the Middle Ages.

    The only other country where senior religious figures have that kind of say is Iran.

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      10 days ago

      Yeah, I agree that’s not great but it’s still not a reason to risk rushing in to making it worse

      Personally I think the fact it’s unelected is great, but the way people get into it isn’t so great, so would rather have reform but keeping it unelected or at most indirectly elected, with voting rights going to MBE holders (or a pool of MBE holders elected by the commons in some format which accounts for party makeup of the commons) or all Livery Company/Professional Association leaders or some other group which should know their stuff better than both the people we currently have in the lords or career politicians