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Originally Posted by Greg Pope
My personal view is that if we are to have an upper House at all it should have no more than 100 members, be all-elected and similar to the US Senate, but clearly not many MPs share my view!
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That's a shame because the present House of Lords with its collection of chinless wonders, bottom-lickers and general hangers on is an affront to modern democracy. The fact is that these people are in a position to take decisions which affect our lives because of who their fathers were or because they happened to toady up to Tony Blair...that's the REAL scandal.