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Originally Posted by andrewb
Having an elected house with no power shift ensures that whatever the government of the day is, cannot be scrutinised, as they would both have the same composition. Where as currently wise people can comment on legislation, but have no powers to halt it, the elected house, democracy, can overrule. Normally however it takes the Lords decisions into account, as the lords often think of useful things that MP's do not.
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Again your deferential/forelock tugging use of the word 'wise', when describing the members of the House of Lords.
Some are, some aren't.
I'd question the 'wiseness' of the four Labour Lords who've recently been uncovered in the investigation by the Sunday Times.
If they were that 'wise' they'd never have been caught out, and made to look like greedy slime balls, by the publication of the transcripts of secretly recorded conversations.
Enough of a non-partisan condemnation for you?