[garinda]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

The House of Lords - was it broke? then why the hell did these prats that infest the lower house have to try and mend it. They have messed up their own house and are doing their best to screw up an institution that has served the country well during the years of it's life.
I have close experience of appointed Peers literally flogging themselves around to act as lobbyists - for a Blackburn Company even. I refused to take one drunken sot home from a reception for foreign customers at the Trafalgar - he had soiled his trousers, even though I was offered full valet service on my car.

I notice that you now live in a republic, that stripped power from those of 'noble' birth, over two hundred years ago.