UK Labour Party vows to abolish House of Lords

UK Labor Party vows to abolish House of Lords:

Well, the House of Lords has been for show, dysfunctional but decorative.

However, if Labor takes over after the next elections, their top priority must be to revive the ailing economy, & restore order fast.

Else too late to lament..

The abolition of the House of Lords is long overdue. Separation of church and state is another. There are something like 26 bishops in the House of Lords. The monarch, now King Charles III is the head of state and the head of the Church of England.

Over 60% of Brits think bishops have no place in parliament.

Currently, it has 786 sitting members. Far too many. 92 hereditary peers are entitled to sit in the House of Lords, of which 90 are elected by the hereditary peers by ballot and replaced on death. More than a third of British land is in the hands of aristocrats and the traditional landed gentry.

600-700 aristocratic families in Britain.

The outdated honours system with titles linked to the British Empire.

For many retired politicians it is a lucrative form of pension.

Send them all packing!

So who will fund the salaries of this new elected upper house? The taxpayer?

Yes,, The House of Lords is unfit for purpose politically, morally institutionally in current form.

Reform must represent a future need to offer a brake to the commons.

But not, never be chamber that competes with elected government.

So be a cross party selection/appointment based on proven merit, their role in society, and subject to dismissal of miscreants

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So who will fund the salaries of this new elected upper house? The taxpayer?

They already do. £350 per day plus expenses plus subsidised meals.

The House of Lords is the only upper house of any bicameral parliament in the world to be larger than its lower house, and is the second-largest legislative chamber in the world behind the Chinese National People's Congress.

The whole system needs an upgrade.

Monarch, House of Lords, Separation of Church and State, aristocratic privileges, and the outdated Honours system.