I hope it doesn't succeed. This has nothing to do with the content of the bill and everything to do with my objection to an unelected (never mind partly hereditary) chamber blocking a bill passed by the elected chamber in a free vote.
I watched the last government use its in built majority in the Lords to push through legislation which was so unpopular that even with a majority in the commons it was hard to push through. The sight of doddering peers having to be directed to the House of Lords to actually vote on legislation at the behest of party whips, when they normally never went near the place, was not exactly an advert for a supposed democracy.
I can see some value in having specialists in a revising chamber who may not all be elected in the same way that the lower house is elected. I don't see why it should be able to push through or block legislation against the will of the elected house, whatever the issue.
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Date: 2004-11-19 10:55 am (UTC)I watched the last government use its in built majority in the Lords to push through legislation which was so unpopular that even with a majority in the commons it was hard to push through. The sight of doddering peers having to be directed to the House of Lords to actually vote on legislation at the behest of party whips, when they normally never went near the place, was not exactly an advert for a supposed democracy.
I can see some value in having specialists in a revising chamber who may not all be elected in the same way that the lower house is elected. I don't see why it should be able to push through or block legislation against the will of the elected house, whatever the issue.