Agreed. The problem is that Labour always makes noises about abolishing the HOL when they are in opposition but when in government they have done nothing about it so they are just as guilty as the Tories.

The whole process is corrupt, Labour promoted Shami Chakrabarti
to the Lords weeks after she had given the party a clean bill of health over the antisemitism row. A report that was widely discredited at the time and that was even before the EHRC report.

Then there is the odious Tom Watson who still has not apologised for his comments about various Tory politicians being involved in a pedophile ring based on the perjury of Carl Beecher. For some reason instead of distancing themselves from him Labour were desperate to promote him.

In short the HOL should be replaced by an elected chamber however it is too convenient for all parties to promote failures.

One more point

I’m sure you might have hit the nail

Spiderman, you have my vote !

The average age of members of the House of Lords is 71.

71.

Its worse than the HOL.

And why have politicians anyway, what superior knowledge do they possess, none whatsoever if our current state is anything to go by.

Mental or calendar?

Well, it used to be full of a wonderful cross section of Hereditary Peers who had a vested interest in this land and it's people and who understood the basic needs and reasons for the country being the way it was, with the temporal finely balanced with the spiritual to cover all society......... but that wasn't considered right as they were all 'privileged' so out they went to accommodate dodgy dealers, expense fiddlers and political failures, which has proven so much a better alternative.

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