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Topic: U.K. plans elected House of Lords

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U.K. plans elected House of Lords
OP - May 10, 2012, 05:41 AM

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Queen gives Parliament Prime Minister David Cameron's legislative program

Britain's Conservative-led government plans to finally reform the centuries-old House of Lords and introduce direct elections for members.

Attempts to overhaul the unelected 700-year-old upper chamber — which does not make laws, but can amend legislation — have frustrated British leaders for decades, with peers reluctant to agree to changes.

Queen Elizabeth announced the government's new legislative program Wednesday in an opulent pageant of pomp and politics, saying the planned laws would introduce a smaller, mainly elected upper chamber. The chamber now has 782 members.

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Reply #1 - May 10, 2012, 06:54 AM

About bloody time.

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Reply #2 - May 10, 2012, 08:50 AM

'Mainly'... So who won't be elected?
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Reply #3 - May 10, 2012, 10:12 AM

This isn't all that much to get excited about. For one thing, the proportion of unelected Bishops receiving automatic places in the new 'reformed' Lords will most likely increase.
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Reply #4 - May 18, 2012, 10:31 AM

I think the House of Laws is great how it is at the moment.

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