fossilesque@mander.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoLords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 yearsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down11
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minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 days ago The case of Peter Mandelson, who resigned from the Lords in February after revelations about his friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, drew renewed attention to the upper chamber and the problem of lords behaving badly.
minus-squareSaraTonin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThis is reducing the proportion of hereditary peers and increasing the proportion of life peers. So more appointments like Mandelson’s, not fewer
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoMandelson was a life peer, unaffected by this change.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 days agoIt was literally in the manifesto in 2024.
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoIn real life things happen for multiple reasons. I believe you.
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoReforming the House of the Lords has been in manifestos for more than one century now.
This is reducing the proportion of hereditary peers and increasing the proportion of life peers. So more appointments like Mandelson’s, not fewer
Mandelson was a life peer, unaffected by this change.
It was literally in the manifesto in 2024.
In real life things happen for multiple reasons. I believe you.
Reforming the House of the Lords has been in manifestos for more than one century now.