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Mar. 7th, 2007 05:17 pmThinking about Lords reform today. I'm not exactly sure what would be the most sensible settlement to the whole issue, but I'm certainly not in favour of the 80% elected proposal, which seems most likely to make it to statute.
Seeing the general staleness, inertia and frankly the fact that a lot of people make utterly uninformed and foolish decisions when (if) they turn up to vote makes me dislike a lot of the aspects of democracy. The Lords as it is (was?) at least acts as some sort of antidote to the jerk-kneed fools in Another Place who can't help but nod through tabloid-inspired policies which are often big on sound and very small on substance.
MPs aren't all bad, but when one party has such power but is also scared of losing supporters with sensible policies and a little bravery to sell them, things often get annoying.
On the subject of reform, roll on the day when proportional representation is brought in to General Elections. This may only happen in a hung parliament, or in a situation where it is blatantly obvious that the incumbent party is going to lose the next election and can stuff up the opposition's chances of an overall majority with such reforms. Maybe if the next parliament is hung, this is possible. I'm not holding my breath though.
In other news, I'm very tempted to rearrange my room. Send a search party if I don't reappear in a few hours.
Seeing the general staleness, inertia and frankly the fact that a lot of people make utterly uninformed and foolish decisions when (if) they turn up to vote makes me dislike a lot of the aspects of democracy. The Lords as it is (was?) at least acts as some sort of antidote to the jerk-kneed fools in Another Place who can't help but nod through tabloid-inspired policies which are often big on sound and very small on substance.
MPs aren't all bad, but when one party has such power but is also scared of losing supporters with sensible policies and a little bravery to sell them, things often get annoying.
On the subject of reform, roll on the day when proportional representation is brought in to General Elections. This may only happen in a hung parliament, or in a situation where it is blatantly obvious that the incumbent party is going to lose the next election and can stuff up the opposition's chances of an overall majority with such reforms. Maybe if the next parliament is hung, this is possible. I'm not holding my breath though.
In other news, I'm very tempted to rearrange my room. Send a search party if I don't reappear in a few hours.
