UNDEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION OR DEMOCRATIC TYRANNY?
Britain's House of Lords embodies decades of nepotism, life appointments immune to short-term electoral cycles. Abolition would be a coup against patrician privilege by democratically elected tyranny.
The House of Lords isn't subject to short-term electoral cycles and basically ends up representating 50 years of elite nepotism, i.e. a dozen different govts choosing new peers based on whatever conditions of prevailed at that particular year.
The House of Commons is subject to short-term election cycles and, while there's certainly some continuity of members over decades, it's also subject to sudden landslides (Blair 1997) and brief chaotic administrations (Truss 2022) that - because of conventions in parliamentary majority voting - can impose totalitarian rule by minister.
The House of Lords, precisely because it functions with different constituent parts evolving at different timescales of change, is a de facto restraint on the excesses of the House of Commons.
Suppose Starmer wins an unassailable majority and unilaterally decides to reverse Brexit, put the UK back under the thumb of Brussels and serve up British people to the WEF. Without the House of Lords he could do it. It's easy to coerce party politicians. But it's not easy to coerce peers. If you look over the past 40 years of Lords and Commons disagreement, it's ALWAYS been the Lords trying to mitigate government's authoritatian excess.
In fact, Labour reactionaries hungry for absolute power know the only threat they wield over the House of Lords is abolition or reducing peers to fully elected with term limits, apeing the US Senate, subordinating the whole of Parliament to the monolithic agenda of whoever happens to be in Number 10.
Giving unshackled power to a Starmer or a Truss or a Blair or a Sunak is a disaster waiting to happen for the British people. It's Agenda 2030 forced on the country with no checks, no balances, no legal way to oppose the carceral state.
“Abolishing the House of Lords has nothing to do with democratic principles. The proposal is entirely a totalitarian project for hoarding absolute power in a monolithic democratic tyranny.
The House of Lords represents an annual political snapshot of a dozen different nepotistic govts choosing new peers based on conditions that particular year.
The House of Lords is a de facto restraint on the excesses of the House of Commons.”