The House of Lords fiasco!
Yet again I listen to an interview about the current arguments, proposals concerning the British Constitution. What role the Judiciary in the new era? A supreme Court etc? What role the House of Lords? Should it be elected or nominated? Nominated?! What a joke! It should be elected! This is a democracy! But the answer always comes back...if it is elected that will give it legitimacy and it may use its democratic mandate to frustrate the will of the people as expressed in the House of Commons!
Now I may not be an expert on Britsh politics, but what is wrong with A) Legitimacy?
Giving an elected House of Lords a written job description that we ordinary folks have out here in the real world/ i.e. "The role of the House will be X, Y & Z but not A, B or C because the House of Commons is Sovereign". Simple.
But no! Our democratic leaders are either incapable of giving a second chamber a code of practice/rules or are scared that the executive will be held to account(God forbid!) by an elected House of Lords...well at least upto 3 times anyway. Am I the only person to think this is all a matter of will, that the solutions are there, but our representatives are going to mars? Who do you think that they will ' nominate '......I guess, without genuine cynicism.......themselves!