Should the UK keep the House of Lords?

Should the second chamber have elected officials or should we just have a unicameral system?

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Nyloncapes · 61-69, M Best Comment

Get rid of the lot of them

Nimbus · M

Yes.
Chester Zoo is a good place.

MartinII · 70-79, M

Not sure what you mean by officials. Elected members perhaps? In any event, I take the old-fashioned view that the House of Lords was better when it was composed of the aristocracy, rather than hundreds of political placemen and women as it is now.

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MartinII · 70-79, M

@Burnley123: I don't agree. In the British system, unlike the American, the Lords is subordinate to the Commons, which can always get its way in the end. Therefore, no need for the Lords to be "democratic". Indeed, positively undesirable in my opinion.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@MartinII: If there is no need for the Lords to be Democratic then there is no need for it at all.

MartinII · 70-79, M

@Burnley123: I don't feel strongly about the case for a second chamber, either way. But if you have one, whose purpose is sometimes to encourage the elected chamber to think again, best that its members are chosen abitrarily. Having hereditary peers is one way of doing that. Drawing lots is another.