Begging pardon for that last BytesEU boost because their link did NOT take one to the page they were posting about re: hereditary membership in UK's House of Lords. I have the direct link and I'll put it at the end of this missive.

Before Starmer was made PM I'd heard rumors that Labour would do away with the House of Lords, and long prior to that, when I got into arguing with people claiming that Britain is a democracy with a constitutional monarchy, I always brought up the undemocratic House of Lords as frequent case in point as well as decried any usage of the terms "Upper House" and "Lower House" especially when applied to the U.S. Congress.

One does achieve membership in the House of Lords by election or by royal appointment, exceptions given for those inherited seats. One should never be able to inherit a seat in government. The royal figureheads should not be active participants in actual government and yet in the UK the royals meddle in both houses. The UK is long overdue for the change for the fully-elected Houses of Commons and Lords.

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Hereditary Lords face up to extinction

Kate WhannelPolitical reporterGetty ImagesImprisoned in the Tower of London in 1538 waiting to be executed, Henry Courtenay, the Earl of Devon, wrote on his cell walls words which would become his family's motto - 'Where have I fallen, what have I do…

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