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    Großbritannien wirft nach 700 Jahren erbliche Adlige aus dem Parlament aus

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    1. Lost_And_Found66 on

      That’s really freaking cool! The idea of nobles was always stupid and even entertaining the idea of them is silly. 

    2. NTJ-891 on

      Better late than never, but I find it really amusing that this has been a thing for 3x longer than my country has existed.

    3. Icantgoonillgoonn on

      But still allowing them lifetime membership.

      “The lords put up a fight, forcing a compromise that will see an undisclosed number of hereditary members allowed to stay by being “recycled” into life peers.”

    4. CyanConatus on

      Hereditary power is solely designed to retain power at the expense of the average person.

      Power should be elected or earned.

    5. FaintFolio on

      We finally did it. We are no longer tied with Lesotho as the only two countries on Earth with hereditary legislators. Progress only took 700 years, but hey, who’s counting?

    7. Gone_4_Tea on

      Handing power to political shills and lapdogs, party donors and basically whoever the fine upstanding elected house feel like cramming in the place.

      I am not a fan of inherited authority from the Monarchy down, but at least there was a semblance of checks and balances provided without fear of electoral consequence.

    9. k_ferrer25 on

      kind of cool, 700 years of a tradition, even if its not the most inclusive one.

      700 years ago, US didn’t even exist, and Russia was the size of Belgium. But UK still had families in their parliament from that time. Kind of unimaginable.

      Its like if China was still ruled by Yuan Dynasty, or mongols still ruled half of Asia.

    10. D4DWGN on

      Jesus. Andrew is too dumb to think of it on his own, but someone is liable to point out that he is the cause of this.

    15. softlysnowing on

      Absolute bullshit

      >The lords put up a fight, forcing a compromise that will see an undisclosed number of hereditary members allowed to stay by being “recycled” into life peers.

    16. CMG30 on

      I believe there is a lot of merit to a portion of government that is composed of people who are not beholden to an ongoing political process. It serves to tamp down the insanity of the day to day political nonsense enabling a bigger picture view.

      That said, how such a body is selected is key. Turning the keys over to a bunch of entitled brats whose only qualification was which birth canal they came out of is no way to run a selection process.

    17. Fantastic-Corner-605 on

      Congratulations, the only people who don’t work for the government are gone.

    18. Certain_Shake_5157 on

      Do they still own all the lands that they had before? I don’t really see a difference

    21. hat1337 on

      Can someone explain this is plain English like to a child? I’m not from the UK and I don’t understand the article

    23. _Middlefinger_ on

      I know people hate the Lords as a concept, but historically they have tempered the worst of the commons desires. They are a lot more level headed and reasonable than people realise.

      They are part of the UK checks and balances.

    25. IgnoranceIsTheEnemy on

      People will look back on this when the lords is packed with political appointees and no longer functioning as a check and balance and… probably not care, because they would cut their own nose off to spite their face.

    26. George_Rogers1st on

      I read the article but it’s still not clear to me: are the Brits getting rid of The House of Lords and replacing it with a democratically elected upper chamber of Parliament, or are they just telling all the nobles that they actually have to be worth a damn to participate in the government and not just related to some guy who got a land grant for winning a minor battle 650 years ago?

    27. rjptrink on

      Entitled rich run the show no matter their title, no matter the country. Same old same old.

    28. AdSevere1274 on

      Now they need mandatory retirement age and maximum number of years in power.

    29. Baulderdash77 on

      They are effectively moving to something like Canada has, sans the age cap.

      The Canadian senate is a bit of a strange unelected chamber as well that sometimes has use but more often than not is just an expense.

      This is the last piece of feudalism leaving European legislation. Cool turning of the page of history.

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