In message , at 11:25:22 on
Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Optimist remarked:

The House of Lords is a waste of space and should be abolished.

You need a second chamber, and most of the active Lords have been
recruited to provide the specialist expertise to fully challenge
Government legislation "line by line", as the saying goes.

They do a far better job of it in the round, than most opposition
parties in the Commons (and that's not a dig at Corbyn's current
predicament, it's a long term thing).

One of the reasons is they have the time and people to scrutinise in
great detail, whereas a typical MP has neither the specialist knowledge
nor the hours in the day what with everything else they have to do.
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Roland Perry