On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:39:37 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
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.

Depends how you define challenge. If its picking over the fine legal minutae
or financial repercussions, then sure, most of them have a legal, political or
business background. If its actually debating the potential outcome of say
enviromental or transport legislation then most of them wouldn't have a clue.
We have enough legal rule regurgitators and bean counters, we need a far
broader base of skills in parliament.

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Spud