• yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    hereditary lawmaker

    It’s pretty bad when an American looks at your government and thinks, damn that’s backward AF.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Yes - but it is meant to be deliberately backwards as a check and a balance. The idea is that if every law was made and passed by the currently elected politicians only then there’d be a flood of kneejerk reactionary populist laws only. The idea is to have some people with an eye to the bigger picture…

      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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        11 hours ago

        In general I’m not against how the lords operate - just pointing out these are specifically hereditary peers (of which there are 92) in addition to the life peers. Oh and the bishops, can’t forget the bishops.