Originally Posted by
kanderson1965
Really? There is one here that believes that an un-elected upper chamber is an excellent and if I may say very British way of doing thing. With no pressures of having to be elected, they are not prone to the populist short-term decisions which plague elected politicians.
I agree with that, not in the least because I have first hand seen the positive influence of a revising chamber as compared to the greedy, self-centred and feckless bunch that are the career politicians in the commons.
Originally Posted by
callum9999
I phrased that badly then. Hardly anyone wants an unelected upper chamber. When I tell foreigners that we have such a system they are visibly shocked that we would have such a system!
As one of those foreigners, I find that hard to believe. Firstly, because even Johnny Foreigner is capable of understanding the concept of a revising chamber; secondly because quite a lot of foreign countries have a similar system.
