🚨Yesterday, Starmer removed all hereditary peers from the House of Lords It was the end of the 700-year-old tradition. The office of the Lord Great Chamberlain dates back to 1138, but this has also been eradicated. Labour loves doing away with tradition!

@SeddSezz You say this like it's a bad thing. It is completely nonsensical to have people in the HoL whose only qualification is that they were born into the "right" family. What gives them the right to shape the laws that govern all of us?

@speakjava @SeddSezz What gives them the right? None. But otherwise we’d be subject to the whims of populism. Massive tax cuts or tax rises etc. The House of Lords provides a check and balance against populist parties.

@speakjava @SeddSezz This is the whole CON of british gov. Its skewered to the elite 'old money' tories. HOL scuppers anytging it likes that a DEMOCRATICALLY ELLECTED gov proposes...

@speakjava @SeddSezz It should be abolished altogether

@speakjava @SeddSezz Even if they are halfwits!

@speakjava @SeddSezz They have no more or less right than the appointed life peers.