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In Reply to: RE: Retraction posted by John_the_Scot on July 26, 2015 at 12:41:45
There is a difference between Tony B Liar's Labour party and the Tories?
Personally I hope the Labour membership elects the right candidate so one can tell a difference again. Otherwise we in England have got nobody worthwhile to vote for.
As for reformation of the House of Lords and the electoral system in general my suggestion is this:
Have the House of Commons adopt proportional representation with the MPs picked according to party lists while the HoL is elected according to the first-past-the-post system currently used to elect the HoC but with no party whip at all.
Members of the HoL to assume the MP surgery duties. That'll get rid of a lot of free loaders currently inhabiting the HoL!
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are even taking to Tory kinky sex habits.
Anything which removes status due to birth ( HoL or Royalty ) gets my vote every time. The biggest disappointment for me with the SNP was that they didn't state they planned to dump the Royal family.
It would have lost them too many votes in Scotland for a very sinister (Royalist = Protestant) reason.
For me the biggest disappointment with the SNP is that I couldn't vote for them in England.
Especially now that Labour apparently refuses to do their job as the official opposition.
As for status due to birth in my view inheritance tax should be 100% above a certain limit (about £1million ie the value of a decent family home in the South East). It would help make society more of a meritocracy.
The royals should get all the benefits from the royal estates (currently the estates produce about £800million in profit of which the family gets ca.£40million via the civil list) but also get all the duties which were attached to them. This means the royal family has to maintain the entire british armed forces out of their own pockets.
That surely would get rid of Trident for you. ;-)
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