ditch the monarch and the house of lords
the house of lords is hereditary as well
Josh, you are out of date. The house of lords reforms occured in the late 90s.
When the Labour Party came to power in the 1997 general election, it had in its manifesto the promise to reform the House of Lords:
The House of Lords must be reformed. As an initial, self-contained reform, not dependent on further reform in the future, the right of hereditary Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords will be ended by statute.
The Blair government subsequently passed the House of Lords Act 1999
The Act decreased the membership of the House from 1,330 in October 1999 to 669 in March 2000. the majority of the Lords were now life peers, whose numbers had been gradually increasing since the Life Peerages Act 1958
The House of Lords Act 1999 first provides that “No-one shall be a member of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.”