I only wish she’d call for the House of Lords to be scrapped, that’s something that would be in the election manifesto, it’s the right thing to do and would win votes so it’s a no brainier.
I don’t agree with abolishing the House of Lords. In fact, I think the ‘reforms’ of the late 1990s were a terrible mistake.
The House of Lords, when it still contained a significant number of hereditary peers meant there were people making decisions on laws whose families had been intimately involved with Britain for centuries, and who expected their families to be intimately involved with Britain for centuries to come. It meant that any legislation was considered in terms of its long term consequences, not just the consequences for the next election.
Like the Monarchy itself, it’s not a system that I think any sensible person would today design from scratch. But it evolved over time into something that really worked well in my view.
So get this, the new leader of the Lib Dems is a “Christian” and has gotten major crap for continually dodging the question when asked if he thought faggotry is a sin. He finally said it wasn’t, the other day.