Goodbye Democracy

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4118404.stm

In a spectacular move towards greater democracy, the Labour government have just appointed 27 new peers giving themselves an overall majority of 6 in the House of Lords. Now they not only control the Commons, they also also control the Lords.

In a further step forward, the government will be removing the remaining 92 hereditary peers leaving only government appointed peers in the House of Lords.

There is even talk of having elections ofr the House of Lords in a barely disguised attempt to give some sense of legitimacy to a government majority in both houses. If the people vote for Labour in the Commons, they're hardly likely to vote Conservative for the Lords are they?

Goodbye Democracy, it's been nice knowing you.