so is the house of lords just like a place where you store extra posh racists for when the posh racists in normie parliament are too busy?
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Replying to @SaddestRobots
The fact that you can add them whenever you have the votes, as a tactic to "lock in" someone whose MP career is probably over but can still be a valuable bully pulpiteer, and they can only be subtracted by dying, is why they have hilariously ballooned in size
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots
The paradox of the "upper house" being several times the size of the lower one in membership
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots
They've tried multiple times to institute "House of Lords" reform (most ambitiously, to turn it into a normal upper house with a defined size and regular elections with limited terms) and failed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots
I think the most recent one was just an attempt to make it possible to leave the House of Lords at all other than by dying Through voluntary retirement, or having committed a serious crime, or just not having shown up to multiple meetings in a row
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Replying to @arthur_affect
so are there convicted murderers and pedophiles in the house of lords right now?
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Replying to @SaddestRobots
Ah, my mistake, that last act did pass, so if you go to prison for long enough to miss a meeting you get removed from the HoL
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots
Before then, I think the way it worked was that you were still officially a peer if you went to prison, but as long as you were in prison you couldn't actually attend the meetings and therefore could not vote
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots
Ah yeah This reform was only passed in 2014, Conrad Black (Lord Black of Crossharbour), the former owner of the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph, spent three years in prison starting in 2007 for fraud But he kept his HoL membership and came right back afterwards
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This controversial fact came up again when Donald Trump pardoned Black for all possible crimes against the United States in 2019, which Trump seemed to think was the same as generally "clearing his name"
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