Wow...WTH, Britain!?!?

[Jimbuna]

Anyone remember this woman?

[Egan]

Originally Posted by STEED

Problem is the House of Lords has no real power, yes it can reject the Green paper and send it back to the Commons and delay it and so on but the government can in the end say up yours its going to be a White paper by bulldozing it though.

True enough but any check, even a time limited one, is better than nothing. what it's supposed to do, of course, is to provide a legislative counter to elected politicians that is supposed to be unhampered by the consideration of winning, a vote allowing them to help legislation by providing more objective eye....You can almost see to aristocracy laughing into their silk handkerchiefs when they thought that little beauty up...