• BigFig@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    UK still has hereditary Lords, no? that seems long contrary to the “will of the people” to me

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      8 days ago

      They serve an important societal and cultural function, you probably just don’t understand.

      Without the landed gentry it’s estimated that within a single generation, Britain’s long standing tradition of pederasty would be gone.

      Won’t somebody think of the little boys, and the aristocratic men who lust for them?

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      We got rid of almost all of the hereditary ones, I think we are down to 90 out of ~800. So while they are not all gone it’s getting better, now we just need to sort out the “cash for peerage” lords. Having a second chamber to sanity check the parliament is not a bad idea, as long as they are genuine experts granted peerage after a lifetime of service to the country or their field.