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Originally Posted by GirlySports
So I'm trying to catch up on the debates, only watched the domestic one so far. Will watch the foreign issues one later. Just a first (uneducated) opinion seems like UK is so far behind Canada and US.
4. They're talking about making the House of Lords less useless. It's been useless since the beginning of time.
I really thought UK was more advanced than this in 2010.
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Since the House of Lords is the equivalent to our Senate, I'd say they're further ahead than us on this issue as at least it hits their debate and is an issue. Here, it never is an actual election issue; reforms are only being attempted by swerving around the constitutional mechanisms that would require such reform to be subject to an amendment process like Meech Lake or Charlottetown.
At least the UK has already abolished some of the 'jobs for life' positions in the House of Lords like the hereditary peers.