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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:02 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:42 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:33 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:39 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:39 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:34 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:33 am
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Captain Churchill Invictus_88 Well, to a degree of course.
Elected how? It'd have to be distinct from the public commons elections, surely? how about an elected committee? how about having the public elect a committee every general election whos job is to screen potentual Lords the PM puts forward?
I was thinking something a bit more radical, like say, removing all powers of the PM to choose lords. I'm a big fan of that.
A certain few could be put forward by each party (as selected by leading [or all] members of each party) on the basis of their seats in the commons.
The Lords only works because they are not subject to the whips, because there are a lot of speacialists in certain academic fields and because the quality of debate is higher.
Non-party selections should, in my view, be selected by an independent committee. They would be selected from people exceling in the arts, in science, in law, sports and literature.
Also; for sure we should have at least one representative for each of the Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and Hindu faiths. Catholic too if there are none already.
The most difficult question, is how to have an apolitical and -truly- meriotratic means of selecting the non party specific and nonreligious members.
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:05 pm
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Invictus_88 Captain Churchill Invictus_88 Well, to a degree of course.
Elected how? It'd have to be distinct from the public commons elections, surely? how about an elected committee? how about having the public elect a committee every general election whos job is to screen potentual Lords the PM puts forward? I was thinking something a bit more radical, like say, removing all powers of the PM to choose lords. I'm a big fan of that.
A certain few could be put forward by each party (as selected by leading [or all] members of each party) on the basis of their seats in the commons.
The Lords only works because they are not subject to the whips, because there are a lot of speacialists in certain academic fields and because the quality of debate is higher.
Non-party selections should, in my view, be selected by an independent committee. They would be selected from people exceling in the arts, in science, in law, sports and literature.
Also; for sure we should have at least one representative for each of the Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and Hindu faiths. Catholic too if there are none already.
The most difficult question, is how to have an apolitical and -truly- meriotratic means of selecting the non party specific and nonreligious members. ah yes... decentralization. However, who, after getting the position of PM would remove from himmself powers to effectivly control membership of the lords?
I would support your suggestion, dont know how many others would though.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:55 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:17 pm
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