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Facing Extinction, Britain’s Aristocrats Make a Curious Case for Survival (www.wsj.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The push to abolish hereditary seats in the House of Lords strikes some of its members-for-life as undemocratic

Undemocratic??????

It’s a lifelong unelected position in some of the highest levels of government. Hereditary seats are undemocratic, not removing them.