It's true, our second chamber is unelected. Lords become members by a complex mixture of appointment, religion, appelation, hereditary entitlement and self-election, which frankly I can't work out.
It could be worse. They could be elected, chosen from party lists, and subject to a strong party whipping system. The only real solution is appointment by lot (i.e. randomly selecting members, like jury service).
The problem in the UK is that there is no freely available version of consolidated legislation. You can get the acts from the parliament website, but they are just patch files written in English. There is no free version with the patches applied. And it goes back centuries, a real mess.
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It's true, our second chamber is unelected. Lords become members by a complex mixture of appointment, religion, appelation, hereditary entitlement and self-election, which frankly I can't work out.
It could be worse. They could be elected, chosen from party lists, and subject to a strong party whipping system. The only real solution is appointment by lot (i.e. randomly selecting members, like jury service).
The problem in the UK is that there is no freely available version of consolidated legislation. You can get the acts from the parliament website, but they are just patch files written in English. There is no free version with the patches applied. And it goes back centuries, a real mess.
We should perhaps give Microsoft a bit of support for trying to break down AOL's proprietary messaging system.
AOL is just as bad resorting to tricks to stop competitors making software compatible with theirs.