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Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords

Britain is ejecting hereditary peers from parliament after 700 years bringing to an end a archaic and undemocratic principle #UKpolitics #HouseofLords #HereditaryPeers #UKNews

#Starmer has just made the #HouseOfLords even worse.

In 1958, the Lords was a set of #HereditaryPeers & bishops. On Tuesday, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill passed, making the Lords a bunch only of #LifePeers & bishops. 68 years from a club of […]

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Sounds like good news. The last of the UK's hereditary peers pose for a group photo before being stripped of their political privilege.

Reality: it's bad news. The #hereditaryPeers and the #bishops are the only members of the #HouseOfLords who are not cronies […]

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Should the House of Lords be Reformed? The bill to remove all 88 hereditary peers from the House of Lords is making its way through the House of Lords itself, and their removal is now imminent. But while we are finally set to

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Should the House of Lords be Reformed?
#HereditaryPeers represent one of the most egregiously archaic aspects of our 2nd chamber – perhaps the most obviously UNDEMOCRATIC.
NO MORE HERIDITERY PEERS!
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‘Government pays!’: hereditary peer faces questions over expenses claim for business trip Earl of Shrewsbury offers to reimburse taxpayer over use of first-class ticket and his ‘erroneous’ claims

We need rid of these blood-sucking #HereditaryPeers from the #HouseOfLords now - their greed is bleeding us, the taxpayer dry! Get rid NOW!

‘Government pays!’: hereditary peer faces questions over expenses claim for business trip www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Aristo-Bye-Bye: Hereditary Peers on the Chopping Block ⚔️ #HouseOfLords #HereditaryPeers #BritishPolitics #UKParliament youtu.be/ZDA1IWchheo?...

Goodbye to the undeserving, inherently #racist, #aristocratic and inbred #hereditarypeers in the #UK #HouseofLords who are about to be removed forever. Go quietly, and for the sake of reason, please stop having children! We don’t want your #whiteaustralia policy here on our shores anymore either

#HereditaryPeers
Give them an apple and tell them to be grateful!

Conservatives Mount Bungled Defence of Hereditary Peers in Bizarre Commons Debate Does the Conservative Party support or oppose the idea of hereditary peers? Most of them won’t say…

"Conservatives Mount Bungled Defence of Hereditary Peers in Bizarre Commons Debate"
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Labour to unveil plans to abolish hereditary peers in Lords There are 92 seats in Lords reserved for hereditary peers, who inherit their titles through their family.

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The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords The Labour government has plans to end their ‘outdated and indefensible’ lawmaking position in the upper house

“The last dukes, earls, viscounts and barons are to be removed from the UK’s unelected upper house, the House of Lords, by the newly elected Labour government – which has declared their presence ‘outdated and indefensible’.”
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