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Originally Posted by furball
You don't seem to like the House of Lords very much. Newsflash: they've changed a lot since their pre-1997 composition. Very few Lords are intellectually weak, and you've got a lot of specialists in there who have succeeded in their fields and have been given life peerages. The remaining 92 hereditary peers are there on merit.
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given peerages by who
I'm sure I could find 92 tiptop gents who I think are upstanding and righteous, but it doesn't mean the rest of the country would agree with me*.
*probably because most of them would be regulars in heat magazine and ex-big brother contestants :crymeariver: