Quote Originally Posted by IainBusby View Post
That's because the Lords always has had an inbuilt conservative majority with most of the hereditary peers who continually tried to thwart the bill belonging to the landed gentry (the fox hunting brigade) wheareas the government that we the people elected has a labour majority and the parliament act was put in place so that the unelected house of lords could not continually thwart the will of the elected government of the day, which ever party it may be, in the house of commons.
Excuse me, but by then the Hereditary lot was well gone, and the place was 3/4 full of labour hired, by headhunters, stooges.
And they still saw flaws in that bill, so much, so that they sent it back to the commons a few times.