tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post6106671299982276810..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: Off with their heads!John Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-21442381722315052772012-04-24T22:39:20.865+01:002012-04-24T22:39:20.865+01:00I don't rule out bicamaralism as such - abolit...I don't rule out bicamaralism as such - abolition can work if there are enough back benchers and expert advice through pre legislative evidence taking. Iceland and Norway used to have a second chamber made up of members of the first chamber, they acted as a revising chamber and if there was a dispute the two chambers sat as one. Both countries abolished them as they just duplicated processesCibwrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621705905770341542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-44749138203731933842012-04-24T12:43:47.774+01:002012-04-24T12:43:47.774+01:00Polly Toybee says the same thing in the Guardian.
...Polly Toybee says <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/23/why-not-abolish-the-lords" rel="nofollow">the same thing</a> in the Guardian.<br /><br />Abolition is the only sensible option. Anything else is just a bodge job, An extension on the extension on the extension. The mother of parliament's model is so successful it has been copied all over the world, by no countries at all!<br /><br />As you say, expert comittees can be convened and their advice given statutory weight if that part of the lords needs to be continued, but the thought of Jeffrey archer legilslating on anything, and Sentinau pontificating and voting on homosexuality is just absurd.SiƓnnynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00021974709953206048noreply@blogger.com