Obama wants the WH to be the House of the One True Lord.
The first rule of Communism: abolish the concept of private property.
The House of Lords currently has almost no power so it’s an utter waste of time and money for them to exist. Basically they are a pointless debating society.
Back when they did have power it was disgusting that they did because it was a council of nobles who have no right to rule by virtue of their damn birth.
Not too long ago they kicked most of the hereditary nobles out leaving only a small percentage of them. So it’s mostly made up of “life peers” appointed for life for various vague reasons either on the advice of the PM (some as a reward for fundraising) or some stupid appointments commission made up of current lords.
So basically it’s like having the President or some Senate committee choose new Senators. Utterly ridiculous.
There’s a good argument that there should be an upper house to check the power of the House of Commons. If Britain is to have an empowered Upper House it must be elected to have the legitimacy to have power over legislation. I hate to agree with Labour but they are absolutely right to pursue this. They should have done it 10 years ago.
Critics say this current plan would suck cause it would just be a new house of career politicians (good point) as opposed what they have now with some technocrats with “expertise” on various issues.
That brings me to the other option favored by another party that I hate to agree with, the Lib Dems, they want to abolish the upper house.
I say anointed technocrats have no right to legislate no matter how much the media may love the idea. Let the “non-partisan” technocrats run for office and win if they can. There should be an elected upper house with real power or no upper house.