It appears Baroness D’Souza has a rival in the competition for the most implausibly anti-democratic statement by a member of the House of Lords seeking to argue against them having to win any votes in order to rule over us.
Her rival is Conservative peer Baroness Hooper not only said that the 1999 reforms, which including removing several hundred hereditary peers from the Lords, had not improved the Lords but also that she wished we could return to the having hundreds of hereditaries:
As far as I am concerned, the post-1999 House of Lords is no better, no more democratic … If I had a magic wand I would use it to return to the pre-1999 position.
Ah yes, hereditary rule.
New from me: Conservative peer wishes for return to rule by hereditary peers http://bit.ly/igrrWt
New from me: Conservative peer wishes for return to rule by hereditary peers http://bit.ly/igrrWt