The House of Lords Makes No Sense; Which is Why it Works

Of all the cockamamie ploys favoured by this government, House of Lords reform is close to being both the most pointless and the most aggravating. Iain Martin hints at this in his recent Telegraph post but he is, in the end, too kind to the Deputy Prime Minister. This is the sort of wheeze favoured by undergraduates blessed with second-class second-class minds.

It is close to pointless because even if anyone outside the tiny world of “progressive” think tanks thought this a vital issue there is no evidence that it is in the slightest bit necessary. Which explains why it is aggravating. Th House of Lords, as presently constituted (that is, by patronage, divine blessing and a modest measure of hereditary good fortune), may not “make sense” but, despite everything, it works. Actually, it works because it does not “make sense”. The revising chamber’s moderation is predicated upon the manner of its selection.