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We Must Abolish Britain’s House of Lords Now
The United Kingdom’s unelected version of the American senate must be destroyed ASAP.
Brexit has laid bare the anachronisms of the British political system.
Up until 2016, a huge part of the selling point of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was its strong internal cohesion; that the four nations within the union co-existed peacefully, While conveniently failing to take into account that these nations were violently subjugated while destroying their languages and traditions.
What Brexit has done is to give power to the voices of the Scots, Welsh, Irish in their push for self-determination in a way that we have never ever seen in recent times.
And what this once-in-a lifetime phenomenon has also done is to destabilize our polity in a way that Brits of a certain generation would never have envisaged.
And what do I mean by this?
The profound damage done to our polity by having three prime ministers in one calendar year.
And with these changes have come what we call the resignations honours list.
What this unusual perk which is afforded to departing premiers allows you to do is give out knighthoods and peerages to those who have bankrolled your political party’s efforts to…