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By: Briefly, on British politics | Mssv

Briefly, on British politics | Mssv — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:19:09 +0000

[...] told, we have a Parliamentary system here, not a Presidential system, and that’s why we don’t have public primaries to elect party leaders (and thus Prime Ministers). But that’s not a good reason – it’s just an explanation of [...]

By: Another Hon

Another Hon — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:45:49 +0000

First, ‘why bother having a British ‘Senate’ that looks exactly the same as the Parliament?’ The answer is most likely that the Party in power wants to gain control for both Houses. Remember, politics is about power.
Second, ‘any rational explanation for a 12 year term’. This is the legacy of the current life-peer system. This could be seen as a compromise from ‘life’ term to a ‘12 year’ term, a huge compromise.
Third, your proposal is very simple and rational, to keep the debate going, I would sugget you writing to the Times.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:09:59 +0000

It’s for a lot of these reasons, about members being too tied into party politics, that I regret the loss of hereditary members. You’d never quite know what you’d get and there was no political reason to have an allegiance with a party (although there’s probably others, such as the heritage of social/cultural memes). It added that element of randomness.

By: Extenuating Circumstances – links for 2008-11-14

Extenuating Circumstances – links for 2008-11-14 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:05:20 +0000

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