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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonkeyBoy" data-source="post: 454608" data-attributes="member: 1229">The government has not done away with the house of lords <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The right (duty) of the hereditary peers to sit in the house has been, well, reformed away. The house remains, and life peers sit in it.This means 2 things;First, our government has shed a lot of baggage created by having legislature in place simply by chance of birth (hereditary peers)Second, we have a second house (largely) filled with those appointed by elected officials. This moves us closer to a wholly elected legislature, which is a good thing.We still have bishops in there, for some reason. (not only religious representatives in the legislature, but representing only one religion, which is a bad thing)Its very unlikely that more hereditary peers will be created; the laws to create life peers were only passed in 1958 (!), because there were becoming too many hereditary peerages (125 hereditary baronies created between the 2nd world war and 1964)Amazing how the more you look into this, the more information bubbles up! (shame each fresh source contradicts the last one you read, though)</blockquote>