The UK House of Lords Continues to Fight the Government on AI
The UK House of Lords Continues to Fight the Government on AI
Source (Bluesky)
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This is why I still support the existence of the house of lords. They are a bunch of pricks but they often prevent the government doing stupid shit.
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The concept of house of lords has never been a problen for me, the issue is the undemocratic makeup of its members.
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It being undemocratic is actually pretty important for the system to work.
Because only the house of commons is elected they have legitimacy and the house of lords knows that while they can resist some dumb crap, they do ultimately have to accept the decisions made there.
If you have two elected houses you end up like the US with the senate blocking everything the house of representative does.
A more representative second house with less rich people and politicial cronies would be nice though.
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Excellent. I first read "the Lord" and thought, cool God's getting involved for once
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Better be the old testament God, some major smiting needs to happen.
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Well there are still a few Lords Spiritual in there and it looks like they voted against the government, so sort of!
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Okay so the Lords are getting it, but what about the Ladies, amirite?
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