Apparently one in five people are happy with MPs. I wonder how many are unhappy with either the system, the personnel or both?
The parliament of the UK (housed in a crumbling Victorian pile unfit for purpose) is presently the uncomfortable union of four countries. It has a first chamber elected by a first-past-the-post system, (a distinction shared with a less than-democratic Belarus) and a second chamber populated by lords appointed by heredity, discretionary “ennoblement ”.
Facilitated by our unwritten constitution our legislation – the product of the deliberations of these little better than feudal arrangements – is given the “royal assent” by a monarch selected from birth, who along with the heir apparently is entitled to an income of public money accompanied by exceedingly generous tax exemptions.
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