Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
The HofC is only ‘dysfunctional’ as it has to answer to an electorate. That messiness is a feature of democracy, not a bug.

By contrast, it’s quite easy to function smoothly and coherently when you have a sinecure for life and don’t have to worry about accountability.
So the HoC rushing and whipping legislation at the Ctte and Report stages between the 2nd and 3rd reading is all down to the fact that they have voters to answer to.

While the Lords actually bothering to consider things in detail and point out the errors and inconsistencies in the legislation sent to them is down to them not having electors to answer to.

Ok. Right. Sure. That makes sense.