Feb. 28th, 2005

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On Friday, the report of the (left-wing) Cross-party group on Lords reform was published. The Cross-party group thinks that the new name for the Lords, once it has become an elected body, should be 'The Second Chamber', and the Lords would be referred to as 'members of the Second Chamber'.

I have two problems with this:
1. It sounds bad - too long, and inferior-sounding
2. There is no likelyhood of them changing the name of the Commons or Parliament, so we would have the Houses of Parliament, formed of the House of Commons, and the Second Chamber.

In my view, it needs to be something in the pattern of House of ..., to fit in with the rest of Parliamentary naming.
NB, In the report, House of Representatives and Senate were rejected as 'too American'.

So, here are some ideas of what we can call the Lords once they are elected, with a textbox to add anything I haven't put down.

[Poll #445732]
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Well, the powers that be deem 'The House of Lords' to be archaic, and therefore Bad. As far as the Committee I mentioned earlier, they seem to be of the 'abolish the lot of 'em' school of thought, and very anti any suggestions that the Lords or its successor would be 'better' than the Commons. Load of old toss and guff on precedence and privilege, as usual... *sigh* Those who are driving the change on the old system, seem to be those who oppose any resemblance to the ancien régime and its unelected body.

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