Submitted on Saturday 14th November 2020
Rejected on Friday 20th November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Abolish the unelected House of Lords and replace it with an elected Upper House.
The House of Lords as a policy approving body should be changed from its current state as a wholly unelected body and replaced with a fully elected set of members. This election cycle should run in line with the general election cycle.
To have a number of unelected people approving or rejecting laws based on either their hereditary titles or through their achievements which have zero bearing on public policy is completely undemocratic.
Appointments to the house which represent only the ruling party are also undemocratic.
There should be an upper and lower house is any functioning democracy however both should be made up of wholly elected members. This will allow the ruling part of the day to be held to account fairly.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/333831
18.222.121.170 Sat, 27 Apr 2024 05:23:12 +0100
