Submitted on Friday 19th September 2014
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
House of Lords Reform: Petition for no reserved seats for hereditary Lords and bishops in parliament
Currently, 92 seats are permanently reserved for hereditary Lords and 26 seats are permanently reserved for bishops.
This is:
1 Undemocratic: Hereditary peers and bishop peers are unaccountable to the public, have not been appointed on merit and have not been voted in.
2 Unrepresentative: The number of seats reserved for hereditary and bishop peers is hugely out of proportion to the number of people they represent.
3 Sexist: Of the 92 hereditary Lord seats only 2 are women and of the 26 bishop seats none are women.
4 Irrelevant: Reserved seats are unnecessary as hereditary Lords and bishops can be appointed as "life peers" through merit. Politics is about moral choices represented by all Lords and MPs.
Sign the petition for a fair and prompt reform of the House of Lords to ensure every seat is open to all of society, with no privileges to those with special birthrights or specific beliefs.
Visit www.holr.org.uk for more information.
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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.
Please see petition below:
Petition Title: Reform the House of Lords
Created by: Oliver Beckett
Closing: 30/03/2015
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