• apis@beehaw.org
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      10 days ago

      Here, we’ve yet to get around to abolishing hereditary peerages in the House of Lords.

      Current government intends to get that done.

      Until then, though there have been lifetime appointees to the HoL for a while, and the hereditary system somewhat eased in other respects, it means if the right seeds are believed to have got into your mother’s womb prior to your conception, you don’t merely inherit whatever land and titles your ancestors arrayed about themselves, you bag a seat in the upper house of a bicameral legislature until you pop your clogs, whereupon your heir slides in.

      Unlikely to be similar for the hereditary Monarch as Head of State, nor as Head of the Established Church, though there may be some movement on the Spiritual Lords (about 2/3rds of the Anglican bishops & archbishops also get a seat in the House of Lords).

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    between labour and the tories it’s shameful that the uk is just doubling down on all this racist nazi level shit.

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      8 days ago

      Fascinating that no one answered my question but instead chose to down vote the question.

      There is nothing wrong with being offensive, and you know it.