The new House of Lords - Lets hound the dead weight Lords out today!

I am no fan of the Electoral Reform Society - I think they are worse than a nasty waste of space, they actually block real reform by claiming the ground and doing nothing worthwhile with it.

They ignore the nasty, unrepresentative, unelected EU commission (because they share its progressive, social democratic headline ideals of crushing the free individual) and focus on reform of our House of Lords.

The appointed Lords is quirky but it works - modern practice is to use what works even if the reasons for it working are as yet unknown (but do, of course, research why it works). We have test driven software development, evidence based medical practices etc... we start with what works, then work out why - the House of Lords basically works.

However, while the House of Lords does basically work, it is too big. And each time it is 're-balanced' it just gets bigger. It needs a mechanism for ditching its dead weight - while I don't make a specific proposition for this mechanism of ejecting the dross, I do, here outline where the dross is to be selected from.

Here is a table showing how many votes each party got in teh 2015 election and shows how many seats they should have in the lords by strict PR.

There are some lose ends - Independents, Bishops, Cross Benchers etc. But you can see that we can start selecting hundreds for the chop immediately - simply rank them by usefulness (attendance, contribution to debate etc) and top slice the ones to keep.

If someone does that ranking and names those who should go, the public can start hounding them out of office immediately...

Party	Votes 2015	Lords Actual	Lords PR		New Size
Total	30365689	774	774	Change	400	Change	300	Change	200	Change
Conservative Party	11300109	223	288	65	149	-74	112	-111	74	-149
Labour Party	9347324	211	238	27	123	-88	92	-119	62	-149
UK Independence Party	3881099	3	99	96	51	48	38	35	26	23
Liberal Democrats	2415862	101	62	-39	32	-69	24	-77	16	-85
Scottish National Party	1454436		37	37	19	19	14	14	10	10
Green Party	1157613	1	30	29	15	14	11	10	8	7
Democratic Unionist Party	184260	4	5	1	2	-2	2	-2	1	-3
Plaid Cymru	181704	2	5	3	2	0	2	0	1	-1
Sinn Féin	176232		4	4	2	2	2	2	1	1
Ulster Unionist Party	114935	2	3	1	2	0	1	-1	1	-1
Social Democratic & Labour Party	99809		3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
Speaker	34617		1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Independent	17689		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bishops		26	0	-26	0	-26	0	-26	0	-26
Crossbench		176	0	-176	0	-176	0	-176	0	-176
Independent Liberal Democrat		1	0	-1	0	-1	0	-1	0	-1
Independent Social Democrat		1	0	-1	0	-1	0	-1	0	-1
Independent Ulster Unionist		1	0	-1	0	-1	0	-1	0	-1
Independent Labour		2	0	-2	0	-2	0	-2	0	-2
Non-affiliated		20	0	-20	0	-20	0	-20	0	-20

[First published at http://free-english-people.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-new-house-of-lords-lets-hound-dead.html]