Charlie Stross on Nostr: Little known fact: the hereditary peers who actually vote in the House of Lords are ...

Little known fact: the hereditary peers who actually vote in the House of Lords are elected! (From among their own number.) So Labour is moving to abolish the only actual elected members of the House of Lords. (And the democratic deficit in Westminster politics will only grow larger.)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/05/ministers-introduce-plans-to-remove-all-hereditary-peers-from-lords