So What's Your House Of Lords Solution?

Question

We have 12 Main & Good Options:
A - keep as is
B - twiddle with the peerage-type percentages again
C - proportional representation
D - let LAs, council heads or counties appoint one each
E - chose all by lottery from the whole UK 18+ population
F - chose by special eurovisionish interselection events
G - chose by school + uni + iq + special exam marks
H - trade union congress (one seat/vote per top 25 trade union)
I - 250 candidates - 10 + & 5 - votes each & top 100 get in
J - special competing parties of grassroots groups & panels representing society as a whole
K - a special system in which white-English & all others choose 25% of own and 25% each other's seats (encourages cooperation & appealing to both sides)
L - abolish second chamber altogether
M - similar to Commons but dif constituencs
N - a combination of systems at first, altered over time by having a tournament to add new system ideas & median number votes to determine new percentages for each method to be used

D = allow our elected councils to rule
E = ordinary people
F = one-day-everyone's-a-candidate-&-a 10,9,8,7,... points voter events
G = chose the smartest
H = one seat/vote per top 25 democratically elected trade union leadership + the little'ens get together to elect a further 15
I = one big ballot + 100 winners
J = real good but needs explaining
K = good for Iraq & Kuwait & 1-Korea & Israel & Fiji I think (encourages cooperation & all politicians appealing to both sides)
L = let House Of Commons rule
M - similar to Commons but either bigger or smaller constituencies
N - a combination of systems at first, altered over time by having a tournament to add new system ideas & median number votes to determine new percentages for each method to be used

Answer 1

The US system seems to work. Over here the Commons would represent constituencies and their inhabitants as now, and the Lords could represent the Counties (say two/ three peers per County), but have their traditional role of checking the Government. All seats to be elected but at an interval staggered from the General Election by perhaps two years. This would also serve as a public referendum on the government of the day!

Answer 2

It should be an elected chamber but unlike the commons should consist of members over 50 years old.
In this way we can be sure that they will have gained some of the wisdom that comes with age, and we can also see their record of achievement in a way that is not possible with the type of young candidate that is so prevalent in the Commons.

Answer 3

I would like to suggest that there never was a problem to solve in the first place. The Lords had worked as an effective check and balance on the power of the commons for centuries, also, as the final court of appeal.

If it works don't fix it.

Answer 4

abolish it and in a tie in the house of commons the speeker casts deciding vote

Answer 5

Guy Fawkes