Aquilae [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-27 months agoBritish elections vs Soviet elections - Two Commonwealths by K.E. Holmehexbear.netimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down10
arrow-up1108arrow-down1imageBritish elections vs Soviet elections - Two Commonwealths by K.E. Holmehexbear.netAquilae [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square38fedilink
minus-squaredrinkinglakewater [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·7 months agoVery generous of the authors that they didn’t include the unelected and objectively anti democratic House of Lords
minus-squareSaeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 months agoThe only real functions of the house of lords are to block legislation for up to two years and to serve as a retirement home for politicians past their use-by date.
minus-squareRyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoDon’t forget the Shadow Ministry
minus-squareDyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agothere’s literally bishops and archbishops and shit in there, iirc it’s split up into the lords temporal and the lords spiritual? wild shit “democracy”
Very generous of the authors that they didn’t include the unelected and objectively anti democratic House of Lords
The only real functions of the house of lords are to block legislation for up to two years and to serve as a retirement home for politicians past their use-by date.
Don’t forget the Shadow Ministry
there’s literally bishops and archbishops and shit in there, iirc it’s split up into the lords temporal and the lords spiritual? wild shit “democracy”