Discuss - Government House of Lords - A fully elected House of Lords

Do you wish to see the House of Lords fully elected?

Alliance Party Alliance believes that the House of Lords should be replaced by a mixed elected and appointed second chamber. The principle of inherited representation is wrong. However, there is a case for a second chamber to act as a balance to the House of Commons

Conservative The government was facing considerable opposition, particularly among Conservative MPs. In July, 91 Tory MPs rebelled against the government in a vote on how to timetable the House of Lords Reform Bill - the largest such act of defiance since the coalition was formed in 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18612233

Green Party The Green Party propose a reform of the House of Lords so that they become a fully elected body chosen by proportional representation. Members will only be elected for 'for one fixed term of ten years, with half the house being elected every five years'. Source: Green Party Manifesto

Labour Replace the House of Lords with a Senate of the Nations and Regions. Source: Labour Party Manifesto, http://b.3cdn.net/labouruk/89012f856521e93a4d_phm6bflfq.pdf

Liberal Democrat Liberal Democrats would reform the House of Lords with a proper democratic mandate starting from the 2012 Bill. Source: Liberal Democrat pre-2015 Manifesto

Plaid Cymru The recent report from Richard Wyn Jones and the IPPR showed the support for an English Parliament and we believe that such a move would make sense if allied to wider constitutional change including reform of the House of Lords and a permanent commission to ensure fair funding for Wales, independent of the UK Treasury Source: Hywel Williams MP http://www.partyof.wales/news/2012/04/23/plaid-call-for-english-parliament-on-st-georges-day/

SNP SNP MP, Pete Wishart, will this week call for the House of Lords to be abolished. Pete Wishart has secured a House of Commons debate week with the title - ‘House of Lords Reform’. The SNP have a long standing position of not taking peerages and do not take seats in the House of Lords because it believes that those making laws should be elected by the people. http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2015/jan/snp-debate-end-absurd-house-lords

UKIP "We are going to absolutely insist we are given a sensible, fair quota of working peers to operate in the House of Lords." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27738940

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