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Bring back hereditary peers!!!!!

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“Most people are kind to me. There’s a few bullies, but because I’m usually quiet they don’t go after me as much as they go after Alvin.”

These scripts are sold as “this is how you gain power/love/status in the world.” Our brain, still running the childhood program of “approval = safety,” downloads them without question. They become part of the ideal self as an internal image of who we should be to finally feel powerful and worthy.

Ministers are looking at further reforms with a possible retirement age and minimum participation rates. For hundreds of years, hereditary peers had the right to make and debate laws in Parliament, a right they generally inherited from their fathers and passed on to their sons. [...] One of the departing hereditaries, the Earl of Devon, said the bill was regrettable. He said his family had been in the Lords for 900 years - and complained the notice period was less than required in employment law. "I think this House, Parliament, and the public more widely will miss us," the Earl of Devon said. He said hereditary peers should be "proud to sit here as embodiments of the hereditary principle dating back a millennium".