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[louthy]

You are getting down voted unfairly I think, the selling of peerages has been a problem for over 100 years [1], it would be entirely reasonable to conclude that this is exactly how the system works.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Gregory

[lostlogin → louthy]

It’s bad enough that they are sold, but the people they are sold to seem like caricatures of the non-ideal candidate.

Quite how the House of Lords persists in a ‘democracy’ is troubling enough on its own.