Who should elect members of the House of Lords?

now i bet the taxpayer will foot the repair bill for the houses of parliment. How many billion, i forget but a lot. Why not the lords and mp they earn more than us.

At £300 per sitting (and sleeping) we can't afford anymore. Reduction by at least 50% will be a start.

who in their right mind would trust an MP nowadays???

It is an old bots club with too many former politicans put out to grass and numbers are appointed to ensure the ruling party has a majority vote.

House of Lords (if we need it at all) should be elected and accountable to the electorate.

WHY ? do we need all these hangers on What exactly do they all do Most pics I see of them all sitting in the pews they all seem to be nodding off .......At three hundred pounds every time they walk through the doors even if they don't stay they get the money .....How many working class people get this amount of money for in the main part doing nothing

Totally disgraceful all these 'Lords' we are paying for. Probably 250 members of the highest quality not dredged from the political scene, but industry, science and the arts, would suit me.

And as for the H of P, that could easily be reduced to say 350.

We should elect the upper chamber on a regional basis. No more than a 100 members.

What I have to say reflects very much on that which happened in 2010 , and of a result that gave Cameron and Clegg, who as leaders of both political parties that LOST the General Election, the opportunity to swan off to Her Maj. and declare with her approval to form the next government of the U.K. The citizens then just sat back, as mostl times they invariably do, and these two clowns and all their co-habs for the next five years, ruled the roost with all the malarky of economy, and generally of the terrible state of the UK and of its near backruptancy bestowed upon all by the incompetant out going Labourites. Now let first say quite definately that I AM NO LABOURITE FANATIC, or indeed a follower or supporter of ANY POLITICAL PARTY. I am an ordinary common or garden ENGLISHMAN, who has served many years wearing a KHAKI SUIT for Queen and COUNTRY.
I could go on and on for reams of lines of the many wrongs and rights of life today we all live with in the lovable land of ours, dearly fought for in two dreadful world wars, with loses to countless familes, many of whom you out there will say, yes ours were of those too. And here I say is that of what my contribution on this subject revolves around. What on earth were you the citizens of this GREAT NATION thinking and dreaming of,with re-elcting Cameron and his buffoons, back to government and number 10, with his party declarations and political procrastinations of masterminding a sound good economy, and resounding phrases of 'WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER', and not many of you, or should I claim..THAT MOST OF YOU..chose to ignore Camerons continued statments that the BILLIONS OF FORIEGN AID WILL CONTINUE TO BE PAID..(to all these despot dictators and self appointed leaders of numerous nations, who used all that foriegn aid given them, to firstly pack out their own individual bank balances in countries of dubious banking qualities, and a goodly amount remaining to the purchase of luxurious aircraft for themselves, dreamland motor-cars for their own use..I wont dwell on the many wives they chalk up either)..to Continue with Camerons declaration of the continuance of this financial foriegn aid, he (Cameron) then declres that this foriegn aid commitment will go through parliament and be carved onto stone tablets as PERMANENT and will be LAW. Meanwhile fellow citizens, we will all have to notch in our belts and take the strain with CUTS and MORE CUTS, and MORE AND MORE CUTS,some Shangri La economic revival that will be. Dear Mr Cameron and all his ilk will still flourish, he is not short of a few bob....he will no doubt with fellow comedian Osborne go around to the fancy dress Joke Shop and bothwill hire again and again their standing ordert kit of HIGH-VIZ jacket and HARD HAT and have a PR day out with enormouse expenses to claim too, at some factory or place of construction, to constitute the picture of 'YOU WILL ALL SEE WHAT GOOD CHAPS WE ARE' ...And now we see how Mr Cameron has now moved a great number of his cronies into the Lords...and theres more to it with all the other useless political cronies and hangers on also in there!!!...dont know about you lot of my fellow out there, but methinks this great nation of ours seriouslly needs and requires another person somewhat like that man from ELY in the 1600's...but one to target the politicians, our MAJ is to be untouchable. So long...have a nice and happy 5 YEARS TO COME..

This just goes to show that democracy doesn't exist in Britain when a Prime Minister appoints these people to the House of Lords. Just so he can have a majority to get his policies through. I always thought the House of Lords was an independent group who reviewed government policies and would reject them and send them back if they did not think it was fair. And it also sends a message to the people. This government don't care if their members cheat and steal with their expenses they will still be rewarded so long as they give their 30 pieces of silver to the Tory party.

This is an absolute disgrace. While I vote conservative David Cameron has really let the side down here by appointing people like Hogg to the Lords. He and his team and others in Parliament just don't get the fact that the great British public are totally sick of all this corruption, cronyism and nonsense. If I had used my expenses to claim rent on properties that did not exist or dredge my drains (like Mr Hoggs moat) I would have been dismissed on the spot and rightly so -not promoted? What is wrong with these people?