Reform the HoL Reform policy

[philipjohn]

Adds a commitment to imcremental reform of the House of Lords, given the citizen-panel based reform is quite a big ask and won't happen immediately. End goal copied straight from the previous page.

Also restructures to give HoL reform it's own page for neatness.

[tmtmtmtm]

No ministerial should be held by an unelected politician

Aside from the missing word, this is slightly ambiguous. I'm assuming this should simply say that Ministers can only be appointed from sitting Members of the House of Commons?

I'm curious, though, as to what this proposal would also mean for the Leader of the House of Lords.

[philipjohn]

Thanks for the feedback - I've clarified that sentence about ministerial appointments.

I'm curious, though, as to what this proposal would also mean for the Leader of the House of Lords.

I reckon we're okay on that one, as the policy only stops new appointments to the House of Lords (i.e. new Lords). Happy to make that clearer if you think it needs to be?

[tmtmtmtm]

I meant that the Leader of the House of Lords is currently a ministerial position, as the point of the role is to represent the government's interest in the House. Abolishing that connection seems like it could be problematic.

[PaulJRobinson]

👍

[Floppy]

@tmtmtmtm I think that implementation of the plan would work out a solution to that problem, so I'm not opposed on those grounds. 👍

I am a little concerned that this will give undue prominence to Lords reform in the site structure, but that's not a policy issue, so I'll upvote this, and merge when I have a minute to work on the structure after merge to make sure it still works.

[philipjohn]

@tmtmtmtm Any chance of a vote from you on this one?

[Floppy]

I'm in the process of merging it, but I'm going to split the democracy page in two a slightly different way, if thats OK. I'll take care of it during the merge though.

[Floppy]

OK, all done. We now have an "elections" page and a "democracy" page, which balances out the massive democracy page a bit.

[philipjohn]

Yeah that's cool

[Floppy]

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