UK General Election, Election Day and Results Thread

[Kasz216]

Rath said:

Kasz216 said:

Here's a silly idea. What if they agree to the house of lords being elected AND it being proportionally elected.

While keeping the rest of parliment the same.  Might give a nice balance.

Problem is it means two mandates.

Currently the house of lords largely acts to slow down for debate anything that wasn't in the governments manifesto when they campaigned, anything else they are considered to have a mandate to implement and the Lords shouldn't block it. If both are elected then the lords will have a seperate and possible contradicting mandate - meaning that the house of commons no longer has the prime mandate to govern as it currently does.

That is only likely to happen very rarely though right, when the elections are closer?

Most of the time the winning party will win both.