your idea scares me.

i'd have to reform the Roundheads and kill off the monarchy (for good this time)

We elect our upper house in Australia and it works well enough. Besides, outside of independents most of the senators fall into party lines. It makes perfect sense to me to vote in both the lower and upper house. Hell it makes sense to not have the Queen as our head of state. And if I ever get the chance I'll certainly be voting against the monarchy.

What is the advantage of two elected houses over one elected house?

Well the main one is that the people get to actually you know, vote them in? I thought that'd be important.
Beyond that then there isn't much of a difference. But I can tell you that it certainly doesn't weaken the power of the lower house, I mean the leader of the country is still the PM and the vast majority of legislation is still introduced by the lower house. The upper house can reject bills and make amendments, but thats the whole point of having an upper house (and a democracy), because it promotes discussion. Being able to push through legislation really quickly isn't always a good thing.

Of course the downside is that if the paty is in power in both then its essentially a senate that votes yes to most everything. But no system is perfect. My main point is, if the senate here can function when being elected then I don't see the need to have an unelected house of lords. I'd rather personally to vote for my own candidate then not.

I'm not sure where I read this, but i thought it said that the monarchy (if anything) actually makes a profit to the uk taxpayer?!

Someone posted that on this forum ages ago. I remember reading it.

To be honest it doesn't surprise me, I'm sure all the pomp and circumstance of the monarchy brings in a lot of tourests etc.

@Farmland
Yes, but I read it in a newspaper ages ago i think

....and how did that work out for everybody?

Oh that's right, Cromwell made himself a monarch and banned Christmas.

Democracy is over rated. It's your precious democracy that can allow for the BNP to win and remove British citizens from their own country. Your precious democracy can also allow 51% of the population to kill the other 49%.

A set of unchangeable rules that are above politics and above the whim of the people is all that is needed, we could call them a constitition or a bill of rights.

All we need is somebody above politics who only looks out for us to make sure these rules remain unbroken.

We have a constitution, we just have the power to change it.

Having no power to change it...now, that is an interesting idea.