COMMON sense support for retaining hereditary peers came from Frank Field MP speaking on the JY programme (Radio 2, May 21).
He expressed the opinion that in the Lords lay the last hope of blocking the highly unpopular Disablement Reform Bill which the Government had carried by a narrow margin.
He was quite right.
Anyone of a fair mind knows perfectly well that, unlike many young upstarts in the Commons, hereditary peers are not driven by ambition, nor do they need to pander to the electorate.
They remain free to make impartial judgments, devoid of any vested interest.
Hereditary peers are men of the world and owe allegiance only to the British people, unlike life peers whom the Prime Minister put in the Lords.
I appeal to Citizen readers - let your MPs know that Labour will never be elected again if hereditary peers are dislodged.
They are our last-ditch defence against often idiotic and ideological excesses of the Commons.
N G Charnley,
Chesterfield Road,
Blackpool.
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