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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/28/house-of-lords-democracy-accountability-reform#_=_  The Lords is a ludicrous affront to democracy and accountability.  says John Harris The House of Lords vote to kill off cuts to working tax credits  Another glaring "affront to democracy and accountability" is the notoriously unfair "First Past the Post" electoral system. You do not hear many MP's bleating about that. Increasingly arrogant and autocratic Only when the Lords (and I am no fan of that unelected and unaccountable chamber either), defeat a pernicious Conservative government plan, a conservative plan mind you, not a Commons policy (only 26% of the electorate and all that), which will make 3 million families up to £3,000 per year worse off does the government bench, Cameron, Osborne and Johnson in particular, erupt into fits of mock outrage, threatening all sorts of dire "consequences" to the House of Lords and...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ministers-plot-end-to-civil-service-neutrality-7995033.html Ministers could be given the power to dismiss their most senior civil servants and bring in US-style political appointees to drive through policy Another step in the insidious advance of dictatorship in this country. Not only are they not content with having a 5 year dictatorship voted in  by less than 40% of the people, they seek to install lackeys and henchmen into the civil service.Soon they will be seeking to scrap elections completely and all in the name of "modernisation" and "reform".

Last night (Tuesday 24th July 2012), Conservative MP Dominic Raab said there was growing concern that public sector workers were being called out on the basis of tiny turnouts in strike votes. He said there was a clear case to require unions to secure the support of 50 per cent of balloted members to make industrial action legal. Perhaps if the same logic were applied in the wider real world, this country would be spared the undemocratic insult where a government can be elected to run the country for up to 5 years when only 3 or 4 of all people voting actually vote for them. Speak up Raab and all the rest of the hypocritical morons who utter the same nonsense, how do you reconcile the obvious inconsistency in your reasoning? Dominic Raab is the Conservative MP for Esher and Walton. He entered Parliament at the 2010 general election