If so please consider signing the following petition.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/chartered-peers/

    We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Expand the
    House of Lords membership to include professional members from
    Chartered Institutes.

    Currently the House of Lords draws its membership from a
    limited strata of society, politicians, judiciary, clergymen,
    and Heredity Peers.  The House of Lords must be made more
    representative and effective by broadening it membership.

    One purpose of the House of Lords is to improve legislation by
    amendment.  Legislation impacts many areas where professional
    experts could make a valuable contribution to this task.  The
    professional knowledge & experience of representives from
    chartered Institutes could provide expert insight into the
    consequences of legislation governing their fields.

    Each Chartered Institute would have one seat filled by election
    from amongst its members and elected by its members.

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:36:41 -0800 (PST), "Martin.Spamer"
 wrote:

>    Currently the House of Lords draws its membership from a
>    limited strata of society, politicians, judiciary, clergymen,
>    and Heredity Peers.  The House of Lords must be made more
>    representative and effective by broadening it membership.

Since when are chartered institutes representative?

--
Alan "Ferrit" Ferris

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On 30 Jan, 20:16, Alan Ferris  wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:36:41 -0800 (PST), "Martin.Spamer"
>
>  wrote:
> >    Currently the House of Lords draws its membership from a
> >    limited strata of society, politicians, judiciary, clergymen,
> >    and Heredity Peers.  The House of Lords must be made more
> >    representative and effective by broadening it membership.
>
> Since when are chartered institutes representative?

Their heredity is unimpeachable.

>Their heredity is unimpeachable.

I beg to differ.  In my opinion some are right bastards.

But then as a member of the laity I am inclined to share George Bernard 
Shaw's opinion on professions :)

-- 
Robin

On 31 Jan, 11:11, "neverwas"  wrote:
> >Their.
>
> I beg to differ.  In my opinion some are right bastards.
>
> But then as a member of the laity I am inclined to share George Bernard
> Shaw's opinion on professions :)

Still their "heredity" is good, if only in being bad. "Heredity" is a
noun and when you are off-topic with a name like his you need
adjectives.