Excellent article in this mornings telegraph, about Blair and his "gang". Well worth a read (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/03/08/do0802.xml)
There is only one good thing about the fully elected house of lords vote - at least Tony Blair won't get a seat! Otherwise all that is going to happen is that we (the Taxpayer) will have a whole load more professional politicans, who have never done anything more than SpAd, researcher, or party jobs, to support. I really cannot see how this is going to be the answer all cross benchers will be gone and nobody will act independantly to stop badly drafted legislation. It really is a terrible decision in my view