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by zrn900 140 days ago
> House of Lords amendments do not have to be accepted by the House of Commons and may not make it into law

Except the Lords can send back a law indefinitely until the Commons accepts it. There have been cases in which laws were sent back 60 times until what the Lords wanted was added. A house with hereditary posts with infinite veto power.

The UK is not democracy. It never was.