Britons last week heard echoes of slogans which had been dormant for decades: "The House of Lords must be mended or ended," and "Who shall rule, the Peers or the People?"
With only minor variations, the issue which revived the slogans in 1948 was the same one which had created them in 1832 and 1911: the noble Lords were in a last-ditch fight against a reformist government, battling to save what few political teeth they still had left. But precedent was against them. Always before they had fought, and always lost.
Whose Oligarchy? The issue this time was the Labor...
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