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You are in control of the lathe. What are the funniest things you cause to happen in the next ~10 years?
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The Lords these days are mostly retired career politicians a few scientists, civil servants and what have you. There are ninety something actual hereditary aristocrats in there, making up about 10% of the chamber, but they don't generally show up. There are also 26 Lords spiritual, all Church of England Bishops, but they don't show up very often either. In fact general attendance is less than 50% and you have a fair number of lords who don't bother to show up beyond the bare minimum they need to keep their seat which IIRC, is one day a year. (They don't get paid on days they don't show up).
The whole thing is of course very silly, and hopefully we can get rid of at least the bishops and aristos in the next couple of years, but their only real power is delaying bills by a year, and they do often propose sensible amendments, so despite being ridiculous, there's no real pressure to get rid of them.