[OT] Bush vs. Gore - Was: [Sussex] Linux is capitalism, Microsoft is communism?

[Mark Harrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Teale" <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Bush vs. Gore - Was: [Sussex] Linux is
capitalism,Microsoft is communism?

> As for the house of lords - the second house should be fully elected as
> well- the old house of lords was given power by decree, that is not
> democracy.

So your argument is that the current House of Lords is NOT the result of
democratic process then?

If that's the case, then clearly democracy is a failure, since successive
democratically elected Houses of Commons have failed to take advantage of
their existing powers to rectify the system.

M.