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Petition update, 11 January 2008

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To have an elected House of Lords would simply add another layer of bureaucracy to the political system. As voting turnout has decreased to serious levels, another set of elections is not going to improve the current apathy throughout the UK. The brilliance of our upper chamber is the wealth of knowledge and expertise that it currently holds. The majority have spent a near lifetime in politics and are thus able to see the wider picture, than would the regular man from the street. We must protect this traditional aspect of our political lives for the good of all.

Current signatories

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• Thomas Lane
• James McMenemey
• Shane Mummery
• Richard William Franklin
• Jeremy Ranulph Lash
• Ian Grey
• Nicholas de la Grense
• T C Rawlings
• Robert Ware
• James Michael Hawes
• Adrian Wright
• Alexander I Griffiths
• Rachael Smith
• Javid Lakha
• Kate Stephenson
• william hazlerigg
• Jessica Abrahams
• Michael Ekins
• Dale Peet
• Beth Armstrong
• Matthew Tabinor
• Elizabeth Ellen
• Thomas O'Neill
• Tobias Joss
• Jonathan Edwards
• Richard Jules Watt
• Nicholas Scallan
• Max Genoni
• Gregory Miller
• Alex Okonska
• Harvey Bell
• Guy Kirkham-Smith
• Alykhan Somji
• Jamie Stark
• Claire Carr
• Thomas Raynsford
• Dominic Smith
• Abi Cooper
• Charlotte Robbins
• Simon Buck
• Claire Whitney
• Henrietta Bailey-King
• Ruaraidh Sutherland
• Curtis Wilkin
• David Carnegie
• hannah pritchard
• Edward Park
• Rachel Eadon
• Callista Heybroek
• Jonathan Taylor
• mackenzie
• Amy India Rose
• Glenis Simpson
• Toby Wardman
• Owen Rudge
• Adam Morris
• Steve Doughton
• Stefan Fraczek
• Will Mann
• Jack Colson
• Leonora Maria Kiloran Russell
• Laura McKie
• Joshua Spink
• Alex Bowers
• Edward Rich
• Piers de Gruchy
• Thomas Lloyd
• Mark Bradley
• Liz Bloomfield
• Jonathan Easton
• James Long
• Robert Seal
• Keith Crothers
• Grant Lock
• Peter Harris
• Simon Murray
• James Manning
• Felicity Briggs
• Richard King
• Sarah Powdrill
• eleanor parnell
• Dominic Stewart-Barton
• Gareth Fenney
• James Marsh
• Fedora Somerville
• Kenneth Campbell
• Benjamin Craig
• David Andrew Graves
• George Pugh
• Dominic Bevan
• Joel Howells
• James Harrison
• Francis Hodson
• Mark Emmerson
• Robert Walkre
• Roland Scarlett
• Richard Lambert
• Jamie Lynch
• Neil Riley
• Maire Wilcox
• James Fraczyk
• David Ashbolt
• Linda Fraczyk
• Benjamin Worcester
• D Judd
• Frances Young
• Nick Aldred
• Sarah Mitchell
• George Jones
• patricia whiteside
• ines
• Tomas Thurogood - Hyde
• Annabel Mander
• Leto Atreides
• Andrew Smith
• Simon Haworth
• Sian Ralph
• James Gardner
• Eleanor Anderton
• Edna Nichols
• Marilyn Clark
• Jennifer Gallagher
• Robert Arthur
• Anselm Plummer
• Kirstine L. Duncan
• Ryan Jenkins
• James Hopson
• Paul Arrowsmith
• James Feldman
• Jon Croxford
• Liam James Harper
• Jonathan Ramwell
• Matthew Baghurst
• Craig Haffey
• Sean Haffey
• Sophie Allen
• Venetia Spencer
• Joseph Townsend
• Harriet Ball
• Alex Angus
• Eamonn Hurley-Flynn
• John Wood
• Danielle Gibbons
• Eleanor Griffiths
• Alexandra Kettle-Williams
• Rhiannon Jones
• Simon Fielding
• Ikramul Choudhury
• catrin matterson
• Scarlett Graham
• William Steer-Matthews
• Anne Ward
• Christopher Mear
• David Robertshaw
• Robert Klepka
• Andrew Sanders
• Sean Powers
• Eleanor Fox-Bekerman
• Adam Piper
• Jack Short
• Katherine Hanson Pettengell
• Darren Poole
• miranda segal
• TIFFANY GIFF
• Richard Quayle
• Nathaniel Robert Helms
• Anthony Assock
• Charlotte James
• Craig Brooks-Rooney
• Mili Leitner
• James Seddon
• Nicholas Tam
• Mathew Earle Patey
• liza burnell
• Robert Colclough
• Linda Rae
• J M Leake
• Victor Dawson
• Kirsty Matthews
• Stephen Millman
• Rebecca Dougall
• Nicholas Mason
• Nicholas Cook
• Alistair Furze
• Guy Hunter
• Ben Green
• Barns
• Mark Whelan
• Charles Wharton
• John Chater
• graham warner
• Stephen Gray
• frances simmons
• Caroline Stretton
• Natasha Hamilton
• Conway Wigg
• Sam Openshaw
• John Wilson
• Robert McQueen
• Gordon Williams
• James Roberts
• Peter Williams
• Judith Hutchinson
• Daniel Silverstone
• E Leung
• Lauren Rutter
• angela Henderson
• Derek Bennett
• Becky Rawnson
• Jonathan Boot
• Peter Foggitt
• Anthony Cormack
• Michael T.E Robinson
• Chris Stott
• Andrew Smith
• Katy Godden
• Scott Macdonald
• Julian M.P. Hendy-Ibbs
• stuart wilson
• peter foster
• George Pitcher
• Richard Selfe
• Michael Brett
• Paul Daniel
• Marianne Brett
• Gregory Brett
• Hugh Ward
• Nikki Zywna
• marcus crofton
• Hugh Burling
• Dale Burrow
• Anthony Mellor
• Sophie Meekings
• Ian Ridpath
• claire chipp
• Gerald Murphy
• Philip Barnes
• Charlotte Neary
• martin abbott
• George Farmer
• David Peek
• Jessica Cohen-Harvey
• Robert Yarham
• Kirsty Macdonald
• Sam Allan
• Victoria Wolf
• Neil John Turnbull
• James Terence Harding
• Thomas J. Elliott
• Katherine Evans
• John Bartholomew
• Nathan Skene
• Paul Edmond
• Peter Adams
• Martin Welbank
• Christopher Young
• James Cranston
• Rachel Seeley
• Jason Chandler
• Tim Hillier
• Philip Tibbetts
• William Gant
• CHRISTINA
• Robert Lacey
• Krishna Omkar
• Henry Stannard
• Chris Brown
• Joseph Fallowell
• Richard Gough
• Jonathan Sims
• Timothy Pollard
• Matthew Kinder
• Howard Barnhurst
• Joel Hardman
• Pauline Pearson
• Mark James Perryman
• Mark Kelly
• Rachel Elizabeth Fraser
• Michael Mason
• Cal Revely-Calder
• Sam Hancock
• Jennifer Scott-Thompson
• Thomas Hayes
• Louise Mor
• Mike Chipperfield
• michael Gallagher
• Richard Clifford-Smith
• Richard Massey
• Ann-Marie Noble
• Simon Harley
• John Bambridge
• Robert Phillpott
• Babak Erfani
• Luke Slayton
• Martin Ziacek
• Andrew Perkins
• Ashley Broomhall
• Hassan Baig
• John Nichols
• Robert Lea Grenham Cook
• Roger Lavis
• Paul Athans
• Helen Tonge
• Clare Gould
• Joanna Finlay
• Lucy
• Alex COLWOOD
• Christopher Oldfield
• Mara MacSeoinin
• penelope curtiss
• Thomas Robert Charles Smallwood
• Ed Reid
• Oliver Willmott
• Bernard Glynn
• Michael Riordan
• Robert Watts
• bernard harrison
• Hywel Price-Evans
• Patricia Wilson
• Arjun Bhohi
• Antonia Brown
• Matthew Smith
• Jeremy Slawson
• Deanna Warner
• Adrian Godfrey
• Bradley Thomas
• Elizabeth Virginia Catherine Baxter
• Sebastien
• Rex garton
• Henry Box
• Sharon Coxhead
• Richard Stewart
• G F Gerber
• angela chan
• Thomas Day
• Niall Corcoran
• John Walker
• Elizabeth Vaulkhard
• Veronica Bunbury
• Susan Brown
• Jonathon Staples
• James Geraets
• Steven Gregory Gaywood
• Roy Hopwood
• Jordan Munday
• Michael Wing
• Alex Borthwick
• Christopher Fox
• John Mulcahy
• Adam T. Boddy
• Simon Peirson
• Huw Twiston Davies
• Anthony Beardsmore
• Benjamin Eaton
• Rupert Cabbell Manners
• George Posford
• Joseph Nugent
• Andrzej Szczepaniak
• David Thompson
• Julien Foster
• Tom Hill
• Andrew Mitchell
• Julie Maxfield
• Anton Howes
• Stephen Exell
• David Sudron
• James Kinghorn
• May Smith
• Nicholas Cater
• Francisca Ruddock
• Robert Bryan
• The Revd. David Sheen
• Dr Neel Burton
• Andrew Aylett
• B Steiner
• Moira L Tulloch
• William Skjott
• M Richard Conolly
• James Hurley
• Keith A Burnett
• Mr. Oliver James Keenan
• Wesley Sawkins
• Lewis Williamson
• Alfred Roger Partridge
• paul lobb
• Frederick John Allen
• Adam Daniell
• Jonathan Parton
• John E B Suart
• Peter Fleming
• Philip Lucas
• Hamish Stafford
• Timothy Beaver
• Samuel Venn
• James Leith
• Ashley Coates
• Kate Good
• James O'Connor
• Matthew Simmons
• Joe Shepherd
• Helen Randle
• Timothy Wilson
• Arthur Rusdell-Wilson
• Roger Frank Gooch
• Joseph Gooding
• Charles Barry
• Gareth Fenney
• Luke Wood
• Cath Davis
• Gwyneth Hill
• Nicholas Jackson
• Liam Salt
• Ross Duffy
• Myles O'Gorman
• Grant Duthie
• James Barter
• Robert Sharples
• Samuel Coldicutt
• Rob Trotter
• Matthew Salt
• chriswright
• Daniel Rodgres
• Glen Tucker
• Harminder
• John Macleod
• Keith Graham Riglin
• Majeed Saleh
• Kenneth Cheung
• Thomas Bradley
• Michael Huertas
• Alex North
• Deena Price
• Gabriel Webber
• Martin Burrekoven-Kalve
• Liam Bedford
• Stephen Backhouse
• Michael Brown
• Nicholas Pelly-Fry
• s smyth
• Ian Beth
• Matthew Clayson
• Julian White
• Jeanette Jordan
• Natasha Yeomans
• Jane McIntosh
• MIKE
• John Oliver
• John Luton
• Sheila Tavendale
• kiera roche
• d galvin
• Christopher Moiser
• Charlie Sayer
• George Roberts
• Susan Saberton
• M Ridley
• Robert Morton
• Mike Casey
• Ian Dunn
• Henry Gratwick
• Gillian Vale
• Roger Stone
• Rupert Paines
• merilyn taplin
• James A. Hutchinson
• John Kiely
• Dominic Stuart Hobson II
• Nicholas Lane
• Benjamin Eagle
• Peter Gribble
• Rachel Stuart
• Edward Haynes
• Jacob Clough
• David M. Bean
• Jane Ibbotson
• Lyn Haskell
• Jethro Gauld
• Owen Cairns
• Mark W Beech
• Katherine Elgenia
• Richard White
• David Ainge
• Kelley Abercrombie
• Ana Steiner
• Thomas Norrell
• Charles Dickson
• Mark Mozley
• Mary-Carol Dack
• Allan Stilwell
• Philip J. Evans
• ashal mehmud
• Miles Lattimer-Gregory
• Stuart Leather
• Michael Dow
• alan laing macleod
• PETER HOWARD
• Andrew Wild
• Callum McCourt
• Sara Tait
• michelle valentine

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