Lords proposal would hurt SNP

SURELY, in the name of all that is decent an “inside” job shouldn’t be necessary so as to rid us of this archaic, feudal, banal, ludicrously pampered place, commonly known as The House of Lords (“SNP should lift Lords boycott and sit as peers for abolition”, The Herald, July 30, and Letters, August 3). Imagine if the SNP deigned to darken its ermine chamber – it would be the SNP who would become the target and not the elevated hoose, which would be given a boost by this. An imprudent tactic at best, a nonsense idea at second best.

For the SNP even to consider such a thing would be to invite political calumny and to court condemnation. If reasonable argument cannot be found for abandonment of this useless hoose, then new rules for what comprises reasonable argument are urgently needed.

Or just leave demolition of the place to its “enlightened” members, aka Lord Sewell and sundry others who, unlike him now, still inhabit it.

Iain Macwhirter’s suggestion is analogous to Nigel Farage being anywhere near a force to bring down the European Union. Some chance ... Ian Johnstone, 84 Forman Drive, Peterhead.

WILLIAM Scott’s defence (Letters, July 31) of the House of Lords as a “tried and tested part of the most revered democracy in the world” and “the repository of the best brains in the country” can be refuted in two words: Michelle Mone. Scott Rorison, High Street, Dumbarton.