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The biggest political assembly in the world outside of China’s National People’s Congress is the UK’s House of Lords. It is, alas, a national embarrassment in keeping with its size. With good reason, the chamber is derided as “The House of Cronies.” The 800-strong upper house of the British Parliament approaches its Beijing equivalent in democratic deficit, being largely appointed at the whim of the prime minister of the day, on increasingly murky criteria. According to the latest opinion polls, more than 70 percent of voters want it reformed. The chamber is stuffed with party donors. Last year, the Sunday Times

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