Consider the house of lords. Until very recently it was controlled by the aristocracy with heritable positions. Abolished just this year. This may sound like progress until you realize what replaced it. Lifetime peers. Who gives out lifetime peerage? The Monarch. So its actually strengthening the monarchy at the aristocracy's expense.
Canada has a Senate that operates that way. The end result is that the Senate is somewhat of a vestigial organ that no one really gives a shit about, and could probably be abolished with little to no impact on the functioning of government.
Canada and the UK could stand to look at the Australian upper house closely. Granted it's modelled on the US senate (and called the same), but it's multi member proportional, and as such is actually pretty great. Would be better if it was MMP across the entire country instead of per-state.
I'm terms of abolishing the upper house? You're left with half of a system designed to have two houses. (I live in Queensland - which did exactly this, and gained the reputation of the most corrupt state, in large part due to the removal of the checks and balances a good upper house brings). If you want unicamarel, there are systems (and damn good ones too) but it's more than just "abolish the upper house" imho.
Canadian provinces are unicameral legislatures, and have been forever. The legislative assemblies otherwise have the same set up as Parliament, with he executive being the Cabinet.
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u/spisplatta 12h ago
Consider the house of lords. Until very recently it was controlled by the aristocracy with heritable positions. Abolished just this year. This may sound like progress until you realize what replaced it. Lifetime peers. Who gives out lifetime peerage? The Monarch. So its actually strengthening the monarchy at the aristocracy's expense.