more and more lords and baronesses?

There is much discussion on the blogs today about the fact that Cameron will probably have to create dozens of peerages, in order to overcome the (Blair created) inbuilt Labour majority there, if Cameron becomes PM.

There is speculation about who might be approached - celebrities, people from the arts, etc, but no Tory donors, to prevent accusations of "cash for honours".

So he is going to have to follow Blair, whether he wants it or not, or there may be difficulty in getting bills through. There are, it is true, crossbenchers and LibDems. Altogether it seems that there are probably more peers entitled to attend than there are MPs, and the chamber is no bigger, I believe.

I hope that if Cameron becomes PM he will quickly do away with this constitutional and democratic monster and finish what Blair began by having an entirely elected upper chamber. There are far too many people there who gave up safe seats and were rewarded, or failed as MPs or Speaker, or were ennobled to give the governing party ministerial experience.

The only problem is that he may need to create (short-lived) peerages in order to be sure of getting the legislation through, and there is also a labour recession and mess to clean up, as well as education and health to be rescued.