Mr. Blair's critics have charged that the money was made available in return for promises of knighthoods or seats in the unelected and prestigious House of Lords.
All parties are intent on reducing the unelected House of Lords to between 300 and 450 members.
Thank goodness for the "undeomcratic, unelected, unrepresentative, unreformed" House of Lords, eh!
That statement sounds political, for Britain does have a hereditary monarchy and a selected, unelected House of Lords, but it refers to bridge organization.
Other targets include the bar, the unelected House of Lords and party political funding.
I always saw the unelected House of Lords as anti-democratic before this debate.
The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords.
The unelected House of Lords is an "affront" to democracy and will be reformed next year, Nick Clegg has announced.
We need to abolish the unelected House of Lords, but the House of Commons isn't any the cleaner either.
Mrs. Thatcher, a grocer's daughter, said she would like a seat in the unelected House of Lords so she could have a forum.