Do government ministers really run their departments

[andyofborg]

Is that not the idea of the Lords? well the once the old ones die out and it's only life peerages.

 

things like the law lords, expereienced judges, surely are in a better postion to vote on their area of expertese than MP's. I know the lords are appointed by the Gvt so they might pick experts than might side with them, but the idea of a load of relative experts having a say, although ont democratically elected, seems like a good idea to me considering the jokers we end up with as MP's

 

Yes, but we're talking about ministers here, to bring an outsider in now then all the PM has to do is make him/her a peer and then he can make them a minister.

 

That's essentially what Gordon Brown did with Alan Sugar.

 

My alternative would keep the separation between the executive and legislature.