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Given that we are removing with this legislation once and for all the feudal vestiges of the hereditary peerage, which is said to be indefensible, how can we not also remove the feudal and lordly pretensions of this Chamber and simply change its name? I do not presume to suggest what it might be changed to—it is not for a feudal Plantagenet Earl to suggest alternatives—but I am sure that your Lordships, with public-spirited, well-informed wisdom, can come up with something suitably catchy that does not venerate a paternalistic feudal power structure of which we apparently are so ashamed.