Outdated system

The unholy, undemocratic, patronising coalition of the House of Lords Labour and Tory peers' proposal to defy and thus legally undermine the wishes of our - the electorate's - democratically elected House of Commons leaves me seething with anger (your report, 29 July).

"To Hell With Democracy" would seem to be their motto. The sooner this anachronism meets its long-overdue death the better.

Have we, of Britain, not fought two world wars and are now sacrificing the lives of our brave servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan to help establish democratic ways in these two benighted nations? Yet we persist in allowing ourselves to be misruled by a collection of political has-beens and hereditary nobodies. When will enough prove more than enough?

ROBERT M DUNN

Oxcars Court

Edinburgh