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Debates around whether we should 1) Abolish the monarchy 2) Make the House of Lords elected are a bit of a red herring and are not that useful to be honest. Neither are really likely to happen in a very conservative (with a small c) country very quickly and unfortunately the arguments mask a...

Shocking isn't it. As is Lords allowed to become cabinet members, much exploited by Tony Blair. Can't get your chosen cabinet minister one to get elected as MP ? No worries, just stick them in the Lords and invite them back in.

They are independently wealthy and have no real power at all. Where they have exercised it (to block private members bills) they have been lent on by Government. Effectively they are paid to stay in place to have no power.

Yep. But to get to such a point the people would have turned against the Monarchy and elected a government that promised to abolish them. It wouldn't exactly come as a surprise. Completely hypothetical, but I can't see a position where the Monarch would attempt to hold on under such...