There's a distinction between the rich establishment, including people who sit in the House of Lords, and real Lords with proper titles. The titled families of this country often go through significant hardships to keep hold of the castle their ancestors built 800 years ago, like going without heating during the winter, opening up all but a small apartment of their property to the public, or, as is often the case, giving up their family estate altogether because they can't afford the upkeep. These are people who have led us in peace and in war for hundreds and hundreds of years. Without our horrific class system, we wouldn't have had an empire, and without that I doubt we'd be any more prosperous than any other generic small European country - and certainly Glasgow would be simply a regional town of little consequence as 18th century maps make clear. Lords have no bearing on whether or not our children are successful. Lords are an eccentric and thoroughly British by-product of our great history, they do no-one any harm and (sadly in my view) have little say on anything, even constitutional matters. They are not the problem.