# Without the House of Lords, what privileges have the British peers got left?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 24, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-the-house-of-lords-what-privileges-have-the-british-peers-got-left/183952 "2003-06-24T05:25:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-the-house-of-lords-what-privileges-have-the-british-peers-got-left/183952/21 "2003-06-26T15:02:12Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Spectre of Pithecanthropus \*  
> … **I don’t get the Christopher Guest reference.**

Besides being a member of Spinal Tap, the director of _A Mighty Wind_ and the husband of Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Guest is the fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling.

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