Tory MP Bernard Jenkin said this was "disgraceful", as the redrawing of constituency boundaries - which would reduce the number of MPs by 50 and equalize constituency sizes - was not linked at all to Lords reform.
Do you think he should automatically go to the House of Lords after all of this?
Plus Buffett lords over all of it, as host, mascot and, most notably, target.
For now, as so often in the history of failed attempts to reform the Lords, all sides are blaming each other for what has gone wrong.
Mr Hurd had earlier told BBC Radio 4 that there was also a "strong case" for not reforming the Lords at all, but that if change did come, then some members should be elected.
It is customary for the Lords to pass all stages of money bills in one day.
All want the House of Lords to be wholly or largely elected under a proportional voting system.
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In 2003 the government proposed stripping the prime minister of the powers to decide how many peers are created, but the package was put on hold amid opposition to the idea of an all-appointed House of Lords.
It is customary for the Lords to pass all stages of money bills in one day, although Labour last week took the unprecedented step of demanding that the bill should have a normal committee stage, report stage and third reading.
Tory MP Bernard Jenkin said the Lords amendments were "all completely unacceptable" and "a charter for going round the country stirring up apathy".
Before they wash their hands of the steroid issue by identifying Barry Bonds as the cause of all of this, perhaps the lords of baseball should look in the mirror.
Both David Cameron and Nick Clegg know that for all the talk of House of Lords reform or gay marriage, the reality of their problem is that the economy is not shifting and they've got to get it to move.
The Lords are planning to start early to accommodate all the peers who want to speak in the marathon two-day debate on the Government's Lords Reform proposals. 113 Peers (and counting) have put in to speak - and a debate of penetrating predictability looms.
All three of the main parties supported Lords reform in their 2010 manifestos.
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If the general loses this hearing, all these points will be taken up on appeal to the High Court, and perhaps once again all the way to the House of Lords.
It all came to a head in the Lords today when Lord Strathclyde, the Conservative leader there, told peers why he had postponed the Electoral Registration Bill for a second time.
The Mirror fought unsuccessfully all the way to the House of Lords to avoid having to disclose its source - Mr Ackroyd - who then became the target of the action brought by the trust in its attempts to identify who leaked the information.
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Almost all major legislation has gone across to the Lords, and MPs are dealing with Lords amendments.
It limited New Labour's "bold" reform to the abolition of places in the Lords for most - but not all - hereditary peers.
To the surprise of nearly all legal observers, five of the Law Lords have decided that this is now how Britain's extradition law should be interpreted.
The Metric Martyr group's appeals against conviction were rejected all the way up to the House of Lords and, in February 2004, by the European Court of Human Rights.
Three MPs who represented the seat for more than a century between them - Lloyd George, Lord Wigley and Labour's Goronwy Roberts - all ended their careers in the House of Lords.
The limited parliamentary timetable - and the time it takes for large bills to pass through examination by committees in the Commons and Lords - usually means that not all desired measures can be included.
There's a bit of a queue of bills amended in the Lords building up, and they all have to be approved or rejected by the Commons... and the Defamation Bill's being held in a kind of parliamentary purgatory while alternative press regulation proposals, based on the Conservatives' preferred idea of a Royal Charter, are negotiated.
All of the bills (except the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill) saw government defeats in the Lords, and it will be interesting to see whether the coalition wants to reverse all of the defeats, or whether it will take some of them on the chin.
All were rejected by Lord Carloway, sitting with Lords Brodie and Marnoch.
But for a government that seeks the third way in all other things, the idea that strengthening the Lords weakens the Commons betrays an uncharacteristic want of pragmatism.
Margaret Beckett, his cabinet colleague, says that banning fox-hunting will have to wait until the House of Lords has been reformed, because of all those huntin', shootin', hereditary peers.
He is accountable, first, to Donald Dewar, the (elected) Scottish secretary who chose him for the job, and, second, to the Scottish Grand Committee, which allows members of the Commons to interrogate all ministers, including those who sit in the Lords.
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