Unelected Ministers and democracy

How come Mandleson is a minister? How can it be that a man who lost his job in government twice due to a inappropriate actions, is now called 'Lord' and when our Prime Minister is on holiday, is acting PM?

Why is it possible that we can have members of the government who have never been elected?They don't represent anybody except themselves. They can't lose their seat.

Unelected, unaccountable, un bloody believable.

Have we got the government we deserve?

In which case what have we done to deserve him?

A good way to ruin the House of Lords, fill it with appointees who are truly unfit to govern.