The rich and privileged know only too well how to protect their wealth and privileges.
They are masters at manipulating the media. They know how to mobilise the best lawyers to press their case, and they can, of course pay them handsomely.
They could organise Masterclasses in protection of interests. For all I know, they probably do.
The parents of children at private schools are my first exhibit. They are doing everything they can to keep a privilege, that private schools are the only businesses exempt from tax.
Lawyers have been hired. Every medium has been mobilised. All to subvert the decision of the British people at the last election.
Then we come to the wealthy landowners. Most of them bought their farms deliberately to dodge paying tax. Jeremy Clarkson even said so publicly.
He and other gentlemen farmers are now stirring up the rest of the farming community by pretending the inheritance tax changes are going to affect them all, which is manifestly untrue.
But the pinnacle of privilege in the United Kingdom is represented by the heredity Peers in the House of Lords. They are there only because their ancestors did something to please the King or Queen, often in a bloody massacre.
To see them fight to keep their privilege is something to behold. They have just started but we expect every tool to be wielded in their fight to maintain their power and to thwart the third of these mandates given to our Government.
However, it now raises the whole question of Lords Reform and one of their arguments is that it should not be done piecemeal but await a full-scale reform.
But, of course, this is a tactic to stop or delay their removal. And we argue that the failure to get the ideal should not stop a good step forward.
But we should instead look at the purpose of the Second Chamber rather than its composition.
It is part of the Legislature in what purports to be a democracy and it considers all legislation, reviews, and suggests improvements which are often accepted by the Commons.
In a real democracy this should be done by a Chamber with some democratic legitimacy. The House of Lords has none.
True it has many wise and experienced people who can suggest changes. But this could be done by an advisory group, or groups, of such experts, or in evidence to Committees of an authentic second chamber.
The second chamber itself could have legitimacy in different ways. Some suggest direct election, probably by a different system from the Commons.
My own preference is for a Senate of the Nations and Regions, indirectly elected in a way like the French Senate, where Senators are chosen by “Grande Electors”, consisting of Mayors and Deputies in each region.
Meanwhile we should reform the Lords in a serial way. Some, rightly, suggest there is no justification for Bishops from one church in one Nation of the United Kingdom to have automatic representation.
But we should not delay the most urgent reform until this further change is ready to be dealt with.
Hereditary Peers are all male, predominantly Tory and rich and privileged. There is no justification for them to sit as of right in the Second Chamber of a democracy.
Labour had it clearly spelt out in our manifesto so it is covered by the Salisbury-Addison convention which means it cannot be unduly delayed by the Lords.
However, I have already seen in the Constitution Committee and on the Floor of the House that the Tories will be mobilising every tool to protect their privilege.
But this is a battle they must not and cannot win.