I had sat down. This argument could go on all night, and I have no intention of prolonging it. However, I shall remark on one historical episode of exercise of continuity. Winston Churchill, after the 1918 election, alluded to the glories of peace, but then said that when we looked to Ireland, ""we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone","
continuing to rise above the bogs and the mist. It was in Fermanagh and Tyrone that the charges of malfeasance were strongest after the 2001 election, which then gave rise to the 2002 Act.
Political Parties and Elections Bill
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Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 13 May 2009.
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