Yes, indeed. It has the curious property of producing not the most popular representative, but the least popular. That is its curious characteristic. The House should note, too, how the question will be framed—not after full debate in this House on an amendable motion, where all the options can be canvassed and included, but through an unamendable order, almost certainly debated in quick time and subject to intensive whipping. That is what this money resolution seeks to propose. Thus the Prime Minister proposes to dispose of a system of election that has carried this country through war and tribulations.
Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Money) (No. 3)
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Viscount Hailsham
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 9 February 2010.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill.
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