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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I agree absolutely with that. A number of Members would like to see us as some kind of intellectual elite, or as the senators that we perhaps used to be in the 19th century. The fact that we are now the street cleaners and the sewage cleaners of the constitutions—the slaves in the galley of the ship of state, albeit somewhat differently whipped—offends their dignity, but that is the job as it is.

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Reference

516 c1054 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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