Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
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Commons Brawl
All right and honorable gentlemen
And lady, too
Will kindly try to restrain themselves
In derring-do
As verbal hard graffiti flies
And echoes wall to wall
Our precious model of democracy
Its the house of commons brawl
One member from some dark mill town
Furious did cry
Spittle froth from folded chin
To dim the lie
Lets serve this brief and list the rush
Of whos allowed catcalls
Lets finish this right here and now
At the house of commons brawl
Kick, punch with the government
As with jackets off they fly heaven-bent
Scratch gouge with the other side
As the party firmly admit a fight
Another day in the lives of those
Who would guide us through
If all is prepped that we should
By their example do
But there again I think for less
For gyving to the wall
The wrong house but the right idea
To end the commons brawl
song performed by by Jethro Tull
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli in Speech at the House of Commons (24 January 1860)
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill in speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli in Speech in the House of Commons (3 March 1845)
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The issue which I propose for discussion should … be clear: how to counter the encroachment of new, electronic devices and systems upon commons that are more subtle and more intimate to our being than either grassland or roads — commons that are at least as valuable as silence. Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving. A transformation of the environment from a commons to a productive resource constitutes the most fundamental form of environmental degradation. This degradation has a long history, which coincides with the history of capitalism but can in no way just be reduced to it. Unfortunately the importance of this transformation has been overlooked or belittled by political ecology so far. It needs to be recognized if we are to organize defense movements of what remains of the commons.
quote by Ivan Illich
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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
quote by Albert Bushnell Hart
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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
quote by Winston Churchill
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When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
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What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.
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Catharses
‘My husband is away;
Father is blind, mother sleeping,
A good time, visit me soon.’
A girl in dance addresses Lord
Srinivasa.
The genre,
Audience enjoys,
The girl enjoys,
The singer enjoys,
And all women do.
No one is pricked.
The addressee is the Lord.
Catharses in sublimation.
05.12.2001, Pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.
quote by Christopher Gadsden
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There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
quote by Trevor Phillips
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Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
quote by Ellen Wilkinson
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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
quote by John Bright
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The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal.
quote by Henry Pelham
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We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
quote by Edward Coke
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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