The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You don't come into government thinking it is going to be easy.
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.
I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.