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The fact that the House of Lords has many irrational features is not, in itself, fatal in British eyes for we have a capacity for making the irrational work, and if a thing works, we tend to like it, or at any rate to put up with it.

— Herbert Morrison Government and Parliament: A Survey from the Inside (1959)

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Never again while the risk of war remained must we allow ourselves to neglect our land weapon.

Work is the call. Work at war speed. Good-night—and go to it.

What the resolution does not contemplate being done is the lining up behind the government and voting for its rearmament programme.

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