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It’s a point so blindingly obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it.

— John Bercow

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Compare: A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. | Saul Bellow, 1976

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You are an incorrigible delinquent at times. Behave yourself, man!

They are entitled to their opinion, but they suffer from the notable disadvantage of being completely wrong.

Difference of opinion is of the essence of politics. There is an elaborate combination of finger wagging and head shaking going on which may be personally therapeutic but is institutionally disadvantageous.

Well I'm sure he's got a great many merits, but thus far they've been fairly effectively concealed from public view.

You need to write out a thousand times, "I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions".

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