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Pungent observations

Mark D'Arcy | 18:13 UK time, Wednesday, 7 April 2010

As , the Conservative peer Lord Onslow added this striking complaint about the importance of the constitutional changes being contemplated in the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill: "Things that would take two-thirds of American states and a two-thirds majority in the Senate to get passed are now being done in this bill without some of it being looked at in the Commons let alone here..."

And later he added one of his favourite observations: "The reason I get to boss you about is my forebears got drunk with Pitt - or was it Walpole...."

Usually, in interviews, he doesn't say "drunk", preferring a more pungent term.

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