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Mark Pack

Labour’s dinosaur tendency rides again

By Mark Pack | Fri 2nd July 2010 - 8:55 am

Many, many years ago John Gilbert, then a Labour MP, gained widespread respect across the political spectrum for his penetrating questioning of the government over the Westland helicopter crisis. But that was then and now he’s a politician of a rather different type as shown by his contribution to the debate on Lords reform held earlier in the week:

We come to the question of who will be elected to come here . You would get the sort of oik – for Hansard’s benefit, oik is spelt OIK – that could not get into the Commons, Europe, the Scottish Parliament

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