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The Rise of the Democracy

CHAPTER VIII
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Mr.George Lansbury, M.P., and Mr.Will Crooks, M.P., are well known for their work on the London County Council and on their local borough council and board of guardians.

Similarly with other Labour members of Parliament.

Their lives are marked by a sense of public responsibility, with the result that in the House of Commons they are grave, business-like, and undemonstrative.

The Labour members do not make "scenes"; they respect the rules of the House and the dignity of the National Assembly, partly because they are all in sober middle age, but more because they have learnt that public business can only be carried on by due observance of order; and they are in Parliament to get business done for their constituents, to promote legislation that will make life easier for the working class.

When Mr.Victor Grayson, in the exuberance of youth, and with a passion that blazed out against the misery of the poor, made a "scene" in the House of Commons, and was expelled, the Labour members were quite sincere in their disapproval.


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