Lord Foulkes of Cumnock: Wales voted to keep first past the post, Northern Ireland voted to keep first past the post, but AV—I was going to say "this bastard of a system", but I must not say that—this awful system that we have been discussing at length was imposed upon the whole of the United Kingdom by a vote in England.
Lord St John of Fawsley: My Lords, is the noble Lord aware that, in the West Country, the word “bastard” is a term of endearment?
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock: In the West Country, rightly so. Where I come from, however, it is not thought of in quite the same manner.
Is this true about the West Country, then?
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Date: 2010-12-20 06:14 pm (UTC)Or merely have been the subject of a wind up.
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Date: 2010-12-23 05:01 pm (UTC)The preservation of this faith is of more consequence than the duties on red lead, or white lead, or on broken glass, or atlas-ordinary, or demi-fine, or blue royal, or bastard, or fool’s-cap, which you have given up; or the Three-pence on tea which you retained.
(from Edmund Burke, "On American Taxation", 1774)
The Guardian should publish a special weekend edition in bastard format.