not be irrelevant: Then they came back, but not, Not the four hundred. I see that the Home Secretary is going to follow me. I am sorry for him, too. He always wears the air of injured innocence which we might expect to find on the face of a virtuous and respectable mayor or alderman who has been caught in a somewhat disreputable and compromising situation. I ask him: does he really think he can cling to office for 2 years more until this Bill has passed into law under the workings of the Parliament Act ? The last election was abnormal. There had not been one for 10 years. There had been a total cessation of ordinary party warfare, on our side at least. A large portion of our voters, our men, were abroad -- several millions-and out of touch with any of the party associations with which they would have been ranged had they been at home. It was abnormal. I have no doubt that in party circles it is calculated that the majority gained at the last Election, whatever may be said 216 about it, will be able to run on for its full legal term and make the British people drain their cup to the last dregs. No doubt it will be helpful -- here I see the hand of the master craftsman, the Lord President --  Craft is common both to skill and deceit. No doubt it will be helpful to party discipline to be