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Socialist Press1975 1975-03-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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Leafing through the Nuclear News', we came across the "Appointments Vacant' section.
Evidently in these years of crisis there are still shortages of labour here and there.
Take the CIA for example. It has openings for nuclear engineer to engage in the analysis of inforration on foreigh nuclear activies... little or no experience is required:
Unfortunately for English workers with time on their hands, US citizenship is obligatory. But, the ad assures us, the CIA is 'an equal opportunity employer, and leaves the way open for the amateur.
GOOD LORD
Mr. Lee, a Labour MP from Birmingham, tried to introduce a Bill to take away the rights of hereditary peers to attend the House of Lords when the present incumbent: die.
Neediess to say his Bill had abou the same chances as a snowball in a crematorium.
While other Labour MPs limited themselves to derisive laughter, a Mr. Stokes (Halesowen and Stourbridge, Conservative) took up the cudgels for "the age of chivalry' The Bill, he claimed, sought to make a violent, almost revolutionary change' in a constitution which had been refined and handed down over the centuries.
*The strength of the House of Lords', he went on, 'is due in part to the very illogicality of their selection, due perhaps to the workings of inscrutable providence "The English still love a Lord" Peers were honest, brave and true and many ordinary people would prefer to be ruled by a fourteenth earl than a fourteenth Mr. So and So.' Without Government support Mr. Lee's luckless Bill was resoundingly defeated. We await with bated breath news of which Labour MPs will find themselves elevated by 'inscrutable providence to bedfellowship with Lord Lambton in the next Honours List.