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John Morley: “Also, I said that in my opinion, from all the miscarriages attending the past history of this question, not ministries…”

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Also, I said that in my opinion, from all the miscarriages attending the past history of this question, not ministries alone, and leaders of parties, nor parties alone, but parliament itself and parliamentary government were discredited.
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John Morley

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Morley critiques the failures of parliamentary government and the discredit it has faced due to past mistakes.

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