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The House Of Lords Is The British Outer Mongolia For Retired Politicians.

Experience Is The Only Real Teacher And If You Keep A Diary You Get Three Bites At Educating Yourself - When It Happens, When You Write It Down, And When You Reread It And Realise You Were Wrong. Making Mistakes Is Part Of Life. The Only Things I Would Feel Ashamed Of Would Be If I Had Said Things I Hadn't Believed In Order To Get On. Some Politicians Do Do That.

There Is Good And Bad In All Of Us And The Church Uses The Idea Of Original Sin To Control Us By Saying That, If We Do Not Obey The Bishops, We Will Rot In Hell.

We Used To Have A War Office, But Now We Have A Ministry Of Defence, Nuclear Bombs Are Now Described As Deterrents, Innocent Civilians Killed In War Are Now Described As Collateral Damage And Military Incompetence Leading To Us Bombers Killing British Soldiers Is Cosily Described As Friendly Fire. Those Who Are In Favour Of Peace Are Described As Mavericks And Troublemakers, Whereas The Real Militants Are Those Who Want The War.

Anyone From Abroad Will Tell You That It Is The Class System That Really Lies At The Root Of Our Problems, Economic And Industrial. The House Of Lords Symbolises That.