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Winston Churchill
Aug. 12th, 2013 09:34 amIn his biography on Edmund Burke, Mr. Norman gives us some homey details on the British House of Commons, on how the proportions have always been keep deliberately cozy. After World War Two, when the House was to be rebuilt, Winston Churchill expressed this idea plainly.
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“The essence of good House of Commons speaking is the conversational style, the facility for quick, informal interruptions and interchanges … [This] requires a fairly small space, and there should be on great occasions a sense of crowd and urgency … a sense of the importance of much that is said and a sense that great matters are being decided, there and then, by the House.”
-- Winston Churchill
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“The essence of good House of Commons speaking is the conversational style, the facility for quick, informal interruptions and interchanges … [This] requires a fairly small space, and there should be on great occasions a sense of crowd and urgency … a sense of the importance of much that is said and a sense that great matters are being decided, there and then, by the House.”
-- Winston Churchill
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