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Roy Jenkins Quotes

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
Roy Jenkins

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Type:
Politician Quotes
Category:
British Politician Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 11, 1920
Date of Death:
January 5, 2003
Nationality:
British
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