Word: pikestaffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plain as a pikestaff is the fact that Britain's electoral system should some soon day be revised. Only 58 Liberal M. P.'s were returned at the last election by 5,257,536 Liberal votes. But the two larger parties, Labor and Conservative each obtained more than four times more M. P.'s than the Liberals, though they each received less than twice as many votes as were cast for Liberal candidates...