Bernard Partridge cartoons from Punch magazine
The Great Compensation. First Backwoods Peer. "This monstrous proposal will deprive us of our ancient privilege of voluntarily absenting ourselves from the upper house." Second Ditto. "On the other hand we shall then be free to give the populace a chance of being represented by us elsewhere" [a Lord holds up the headline Reform of The Lords]
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![The Great Compensation. First Backwoods Peer. "This monstrous proposal will deprive us of our ancient privilege of voluntarily absenting ourselves from the upper house." Second Ditto. "On the other hand we shall then be free to give the populace a chance of being represented by us elsewhere" [a Lord holds up the headline Reform of The Lords]](https://magazine.punch.co.uk/img-get2/I0000rOyfkLsxfnA/fit=1000x750/InterWar-Bernard-Partridge-Cartoons-Punch-1927-06-29-713.jpg)
