Mr David Kirkwood, the Socialist member of the House of Commons for Dumbarton, met with a "facer" in the House, and even his own colleagues joined in the roar of laughter tha't greeted his discomfiture. There was a proposal under discussion to appoint two judges with Indian experience to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to assist in the hearing of Indian appeals, and to pay them £2OOO a year each. Sir Henry Slesser, from the Socialist front bench, approved this, but Mr Kirkwood protested against the proposed salary. "What is it," he asked, "that these judges have that is superior over me?" "Brains," replied a Conservative member.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 16
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