Environment: Leafleting Debate

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Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville

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Monday 9th July 2012

(12 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville Portrait Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
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My Lords, is my noble friend aware of the irony towards which he is leading us whereby local authorities will be castigated as being philistine because they intervene on cultural leaflets when recent archaeology demonstrates that the philistines were actually very civilised people?

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I am sure that they were, and far be it from me to suggest that any behaviour by a local authority is philistine.

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