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It follows that, if the basis on which the hereditaries sit here is to be removed, that of the Bishops should go too. There is a grim rationalist logic about that—get rid of the hereditaries and chuck out the Bishops. The famous word used by people who never want to argue but wish merely to assert is to say that it is “indefensible”. In my view, nothing that has existed for a very long time is indefensible, though you may be up against it in certain ways. It needs to be argued and proved.