Monty Raphael Peters & Peters gives us his thoughts on the passing of 'Hansard'
The birth of 'Hansard' was announced to the House of Commons by Sir W Joynson-Hicks the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Perhaps given the ups and downs of this infant's life it was significant that Winston Churchill said of the midwife (known affectionately or otherwise as Jix): 'He runs the risk of being most humorous when he wishes to be most serious'. Had the procedure by which a taxpayer makes 'a voluntary or quasi voluntary disclosure' plus a pecuniary settlement to expunge past tax fraud been christened a 'Jix' it would have suited it better.
Not much is known of Hansard's early life. When it was...
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Monty Raphael Peters & Peters gives us his thoughts on the passing of 'Hansard'
The birth of 'Hansard' was announced to the House of Commons by Sir W Joynson-Hicks the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Perhaps given the ups and downs of this infant's life it was significant that Winston Churchill said of the midwife (known affectionately or otherwise as Jix): 'He runs the risk of being most humorous when he wishes to be most serious'. Had the procedure by which a taxpayer makes 'a voluntary or quasi voluntary disclosure' plus a pecuniary settlement to expunge past tax fraud been christened a 'Jix' it would have suited it better.
Not much is known of Hansard's early life. When it was...
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