I should say that their complexion will be piebald.
If any idea is piebald, that surely is.
That might equally be called a piebald system, but nobody has thought of calling it a piebald system until this afternoon.
But it is a tough proposition while it remains in its present piebald and patchwork condition.
You will have uniformity of rating destroyed completely; you will have a piebald donkey of a rating system.
It is not grey; it is piebald, and, on the whole, the dark patches are less prominent this year than last.
Its four legs are almost entirely unrelated to one another and that is one reason why we give the title, "miscellaneous" to this rather piebald animal.
It is no more piebald than our present system, where we have single-member constituencies over the greater part of the country, and have double-member constituencies in others.