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We have not attempted to make the fuel and power industries the shuttlecock of party politics.
This matter has been something of a shuttlecock, but in any case we have now got a little further than we were when we started.
For too long the industry has been the shuttlecock of politicians.
Be that as it may, we have lived with the shuttlecock for a long time.
The term "political shuttlecock" has been used on a number of occasions in this debate.
I deplore making a shuttlecock out of this industry, as has been done with other industries.
I feel a little like a shuttlecock today.
Here we have a very important basic industry which the politicians have decided is to be a political shuttlecock.
