"It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament"

This quote by Bernadette Devlin is a criticism of the British Parliament in the late 1960s. Devlin is referring to the truth that the British Parliament was controlled by wealthy, blessed males who had little understanding of the battles of the working class. By permitting an "urchin" into Parliament, Devlin is recommending that the British Parliament was enabling somebody who was not from the fortunate class to have a say in the government. However, Devlin suggests that this was an error, as the "final horrors" of permitting an urchin right into Parliament were quickly discovered. This recommends that the urchin was not able to make a meaningful contribution to the government, and that the British Parliament was not ready to accept someone from a different background. Devlin's quote is a criticism of the British Parliament's absence of diversity as well as its failing to identify the value of different perspectives.