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'The Popular Poll-Parrot', 1866. The poll-parrot is perched on the bar of universal suffrage, reflecting the continuing agitation of the Reformists for Parliamentary Reform. Naughty Bob Lowe refers to Robert Lowe, the Liberal MP whose opposition to reform had had the effect of finally bringing down his own party's administration. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 20, 1866.