Mr Charles Buxton: ...a very revolutionary concession, but after much lobbying and agitating for years this concession was gained, and it was considered to be of so much significance that the workers of that town held torchlight processions in order to celebrate it. I only draw attention to this instance in order to show the significance of this question of hours in the lives of so many workpeople. I draw...
Torchlight Tattoo, Birmingham.
Torchlight Tattoo, Edinburgh.
Lieut-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that these torchlight movements are a wonderful form of training for the recruits? They all take place in their spare time, and they enjoy it very much. Between £500 and £600 was raised for charitable purposes by these tournaments. Will he reconsider his decision?
...not the breach of a treaty, because there was provocation. I think his greatest offence was that in the inflammable conditions of Europe he should commit it in so reckless a manner. He organised a torchlight procession through a powder magazine, and there has nearly been a very shattering explosion. But the invasion of the Ruhr by the French came six months after they had agreed to a pact...
Mr George Tomlinson: ..., if the trade which we have is to be maintained and the people who are now walking the streets in Lancashire are to be put back to work. As we meet in this House to-night there is in Blackburn a torchlight procession and the employers and workers are marching together. They are asking that Parliament should do something realistic towards helping the people in that industry who have been...
Sir James Henderson-Stewart: ..., but could I put a personal view to him? It is not a matter of a single band in a village which has been troubling us, but the prospect of a repetition of Nuremburg in this country, with organised torchlight displays and all the paraphernalia that goes with them. At the moment these things are permitted, as the right hon. Gentleman said, but I hope we shall have in him one who will,...
Hon. Oliver Stanley: ...of his phrases. He referred to the demonstrations of 1911 which so clearly showed what public opinion was then. He did not say much about the demonstrations of 1948. I expected to hear an account of torchlight processions thronging those villages he described so graphically, burning effigies of the Peers in their robes and lauding to the skies the great reformers of the Government—but...
Mr David Pryde: ...a great number of houses. I know that the Leader of the Opposition also is prone to a little historical review, and I intend in the short time at my disposal to try to peer into the future by the torchlight of the past. I have here the figures of the houses built in Scotland under the various Acts between the two world wars. They can be found in HANSARD of 17th June, 1947, and were given...
Mr David Williams: .... That is why the appointment of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman did not evoke any intense national fervour in Wales. There were no bonfires on Snowdon, no flags out in Cardiff and no torchlight processions in the Rhondda Valley. There were two criticisms of the previous Minister for Welsh Affairs. The first was that he was not a Welshman. He did not speak the Welsh language and he...
Mr George Thomas: ...were a prohibition it would be regarded as a challenge. I can well imagine the protests in Carmarthen, led by my noble Friend the Member for Carmarthen (Lady Megan Lloyd George). I can imagine a torchlight procession in North Wales. In South Wales we should not be treating the matter lightly if the House told us that we could not hold public meetings to discuss this question before the...
Mr Michael Cliffe: ...advantage by making these statements, but the Government themselves must know by now that they are true. They must have seen some of the things that have taken place in London. They must know of the torchlight parade, in which some hundreds of homeless people took part on what was probably one of the coldest nights of the year. There was nothing political in that; those people were in...
Mr Gordon Oakes: ...merely to kill its liveliness. I assume that this Section was aimed not at the average candidate, but at the black sheep among candidates who wanted to use flamboyant and strident music along with torchlight processions and banners as a sort of rabble rouser which could lead to violence. Mr. Speaker's Conference, in paragraphs 17 and 18 of its Report, considered the matter of the rather...
Mr Charles Pannell: ...I was ocupied yesterday with my budget speech in the House of Lards, with which I was fairly well satisfied, but it is an impossible audience: as Lowe said fifty years ago, it is like 'speaking by torchlight to corpses in a charnel-house'. I will not deal with broad principles. I want to speak about some facets of televising the House of Commons. There are those, like Auberon Waugh, who...
Mr James Callaghan: ...Office Workers which says that the accident rate of postmen has increased. I quite agree, and so I think will everybody in this House. Any of us who has done any canvassing in an autumn election by torchlight will know exactly what the postmen have to put up with. But I think my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Doig) put the matter into the right perspective when he spoke of...
Ms Maureen Colquhoun: ...against sexual exploitation suffered the most appalling damage and harassment. I ought to tell the House what happened. The march started in a joyful atmosphere with many women in fancy dress in the torchlight procession. Only four policemen were present at the start of that "Reclaim the Night" tour of Soho, but within 10 minutes 40 policemen and 10 policewomen were making their first...
Alan Beith: ...view. There are demonstrations of a happy, cheerful kind. In my constituency it has been the practice over scores of years, when the Liberal Party, as it often does, wins elections, to hold great torchlight processions. There has been a long list of Liberal Members in my constituency, such as Sir Edward Grey, whose hackney carriage, when he was elected to the Berwick-upon-Tweed seat, was...
Hon. Douglas Hurd: ...impression was that the people of both communities were deeply shocked and angered by what had happened. This is borne out by the reactions that the Royal Ulster Constabulary has received and by the torchlight vigil. I hope that that anger and shock will be translated into active co-operation to forestall anything similar taking place in the future.
Mr Robert Litherland: ...caused fires. There is a great deal of debris scattered around. Floorboards are missing. Holes in the roof allow some light into the upper floor, but the ground floor is in complete darkness, and torchlight or other artificial light is needed to move about in that area. In this case, the building in question is Victoria mill in Miles Platting, Manchester—a grade 2 listed building, which...
Mr Hugh Dykes: ...chairman of the European Movement in Britain, I am entitled to say that the European movement from all countries marched at Maastricht. The parades, including the gallant band from Britain, and the torchlight processions—which were not reminiscent of torchlight processions in the past, I hasten to add, in case my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North gets excited—were not in...