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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situations: Amendment of the Law (26 Nov 1996): Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...real effects of it will continue to be felt, and that almost all of them will be bad. The leak is the least important aspect of the Budget. It should be known not as the leaked Budget, but as the smoke and mirrors Budget, for which canny Ken turned into conjuror Ken. The Chancellor's Budget pretends to do what it does not. It pretends to be what it is not. It pretends that the small...
Orders of the Day — Restrictive Trade Practices (Stock Exchange) Bill: Exemption of Certain Agreements Relating to the Stock Exchange (30 Nov 1983): Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Wrigglesworth) about the necessity of bringing matters into the open. As was said on Second Reading, there is the smell of the smoke-filled room about this agreement. Whatever Conservative Members may think as a result of the smell of the smoke-filled room and the secrecy of this matter, many suspicions remain in the minds...

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