Results 1-5 of 5 for smoking speaker:Bruce George
- Supplementary Estimates 1991–92: Staffordshire Regiment (4 Feb 1992)
Mr Bruce George: ...? Will we keep control of the Allied Command Europe rapid reaction corps? The Ministry of Defence has got the threat analysis wrong. How long will it be before that folly is exposed? The Treasury smoking gun is visible for all who wish to see it. Why should an analysis of security be determined by the Treasury rather than the Ministry of Defence? The key question is whether an Army of...
- New Clause 1: Report on Costs and Savings Arising from Provision of Dockyard Services (8 Apr 1986)
Mr Bruce George: ...and the cure for many of the ills in our economy. When that principle was applied to the Ministry of Defence, it was obliged to implement lunacies that had been decided upon years ago in the smoke filled rooms of Tory Central Office, or wherever the manifesto was drafted. The result of the Government's policies provides an inane solution. It will exacerbate this country's already...
- Unemployment (Walsall) (23 Dec 1982)
Mr Bruce George: ...grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) for allowing me a few minutes in which to endorse his forceful speech. While Ministers are enjoying their Christmas lunches, smoking their Havana cigars, and knocking hack their port—probably in warmer climates than those of the West Midlands or the United Kingdom—perhaps they should think about the...
- Orders of the Day — Horserace Betting Levy Bill (27 Feb 1981)
Mr Bruce George: ...like to introduce a Bill to develop tourism in Walsall, which because of de-industrialisation is becoming more attractive. People are able to wander around where factories once stood in far less smoke than there used to be, thanks to the industrial policies of the Government. There is a big attendance in the House today and I hope that many will stay to support the Homeworkers (Protection)...
- CONTROL OF POLLUTION BILL [Lords] (17 Jun 1974)
Mr Bruce George: ...conspicuous lack of both greenness and pleasantness. I hope that in some small way this measure will reverse the process and create a more favourable environment. At one time pollution, noise and smoke were regarded by many as the inevitable price we had to pay for progress. In a modern, sophisticated age I believe that we can have progress and economic growth yet still improve the...