Patriotism

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 December 1973.

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Photo of Mr Neil Kinnock Mr Neil Kinnock , Bedwellty 12:00, 20 December 1973

Will the Prime Minister try to direct his back benchers to stop seeing "reds under the Ted" in the present crisis? Does he agree that, unlike the Tory Government of a previous generation, patriotism has become the first refuge of a scoundrel, and will he stop perverting love of country for his own peculiar short-term aims by trying to bring public criticism down upon the heads of miners and other industrial workers in strife, who are good servants of this country?