Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 November 1976.

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Photo of Mr Bruce Grocott Mr Bruce Grocott , Lichfield and Tamworth 12:00, 22 November 1976

The hon. Gentleman well knows that this is a wrecking amendment—[HON. MEMBERS: "No."] If during consideration of the Housing Finance Bill the House of Lords had decided "We shall make this Bill apply only to county boroughs and not to districts", would Tory Members have taken the view "We have a great deal of what we wanted, and that will suffice"? Would they have taken the view that the Labour majority in the other place—because that is what would have to happen in my hypothetical example—had taken a balanced and reasonable view and that therefore they would accept only a proportion of the provisions of their Bill? Of coure they would not. They would have taken the view that a political majority in another place was seeking to damage the Government.