Part of Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 4:45 pm on 20 April 1988.
Simon Hughes
Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
4:45,
20 April 1988
I shall give way in a moment.
The people who will be in the front line, because they have no earnings to attach and no goods on which a warrant of distress can be executed, will be the homeless. They will be locked up. It is a funny way to solve the crisis of homelessness in Britain by putting people in prison.
To allow another Member to speak.
