Former MP for Walsall
Mr Patrick Collins is a former MP for Walsall.
Former MP for Walsall
Entered the House of Commons on 15 November 1922 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 10 May 1929 — General election
I congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer on his proposal with regard to this tax. This tax bears very hardly upon working people. To-day, if a person takes a 6d. seat, he has to pay 2d. in tax. If he takes a 2d. seat, he has to pay ½d., or, if he takes a 5d. seat, he has to pay 1d. This tax has crushed the small cinema proprietors and the poor showmen of England. Throughout all parts...
I have been very interested to hear the hon. and learned Member for York (Sir J. Butcher) telling us the story of this Bill, but I do not think he knows anything about it at all. I do not suppose he has ever been to see any show. It is only what he has read in evidence. The true test is to see the animals perform. I have had twenty or thirty lions—[Interruption.]—no, not wild lions. You...
It is the namby-pamby people who get up this legislation for this country. We have enough legislation now on the Statute Book to curtail any injury or brutality, if there be any. I cannot see why, in a Debate such as this, hon. Members should interfere with the rights of our people. Bostock's Menagerie has been for 120 years on the road, travelling from place to place. During that 120 years...
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