Former MP for Keighley
I was particularly interested when the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Radice) said that he felt that the miners should be paid a much higher wage. What I am interested lo know is how much that would be and how much it would cost the industry. He also mentioned that the Prime Minister had said that the 16 per cent. offer would cost £44 million. Our constituents want to know how much...
That figure of 2p a ton is one that I have heard, but I have heard much higher ones. I was interested to note that, during the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. Crouch), the hon. Member for Derbyshire, North-East (Mr. Swain) said, in a derogatory tone, "Talk." I do not want to fight ; I far prefer to talk. I am reminded of the saying, "Jaw-jaw is better than war-war." I...
Some of them were typical Socialists driving rather luxurious cars. I was also overtaken by 14 lorries and 17 vans. Anyone who has experienced some of these large lorries going past will know what this means.
I am being serious on this and it is time that the hon. Gentleman considered his country and not his great mouth.
No. I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. Everyone agrees that travelling at 50 mph saves petrol. That is the object of the exercise. But people seem to be forgetting that this limit is still in operation. Driving on a motorway requires a lot of self-control. Is it still necessary for this 50 mph limit to be observed? If so, will the Government emphasise this in newspapers, on television...
My next point concerns my constituency and the new Post Office rule whereby deliveries and collections to and from rural post offices are being reduced to save an estimated 10 per cent. of Post Office petrol consumption. In the rural Pennine areas many of the villages which are termed rural are in fact industrial villages. This was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. It started up in the...
Further to the question asked by the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson) about human freedom, will my right hon. Friend, when he next meets the leaders of the USSR, raise with them the rights of minority religions in Russia to prac- tise their faiths, because, although the Jews have hit the headlines, there is another cruelly harassed minority, namely, the Baptists?
It is also interesting that the Indian Ocean at present contains a certain number of Russian ships. If we have a number of frigates there, perhaps we can see what is happening with regard to those Russian ships, whereas if our frigates were not there we would not know about the movements of Russian ships.
