Former MP for Bristol West
If that is so, Sir, why has it been the custom of the Minister to say, " With the hon. Member's permission " if, in fact, it is not required?
Is not the right hon. Gentleman quite wrong in saying that the tax is not in force, since it came into force at six o'clock on Budget Day?
Will the right hon. Gentleman take notice that the more he sacks his colleagues the more he will restore confidence to all branches of industry?
(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Labour whether he has any further statement to make on the strike position in the London docks.
While I am sure that the whole House will support the right hon. Gentleman in his concluding phrases, will he not agree that the statement he has made, that this potential danger to the public has nothing to do with any grievance against employers and nothing to do with conditions of work or labour, is a most serious one, and that when the immediate objective, which is to defeat the strike,...
He pulled you through the war.
Before I get to the main theme of my speech, I understand—perhaps the right hon. and learned Gentleman will correct me if I am wrong—that today is the Chancellor's birthday. I only hope that he has celebrated it as he himself thinks fit, although his ideas of celebration will, perhaps, not coincide with mine. Certainly we on this side of the House will wish the Chancellor many more...
Oh, yes; I am always more cheerful when speaking than when I am listening to others. Sometimes, in my more depressed moments, I even envy the fate of the Gadarene swine. After all, they did at least commit race suicide in a mood of joyous abandon; they did rush over the precipice. Better that than to go over it as we are going over it with every inch of the way democratically planned, every...
