Former MP for Ilford South
The hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath (Mr. Denis Howell) has put forward a case for his own union and he will not expect me to deal with that, but will accept that I mean no discourtesy. On the question of moderates in the trade unions, the hon. Gentleman got the situation wrong when he dealt with our normal thinking on the matter. In every trade union, big or small, there is a very...
I do not believe it.
I am not going to give way to the hon. Member, who has, of course, coalfields in Ealing.
We are talking about the three-day week as though everyone was on it. We are not all on a three-day week. Some people, particularly in large engineering firms, have great difficulty in working outside the three-day week, but many smaller industries—and we should congratulate both managements and unions in them—are showing considerable inventiveness and ingenuity in managing to keep their...
I am talking about Britain. The speech which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made yesterday was statesmanlike, and was delivered in the most difficult circumstances. What I regretted was that the Leader of the Opposition could not rise to the occasion. Instead, he made petty party political points which were quite unnecessary in this very serious situation. Like my hon. Friend the...
Very low. I think that the executive of the National Union of Mineworkers and the ASLEF executive will not break this country. Hitler could not do it, and I am damned sure that these two bodies will not do it, either.
The hon. Gentleman says that they are not trying to. He should read the speeches of Mr. McGahey, Mr. Cargill and one or two others, who first want to see the Government broken and then the society in which we live crushed. That is the objective of the Communist Party in this country. We delude ourselves if we think that the Communist Party is concerned simply with getting an extra £2 or £3...
They are taking this action to put millions of fellow workers out of work, and they do not feel the slightest shame in doing it. My constituents are, perhaps, suffering worse than many people because the diesel railway runs through the southern part of the town to Southend. No trains are running through there at all, but my constituents get to work. They know their duties and obligations to...
