Results 1–20 of 53 for speaker:Mr Dennis Hobden

BRIGHTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order) (23 Feb 1970)

Mr Dennis Hobden: The House will recall that on a previous occasion the Bill was defeated by a small majority. We make no apology for bringing it back one year later, although some critics have taken our action as being some sort of slight against a time limit, as though we in this House never discuss the same issue twice. It is the people of Brighton who have the right to feel indignant about the previous...

Orders of the Day — Brighton Taxi Driver (Conviction) ( 9 Feb 1970)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I want this evening to raise a problem affecting one of my constituents, a Mr. Brown, who is employed in Brighton by the local taxi company. This debate arises from an unfortunate event in Brighton station at 9 p.m. on the night of 7th January, 1969, when Mr. Brown and a colleague, a Mr. Tasker, were sitting in their taxis on the forecourt of Brighton Stat ion—

Orders of the Day — Brighton Taxi Driver (Conviction) ( 9 Feb 1970)

Mr Dennis Hobden: Mr. Brown and his colleague, a Mr. Tasker, were sitting in their taxis on the forecourt of Brighton Station, which is used as a taxi rank. Suddenly the attention of these two men was attracted by loud screams and cries for help. On looking round, they saw a man in civilian clothes pulling and dragging a 14-year-old boy. Mr. Brown has said that he could see that the boy was in pain. He could...

Orders of the Day — Brighton Taxi Driver (Conviction) ( 9 Feb 1970)

Mr Dennis Hobden: If I have understood you correctly, Mr. Speaker, I must not criticise the courts. I make it clear that I am not doing so. I am merely criticising the evidence which the man gave as between one court and the other. I hope that I am in order in doing that. In the magistrates' court the inspector agreed that it might have looked to a passerby as if he was mishandling the boy. Yet at the higher...

Orders of the Day — Brighton Taxi Driver (Conviction) ( 9 Feb 1970)

Mr Dennis Hobden: Very well, Mr. Speaker. Obviously I bow to your Ruling. In any case, I have almost finished. I want to refer back to Mr. Brown's service with the London police force. He now has a conviction, though he acted with the best of intentions, helping, as he thought, a small boy who was being molested. If confidence is to be restored in Brighton on an incident of this kind, I should be glad if my...

BRIGHTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order) (17 Mar 1969)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I support the Second Reading of the Bill, and, in view of your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, which will allow some wide-ranging debate on the other issues, it will be pertinent to explain why the Bill is before us. I want to say firmly at once that it is not in order to provide a marina at Brighton, just in case the issues get blurred during the debate. The question of the marina was decided over a...

BRIGHTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order) (17 Mar 1969)

Mr Dennis Hobden: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You have made the very point that I was trying to make. I was not saying that disrespectfully, but only to dispel the misconceptions which have arisen. We are concerned in this Bill with the question of adequate road facilities to fit in with the marina scheme. The Minister himself, when the Bill was being discussed, insisted that the additional road facilities should...

BRIGHTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order) (17 Mar 1969)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I understand that, Mr. Speaker, but hon. Members will know the position to which I refer. I do not know whether other speakers will raise this matter, but this is part of the background which I feared could be used to obstruct this scheme. If one examined public opinion in Brighton an the tortured history of the marina project, one could not deny that it has been the essence of a democratic...

BRIGHTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order) (17 Mar 1969)

Mr Dennis Hobden: It depends on what arises from the Bill and what instruction, if any, is given by the Committee when it discusses the issue. But, as far as I am aware, the local authority will be dealing with this on the normal basis laid down by statute. I am not in a position to give any undertaking one way or the other but in another capacity, in which I sit on Brighton Town Council, I can tell the hon....

BRIGHTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order) (17 Mar 1969)

Mr Dennis Hobden: As I said earlier, this system will be required in any case by 1980 whether the marina ever comes to fruition or not. The marina has merely hastened the proposals. I do not want there to be any doubt about that. I am the Member for the constituency in which the marina will be sited, and I can claim to be in touch with public opinion in Brighton on this issue. I want no hon. Member to be in...

Post Office (Dispute) (30 Jan 1969)

Mr Dennis Hobden: Because of the nature of the debate, we are forced to speak about something largely irrelevant to the basic issue. However, if we want an emergency debate, it must be in relation to a particular subject. The debate has tended to be confined to the legal issues—whether my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General is legally able to suspend the 4d. post, whether his actions are correct, and...

Post Office (Dispute) (30 Jan 1969)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I shall be dealing with that point in the course of my speech. The Postmaster-General has the right to suspend the service. Hon. Gentlemen speak as if the withholding of second-class mail were something new which came in with the two-tier system. When the Opposition were in power, second-class mail was often held back to give priority to other mail. This is nothing new. I am puzzled by the...

Orders of the Day — Post Office Bill (11 Nov 1968)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I support the Bill. There seems to be an outlook on the benches opposite that, if an industry is publicly owned, the management is not commercially minded. We should give the lie to this. Captains of private industry have paid tribute to the heads of publicly-owned industries time and again for their efficiency, commercial mindedness and modern outlook. I do not think that we need make a...

Orders of the Day — Post Office Bill (11 Nov 1968)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I am sorry, Mr. Speaker. I was trying to show the connection between consultation processes and the Corporation's new status. Rationalisation of the structure of the unions is needed. Another problem inherent in the Bill is the proposal to extend the retiring age under the Corporation to 65. Much as I rejoice in the fact that the strangulating hand of the Treasury is finally to disappear...

Orders of the Day — Post Office (Two-Tier Letter System) ( 4 Nov 1968)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Mawby), because I was still a serving member of the Post Office when he was Assistant Postmaster-General. I am glad that the hon. Gentleman insisted that he was not attacking Post Office staff, although as a rule people who say that immediately go on to criticise the service and, indirectly, to criticise Post Office staff, because in the...

Orders of the Day — Post Office (Two-Tier Letter System) ( 4 Nov 1968)

Mr Dennis Hobden: It is no good the hon. Gentleman denying it. This is another example of the field days we have here when the Opposition choose the nationalised industries as their political punch-bag and have another go at one of them.

Orders of the Day — Post Office (Two-Tier Letter System) ( 4 Nov 1968)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I am glad that my hon. and learned Friend has drawn that to my attention. I intended to say later that we are subjected to this synthetic indignation about the new two-tier system, but there are few hon. Members on the benches opposite to make these protests. This is typical of the Opposition. They have these periodic field days—whether they are well attended is neither here nor there—as...

Orders of the Day — Post Office (Two-Tier Letter System) ( 4 Nov 1968)

Mr Dennis Hobden: I propose to be fair. I have been a member of the Union of Post Office Workers since I left school. It is a fine union, with one of the best sets of forward-looking officers that one could find in any British trade union. If the hon. Member for Cheadle had gone to the union, and asked for information, he would have found that there were not these restrictive practices and that his criticisms...

Orders of the Day — Post Office (Two-Tier Letter System) ( 4 Nov 1968)

Mr Dennis Hobden: There was an increase, after the Post Office staffs were forced into the first strike in their history. The hon. Gentleman raised two other issues. He said that one cannot pick up mail at the Post Office now as one used to be able to do. But one can do so. I advise him to write to my right hon. Friend and ensure that the person who wrote to him is enabled to do that The hon. Gentleman also...

Orders of the Day — Post Office (Two-Tier Letter System) ( 4 Nov 1968)

Mr Dennis Hobden: My hon. Friend should declare an interest there. The debate shows that the Opposition have an odd sense of priorities. I have tried to defend the Post Office and its staffs against some of their weirder attacks from hon. Members opposite. Basically, there has been a failure of public relations which nobody could deny, least of all my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General, who has been...


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