Mr Francis Blundell: I suppose that would not have been a bribery Budget?
Mr Francis Blundell: On a point of Order. May I ask if the hon. Member is addressing himself to this Amendment or the next one?
Mr Francis Blundell: I beg to move, in page 3, line 41, to leave out the word "British." In spite of what the Minister said a few minutes ago, I still desire to urge, as strongly as I can, the point of view of the Lancashire egg producer, I interrupted the hon. Gentleman the Member for Lancaster (Mr. Tomlinson) a short time ago because I feared that he was confusing the issue. The Lancashire egg producer does not...
Mr Francis Blundell: I am very glad that my right hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary has resisted this proposed new Clause. I do not think there is any force in the argument put forward by the hon. Member who has just sat down. If a society with branches wishes to have the same benefits for all the branches, if it wishes the rich branches and the poor branches, the strong branches and the weak branches, the...
Mr Francis Blundell: Has my hon. Friend any information that knowledge was lacking in those cases?
Mr Francis Blundell: So they did get the information?
Mr Francis Blundell: I rise only for a few minutes to express the very strongest dissent from the views just expressed by the hon. Member for West Leicester (Mr. Pethick-Lawrencce) and also by the hon. Member for Barnstaple (Sir B. Peto). This unsavoury subject is brought forward on every possible occasion in this House on some pretext or another. On this occasion, the pretext has been the fact that the...
Mr Francis Blundell: I hope I did not misunderstand my hon. Friend, but I think in one case he cited, as the reason why the father should not be allowed to have a family, the fact that he was earning only 24s. a week. Now I come to the question of the need for this teaching. I assert that there is no young couple in this country who get married who are not flooded with all sorts of information on this subject....
Mr Francis Blundell: Will the right hon. Gentleman say a word about credit for improvements?
Mr Francis Blundell: May I ask the hon. Gentleman if that is part of the official policy of the Labour party?
Mr Francis Blundell: And pool surpluses?
Mr Francis Blundell: Would the hon. Gentleman ask his leaders to put it in their agricultural policy?
Mr Francis Blundell: Will the right hon. Gentleman accept the same idea in respect of chapels?
Mr Francis Blundell: For the first time in my life I find myself in agreement with the hon. Member for Peckham (Mr. Dalton). At the same time, I am anxious to dissociate myself from the manner in which he applied his argument. The hon. Member for Peckham, who does not now employ his military title, is known to be gallant in fact, although he may not be so referred to in this House. For this reason I am the more...
Mr Francis Blundell: Where could you put people on the land here?
Mr Francis Blundell: I am sorry to interrupt, but the point to which I called attention was that the hon. Member had said you could put the men on the land for one half of, £150. I admit that many people could be put on the land, but not at the price the hon. Member says.
Mr Francis Blundell: Oh, no, at the expense of putting them on the land.
Mr Francis Blundell: The land in this country is developed.
Mr Francis Blundell: Is it not stated in the Labour agricultural policy that the milk supply is now ripe for nationalisation?
Mr Francis Blundell: More hay!
