Sir Knox Cunningham: While appreciating your difficult situation, Mr. Speaker, in this matter—
Sir Knox Cunningham: —and the Ruling which you have given, does it not make a mockery of Parliamentary democracy to debate a Bill which many Members have not seen? Would you accept from the Leader of the House a Motion to adjourn the debate until the Bill is put before hon. Members?
Sir Knox Cunningham: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would you tell the House what authority you have to silence an hon. Member in respect of the length of his speech when he is on his feet?
Sir Knox Cunningham: Can the right hon. Gentleman say definitely that the Divorce Bill is coming on tomorrow? If it is on the Order Paper tomorrow, what is the reason?
Sir Knox Cunningham: If the Prime Minister feels that the expenditure of £50,000 was of value to this country in respect of the visit to Nigeria, would he consider going to Anguilla?
Sir Knox Cunningham: As the Leader of the House has said to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition that he hopes that the trade union Bill will be introduced before Whitsun, will he say whether it will go through all its stages before the Summer Recess?
Sir Knox Cunningham: On a point of order. Mr. Speaker, you have often said that private Members must not make quotations at Question Time. Is it in order for a Minister to quote?
Sir Knox Cunningham: Including the Liberal Party.
Sir Knox Cunningham: I should be grateful—
Sir Knox Cunningham: rose—
Sir Knox Cunningham: This is quite untrue.
Sir Knox Cunningham: It happens to be quite untrue.
Sir Knox Cunningham: rose—
Sir Knox Cunningham: Is it also in the nature of the Socialist beast to increase taxation and enlarge expenditure?
Sir Knox Cunningham: Would the right hon. Gentleman agree that, in whatever part of the United Kingdom a civil authority requests the Armed Forces to aid it, to protect public property or indeed lives, that request is naturally granted? Would he also condemn, as I think he has, terrorism, whether it be from the I.R.A. in England in 1939, or in Ulster in the 1950s and early 1960s, or today when there are terrorist...
Sir Knox Cunningham: —property and, in a very grave situation, endangering lives?
Sir Knox Cunningham: Satan rebuking sin.
Sir Knox Cunningham: When?
Sir Knox Cunningham: asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will state the amount paid in supplementary benefits to the families of persons taking part in official and unofficial industrial disputes, respectively, during the past 12 months.
Sir Knox Cunningham: I have been listening with great attention to what the hon. Gentleman has been saying about patronage. Is he able to help me on this? After the next General Election, it may be that there will be other parties besides the Liberal Party, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. How will they be placed in relation to patronage?