Dr Alan Glyn: ...to restore the sort of spirit of community that we had during the war—the sense of all belonging to one nation. I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. Fraser) for introducing the motion. It has given us the chance of discussion over a very wide area. The debate is about the defence of our nation, and it is taking place on a non-party basis. We all...
David Winnick: I listened with considerable interest to the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Fraser). He has certainly shown himself to be a fluent speaker. I once went on a parliamentary delegation to his constituency, and I found it a most interesting and admirable place. I look forward to paying a return visit, but not on a delegation. I am sure that we shall hear a great deal from the hon. Gentleman, to...
Mr John Fraser: As the bingo callers say, 13 is lucky for some, and I hope that Amendment No. 13 will lead to a spirit of amity, conciliation and expedition in our proceedings. In Committee, the Opposition and some of my hon. Friends wanted the reports of the Price Commission to be published quarterly. When the Bill was published we had proposed that they should be annual, but I promised to study what the...
Mr Hugh Fraser: ...we would make nuclear engineering impossible we would be faced, by the end of the century with thousands of millions of pounds worth of industrial equipment that could no longer be used. We are lucky, because we have 300 years of coal supply. Our problem is to get the people to mine that coal. We are surrounded by oil and gas—for the present. We should remember the pressures on the...
Mr Kevin McNamara: I have listened with interest to what the right hon. Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. Fraser) has said. It reminded me of the visit I occasionally have to make to some of my constituents who are in prison, all of whom are perfectly honest, moral and upright men and women except that they happen to have murdered their mother or father or robbed a bank, and, apart from the law, they would not...
Mr Hugh Fraser: ...them more than I do, but in church we want to be sure that we can do something we know about and that we know the form and set of the procedure. I must say to my Church of England colleagues how lucky they are to have the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and what a great misfortune it would be for this country if that were to disappear. So there is the problem which has been a problem for...
Mr Patrick Duffy: In a remarkable speech, the right hon. Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. Fraser) has asked the House to set its discussion of the Budget Statement against the sombre background of world problems, an ill-fitted mechanism for food distribution and an equally ill-fitted financial mechanism for ordering nations' payments. He has reminded us of a rising temper on the part of the deprived peoples...
Mr John Fraser: ...of the schools but I prefer not to do so—except in the case of the Thomas Calton School, which is a well-know example—because it can sometimes add to their problems. My constituency is very lucky. Practically every secondary school in my constituency is new. The one exception is the Strand grammar school, and it would be interesting to have an indication of the Secretary of State's...
Mr Cranley Onslow: I should like to endorse the concluding point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. Hugh Fraser). One of the real purposes Parliament can still hope to achieve is that of trying to ensure that we get value for money on defence expenditure, that we get it now and will go on getting it in the future. I am slightly sceptical about the way in which the experimental...
Mr John Fraser: Does my right hon. Friend accept that Europe is very lucky to have as leaders of its two strongest nations Social Democratic Heads of State who are able to reach such a degree of unanimity? Can he say whether Herr Brandt and he were able to reach unanimity on steps inside N.A.T.O. to restore democracy in Greece, which must be of great concern to both democratic leaders?
Mr John Boyd-Carpenter: ...of the loss which we have sustained. I would also like at this stage to express our immense indebtedness to the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff. Parliament and the nation are very lucky to be served by an official of the high intellectual quality and capacity of Sir Bruce Fraser. The fact that our reports appear to have a considerable impact upon the conduct of government is...
Mr Graham Page: ...he would have been paying had he believed what was said by the right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. George Brown), or what he was reported to have said. That 10s. a week applies if the borrower is lucky and is on a 7⅝per cent. mortgage. He is more likely to be paying about £1 a week more than he would have been paying in 1964. This is the measure of the increase of the rates of interest...
Mr Michael Noble: ...to build a hotel, we will say in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester or London, to a satisfactory standard, the sort of hotel which will attract any American or European, it will attract, if one is lucky, during the course of the year, 25 per cent. or 30 per cent. of overseas guests. The great bulk of people who will fill the hotel will be people who are on business in that city, and whose...
Miss Betty Harvie Anderson: ...in Scotland— you may find as many as 1,000 registered unemployed living within daily travelling distance from a factory. Half of these will be labourers and of the 500 who are not, you will be lucky to find 50 skilled and semiskilled men suitable for your particular job. What a tragedy it is if, when we are on the fringe of a great development pattern, certainly in central Scotland, we...
Mr Edward Mallalieu: ...and wider, something more on a world scale, could not have been thought up to deal with this situation. I give the Bill the same cautious welcome as my hon. Friend the Member for Hamilton (Mr. T. Fraser) gave it. Caution is necessary, not so much because of what is in the Bill as because of what is not in it, and also because of doubts about the efficacy of the Bill to do what it sets out...
Dr Horace King: ...to pay with a day of precious Parliamentary time—the more precious at the end of a Session—as it is doing today. I echo the uneasiness of one who loves Parliament, that the Government have been lucky in sacrificing only half of their Parliamentary time today because the half a day on private Members' business would have come from the Government in any case. I hope that this is not a...
Hon. Thomas Galbraith: If I may speak again by leave of the House, for the third time, it may be "third time lucky". I think that the difference between us comes from whether or not a tree is to be specified in the scheme. I say that it has to be specified, because it is permanent. The hon. Member wishes it to be treated like a bush or scrub and, therefore, not specified. I am afraid that I cannot resile from my...
Mr Arthur Skeffington: ...of Harrods petition their own employees' council because they are concerned about their future, that fact gives weight to the point I am making. Thirdly, if one looks at the careers of Mr. Fraser and Mr. Clore, it is obvious that such operations tend to create monopoly conditions. Generally speaking, these do not function in the interests of the public and often not even of the workers...
Mr Thomas Fraser: ...well informed about Government policy then as we were after listening to the speech that he made to us today. The right hon. Gentleman and others have told us that we ought to consider ourselves lucky, because there was a recession in America and unemployment there and in Canada, France and some countries of Europe ranged from 7 per cent. to 9 per cent. while Britain's figure was about 2...
Mr Emrys Hughes: ...this Minister— the influence of whom, by hereditary or acquired wealth,"— I would not say that about this Minister— by superior abilities,"— I would not say that about this Minister— or a lucky combination of circumstances, obtains a principal place in the administration of the affairs of government. Of course, an attempt was made to sack Burns. Happily, it did not succeed. But...
