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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.27.11", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COTTON INDUSTRY (DISPUTE).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "If the employers are unable to carry on their industry with decency to the men and women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.27.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And yourselves!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "they have done before in this Parliament and make them wiser and better Measures. The spectacle of hon. Members above the Gangway protesting against this Resolution is one of the most astounding things that one has seen for a long time. Only a few weeks ago one of their Members put down a Motion on a subject that stands in the forefront of their political programme—the necessity for economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A very good man!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "ty. The taking of private Members' time may or may not be justified, but it is a very serious request to make to the House of Commons, and that that, request should be made and a debate conducted upon it without a single member of the Cabinet on the Front Bench, but with just the Postmaster-General to listen to the views of the House on this subject, is a gross discourtesy to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not been here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "I do not think the reply of the Prime Minister has been at all satisfactory, and I hope that we shall, if necessary, press this Motion to a Division. I do not think the Prime Minister has any conception of what the position really is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "I do not think the reply of the Prime Minister has been at all satisfactory, and I hope that we shall, if necessary, press this Motion to a Division. I do not think the Prime Minister has any conception of what the position really is. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not been here!\"] On the contrary, I have been here this afternoon and made a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They had to tell you all about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "I do not think the reply of the Prime Minister has been at all satisfactory, and I hope that we shall, if necessary, press this Motion to a Division. I do not think the Prime Minister has any conception of what the position really is. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not been here!\"] On the contrary, I have been here this afternoon and made a speech. [ Interruption. ] What happened was this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.74.8", "colnum": "74", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "I think it was the hon. Member for West Wolverhampton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.74.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.74.8", "colnum": "74", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "I think it was the hon. Member for West Wolverhampton. [ interruption. ] I think lie did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.74.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-20", "file": "debates1931-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a028584c28792c41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "it both to the British people and to the Chinese if some institution could be established in this country so that a larger number of British people might have a thorough educational knowledge of the Chinese language and of China, with the idea that they would go out, as missionaries if necessary, but, even better, As trade missionaries, for the purposes of opening up British trade in that country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-20a.129.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.165.10", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "e inquiry in regard to conditions obtaining in Russian timber camps, as testified to in the sworn statement forwarded to the Prime Minister by the right hon. Member for Sevenoaks and otherwise, whereby it, is alleged that Russian timber, which is daily being marketed in this country, is produced and handled by slave labour, thereby affronting the feelings and traditions of British citizens\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.165.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "is passed, this Bill shall not come into operation.\" We are in the hands of the House in a matter like that, but, when the right hon. Gentleman says he is not prepared to deliver a Third Reading speech on the Bill, what was the speech which we have just heard? If he will allow me to flatter him, as he was good enough to flatter me, it was a very model of a rather bad-tempered Third Reading speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ree. They have a perfect right to their convictions. The hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Foot) is steeped to the lips in nonconformity, but his nonconformity consists in conformity, so far as other people are concerned who do not hold the same view as he holds. They must obey the law, but he can claim the right to disobey. He was a supporter of the conscientious objectors to the Education Act of 1902.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all of us!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "because in Committee we discussed this whole matter at considerable length, and the hon. Lady herself proposed an Amendment which entirely modified the original proposal. It is a little difficult on the Report stage, and when there are very few people in the House, to bring forward this Amendment. It is quite true that those who are present have spoken in favour of making the further change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "n town there is a working man of whom I am very proud, because he has had three sons who have graduated from a Catholic school to a secondary school, and again to the universities, and are holding very good appointments to-day. They are a credit to their parents, to the town and to the education authorities who encouraged them. With these examples before us, why do we want this compulsory Measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "ting against it. One of the most deplorable instances of this is that which we have had from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for St. Ives (Mr. Runciman). I thought that at least he was a friend of education who could make his love for education overcome either his political prejudices or his religious difficulties. His reasons are extraordinary. He is going to vote against theGovernment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.304.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "ommons, and, as is quite appropriate, we have heard from the Noble Lord some animadversions upon the merits of this Bill. I hasten to assure the Noble Lord that at all times I like the speech he makes. It is so full of assurance and self-confidence, and abundant faith that all progress, all originality and all intelligent administration left the Board of Education when he departed from it in 1929.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "maintenance allowances. I think I am right in saying that, except for certain detailed alterations, those two general propositions have remained unchallenged up to this very moment. Moreover, it is fair to point out that the Government's proposals have been carried with, on the whole, heavy majorities, save in the case of the incident tonight. Our proposals were advanced originally on two grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "detailed alterations, those two general propositions have remained unchallenged up to this very moment. Moreover, it is fair to point out that the Government's proposals have been carried with, on the whole, heavy majorities, save in the case of the incident tonight. Our proposals were advanced originally on two grounds. [Interruption]. First there were the economic grounds that the raising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-21", "file": "debates1931-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b48a4ced9c85142e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": "ell-considered educational scheme and curriculum provided for them. Not at all. The argument advanced on the Second Reading was this: \"Why should these children have educational opportunities? They belong to the working classes; they are the workers in the fields, they are the people who ought to be engaged in agriculture.\" That was the argument then, but tonight the Noble Lord takes other ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-21a.315.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Change the day.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will do anything that is possible. The right hon. Gentleman knows that we are working under very difficult conditions in getting the White Paper out. I think it may be possible to get it out earlier if that will meet the general convenience of the House. I am willing to change the day of the Debate, but I understood that Monday was the day most convenient to all of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir William Jowitt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir William Jowitt)", "preceding_text": " activity in its appropriate industrial sphere. It is because we believe that, whatever the intention of the framers of the Act of 1927 may have been, that has been the result, that we have felt it our duty to introduce this Bill, and I have no doubt it was for a like reason that at the last General Election a great majority of the electors expressed their approval of the course we are now taking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir William Jowitt)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir William Jowitt)", "preceding_text": "; they cannot be fabricated from without. But by removing the weeds of suspicion and distrust, we can create a soil favourable to that somewhat tender plant, and by removing the causes of distrust implanted by the Act of 1927, we can claim to be making our contribution to that industrial peace which this country so much needs. There is one further criticism with which I want to deal at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "to do so. That, of course, he was perfectly entitled to do. Thereupon, the other men threatened to strike, as they were perfectly entitled to do. To avoid the strike, as was anticipated, the em- ployer got rid of the one non-unionist. Then the breakaway union prosecuted the trade union official for being guilty of intimidation. Do hon. Members really think that that ought to be a criminal offence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": " to some extent, and I submit to a considerable extent, interested in the rate of wages outside. The last ground on which the matter was based by my right hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) was this. Both in answer to a deputation and when defending this Clause on the Floor of the House in Committee, he pointed out that some officials, or an official, had made a very foolish speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "lish speech. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman should not have been too severe on those who from time to time make foolish speeches. The broad general principle, if you consider this thing on its merits, of course remains. I entirely agree that we must keep the Civil Service right outside the storm and stress of party politics. Everybody in every quarter of the House is agreed as to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "and a dry Bill. The cheers which greeted him when he sat down showed only too clearly that his supporters feel that a very plausible case has been made out. The Attorney-General, in his closing remarks, and in one or two other periods of his speech, made an observation about the restrictive character of the legislation of 1927—how it was inspired by resentment after the events of 1926—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "untry as a civil servant of your country, I think that you put a man in a most unfair and a very difficult position. He ought to be relieved from that, and nothing in this Bill ought to alter that which was brought to pass in the Act of 1927. I do not agree with the Attorney-General that that alteration was shabby. I regard it as an alteration which saved a man from a horrible moral dilemma—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NORMAN BIRKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NORMAN BIRKETT", "preceding_text": "unishment, for the events of 1926. Therefore, believing those sentiments as we do, we shall never rest until that Statute is repealed, or virtually repealed.\" On the other hand, as I understood the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, he says: \"You must not touch the Act of 1927. It must remain in its entirety. To touch it or to amend it is akin to an act of sacrilege.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.426.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BIRKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What about the lawyers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BIRKETT", "preceding_text": " it than my hon. and learned Friend. [ Interruption. ] I must have been misunderstood. I am not suggesting the hon. and learned Gentleman said it. He attacked the Section while I am defending its reinstatement in this Bill on the ground that its removal is an invasion of an elementary right of freedom, namely, that a man shall be able to work and not have a condition of that kind imposed upon him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOWEN", "preceding_text": "feeling of that kind on the Opposition side of the House, and if we say that a general strike is not a possibility, what is the necessity for retaining the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act of 1927 in order to impose all sorts of restrictions and penalties should such a thing eventuate? We think that the Bill of 1927 was devised with a cold, callous, and deliberate intention of securing revenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who has called it that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "preceding_text": "It has been called that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.469.4", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROOKE", "preceding_text": "ed in the 1906 and 1913 Debates—but because of the great growth and development of the Labour movement in this country. In 1906 and 1913 it was never imagined by hon. Members opposite that this party in so short a period of time would occupy the seat of Government. I believe it is because we have progressed so rapidly, and that we are now the only alternative to the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.469.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": " I do not wish intentionally to misrepresent him, but as I understand him his argument is this: I want him to interrupt me at once if I am ascribing to him any statement which is wrong or unfair. He argued that, from his reading of the events of 1926, there was no real justification for the 1927 Act. He told us that, instead of that Act being founded on solid reasons, it was founded on resentment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "that he made when the Act of 1927 was being discussed in another place, but the curious feature of the Attorney-General's speech is that, although Lord Buckmaster made a considered statement in the \"Times\" many weeks ago, and although the Attorney-General had had full opportunity of replying to it in the public Press, and full opportunity to reply to it to-day, he has allowed this statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " man-in-the-street is asking is this, and it is the only question he is asking concerning this Bill: Whether under these proposals the conditions of 1926 will be legalised? I see present to-night, and we gladly welcome him as a very distinguished member of the Bar, the new Solicitor-General. That question was repeatedly put to him in the by-election at Bristol, and he never gave a straight answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.488.4", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They gave you your chance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "e about the Act of 1927. May I call the right hon. Gentleman's attention to the fact that all along the line the Tory party has consistently tried to do what the opportunity of 1927 gave them the chance to do? They were merely carrying into effect an old policy to which the country had never consented, and on which they had been defeated whenever they tried it. They seized their opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.488.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-22", "file": "debates1931-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b888c32e3ec0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "r employers backed by the Government. I have seen the Calvary on which the working men of this country have had to suffer. I have seen men, for daring to join a trade union, dismissed, boycotted, compelled to leave their homes and go out of the town where they had lived all their lives, because they dared to combine with their fellows to help one another. I have known the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-22a.489.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-26", "file": "debates1931-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f6e7511f4a54bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! There is not the smallest ground for reproaching anybody with the fact that more has not been accomplished, but it is very necessary to appreciate that, in fact, as regards this question which lies at the very root of the new constitution, nothing has yet been accomplished at all. Then take the next thing. One of the greatest difficulties, and I ask the House to observe this, in provid", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "s the recommendation on this very important subject— that the Conference should register an opinion that it was desirable that an agreement upon the claims made to it should be reached, and that the negotiations should be continued between the representatives concerned with a request that the result of their efforts should he reported to those engaged in the next stage of these negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-26", "file": "debates1931-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f6e7511f4a54bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Indian matter come to the rescue of the country as he did in war-time days, but politics exercise a bewitching fascination upon the right hon. Gentleman, and, when politics come in at the door, his zeal for the retention of India flies out of the window. The right hon. Gentleman is actually supporting Lord Reading's proposals, which go further than those to which the Conservative delegation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-26", "file": "debates1931-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f6e7511f4a54bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "er hesitate to avow, namely, the goal of complete severance between Great Britain and India of every tie except tradition, which in India is adverse, and sentiment, which in India is hostile. Sir, I say that is a frightful prospect to have opened up so wantonly, so recklessly, so incontinently and in so short a time. How will the British nation feel about all this? I am told that they do not care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-26", "file": "debates1931-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f6e7511f4a54bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "eople themselves. All this has earned us rights of our own in India. When the nation finds that our whole position is in jeopardy, that her whole work and duty in India is being brought to a standstill, when the nation sees the individuals among our fellow-countrymen scattered about, with their women and children, throughout this enormous land, in hourly peril amidst the enormous Indian multitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.697.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-26", "file": "debates1931-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f6e7511f4a54bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sydney Street.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "sulted any one of the 80 or 90 distinguished Indians who came to the Round Table Conference? There is no one, Prince or representative of the Depressed Classes, who will not tell him that this movement is vast and spreading, and, not only that, but that they all share sympathy with it. What is the right hon. Gentleman's solution to this? \"Strong government.\" What does he mean by strong government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-26", "file": "debates1931-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6f6e7511f4a54bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "that we have to do it on those grounds. He also said that we are compelled to give self-government to India. There is no compulsion about it. If this country in its wisdom decides that a portion of self-government must be given to that part of the Empire, so let it be, but do not let it go out that there is any compulsion, and that the Government of to-day have been blackmailed into that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-26a.761.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the Government here, as far as unemployment is concerned, are up against a world dazzled by inventions to eliminate space and time, and that every market of the world is glutted with all the necessaries of life?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman two questions? The first is this: Seeing that before a definite decision is to be taken whether this truce can be proceeded with there is to be a further meeting at Geneva between the countries which have ratified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.775.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "k the right hon. Gentleman two questions? The first is this: Seeing that before a definite decision is to be taken whether this truce can be proceeded with there is to be a further meeting at Geneva between the countries which have ratified—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"]—will the President of the Board of Trade give an undertaking to the House that the House shall have an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that these officers have already made statements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Arising from that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.796.6", "colnum": "796", "heading": "SHARING-OUT CLUBS (REGULATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": " agreed that it is high time that something was done to protect the people who subscribe small sums to these clubs, from secretaries who are incompetent or careless, or possibly, dishonest. Cases are continually being reported especially about Christmas time in which large sums of money subscribed by poor people have been lost. Out of many such cases I only propose to trouble the House with a few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.796.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.825.4", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BOYD MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BOYD MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "ted. You cannot tell what is the effect of the repealing Statute without looking at the meaning of the Statute which it has repealed. You must look at the facts which were existing at the time the Act passed to see what it means, including the fact that at the time this Bill is passed there is on the Statute Book a declaration of law which this Bill is intended to alter. A much simpler way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.825.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "intention of His Majesty's Government that a repetition of the General Strike of 1926 shall be legal? We are not so sure as the right hon. Gentleman was in those articles that a general strike is ruled out of the workers' scheme of things. Mr. Cook did not think so in January, 1927. Speaking at Driffield on the 28th of January, he said: Don't say Never again.' Conditions will govern men's actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "rney-General's rather astonishing proposition that a sec- tional strike can be illegal because the coercion of the Government or the possibility of the coercion of the Government amounts to an object in addition to a trade dispute. There have been 900 strikes or lock-outs since our Act, was passed. There has recently been one quite first-class one, and another quite first-class one is in progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "-out!\"] I said \"strikes or lock-outs.\" Have it either way; I do not in the least mind. I will say industrial disputes. The point is this: If the Attorney-General really thinks that, let him go and test it in the Courts and see what they say about a. proposition like that. Nor is there in our Act any restriction on sympathetic strikes unless they are of such a character as to coerce the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "t any restriction on sympathetic strikes unless they are of such a character as to coerce the Government. [ Interruption. ] But inalienable rights have their counterpart in inalienable duties. Every man and woman and child in the country has an inalienable right to use the King's highway. But do we allow people to obstruct the traffic by conducting their brawls in the highway? Of course we do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "ng provision as this has ever been submitted to the House of Commons. Let us examine it. We are here considering a strike so unconnected with furthering a trade dispute that even under the terms of this Bill it is deemed to be illegal; and yet such a strike can be organised, promoted, and carried out with all its horrors, with all its hardships to women and children, and the rest of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To coerce the worker!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "ot stealing at all. I would like to say a word or two about the repeal of the Section in our Act which makes trade union funds liable for wrongs committed in pursuance of an illegal strike. The immunity for wrongs committed in furtherance of a trade dispute afforded by the Act of 1906 to trade union funds, whether one agrees with it or not was at least founded upon an intelligible principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does your Union say about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "self will never again be permitted to work at his trade alongside his old work mates. It is precisely intimidation of that kind that is legalised by this Bill. Hon. Members say that such a man is a blackleg or a scab, although he is only exercising his inalienable right to dispose of his labour as he will. You have only to say of him that he is a parasite or an outlaw, and that settles the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "nservative trade unionists who have freed themselves from the tyranny of being obliged to contribute to political funds? Some people may think that all this in the Bill about the General Strike is only so much red bunting designed to inflame and inspire the, drooping spirits of the fighting troops, and that the primary object of this Bill is to restore the fighting funds of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "liged to contribute to political funds? Some people may think that all this in the Bill about the General Strike is only so much red bunting designed to inflame and inspire the, drooping spirits of the fighting troops, and that the primary object of this Bill is to restore the fighting funds of the Labour party—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]—out of the pockets of their political opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "Interruption. ] Hon. Members ask, why not. It is rumoured that His Majesty's Government are about to bring in a Bill which, by abolishing party motor cars at elections, will do away with the time-honoured jest of riding to the poll in an opposition car; but hon. Members opposite do not disdain themselves to return to Westminster on the pence extracted from Liberal and Conservative trade unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "—a few minutes before the workers come out, in order that these men shall have to walk home. It really is intolerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "ter when he could see the Conservative party demanding measures to prevent an employer from discharging a man because he was a trade unionist. It is such a pity that even right hon. Gentlemen do not always read the Act which they are criticising. If the right hon. Gentleman looks at the Section which this Bill sets out to repeal, he will find that that very provision is made in that Section—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "his country once more to think of the possibilities of a general strike? Is it timely or expedient to give the public grounds to fear that they may once more be made the victims of a minority who are privileged to stand outside the law? This Bill has been brought in on the pretext that it is necessary to restore liberty to the workers. It is not liberty that is being restored; it is licence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And amended!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "preceding_text": "gway. On Thursday afternoon, the hon. and learned Member for East Nottingham (Mr. Birkett), who is unavoidably absent to-day awing to his being engaged elsewhere on public duties—he had the courtesy to send word to say that he would not be present—made it perfectly plain to the House that the party for whom he was speaking were not afraid to have this Bill examined in Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "preceding_text": "ith the argument presented by the hon. and learned Member for Rusholme (Sir B. Merriman), but, before doing so, I should like to preface what I have to say in reply by making two very brief preliminary observations. The first is that I think it is a matter for profound regret that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite should have approached this question from the point of view of party prejudice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "preceding_text": "ntry than industrial peace, then why in the name of common sense should this question not be fairly and impartially examined in Committee with a view to ascertaining where the justice of the matter lies? The hon. Members below the Gangway, not unmindful of the great work that was done in 1906 and in 1913, are perfectly prepared to bring the matter to the test of a careful and thorough examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Not against the State !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "preceding_text": ". and learned Member who has just addressed the House was very emphatic as to the importance of the statutory criminal law being defined, so that there should be no element of ambiguity. I entirely agree with him in that view, but can any man pretend that Section 1 of the Act of 1927 is free from ambiguity? Where does persuasion end and coercion begin? Why, the essence of every strike is coercion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigle Aitchison)", "preceding_text": "ctivities of trade unions.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th May, 1927; col. 1644, Vol. 205.] The right hon. and learned Gentleman, no doubt, was dealing with the matter of the political levy. Why did he say in 1927 that it was necessary to secure the political activities of trade unions? Because he knew perfectly well in 1927, and he knows perfectly well to-day, whatever he may say in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "dustrial dispute, even although it may have some secondary or subsidiary purpose that you can call political, and you want to do that for the reason I have attempted to define, because the dividing line between economic and political has largely disappeared. On the other hand, you want to make it perfectly clear that what you call the revolutionary or the subversive strike is definitely ruled out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "ch of the peace. He came down to the House with this letter and said, \"There you are. What do you make of that?\" We will just look at the letter. I do not know that he quite appreciated that it is perhaps a matter of some delicacy for practising counsel to criticise the Press utterances of Judges, but as we have been twitted with not dealing with the matter, I propose to deal with it very briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "Lord Buckmaster, if the primary purpose is industrial, the secondary purpose may be political or may be revolutionary, and accordingly you may get a revolutionary strike legalised by the terms of this Clause. That is a very plausible argument but it is utterly unsound. The answer is a perfectly simple one. Before I give the answer let the House understand what is the meaning of the word \"primary.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": " best word they could get to express their purpose. Lord Dunedin, referring to the word \"primarily,\" said, That, I take it, is equivalent to mainly. And Lord Warrington said: The use of the word 'primarily' suggests a comparison in the minds of the framers of the Act between classes of purposes some of which may be regarded as main or substantial purposes and the others as secondary or subsidiary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": " judicial authority that the word \"primary\" means \"main.\" Now supposing you had in this country a strike which was really a revolutionary strike, and really subversive of the authority of Parliament. It is perfectly obvious that in that case it would be nonsense to refer to that purpose as a secondary purpose. If you really had a revolutionary strike, of course, the purpose would be primary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": " I am right in saying that Lord Justice Scrutton was not dealing with acts which are criminal under the common law or which are criminal against the State. In our view there is nothing in this Bill to prevent an interlocutory injunction being brought against any person guilty of criminal conspiracy either under the general laws or under the provisions of any Act which deal with trade union matters", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "y, or otherwise to prevent the doing of something that would be plainly criminal according to the existing law. The purpose which the Government had in view in inserting this provision is a perfectly simple one. As the House knows, prosecutions for offences of this kind would take place before the magistrates. Magistrates, as the House knows, are drawn very largely from one class of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "re and complete control of the whole machinery, and there would be no injustice. But take the situation that would arise if you had a widespread strike in this country, and it fell within the provisions of this Bill. You would have prosecutions in every court in the country, and those prosecutions would be conducted at the instance of employers, before panic-stricken and muddle-headed magistrates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "Hon. and learned Members, of whom the right hon. Gentleman who interrupted me is not one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "If hon. Gentlemen opposite will listen for a moment—they are always quite fair to me—they will see that the question I am putting has nothing to do with my view. The question is whether, according to the view of the Government, if this Bill had been law then and the events of May, 1926, had occurred, would those events be legal or illegal? That is the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "that some of the most prominent spokesmen of Labour after the General Strike was over have never found it possible roundly to declare its illegality. This is the way in which the Prime Minister expressed himself at Ormskirk on 5th March, 1927, a year after the strike. He declared that the General Strike was not entered upon for political purposes, that it was merely an extended sympathetic strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "r was the subject matter, but consider what the subject matter is. I am not going to spend time in attempting to define but everybody knows what I mean when I say that the danger of the general strike is its suddenness. I have here the actual words published in May, 1926, and I would ask the House to attend to them. I have taken them for purposes of greater accuracy from the \"Daily Herald\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " add at the end of the strike orders another paragraph. I have got it here. After issuing strike orders that the trades and undertakings were to cease work and so on—picking out the eyes of the industry of the country—you might add this further clause: Under the Trade Disputes Act, 1931, whether the carrying out of these orders is legal or illegal, you are guaranteed complete immunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"How many lock-outs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "hree years together, that there were 1,148 disputes, that 860,000 workpeople were directly involved, and another 105,000 work-people indirectly involved, and that the total number of workpeople involved directly or indirectly was 965,000.I find, and every body regrets this, that the aggregate duration in working days of all disputes in progress during those three years was 14,080,000 working days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "airs to discuss this, that and the other, and knocking out Clause after Clause; but honour will be satisfied, the Government will have fulfilled their promise to the Trade Union Congress, and no harm will be done. I do not conceive that to be my duty. No one who speaks truly and fairly of me can possibly deny that I have shown myself active and eager to see that trade unions get their just rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And doing it very well!.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "hole in a time of crisis and any section of interests, however great or powerful, I believe it to be the duty of every man who cares for individual freedom to be on the side of the community. A general strike is an act of war, it is a form of industrial blockade; and here we have this absurd situation, that the Foreign Secretary is going to Geneva to urge international peace and disarmament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out not strike! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "f war, it is a form of industrial blockade; and here we have this absurd situation, that the Foreign Secretary is going to Geneva to urge international peace and disarmament—[An HON. MEMBER: \"And doing it very well!.\"]—and, I have no doubt, doing it very well; and we have the Home Secretary pointing out to people in Lancashire that striking is not the way to secure improved conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was evidence of stone-throwing \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD", "preceding_text": " do many people in this country good to read and study carefully. We had a somewhat similar assize, and 209 people were charged with unlawful assembly. It was alleged that they had attempted to intimidate two so-called blacklegs. A man who breaks the conventions of his class, even though that class may be the working-class, must expect the condemnation of that class. I will tell you what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why alter it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD", "preceding_text": "s powerful enough to punish them. Let us see how far it went. Two hundred and nine persons were prosecuted. One hundred and fifteen were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, 30 were bound over, 35 were found not guilty, one was sent to Borstal, and 20 cases were withdrawn. Is not that satisfactory to the Tories? Is not that evidence of the strength of the law before the 1927 Act was passed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "ons who suffer but also trade and industry and the country generally. Surely the time has come when we might get a little closer together and build the foundations of our industrial life on firm and strong basis. The country is watching as to what line we shall take on this Bill. We on these benches may receive the sneers and jeers of both parties because we are taking an impartial attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will after the election!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "ally. Surely the time has come when we might get a little closer together and build the foundations of our industrial life on firm and strong basis. The country is watching as to what line we shall take on this Bill. We on these benches may receive the sneers and jeers of both parties because we are taking an impartial attitude—[ Interruption. ] I have drawn the jeers already. I do not mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "so provide that instructions issued by the executive council must be obeyed by every member. It is well known that several of the Civil Service associations instructed their members during the General Strike, on no account to offer voluntary service in any shape or form, beyond their ordinary duties—which they were legally obliged to perform—to help the State in that time of emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is the authority?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "ly and politically. I could not find better words than are used by a barristerat-law who does not belong to the Labour party. He says:— It was an Act to cripple, cabin and confine the legitimate activities of the organised workers and not merely to curb unique excesses. It was a dastardly abuse of Parliamentary power to exploit public panic and anger to spike the guns of political opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GORDON MACDONALD", "preceding_text": " decides that a child ought not to be vaccinated, he is again allowed a certain course. We ask that the same course should be taken with regard to the political levy. Nothing that happened in 1926 justified dealing in this unfair and unreasonable way with the political levy. We support this Bill, and we speak for the trade union movement of this country, which comprises nearly half the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": "ld the rights of, and obtain good terms for, their members, and might make the workers in every industry really partners with the employers. That is my view of what trade unionism ought to be, and it is a very long way from what it is at present. I do not want to see trade unions avoid politics altogether, but I want trade unionism to be free from the chains of any political party in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.914.4", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON, junior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON, junior", "preceding_text": "J. Simon) as to whether Clause 1 of this Bill would legalise the strike that took place in 1926. I am puzzled as to why hon. Members opposite should oppose this Bill. As I understand it, most hon. Members opposite, if not all, take the view that the strike of 1926 was illegal under the law as it then stood. If that be the case, the strike of 1926 would be illegal under the provisions of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.914.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.916.5", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "a trade dispute.\" That is a question of fact. If that was the case, then the strike of 1926 was perfectly legal, and, if it was not for the purpose of furthering a trade dispute, it was outside the ambit of trade union law and was illegal. It is imposible to say to-day, and it will never be possible to say in future, whether the strike action of 1926 was legal or illegal. It is a question of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.916.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": " for a very good reason. \"Labour and the Nation\" was described by the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland in less responsible days as a political dog's breakfast. Wisely, the chiefs of the party laid it aside and fought on something else, they fought on this manifesto. It was signed by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, the Minister of Transport and the Foreign Secretary. It is fairly long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "employers in all those industries that use coal—one can hardly think of one big industry that does not use coal—such as railways, iron and steel works and so forth, said to the coalowners: \"We cannot stand for the present prices of coal. Lock your men out, and we will lock ours out. Let there be a lock-out all round and compel the Government to pass an Act lengthening the working day.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": " In the works with which I am connected I have had a good deal to do with welfare work. We instituted a levy for recreational purposes. At first, it was proposed to have a contracting-in levy. But when the men had to come and say: \"I will pay to your welfare levy,\" only a comparatively small number paid in. Then the works' committee, which was made up entirely of working men, over which I presided", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "great body of the men do pay the levy for welfare and recreational purposes. Therefore, I know very well that the effect of contracting-out is that you get much more money. I was in favour of the principle of contracting-out for recreational work, and I am in favour of it still for such purposes, but there is a very great difference between recreational welfare levies and the political levy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The General Strike!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": " for the repeal of which there was no popular demand. He protests too much. In 1924, at any rate, he recognised that such a Bill would not he innocuous, that it would justify the description of \"the first shot in an industrial war.\" He can have it whichever way he likes, but he cannot have it both ways. What happened since 1924 to justify the production of the Measure which we are trying to amend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-27", "file": "debates1931-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "d920a8deab6dab09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ut of estimate. I am not one of those who believe that a general strike can never come again. Whether a general strike comes again or not depends primarily on the House of Commons, General strikes do not come, as hon. Members opposite seem to imagine, because an irresponsible trade union secretary signs a strike notice. That is not the way trade unions are run. General strikes can only come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-27a.934.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.942.9", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Is it not of the utmost importance to this country that France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.942.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLE", "preceding_text": "When does the right hon. Gentleman intend to endeavour to penetrate this network of Bolshevist camouflage in order to get a solution of this question, and is he not perfectly well aware that all these organisations are interdependent with, and controlled by, the Soviet Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.946.8", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "Not unless I get a mathematician—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.946.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.946.9", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.946.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COLMAN", "preceding_text": "r omnibuses to be seen at certain hours of the day in the West End of London; and if he will give special consideration to the advisability of further restricting those services rather than penalising services such as the motor coaches, which the public have shown that they appreciate and desire, and which bring a great deal of money to London? I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that we have had repeated promises from the London and North Eastern Railway that schemes would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "MATRIMONIAL CAUSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": " that if the condition of insanity has been caused by the conduct of the petitioner, the relief shall not be granted. This ground was part of the recommendations of the majority of the Commission on Matrimonial Matters in 1912, and I should like to recall to the House certain words which the Commissioners set out in their report, showing the extent of the condition which this Bill seeks to remove.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "mmittees of the affiliated unions to pass a special resolution to give the Congress its power on that occasion. Still further than that, whether the executives of the affiliated unions ever desired to pass such a resolution again or not, since 1926 we have passed a law to make a general strike illegal, and we have heard from the Attorney-General that this Bill does not make a general strike legal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "hat throughout his political career his eyes have seen and approved the higher path but his feet have taken the lower. When we are told that we, as civil servants, are to be exempt from a divided loyalty I say, with great respect, that the right hon. Gentleman is talking absolute nonsense. Finally, I would like to make one general observation to the Liberal party and one to the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1005.4", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I hope hon. Members do not imagine that what I have just said, or what I am about to say, is a threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1005.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "f the kind which we are now seeking to repeal. In Russia many forms of agitation were illegal which are legal here. These things did not stop 1905, and they were followed by the events of 1917. Just as 1905 had its sequel in Russia so 1926 will have its sequel in this country if the attitude of the Conservative party towards these problems remains unchanged. In these matters history is on my side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1006.4", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1906!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " of what ought not to be the spirit of the Civil Service of any civilised country than the case which the hon. Member has so clearly and so fully laid before us to-day. I propose this afternoon, if the House will permit me, to approach the discussion of this important question by taking one of those retrospects into the past which are often useful in judging and in facing the issues of the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1006.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You had the first bits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e highest consequence, and they have formed the basis of a great new political party which has been erected upon them, which develops its own views on every aspect of public affairs, which formulates its own foreign and Imperial policy, and which embraces in its scope every subject of interest to the country. Finally, in devouring the Liberal party this new party founded upon trade unionism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y politics—not general politics, but party politics, and the special partisanship and prejudice which they necessarily entail—should be intermingled with industrial matters. It was had for politics, it was worse for industry. That was the change which had taken place, and of which we were bound to take notice. Privileges in this country are always liable to be called in question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " was worse for industry. That was the change which had taken place, and of which we were bound to take notice. Privileges in this country are always liable to be called in question—[ Interruption .] Perhaps, if they are used with discretion, they may long be allowed to survive, but when privileges indulgently accorded to the weak are violently and overbearingly exploited by the strong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "to be called in question—[ Interruption .] Perhaps, if they are used with discretion, they may long be allowed to survive, but when privileges indulgently accorded to the weak are violently and overbearingly exploited by the strong—[ Interruption ]—and when those privileges come into collision, not only with the rights of the individual, but with the interests of the State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rbearingly exploited by the strong—[ Interruption ]—and when those privileges come into collision, not only with the rights of the individual, but with the interests of the State—[ Interruption ]—then it becomes necessary that Parliament should recur to the rights, and not to the privileges, of individuals and make laws which define the relationship of one class to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tate—[ Interruption ]—then it becomes necessary that Parliament should recur to the rights, and not to the privileges, of individuals and make laws which define the relationship of one class to another. [ Interruption .] I am not in the least perturbed by this uneasy clamour by which hon. Gentlemen opposite seek to conceal the fact that they are accorded privileges under the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which you provoked!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "vileges under the law—[ Interruption ]—which have no parallel in the Constitution of this or of scarcely any other country. By all means let them give their loud cheers, because they will have every need to derive what encouragement they can during the progress of this Debate. All these matters were brought to a head by the General Strike of 1926. A trade dispute was in progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " the Government of the day which would have left them with the tremendous weapon of a general strike unused, intact, mysterious, hanging always over us as the supreme threat in the background. It was obvious, to me at any rate, and I make no secret of it, that from the moment when that document was issued there ought to be no further negotiations of any kind until it was unconditionally withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "so-called political levy. Lastly, on the point which was dealt with by the hon. Member for West Wolverhampton in his speech, civil servants were enjoined to give undivided allegiance to the State. These important principles which were then proclaimed in that Measure carried with them at the time, and, I believe, carry with them to this moment, the overwhelming allegiance of the mass of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "this House. The Liberals might have a griev- ante, but the Labour party has no grievance under the Constitution. When they come into Parliament, they are treated with an indulgence and a consideration that no other party receives. They are enabled to form Governments one after another although they are in a minority. They are enabled to retain power in spite of mismanagement and incapacity —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e after another although they are in a minority. They are enabled to retain power in spite of mismanagement and incapacity — [ Interruption ] — which would have shattered half-a-dozen Administrations of the Liberal or the Conservative parties. What, I should like to know, would happen to a Conservative or Liberal Government if we had seen unemployment rise by 1,500,000 in a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "g or constructive idea? So far from having a grievance, this new party, founded on the trade unions, have, under the Constitution of this country, been treated with exceptional indulgence and consideration. Do they bear their advantages with modesty? Listen to the Secretary of State for War, speaking in the debate last week. His attitude was an example, if I may say so, of very unseemly arrogance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "got beyond the point when it is to be patronised. Then why are they claiming these privileges? It has got to the point where it demands—not asks, but demands—the right to work through its organisation in the way it wishes. Their wish is to be our law. If you want to prevent revolution\"— language so suited to the position he occupies as the head of a great disciplined force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "working men should be forced by undue pressure, if there was undue pressure, to pay for the expenses of candidates against whom they were going to vote. It is an insult to the whole status of the manual labourer and to the whole conception of equal citizenship that Liberals should be forced to pay for Socialism, or that patriotic Conservative workmen should be forced to pay for the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "osite said fear was the sign of a guilty conscience. To make a patriotic Conservative pay for the expenses of a cosmopolitan pacifist, to make a Roman Catholic, or a devout Anglican, or a Nonconformist pay a political levy in order that a secularist or an atheist should be returned to Parliament, to compel all these things upon the members of a trade union, I do not care how few they may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "of 1926 recurred, and this Bill were law, does the Attorney-General hold that the strike of 1926 would be legal, or not?\" That is the question. I am sure that the Attorney-General has the matter at his fingers' ends, and, as our greatest authority at the moment on this question, I am sure he will not leave the House in any doubt on the matter, and I will gladly give place to him if he will answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are one of the traditions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " be permitted to hear. Here are the Liberal party! I do not blame them for doing what they think is right with their votes on these Measures. One sees the great difficulty of their position—I may say, the great and increasing difficulty of their position, but I say that for a minority party, for a party with the traditions of the Liberal party, for a party having the greatest interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Upstairs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "fying, altering, or improving the present Bill. If there was one thing which struck me about the speech of the learned Attorney-General in introducing this Bill, it was his conciliatory attitude. I could not find any line on the map which was high tide. It seemed to me that any and every part of the Bill was susceptible of amendment if only a good case was made out on the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "d the Liberal dislikes both the 1927 Act and the proposed Bill, the duty of the Liberal is to ensure that the proposed Bill will be amended, and in our view it is a delusion to think that equilibrium consists in an equidistant swing to right and left. We do not believe that the best legislation is produced in a swing of that kind. We think that calm, deliberate, and quiet study in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "lity without at the same time, by inference, defining what is legal. If, as the learned Solicitor-General has now said, in answering that question which has been put for so long, inside and outside the House, the strike of 1926 was illegal, what is there to prevent a clear declaration being inserted in Clause 1 of this Bill that any attempt to repeat the events of 1926 is quite definitely illegal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "edings at all, and we say that if that is not so, there ought to be some complete and drastic alteration of that part of the proposed legislation. We must eliminate all risk of any suggested procedure involving delay, and some steps must be taken to see that the judgment is retrospective so far as liability is concerned of a similar character. It has been said that this is a lawyer's Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "as no general strike at the end of it when the last man had come out, and that there was no intention of my colleagues who were in control that there should be a general strike. There was no revolutionary intention in it at all. That time, in my opinion, is not ripe and the leaders of British trade unionism have sufficient commonsense to know it. They do not embark on things before they are ready.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": " Interruption. ] I have no desire to hide from the House the Socialist principles which I hold, or what I would be prepared to do if I got the opportunity. I know quite well, and I have said it in this House before, that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, if they thought public opinion was ripe and they could get hold of myself and other trade union leaders, would hang us without compunction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir BURTON CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir BURTON CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "Nothing which has fallen from the hon. Member for Barrow-in-Furness (Mr. Bromley) will assist in defending this Bill. In my opinion, this Measure would never have been heard of at all but for the condition of the cash box of the Socialist party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "I cannot do so now; it is well known, but I could not really produce a particular case at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": " is considerable, leads me to suppose and believe that a large mass of them welcomed the Act of 1927, and I am re- inforced in that belief by my knowledge of a section of men who are not quite so articulate in this House as other sections. I refer to seamen. Hon. Members will not forget that the only trade union that stood out from and would not take part in the 1926 strike was the Seamen's Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "experience, that their intrepid old leader was ever reluctant to lead them into battle when he thought he should fight. An hon. Friend of mine, who is connected with the steel trade, prided himself last night, very justifiably, on the fact that the steel trade union with which he was associated had not had a strike for 30 years. The Seamen's Union has not had a strike for 20 years, including 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "thing is going to happen under this Bill. If the Bill is to be left as it is, it will mean that we shall be in the hands of individuals who have absolutely no sympathy with, and do not understand, the working classes. Yet at this moment the Government are passing a Bill which, on the admission of the Attorney-General, will not protect my class. That is the Bill, although I am going to vote for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "can to keep alive the spirit of rebellion against the conditions which prevail. There will be no coming cap in hand to one section of the community or another. We speak for the working classes. Hon. Members opposite have introduced the word \"community.\" Who is the community? Is it those individuals who \"toil not neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "MBER: \"Where are they?\"] If the hon. Member wants to be told I am prepared to tell him, and then you will say: Tell it not in Grath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon. Who is the community? We represent the community, the working-classes. There are two classes, those who work and those who do not, and when I speak of the working-classes I mean everyone who renders useful service to society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "the 1926 position, be it legal or illegal, shall never be allowed to return. That is my sole interest in Clause 1. Surely it is possible in Committee, if this Bill passes this House, to frame some Clause whereby an authoritative pronouncement shall be made instead of a decision being left to some magistrate as in the 1927 Act. A man who is promoted for his ability in some partisan direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "is my sole interest in Clause 1. Surely it is possible in Committee, if this Bill passes this House, to frame some Clause whereby an authoritative pronouncement shall be made instead of a decision being left to some magistrate as in the 1927 Act. A man who is promoted for his ability in some partisan direction—[ Interruption .] Surely magistrates are promoted for some service to their party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEN TILLETT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEN TILLETT", "preceding_text": "pread against us. I have not charged the Cabinet with irresponsibility. There is no man in the House whom I more respect than the ex-Premier. I look upon him as one of the sanest of typical Britishers, and one of whom this House ought to be proud; but the hand of intimidation was over that Cabinet. I believe that that Cabinet, if it had been left to its own resources would not on that night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEN TILLETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEN TILLETT", "preceding_text": ";5,000,000 workers involved—but the edicts and the instructions of this council were obeyed. I was hoping to end my days with the knowledge that the classes, whatever might be their economic division, would have some love for their own country. I find you are making a hell pit at a period when our industries are in the throes of bankruptcy and ruin. This is not the time to sow the class war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " forced and strained interpretation upon the first Clause of the 1927 Act. They declared that under that Clause a primary strike, that is to say, a strike which is confined to a single industry, might be illegal. I call that a forced and a strained interpretation. It is one which is strenuously denied by other lawyers who are equally eminent, but who have not the same partizan bias in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Snap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": "tly well that when they are dealing with lawyers they are always the plucked bird. Then the right hon. and learned Member with his Nonconformist traditions and connections brought into a serious subject like this some remarks about card playing and nap hands, a subject which I know very little about, and I thought he knew less. May I remind him that it is dangerous for him to talk about nap hands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Illegal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": "er of trades—who are suffering every day while that lock-out continues. If, to-morrow night, the engineers, the boilermakers or the dockers in Manchester, were to decide by meeting, by resolution, quite constitutionally, that they believed that the Lancashire cotton operatives ought to be helped, and that the means of helping them would be by a strike, that would be legal under the 1927 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": "eement on that—then, is it right or wrong that for another section to do precisely the same thing for the same object, should be illegal? Supposing that the railwaymen to-morrow night decided to support the cotton operatives. The right hon. Gentleman opposite knows, because we argued it out on the last Bill, that their action is illegal because it is construed as being against the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-28", "file": "debates1931-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "969584776f4a958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": " there are some who like fishing in troubled waters.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th May, 1926; cols. 1050–1, Vol. 195.] If that was the attitude three days after the General Strike—forget the strike, do not let us fish in troubled waters—the right hon. Gentleman waits 12 months to introduce the 1927 Bill, and, if any evidence were needed to show that there was malice, it was this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-28a.1095.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-29", "file": "debates1931-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e4af7090a196eaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-29a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "al authority see him making good money they should be able to say to him that they think he ought to pay some of this money, or all the money; or they may say that they do not want to ask for any of it. I do not think it is right that we should lavishly, and without any thought of public money, endow people who have obtained work with that which they were entitled to get when they were unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-29a.1191.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-01-29", "file": "debates1931-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e4af7090a196eaff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-29a.1217.0", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN MILLAR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN MILLAR", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary of State seems to have failed altogether to meet the principal criticism which has been made against the Government in including Scotland in this Clause. He has shown no reasons why Scotland should be brought under the control of an English Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-29a.1217.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-01-30", "file": "debates1931-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "d60a38cbb55b7e90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-30a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUBBER INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I understand that there is a difference of opinion between my hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Sir W. Lane Mitchell) and my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield, as to whether they will receive the results. The hon. Member for Streatham believes that they will get it because they are English companies. Is that denied!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-01-30a.1384.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1416.7", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "In this country too:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman remember the fact that there are social services and insurance to be taken into consideration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "ting, under which one rich man is treated as the equivalent of several of his poorer neighbours, shall forthwith be abolished. That is not a declaration made for the first time. It will be found on page 50 of the publication known as \"Labour and the Nation.\" On that same page will be found the further statement that more stringent legislation against corrupt practices ought to be introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "e House of Commons. As I have said, there is to be, as we propose, one exception, though if exception be taken to this exception, we should be willing to confer with hon. Members in all quarters of the House. After giving a great deal of thought and time and consideration to the problem raised by the City of London, our proposal is to leave the City of London, with one exception quite undisturbed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "tence of a local unit, independent of the county organisation, was regarded as almost unthinkable, and London's independence has since been maintained, although its constitution has on more than one occasion been suspended. The lists of Members for the City goes back to 1284, and on this ground alone it is almost inconceivable that the City should cease to be repre- sented in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "ased rather than diminished by the expansion of the British Empire. Throughout the ages it has thus maintained its independent and separate place in the nation and its peculiarly close relations with the Government. Even now representatives of the City of London claim the right to sit on the Treasury or Privy Councillor's bench at the opening of a new Parliament—a right which we all concede.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "ctions, and we can see no reason why the use of vehicles should not be brought into touch with the authority of the returning officer. Therefore, what is contemplated is that he should have power, after consultation with the candidates, and after becoming possessed of all the facts, to allot whatever vehicles or motor cars are placed at his disposal on an equitable and a fair and reasonable basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": " based, or, at any rate, upon which it was defended, were these, that it was in the interests of the universities to be represented in Parliament since these educational institutions were affected by the enactments of Parliament, and that it was in the interests of Parliament to have representatives of the seats of learning where there were to be found men of approved loyalty, wisdom and doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1467.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1480.3", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HOH. MEMBER: \"You have got it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " in the House of Commons, they have shown a most deplorable ignorance on most occasions of what are the public needs. If we are longer to tolerate special representation in the interests of educational advance, are we to give representation in this House specially, say, to a very great democratic and popular national party like the Workers' Educational Association or like innumerable trade unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1481.0", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You refused!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": " no national demand, for a Bill which never would have been heard of it it had not been for a bargain between right hon. Gentlemen opposite and right hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway. Could there be a more cynical contrast between the House of Commons to-day and the House of Commons the Prime Minister pictured to us when he first came into office? We were to make ourselves into a Council of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1481.0", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": " very words: We have got to get our majorities in the House of Commons, and we are going to get them. In order to get his majorities in the House of Commons he must have 50 votes from below the Gangway, and in order to have those 50 votes from below the Gangway he must introduce a Measure of electoral reform. What process could be simpler or easier? The only thing that surprises me about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1481.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "g to the same party. As to the use of vehicles, we agree with the purpose of the Clause, but it is clear that the working of it will be attended with very great difficulties, and we shall have to consider in Committee whether it can be made into a really practical working Clause. We also support the diminution of election expenses as being legitimate, and indeed necessary in present circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANG", "preceding_text": "to opposite Lobbies. All I hope is that with the abolition of senior and junior Members for the same constituency we shall not get rid of that representative who adds so much to the gaiety of nations and lately has so generously hood-winked so many of us, \"the junior Member for Treorchy.\" I am sorry that I am bound to express my personal regret at the proposal to abolish university representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON, junr.", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON, junr.", "preceding_text": "he time of the House by introducing a Measure which will have no effect upon that problem. Some of us on the Government side might be more influenced by the persuasion of hon. Members opposite if we were not fully aware of their record so far as electoral law is concerned. During the past century they have consistently opposed all Measures which have sought to extend the franchise in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "or Proportional Representation, fail from that point of view. In my view that is a point of the very greatest magnitude. It has been said, \"Oh, but England has been governed by Coalitions before.\" I think the right hon. Member for Darwen went through a list of Parliaments during the last 30 or 40 years in which he showed, or tried to show, that they had almost all been made up of Coalitions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1552.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1583.4", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "roper safeguards. The position to-day is quite clear. While the law prescribes very definite limits as to what candidates may do—as to the number of paid officials and so on—there is unlimited power to use motor cars, and that inevitably means that the richest candidate has an unfair pull over his opponents. [ Interruption. ] Most of us have fought elections with next to no motor cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1583.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-02", "file": "debates1931-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "78c8189db9671ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "We are some way from reaching that position, but it is true that in the late Government there was a majority representation with a minority vote behind it in the country. The Conservative party schemed to maintain that position, lest something worse might befall them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-02a.1585.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1653.5", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "thought. Take the Shipley election. Is it really the right hon. Gentleman's contention that any vote cast against the Conservative candidate was a vote against Safeguarding? We on these benches are quite confident that if we could only have the advantage of a plebiscite on a single issue at such an election as Shipley, the result would be in accordance with the principles and policy of this party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1653.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1662.3", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "elter behind refuges concocted by political subtlety. This is called \"The Representation of the People Bill.\" Let it be given a shorter and more simple name. Let us call it The Wangle Bill—Wangle, by folly, out of funk. Common sense, a sense of fair play, and belief in the future of democracy, forbids the acceptance of this Bill. As believers in common sense, as believers in fair play—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " to introduce legislation which will lead to a better distribution of wealth; we may try to deal with the problems relating to land, but what chance is there of doing this unless the electoral machinery of the country secures that the majority of the people voting shall elect Members to this House who are responsible for carrying them out? That is the only reason why this Bill has been introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1664.0", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "That was in 1929.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are doing that now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "f this state of things, that they are not only desirous that no change shall be made to make majority government effective, but they want the other Chamber of this nation to be permanently in their possession. How can the right hon. Member for Sevenoaks talk about democracy in those conditions? They want to rule by a minority vote as a majority party, and we are going to do our best to prevent it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": ", are elected by first preferences, and C's second preferences become first preferences. C does decide in exactly the same way that the right hon. Gentleman himself would decide if he was an elector in a constituency, and there was only a majority of one, and he could say, \"I settled that election.\" It decides it in this way. I said that C's second preferences do not decide the second preferences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The sooner the better!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "decessor, by his own act so properly clothed himself when he talked about high political ideals of the Tory party, as explained by the right hon. Gentleman, but understood by nobody who has any experience of that party. What is the use of making those pretences, in any event, here? We have all gone through elections, and we have all had to consider possibilities, and hon. Members will do it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " C is going to be third, they can make just a few preparations to get some of C's second votes. They do not wait for an election either. They assume before the election takes place that C is out., and they appeal to C's electors to vote for them. Have they got any bargain with anybody below the Gangway? Is there any arrangement by which in certain constituencies there are to be no Tory candidates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "rther section of the population unrepresented in this House. It will simply mean that just by so much more this House of Commons is unrepresentative, that just so many more people have no interest in supporting it or any reason to uphold it. It will be just one more weakening of the defence which the House of Commons will require against the attacks which are converging upon it from every quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1683.0", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "preceding_text": "tion of the fantastic proposal with which it ended. With much that he said, the greater number of people who sit upon these benches would agree. He opened by saying that the effect of this Measure seemed to be very pleasing to the Liberal party. I do not feel particularly gloomy, but our joy at this Measure is a very modified joy indeed. The hon. Member suggested that we had not been paid in full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1683.2", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER", "preceding_text": "am afraid I called that rather fantastic. I hope the hon. Member will form a society to advocate it, and perhaps the occupants of the Treasury Bench will become vice-presidents, and I have no doubt a good deal of propaganda could be undertaken. For the time being, however, I must rule it out of account. Let us turn to practical alternatives, to the alternative vote and proportional representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that the Members of the Liberal party are dead politicians, or have ceased to be vital, but I am suggesting that the theories and ideas that Liberalism has to give have no application here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "will be removed during the Committee stage. One other point with which I desire to deal is the question of the limitation of expenses. This is a matter on which I feel very strongly. I have always regarded it as a right view of democracy that, in a general election, absolutely nothing should be done by a responsible political candidate that savours either of petty bribery or of mass bribery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1693.3", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "it is quite true, as the hon. Member suggests, that it is not my money, but in my view it is the money of the people who have not got it, and if I may use my electioneering platform to suggest that the wealth which has been taken from the poor by the rich should be returned to the poor, I do not regard that as bribery of the electors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1695.0", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN WITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN WITHERS", "preceding_text": " a great deal to be said for \"One man one vote.\" I understand that. But why on earth is the principle not to be applied to the City of London when it is applied to the universities? It cannot, therefore, be a matter of principle. Why is it? It has been admitted in these Debates that it is a matter of agreement between two parties for the purpose of getting rid of Conservative Members of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1698.0", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAYNES", "preceding_text": "now, at least at a very early date, of a re-distribution of seats which will alter such anomalies. There are Clauses in the Bill which, I am convinced, are going to cause a very great deal of difficulty and trouble and the spending of a vast amount of time in Committee. Clause 6 dealing with the restriction of the use of vehicles is, in my opinion, in its present form nothing less than ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: a \"He never said anything of the kind!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "commentary upon the action of those who belong to that party in Northern Ireland, there are 13 of them in this House, who abolished Proportional Representation in Northern Ireland. Now, we are told that if their party come back to power in this country—and that is the only attraction that their return to power will be to me—they will introduce the system of Proportional Representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ern Ireland, there are 13 of them in this House, who abolished Proportional Representation in Northern Ireland. Now, we are told that if their party come back to power in this country—and that is the only attraction that their return to power will be to me—they will introduce the system of Proportional Representation. [HON. MEMBERS: a \"He never said anything of the kind!\"] Yes, he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CECIL WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been dropped in Ulster!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CECIL WILSON", "preceding_text": "eir various views. Nor was there any information as to the operation of the alternative vote elsewhere, nor as to proportional representation. Until the hon. Member for Fermanagh and Tyrone (Mr. Devlin) rose to-day, we had not so much as heard a whisper that proportional representation had been in operation both in Northern and Southern Ireland for a number of years with very satisfactory results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why combined?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "preceding_text": "t would help us to get the Bill passed in the quickest possible time and try to seal it down so that it would be impossible to revise it in any way at all. After all, when we leave this posturing as superior persons, and this lecturing as heavy fathers, what is the Bill? In 1924 the Conservative vote was just short of 7,400,000, and the Labour and the Liberal vote combined was well over 8,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you deny it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ent a bogy and then throw sticks at it. If I said to a, man, \"You have done an immoral action; prove that you have not done it,\" I should be told, I suppose, that that was an un-English way of doing business; but speakers on the other side have assumed some bargain to exist somewhere, have stated it as a fact, and, on the basis of their own assumption, have built up what they suppose to be a ease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption, and HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "m his business premises in the City of London, he has no other vote. Under this Bill there are no two votes for any one person. That has been plain and distinct throughout the Bill. It is a principle of the Bill and it is a principle that we hold to very keenly. May I deal with the question of the university constituencies. I had not the opportunity of going to a, university. I bitterly regret it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ctions, and the possibility of the poorer section of the community taking part. Further, it will remove an obvious injustice for any party that at present is polling a very heavy number of votes without corresponding representation in this House. We have no apologies to make. We have heard all about this talk of log-rolling and the rest of it before. We know it and appreciate it at its true value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1768.0", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HARVEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HARVEY", "preceding_text": "ommend that method to those hon. Members who will emasculate the Bill upstairs. I should also like to make a suggestion with regard to university votes. I realise that the universities of this country have sent to this House most worthy and desirable representatives, who have represented a point of view which probably has not been put by other Members of this House. Would it not be possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1768.0", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HARVEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HARVEY", "preceding_text": "uld also like to make a suggestion with regard to university votes. I realise that the universities of this country have sent to this House most worthy and desirable representatives, who have represented a point of view which probably has not been put by other Members of this House. Would it not be possible—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—Hon. Members say, \"no,\" but I think it might be possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1768.0", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HARVEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HARVEY", "preceding_text": "ble—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—Hon. Members say, \"no,\" but I think it might be possible. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It would be quite possible, it would be definitely possible, that those people who have achieved distinction in the universities entitling them to a vote at the universities should be given the option of voting either for their university or in the constituencies where they reside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BENEFICES (EXERCISE OF RIGHTS OF PRESENTATION) MEASURE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "ed with tithe-rent charge the people who pay that tithe have no voice whatever in the appointment of the clergy to the living. I received a letter yesterday from a Nonconformist who has let a farm at £100 per year—all he can get for it—and is asked to pay a sum of £85 10s. 7d. as tithe, and yet has no voice whatever in the selection of the clerk in holy orders in that parish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BENEFICES (EXERCISE OF RIGHTS OF PRESENTATION) MEASURE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "nst this Measure to-night I do protest against the time at which such Measures are brought before the House. This is a very important Measure, and it has been eulogised by the Proposer and the Seconder, but I cannot share in that eulogy, because I do not desire this reform. I am one of those who hold that the more people who take part in the choice of anybody the worse that choice is likely to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-03", "file": "debates1931-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3db51d7cedd97fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BENEFICES (EXERCISE OF RIGHTS OF PRESENTATION) MEASURE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ning, as it is a Measure which gives some degree of justice to people who are now suffering injustice. In Scotland we had a disruption on this matter. It rent the Church in twain and aroused great feeling throughout Scotland. We have to a large extent got over the problem, and I should have thought that the Committee might have applied themselves to the task of disestablishing the Church entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-03a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1809.5", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EARL HAIG STATUE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Far worse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I think that the Members of this House are not really aware of the facts of this case. The assessors, who were appointed before I took office reported somewhere about 18 months ago, approved of the model. There was some dissension raised as to that model, and the assessors were called together to discuss modifications with the artist. As a result, another model was submitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1809.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1814.0", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "some sort of arrangement might be come to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH LAMB", "preceding_text": "t an actual guarantee given by the Government for the money. If that guarantee is implied, the public may subscribe the money to a much larger extent than they are justified in doing, and more than they would do if they knew the purpose for which the money is being raised. To a certain extent, it is necessary for this House to protect the public from the possibility of their providing money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1874.1", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hon. Member for Central Bristol (Mr. Alpass) is the only one who has had any practical experience in the running of a farm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": " the losses on small arable farming recently have been great. Therefore, I feel justified in assuming that the losses on large-scale farming will be still greater. The concern in which I was interested started with a figure somewhat similar to that laid down in this Bill, namely, £1,250,000. I put my money into its preference shares at £1 a share, and I became a director of that concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1877.2", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": "tion intends to expend a sum vastly in excess of the £1,000,000 which the Treasury is granting for the purpose of this experiment on large-scale farming. £1,000,000 is a large sum with which to start farming in this country. I think I am right in saying that no private individual, company or corporation has ever started farming in this country with a capital of £1,000,000 behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "y right that we should have, as on this occasion, the opportunity of expressing our opinion on the financial side of it. There is a further question on this matter of finance. The Minister, both here and upstairs, is in rather a tangle on the matter. I do not understand why it is that, in dealing with a matter which involves many millions of pounds, we never have any help from the Treasury itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1883.2", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They could combine!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "se the almost inconceivable contingency that this large-scale farm, from a financial point of view, will be a great success. If that occurs, what good will it be to the ordinary farmers to know that a corporation with a capital of £2,000,000 has been able to make farming pay, and how many farmers have £2,000,000 with which to copy the example the right hon. Gentleman will have furnished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "ys it is intended to be, that is to say, demonstrative, then there is nothing in either of these two Amendments which will interfere with the value of that demonstration in any degree whatever. On the contrary, it will be some small guarantee that the scale of farming will be kept within such a size as to be of some practical value to agriculture. It is no good having a Brobdingnagian scale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "preceding_text": "n words, why this provision should not be put as one of the statutory provisions in the Bill. We stress that because, as has been pointed out already—jocularly, but I do so quite seriously—never before has a Bill like this been presented to Parliament, and never before has any Minister of Agriculture had such wide ideas of leaving behind precedents and going out into the unknown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "I can link it up by showing how necessary it is to have these detailed costings in order to reveal where losses are made. The public have some, interest in this matter as well as agriculturists. If the public allow large sums of money to be used, it is in their interests that costing accounts should be kept to see where the losses are incurred. I have little to add.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cut it short!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "e detailed costings in order to reveal where losses are made. The public have some, interest in this matter as well as agriculturists. If the public allow large sums of money to be used, it is in their interests that costing accounts should be kept to see where the losses are incurred. I have little to add. [ Interruption. ] It may be unpalatable to some hon. Members opposite to hear these truths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "I do not think that in the present condition of things I should be prepared to put my money on either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1924.2", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "e, and it ought not to be difficult to express it within the compass of a certain number of words, is that this provision should be in the Bill. In the ease of a previous Amendment, the Minister was not really at great variance with what many of us wished in regard to letting, but even then he could not see his way to put it into the Bill. Of course, however, Ministers do come and Ministers do go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1924.2", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "it within the compass of a certain number of words, is that this provision should be in the Bill. In the ease of a previous Amendment, the Minister was not really at great variance with what many of us wished in regard to letting, but even then he could not see his way to put it into the Bill. Of course, however, Ministers do come and Ministers do go. [ interruption. ] They may be going very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1924.2", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "many of us wished in regard to letting, but even then he could not see his way to put it into the Bill. Of course, however, Ministers do come and Ministers do go. [ interruption. ] They may be going very soon. [ Interruption. ] I quite agree that I went. If the present Minister lasts for another three years, he will last a great deal longer than anyone on the benches opposite in the least expects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1924.2", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " least expects. [ Interruption. ] I am glad to think that there is such an optimistic Member on those benches, but I would like to hear some of his conversations in private, as well as his conversations for public consumption. I have no doubt that, if we were allowed to be present at some of those private conversations, we should realise the complete unanimity that prevails in the Socialist party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1927.0", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says every separate unit. Will that be every separate unit in the farm, or will it be the unit of the farm?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1932.1", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " Officers' advice, might I appeal to the Government. At any rate, there is one Cabinet Minister here, the Secretary of State for Scotland. Everyone knows that at one time he was the leader of the Socialist party in this House. His knowledge is immense, and everyone respects and likes him. Might I appeal to him to give us some little help in this matter 7 He has very great experience and knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1932.1", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "eryone knows that at one time he was the leader of the Socialist party in this House. His knowledge is immense, and everyone respects and likes him. Might I appeal to him to give us some little help in this matter 7 He has very great experience and knowledge. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members opposite want to make speeches, I am sure they will join with me in asking the advice of the Law Officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "I agree and the anti-Socialist Union must be rejoicing in the fact that the right hon. and gallant Member is refusing to set up a corporation with £1,000,000 capital after having been responsible for one with £37,000,000 capital. Broadly speaking, this is a hardy annual, and it is purely obstructive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1944.0", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "I cannot speak with the authority of the hon. Member for Watford (Sir D. Herbert) who has, in the past, occupied the Chair, but it is quite clear that anyone who is interested in legislative procedure and in the constitutional position in regard to these matters must look at this problem not from any partisan or party aspect at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1947.1", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Childhood!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "I am not in the position of the last speaker, for I am in my second—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1958.0", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "I think I am entitled on a Bill of this importance to ask t he Minister of Agriculture a question, and I know that hon. Members opposite, whose knowledge of agriculture is so profound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1958.0", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "ormation from the answers to the questions I propose to put. I was very disturbed, and I am sure a large number of other hon. Members on this side of the House were also disturbed, at the insult which was flung by the Minister of Agriculture—quite unlike what we have been led to expect from his general behaviour—at the Farmers' Union, a most respectable and reputable body of men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1959.2", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " endeavouring to do good for employment in this country, should come forward with a Measure like this, which is neither more nor less than a Measure for the confiscation of the best farming land of the country. Hon. Members on this side of the House who have had experience of Socialist corporations know that this corporation is likely to get hold of the land which is most useful for farming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1959.2", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are no rates!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "y. Hon. Members on this side of the House who have had experience of Socialist corporations know that this corporation is likely to get hold of the land which is most useful for farming—[ Interruption. ] It is perfectly ridiculous that the Government should give no protection to farmers in this matter. I also ask the right hon. Gentleman what rates and taxes is this corporation going to pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1959.2", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "arty remains an individualist and desires to have decent, fair, individualistic competition. To my mind the Liberal party cannot support a proposal like this which is deliberately aimed at private enterprise and which seeks to eliminate the farmer, or to make his task more difficult. I would advise the right hon. Gentleman, whose position in the Cabinet, I am told, is by no means too secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1962.2", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "Somebody besides a mere farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1964.0", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAiN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAiN", "preceding_text": "er all, individual interests must give way to the general welfare; and if it is a union representative of a large body of common interests—a very large body of common interests—in this very scattered enterprise of farming, he says, \"Oh, it is only Bedford Square.\" Individual representatives do not appear to be worth attending to and combined representations are debarred from a hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1968.0", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": ", it is provided, as I said in my interjection, that the owner can require them to buy the lot. There is nothing new in that. That is common form in other matters, but it does not explicitly cover the point which he put to me. I am ad- vised, as the existing law stands, that in the case where the Corporation wishes to buy a portion of the main farm, such a situation is extremely unlikely to arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1968.0", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "ire them to buy the lot. There is nothing new in that. That is common form in other matters, but it does not explicitly cover the point which he put to me. I am ad- vised, as the existing law stands, that in the case where the Corporation wishes to buy a portion of the main farm, such a situation is extremely unlikely to arise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think that it is very unlikely indeed to arise", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1968.0", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "stands, that in the case where the Corporation wishes to buy a portion of the main farm, such a situation is extremely unlikely to arise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think that it is very unlikely indeed to arise [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]. Because, as a matter of fact, the Corporation will quite easily be able to buy whole farms, and it is almost unthinkable that they will want to pick out the best bits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1969.0", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": ", you have specifically provided in your Bill that the man with a mansion and a farm may not he compelled to sever and he will be able to require the Corporation to buy the whole. In the case of the working farmer there is no such provision. The right hon. Gentleman says the working farmer can apply for compensation in respect of severance and can get it; but he has lost his farm and his job, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1969.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You are one of them.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "or me to interrupt the discussion between my right hon. Friend and the Minister who is naturally desirous of replying to his argument. I ask leave to move the adjournment of the discussion to ascertain from the Government what they intend to do with respect to keeping us sitting. It is a very important Bill, and we have had a useful and fruitful discussion, but there are limits to human endurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1984.0", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "I am sure that everybody on this side of the House feels, with the right hon. Gentleman who moved the Adjournment of the Debate, a great deal of sympathy with the Minister in his physical difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1984.0", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ed the Adjournment of the Debate, a great deal of sympathy with the Minister in his physical difficulties—[ Interruption. ] After all some regard must he paid to the usefulness of Ministers in connection with the Party machine. I should like to support what my right hon. Friend said when moving the adjournment—that it is perfectly clear that the Minister for some reason or other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1984.1", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "r dinner, I added I should no doubt be in a position to judge better. I told him that, as a result of discussions, we did not think it possible to specify the particular Amend- ments requiring particular consideration and that we should be given time for discussion and that he should let the Bill be carried on in accordance with the points that arose. I suggested that we should have two more days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.1984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2007.0", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend said Clause 4, page 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2007.6", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "preceding_text": "not think it is realised by the promoters of this Bill what extensive steps are taken by county councils in order to assist agriculturists in their areas. I will just enumerate some of the steps my own county council have taken. We have an organiser of agricultural education and assistants; an horticultural adviser and assistants; we have an instructor of poultry keeping; we have a recorder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2007.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2007.6", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "preceding_text": "nts; we have an instructor of poultry keeping; we have a recorder—[ Interruption ]—we have organised courses of lectures, evening classes, and skilled labourers' classes. We give agricultural scholarships, and have experiments and demonstrations both in horticulture and agriculture. When it comes to the question of milk, we have organised milk competitions and also clean milk contests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2007.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "preceding_text": "ibution and organised county egg laying trials. We import into this country eggs and poultry to the value of £20,000,000 every year. We have stock judging competitions, and we give grants to agricultural colleges. We also try to assist the bee-keeping association and have a cockerel-breeding scheme. On the library side, we have text books and courses, instruction and exhibits at county shows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CR00KSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CR00KSHANK", "preceding_text": "uld, time after time, produce this assertion for which there is no evidence. As a matter of fact, the Minister said earlier on that he had made inquiries with regard to this Bill in various quarters and had been told to get on with it. The quarters must have been the Liberal benches, because it is their Bill and not his, and I see that they have left a small gallant band to carry on with the work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CR00KSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CR00KSHANK", "preceding_text": "rman in Committee. Unfortunately in this Bill they did not adopt that practice, and it is not unnatural that those of us who sit for agricultural constituencies want to see this matter very carefully discussed now on the Report stage and to bring out the points which the Minister has glided over and, to use his own words, take cognisance of the outside world and the criticism of the outside world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "w perfectly well that the time to discuss that is not on a Motion for the Adjournment, but I will ask him and hon. Members opposite in return to substantiate the claim made from the benches opposite, and apparently supported below the gangway, that it is impossible for Members on the Government benches to get home at this hour of the morning, and that they have to wait for the omnibuses and trams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2033.2", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "e reclamation of such land. Subsection (7) enables the Minister, after certain safeguards, to clear land which is in a seriously neglected condition. He has not to deal with a large problem. He has to deal with the case of one eccentric landowner, who, I believe is probably out of his mind. I do not think there is sufficient ground to pass elaborate provisions of this kind for an exceptional case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2037.2", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major G. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major G. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ure, he has not yet proved his case. If, as is clear, that the first step should be really to implement, as the practical farmer understood it, the undertaking that farming should be made to pay—that is to say, by some form of Government legislation to give a reasonable prospect to the capable farmer of making a living out of his land—then, many of these things could be added unto him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2039.0", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "preceding_text": "rk it himself, in which case he will lose more money, or let it to tenant farmers, who will be no better off than other tenant farmers, and the land will soon be back in the condition it was before. I hope he will look at it in the way recommended by agricultural experte—I hesitate to mention the Farmers' Union before him—all of whom agree that agricultural prices are the whole secret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2039.0", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "preceding_text": "here is one particular part of this Clause we dislike most, it is the part with regard to the compulsory powers of the Minister. We hope that the Minister will not take that as a criticism of himself. He is a reasonable man and we can trust him, but he will not be there for ever. All flesh is grass and, although his is a hardy kind of grass, he will be burned up in the furnace like everybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2041.3", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "preceding_text": "oes not matter in the present crisis. We have heard of a great disturbance in New Zealand. I regard that as an emergency. We have in the arable districts of East Anglia an emergency not so visible but hardly less poignant. I must apologise to the Rouse if I have to treat this subject perfectly seriously at this hour. I only hope that some of the remarks from these Benches will go out to the nation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the kindergarten?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ndalay. Having reached the time when I think every form of traffic is now in motion, and the House having discharged with zeal, patience and tact, and with reasonable tempers, the duty not imposed on it by the will of many of its Members, but by the Minister who, I must say, has behaved a little like a master who keeps the class in for an hour or two and then says, \"What can we find useful to do?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You liked it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ith zeal, patience and tact, and with reasonable tempers, the duty not imposed on it by the will of many of its Members, but by the Minister who, I must say, has behaved a little like a master who keeps the class in for an hour or two and then says, \"What can we find useful to do?\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the kindergarten?\"] We have all been kept in in earlier days in circumstances like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " but by the Minister who, I must say, has behaved a little like a master who keeps the class in for an hour or two and then says, \"What can we find useful to do?\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the kindergarten?\"] We have all been kept in in earlier days in circumstances like that. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You liked it!\"] We liked it all right, but we would rather have been playing some other game outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The amateurs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ll-night sitting. We generally found that when we were kept in for many hours we did not get far in the lesson, or get very much work done. I do not think we have got very far, and, after sitting up all night. I doubt whether we have got further than by a little tactful arrangement we probably would have got without sitting up late. It is what always happens when you are kept sitting up all night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "gotiations. I was brought up very early to believe that negotiations should be conducted through the usual professional channels. When you sit up all night you do not get very far. The House gets into a general temper of thinking that you will sit up to-night, and all the next night, and that is not good for the House or for getting business done. For these reasons, I think that we should adjourn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ral temper of thinking that you will sit up to-night, and all the next night, and that is not good for the House or for getting business done. For these reasons, I think that we should adjourn. [ Interruption. ] Let hon. Members opposite be assured that if this is merely to be a test of endurance, we shall go on quite as well and as long as they will, and not only on one night, but on many nights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2067.3", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "On this point, I do not see why my hon. Friends should choose this time of the day to exclude the public from the Galleries of the House of Commons. I must appeal to the House to preserve the rights of the public on this particular occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-04", "file": "debates1931-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1a36395781fa74a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "tee. The case in my mind is where, owing to the occupier, drains, hedges and ditches get out of repair, and the land gets into a state of bad cultivation. Under the existing law, practically the only remedy the landlord has is to apply to the agricultural committee for a certificate of bad husbandry. If he did not get that, he would not be in a position to enforce his covenants against his tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-04a.2070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2145.7", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" And the New Forest!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "t from reconditioning is only 20s. I am not objecting to reconditioning, but I am afraid that the discretion and the business acumen of the Minister will be superseded by his enthusiasm for the Bill, and may even allow his heart to get the better of his head, so that he will say, \"Here's a wonderful thing! Let us recondition all the Welsh hills. Let us make them fit for heroes to get a living on.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2145.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2179.0", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ous. When we want to buy a bit of land to build houses in West Ham, land which we could buy 40 years ago for £40 an acre, we now pay £600 an acre to the patriots who talk about land as though they were the land. What do home parks and home farms matter to us? We have no home farms or home parks. If it is necessary for public purposes that their land should be taken, it ought to be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2199.6", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "It may be some comfort to the right hon. Gentleman to know that these loans will not be given to Russia, but to British smallholders and, therefore, that particular ground of uneasiness is removed. If he thinks that the British smallholder is akin to the Russian he is mistaken in the British smallholder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2199.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2199.6", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "It may be some comfort to the right hon. Gentleman to know that these loans will not be given to Russia, but to British smallholders and, therefore, that particular ground of uneasiness is removed. If he thinks that the British smallholder is akin to the Russian he is mistaken in the British smallholder. [Interruption.] I prefer my own countrymen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2199.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2201.1", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "I cannot say whether they would or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2205.2", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I am entitled to point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2206.0", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On this side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to remember every step in connection with all these matters. I had consultations with my legal advisers in regard to this particular subject, and it is in consequence of the advice given to me that I have taken the course which I have taken on this occasion. I think this is a matter upon which I have consulted hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2242.1", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "course of getting expenditure sanctioned by a Vote in Committee without any Bill before Parliament, they then introduced a Bill and got it through Committee before they had any part of that Bill authorising that particular expenditure. It seems to me a very sad reflection that in these days of financial stringency the Government of this country should be so careless in regard to expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2244.2", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "I wonder if the Minister has looked at the picture which is in the gallery where the public come in. There he will see Cromwell, in the name of the King, demanding money from Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2249.0", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "I feel some difficulty as to the line of action I shall take if this Amendment proceeds to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2249.0", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " going to continue throughout the regime of the Government. This is an expensive Measure which is going to take money from the taxpayers. If he thinks one year is too short a time to try it, he can, at all events, put some limit to the time the taxpayers have to contribute to what is going to be a most expensive scheme for them. After all, hon. Members opposite are spending taxpayers' money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-05", "file": "debates1931-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "3de1dd58676574f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2256.0", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)", "preceding_text": "fternoon, with the result that there has been a fairly considerable fall in most Government securities. In ordinary circumstances it would be, perhaps, a waste of time of the House of Commons to deal with every rumour that spreads about. There are exceptions to every rule, and I think the right hon. Gentleman is quite justified in raising this matter to-night. There is no intention whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-05a.2256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-06", "file": "debates1931-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4a608469ca8bbac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2281.1", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVING WAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Churchills?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "tter known in the British Empire than the name of Bradbury was known. The name of the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) might be used, and surely those two names, having the backing of the British Empire and its great economic resources, would be able to get round the situation. We could issue plenty of Bradburys, but call them Snowdens or Churchills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-06", "file": "debates1931-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4a608469ca8bbac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2289.3", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVING WAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "preceding_text": "strial Reorganisation Commission. Of course, as this Commission will probably know less about it than the present owners of the businesses, hundreds of them—indeed, we might say thousands of them—will have to close down through the Bill, and thousands more people will be thrown out of work. I think we can say that we on this side, just as much as hon. Members opposite, like good wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-06", "file": "debates1931-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4a608469ca8bbac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2302.2", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVING WAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "The point that I want to make is that at the present moment we have in this country a very large number of persons unemployed, and we find that there are two reasons for that fact. In the first place, we are not able to manufacture goods at a price competitive with that of foreign goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-06", "file": "debates1931-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4a608469ca8bbac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2302.2", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVING WAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": " the Memorandum attached to it says: Clause 1 gives a definition of the minimum living wage—based partly on Australia and other precedents. Surely, we ought to benefit by other people's experience. The very unsatisfactory financial condition of Australia to-day is largely, in my opinion, due to the fact that far more money is being paid under the heading of wages than the country can afford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-06", "file": "debates1931-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4a608469ca8bbac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2314.2", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVING WAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "preceding_text": " the economic situation if we were able to supplement a living wage by family allowances? The hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) laid stress upon what I believe the difficulty of the present situation, although I do not describe it, as he did, as overproduction. I prefer to call it the excess of productive power in the community as compared with the effective demand for consumable commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2314.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-06", "file": "debates1931-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4a608469ca8bbac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2344.2", "colnum": "2344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVING WAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about cotton?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "preceding_text": " country you have a falling off in agriculture. We on this side want to maintain the agricultural industry. To debate that matter, however, would take a great deal longer time than is available this afternoon. I would not desire to replace agriculture by any other industry. It is a. natural effort of man to feed himself and his family with the produce of the earth as near his own home as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-06a.2344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To bless!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": " all that this gentleman has done has been to put a stamp on and say where he lives. He has left it just as it was drafted by headquarters. That is what I call ready-made protests. My colleague, Lord De La Warr, on Friday night thought he would go and discuss this at a meeting, I think, in East Sussex. It was a meeting originally to condemn the Bill, but those who came to scoff remained to praise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly they are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " is unwilling to give a Second Reading to a Bill which authorises the imposition of compulsory restrictions on the sale of British produce without imposing any conditions on the sale of foreign produce. There are certain crops of great value—such as milk, £59,000,000 a year, and potatoes, £20,000,000 a year—which are not substantially open to foreign competition at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "rplus? They are surplus because the producers have not an organisation which is sufficient to enable them to use it. Is there any reason why we should fail to deal with the surplus milk and get a more secure price for the farmer? Is there any reason why we should not have an organisation to deal with milk products? Why should we wait until we have dealt with imported products? I can see no reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "for Protection to protect. In 1925 the duty on hops was £4 a cwt., and it is still £4 a cwt., but although there was that duty on foreign hops in 1929–30, English hops were actually selling at a lower price than the duty. Notwithstanding this almost prohibitive duty English hops were selling at £3 15s. a cwt., although the duty was £4. The protective duty did not suffice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": "hey may say to him, \"You must not only satisfy our demands in these respects, but you must buy your seed potatoes from us, too.\" My point is, that the man is deprived of his business ability, his business opportunity of buying in the cheapest market and, therefore, he cannot produce at the cheapest figure. Hence, he becomes a mere mechanical machine in a State-controlled selling and buying agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": "himself and the country. I believe I am right in saying that in the Minister's proposals both these types of board will be created, one type for one industry and the other type for another industry. If we are going to have these two kinds of boards, I hope that the Minister is going to pin his faith not on the pool system but on the regulating board. We have had pools before, and they have failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLINDELL", "preceding_text": "o pool. The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland knows some of the difficulties with which they have been confronted. It will not be enough for him to say that a small minority has defeated the establishment of that potato pool. He must prove that the establishment of such a pool would have been in the interests of the minority and the majority concerned in the operation. These pools have failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "n opposite may call themselves something else in this House, and in certain constituencies, but nevertheless they are Socialistic—perhaps not so extreme as certain hon. Members on their own side would like them to be, but that is only because they have not the opportunity. We do not know what they may do if we give them the opportunity, and this Bill is, I contend, a form of nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.150.2", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. LAMB", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the co-operative societies do not represent the consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is only the beginning!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "preceding_text": "sion, a, scheme without regulation of imports, a scheme of official direction that would solve all agriculture's problems. This, so it seems, is to be the magnum opus of the Minister of Agriculture. This is to be his great gesture to improve the status quo, which may be liberally interpreted as \"the mess we are in,\" to implement the promises which were made to agriculture during the last election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is substantial?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " and wreck not only the majority but themselves as well, the Minister takes power in the Bill to exercise compulsion on the minority. There has been a lot of talk to-day about compulsion of the minority. Why not let us have some talk about protection for the majority? Every scheme under this Bill must be supported by a substantial number of the producers of the commodity referred to in the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is by a Conservative Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the Bill is to enable them the producers to sell efficiently. If the hon. Member has not understood that point so far, I make him a present of it. In New South Wales, the Primary Products Act, 1927, provides for the setting up of marketing boards, with compulsory powers, at the request of two-thirds of the local producers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.164.9", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "The letter is dated the 14th November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.164.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Earlies!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "main crop potatoes are not half of 1 per cent. of the total. The price fluctuates between £1 per ton as it was three years ago and £5 per ton as it is to-day; it may again fall to £1 per ton. The fluctuations in the market and the breaking of the price in the British potato market are not due in the slightest degree to imports from abroad, so far as main crop potatoes are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hops are protected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "it, it will not be taxed. We are getting away from the central argument put forward by the Opposition, which is that this Bill is useless unless at the same time imports are controlled. I believe that fear is groundless, and I say so for three reasons. First, there are many classes of products in regard to which the price is not at all affected by imports from abroad, such as milk, potatoes, hops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " country of origin, then it would be open to Parliament fairly and reasonably to meet that situation. But to-day we are not asking that. The Opposition is asking that nothing should be done, meantime, to organise the British market, that nothing should be done to assist the British producer financially and in co-operation through boards to capture the British market and hold it against all comers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-09", "file": "debates1931-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "4411b14d79295b78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFFIC COMMISSIONERS (APPOINTMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " on me because it trusted me, and I must discharge that responsibility conscientiously according to what I believe to be right. Therefore I cannot come to the House of Commons and be required to justify every one of those appointments. But take that one—and it is conclusive. There he was, with special experience of this type of work. I should be disregarding the interests of the State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-09a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-10", "file": "debates1931-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "020f90bea948fe2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " cannot accept what has fallen from the Minister that it is desirable that the State should own as much land as possible, and that all cultivators in Scotland should not be freeholders, but should be tenants of the State. That would not, I think, really commend itself to the party below the Gangway either, even amongst the shreds and patches of the principles which they preserve upon this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-10", "file": "debates1931-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "020f90bea948fe2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another million!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I am giving the figures for Great Britain because I desire that the Minister should consider whether the Amendment which I am moving and which applies to Scotland would not be a suitable Amendment to apply to the whole of Great Britain. The Minister has brought in a further category, those whom he deems to be unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-10", "file": "debates1931-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "020f90bea948fe2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "raining whatsoever, to adapt himself to an urban occupation. Hon. Members above the Gangway say that there will be failures. Of course, there will be failures. The hon. Member who has just sat down said that my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George said that some of this money would never be seen again by the Treasury. I do not defend the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-10", "file": "debates1931-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "020f90bea948fe2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You had all night!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " those who live by the land. But the opposition of the agricultural industry has only stimulated the Government in their determination to force the Bill through and to defeat any attempt at argument by means of the Kangaroo and the Closure. This Government, who are always bemoaning their fate as a minority Government, have denied the liberty of Debate in a way that has never been attempted before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-10", "file": "debates1931-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "020f90bea948fe2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "'clock till 2; Clause (2) from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.; and Clause (3) from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. And we are to have two Government speeches on the Third Reading Debate, which is to last one hour and 20 minutes. I do not remember any Government Bill being supported on Third Reading by two Government speeches. The history of this Bill in this House will, I hope, be realised when it reaches another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-10", "file": "debates1931-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "020f90bea948fe2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.363.4", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up; we cannot hear you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the further Consideration of the Bill be now adjourned.\" I can assure the Government that this Motion is not due to any hostility to the Bill, but merely in order that an opportunity may be given to those who are interested in it from an educational point of view to propose such Amendments to the Bill as we think may be required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-10a.363.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman, therefore, not responsible for the whole project?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.377.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.390.6", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "I had a question on this matter, and I was referred to the Prime Minister. May I not ask the Prime Minister a supplementary question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.390.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.398.5", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the timber which comes from Russia and is used in the mines is the best that we can get, and is capable of saving more lives than any other timber used?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.398.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.398.6", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Yes, irrespective of how it is obtained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.398.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Commander O. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander O. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "Cannot we set up a small—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " vary, some contract which the State cannot vary without a repudiation. No, there is no such excuse. The Government actuary in his evidence made it clear that no provision had been made in the contributions for the payments made to short-time workers, married women, or intermittent workers, and he gave some examples. He showed that such men as coal trimmers, earning £5 to £7 a day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "repudiation. No, there is no such excuse. The Government actuary in his evidence made it clear that no provision had been made in the contributions for the payments made to short-time workers, married women, or intermittent workers, and he gave some examples. He showed that such men as coal trimmers, earning £5 to £7 a day—[ Interruption .] The evidence is £5 to £7 a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "months ago, and, although they knew that these scandals were going on, although they set up a Committee for the purpose of dealing with them, they have done nothing. They have shirked their responsibility, and are now piling up debts at the rate of £1,000,000 a week. It is no answer to say that we cannot strike these people off benefit without giving them something. We cannot let them starve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "rs, but now that there is published a Treasury Memorandum given in evidence before a Royal Commission, the position has changed, and it is our duty to speak. It is our duty to bring the facts to light, and the duty of every Member of this House, irrespective of party, to force the Government to remedy the position before it is too late, or to force it to make way for a Government which will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "nance concerning the Unemployment Insurance Fund, have had some results. Gold has been withdrawn steadily for months past. Last week M. Moret, President of the Bank of France, referring to the gain by France of £91,000,000 of gold, explained, in polite terms, that gold had been withdrawn from London and lodged in France because its owners thought that Paris was a safer repository than London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "They will not pay their debts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)", "preceding_text": "Before I deal directly with the Vote of Censure which has just been submitted I would like to congratulate the Conservative Whips upon their energy in securing the attendance of a sufficient number of Members at an economy Debate to prevent the House being counted out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ty. The right hon. Member for Edgbaston wrote to try to excuse the non attendance of the Conservative Members on a private Member's Motion, because such occasions, he said, \"are always regarded as occasions when Conservative Members can get away from the House to attend social functions.\" He added that it would have been quite sufficient had they returned to the House to take part in the Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.436.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And barley!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " also been told that a tariff on imported wheat is no good, that it would not give the farmers enough, and so the right hon. Gentleman is going to give them a subsidy between the market price and what it costs the farmer to grow wheat. At the present time the difference is 30s. a quarter. May I point out that you cannot confine that subsidy to wheat. It will have to be given to oats as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.438.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.441.5", "colnum": "441", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "What I said was perfectly clear. I was looking forward with great expectation and hope to the deliberations of that committee, and I got in the reports of that committee nothing of a practical character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.441.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that all the members of that committee came to certain agreements, and that the breakdown occurred because there was a difference, not on what ought to be done, but on when it should be done; and that when the Government representatives proposed a Royal Commission, the members of the other parties could not agree with that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.441.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly obvious why the representatives of the Government proposed that. It was because no other proposal of a practical character had been put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.11", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You ref erred to it!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "The document referred to was the report made by my hon. and gallant Friend and myself to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.13", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I referred to no document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.15", "colnum": "442", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I ask your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, as to whether it is in order for the right hon. Gentleman to refer to a document, which he said he had read, without producing it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.442.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I cannot say. I think I have now dealt with most of the points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Only Parliament can deal with these things, and would the House believe it, out of £677,000,000 of Civil and Consolidated Fund expenditure over £620,000,000 fall into that category. Therefore, it will be seen how limited are the opportunities of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or of the Departments in their administrative capacity of reducing expenditure. It is all a question of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Admiralty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "nings for great saving to-day in the great Departments of State. I am asked to indicate them. My right hon. Friend who moved the Vote of Censure is familiar with the War Office. There are in the War Office examples of extravagance, which, if examined by a committee, competent and independent, would mean great savings in that Department alone. You can go through the whole of the Departments almost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you suggest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "rnment to decide what the policy should be, after the recommendations came before them. I have never heard any criticism of that kind addressed against the setting up of a committee. When a committee has been set up and has reported, it rests with the Government either to accept the suggestions and to work them into a policy of their own, because they are the responsible people, or to reject them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "What does the right hon. Member mean by being behind the Chair? I assume he is referring to an incident which took place on a previous Motion. I was in the House for more than an hour on that occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.456.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "How about a reduction of naval expenditure?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "he taxpayers of this country, if one may still refer to them in this House without causing derisive cheers from the benches opposite? It comes home to them in this way: The greatest hope that there is of a, direct and practical national economy is in the reduction of the interest on our National Debt. If we reduce the interest on that debt by 1 per cent. it would save the country £75,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "n to our shores of fresh enterprises and fresh capital. At the present time cap ital is international and enterprise is international. It can go where it pleases and it does go where it pleases, and where it pleases to go is where it is safe and where it can earn the biggest reward. Under present conditions we doubt it is as safe here as it used to be. That is the result of the Trade Disputes Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "l. It can go where it pleases and it does go where it pleases, and where it pleases to go is where it is safe and where it can earn the biggest reward. Under present conditions we doubt it is as safe here as it used to be. That is the result of the Trade Disputes Act. [ Laughter .] Hon. Members laugh. I am indifferent to their laughter. We are appealing over their heads to the mind of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Member quite precisely that it is going anywhere else—to the United States, to Eastern Europe, to Czechoslovakia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "e years they had added £48,000,000 to the expenditure of the country. The Chancellor need not have been so angry about that, because what we did in five years he did in one year. In one year he added £46,000,000, so that what he would do, if by bad luck he was in office for five years, I cannot imagine. I do not think it is much good quoting party leaflets and making capital out of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "We may well leave the hon. Member who has just spoken to the tender mercies of his own Chancellor of the Exchequer. His speech was interesting because it showed the difference of view which now exists between the Chancellor and those who sit behind him. The hon. Member accused us on these benches of spreading alarm about the condition of the national credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "bused and always will be; but there is no need to make it more easy to abuse the dole. Still, it is no use coming to the House with words such as the Chancellor used to-day and at the same time passing Measures such as we were asked to pass last night. I am sure there are those on the benches opposite who do not attempt to deny that they regard the capitalist system as a system which has got to go", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "e, the result of trying to graft the Socialist system on to the capitalist system is one of the worst ways of destroying it, and one of the reasons for what we see. There are others who think that they are the intelligensia of the Government, but what about hon. Members below the Gangway? They go to the high priests of the revolutionary party and say, \"What will you give us to betray our country?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUSSELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUSSELL", "preceding_text": "ects Members on these benches and in other parts of the House. I submit that we shall not make any progress in regard to this question of economy by merely passing votes of censure. It is no use the pot continuing to call the kettle black. To listen to hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway telling hon. Gentlemen opposite that they should save money is one of the humorous incidents of our national life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.488.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It all depends on the way you say it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ave those millions? He is in a position of great authority, and even of dominance, in this House. He is allowed to use such language as he chooses with regard to the Labour party. He calls them incompetents, and they take no umbrage. There is not enough pride left in them to resent his insults, and they certainly have not enough courage to retaliate. When he is more genial, ha calls them toddlers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.529.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-11", "file": "debates1931-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "60bd7b756bbcc82d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "es to which is has now soared, and the situation undoubtedly was easier. Whether that is so or not, the obligation of the Government to-day is to do everything that is necessary for the welfare of the country. The present Government have had every chance. They were welcomed by the country in a way which, I confess, surprised me, from a partisan point of view, but they were given every opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-11a.529.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "We cannot hear a word.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means. I have seen, of course, the papers of the proceedings of the Committee, but I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " to seek to equal neighbouring European countries, like Germany or Switzerland, we should have to increase the number of our telephones by 50 per cent. There is no reason in the nature of things why we should be backward, as compared with many other nations, in telephone development. There is nothing in our soil, or climate, or national characteristics which should lead to our being so far behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " it for the development of our own country? A week ago we had some little excitement on the Stock Exchange because there was a rumour that a large development loan was about to be floated. That rumour was swiftly dissipated. Two or three days later India came to the Stock Exchange for £12,000,000 for railway development and other purposes, and that immense sum was subscribed within two hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "ith such very soporific effect. I hesitate to intrude, but we are in real danger of allowing the facts of the situation to be lost in words while this amiable Debate goes on between the two right hon. Gentlemen. I am still more reluctant to intervene after the speech of the Prime Minister, who, I regret to see, is unable, after his great effort, to remain in the House without a little refreshment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the sugar beet subsidy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "that their old leaders were all wrong, why do they not cross the Floor of the House and cease the pretence that they represent Liberal principles? I pass from those considerations to the likelihood of success of such schemes. This Government cannot be accused of lacking generosity in ladling out public funds. They have been very generous with other people's money since they first came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Costing £20,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "e considerations to the likelihood of success of such schemes. This Government cannot be accused of lacking generosity in ladling out public funds. They have been very generous with other people's money since they first came into office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the sugar beet subsidy?\"] Well, it is something to have established a great industry giving work on a permanent basis to 11,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman leaves that point may I ask him if, generally, he thinks it accurate that for every one man employed directly a man is employed indirectly; and, if so, would that same argument apply to all those industries such as the motor industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": ") was dictator of that Coalition, and had to take the responsibility of it, and I am afraid that if he takes part in this new Coalition without responsibility it will be a very dangerous situation from our point of view. The only way to meet the situation is to adopt a very bold, long-range policy. Let me come to one matter of fundamentals. We are going to have a far worse time in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Backing Astor horses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e about giving Socialism a chance. If the Prime Minister believes that Socialism is the only thing for the country, he ought to have said something about it to-day, but he never mentioned a word about it. Confidence must be restored in the country. Who would have confidence in the present Government? There is not one hon. Member opposite who would put his money in anything, except perhaps betting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "uite a lot to be considered in reference to modern rationalisation and the inferences to which it leads; but I do not want to stand for longer than is necessary between the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) and the right hon. Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas), who, I understand, is to succeed him, and who wishes to have sufficient time to develop the policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tory party knows it! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ths to bring politics and political parties into contempt in this country? One thing is quite clear. I would ask the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs to note it when he speaks. It is clear that there is not going to be any great extension of public works and employment on public works as a result of this Debate. The Liberal party knows it, the Labour party knows it and, what is more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " political capital out of this question, but, incidentally, I would like to mention that the present electrical development is a legacy which the Labour party has acquired. Other public works stand in quite a different category from electrical development. I would like to refer to the speech made by the Lord Privy Seal in which he stated, as part of his apologia pro vita sua for the Govment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So could we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "t is not for censure and it is not for condemnation. It is in order to get something done that we propose this Motion. I wish the Government had, after a year and eight months, been able to give us a better report. 200,000 direct and indirect—100,000 directly employed. I see that Signor Mussolini proposes to employ this year 440,000, largely in land. He is reclaiming 5,000,000 acres of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Macmillan Committee!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "hod of dealing with the matter. May I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister to use his influence with this committee to hurry up their report, because, if he communicates with them and expresses not merely the wish of the Government but the wish of the House of Commons that we should get the report at the earliest possible moment, I have no doubt at all that something will be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ant of the faults of a reactionary Government. They had a great meeting on economy in the City of London. All the great financial experts were there, including my right hon. Friend the Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne), who, very much to my astonishment, was rather offensive, if I may say so. May I say just one word to him about that? When the pastures were under my control, he followed my crook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "g speeches. The right hon. Member for Tamworth said quite frankly that the reason for his party's practical disinterestedness in this Debate was that they did not agree with the policy. They said clearly and definitely that as far as they were concerned their view was expressed by their attitude of doing nothing in this direction. I think that is a very fair summary of their statement of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.735.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide, divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "This is an extraordinary spectacle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-12", "file": "debates1931-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "715c43eb18e7b752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "RUSSIA (BRITISH HERRINGS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " We allow timber to come in in almost unlimited quantities, produced under conditions which are, to say the least of it, dubious, without any let or hindrance, and it is well-known that the Russians are importing large quantities of goods of all sorts and kinds into this country with the avowed aim and object of furthering, so far as they can, the completion of what is known as the five-year plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-12a.742.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": " of the 'capitalist press,' and they spend as much on drink in a day as would capitalise three great daily newspapers. The working classes are their own worst enemies. If they used their powers and opportunities to the best advantage, no other power could avail against them. Drinking, on the other hand, is the greatest asset the capitalist has in maintaining his position of domination over labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.781.5", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": " the 25th August, 1888, in the very foundations of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, calling for the total abolition of the liquor traffic. It is in keeping with these facts that the Independent Labour Party in Scotland—the Scottish Divisional Council—for twelve years, without faltering and with increasing insistence, has called for the total abolition of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "It goes on— And whereas the traffic in those liquors is opposed to the best interests of the nation. That has not been proved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "It goes on— And whereas the traffic in those liquors is opposed to the best interests of the nation. That has not been proved—[ Interruption .] There again the consensus of opinion is against the promoters of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.787.4", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "te trade. The wording of the Bill would lead one to suppose that fanaticism has dominated its promoters and shut out any thought of fairness from their hearts. Then we come to something which is rather funny. The Bill lays it down that under certain conditions alcoholic liquors can be sold by a chemist. But, whatever alcoholic liquor is placed in a bottle, that bottle must bear the label \"Poison.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.787.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which women?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "ou will remember that in those dining rooms very little wine or beer or alcoholic liquor was consumed. There was one thing you would have been bound to notice, and that was the practically entire absence of drinking by women, whether it was the working-class or any class in America. Prohibition has altered all that. To-day, instead of the women of America being abstainers, they are non-abstainers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "preceding_text": " and Seconder of the Bill built their arguments upon certain expressions of opinion by prominent men in the United States, but they left out the fact, known to all who have any knowledge of the States at the present time, that, although the large wine makers in California had to shut down owing to the Prohibition Act, more grapes are being grown in the United States to-day than were grown in 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "hey buy at the grocery store a yeast tablet and they add it to this stuff, which is, I believe, largely composed of malt extract and hops—and brew beer themselves at home in enormous quantities. That may be good or bad, but I want to prove that although you have Prohibition in the United States, the people are drinking in the aggregate, under very bad conditions, more than they drank before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "Here, again, the quotation is from one of the London daily newspapers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "s 24. But we have always to realise that the abstainers in such a category would obviously include the most prudent and careful, and that the non-abstainers would include the more reckless and the more casual living among the people. The non-abstainers are people who expose themselves to risk and probably do not take as much care of their health in other matters besides the consumption of alcohol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And never will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "irst principle was total abstinence for the individual and prohibition by the State, and I have never seen any reason to modify the view I took when I joined that society. I still think that every wise man to-day, fully informed as to the effects of alcohol and alcoholic drink, would do well to be himself a total abstainer. I know the whole medical profession has not yet assented to that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I have always found the liquor interest to be exceedingly blind to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.811.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes it was.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "te issue placed before the country. At the present moment, we are asked to pass a revolutionary Measure which has not been demanded by the country in any shape or form. I do not think that the most extreme temperance reformer will suggest that in a single constituency in the whole country this issue was raised as a matter to be considered at the last election by those who were casting their votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.815.6", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "Then we may take it that my hon. Friend is here solely for that purpose and no other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.815.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.815.6", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "Then we may take it that my hon. Friend is here solely for that purpose and no other. [ Interruption .] I do not think hon. Members opposite will suggest that this question has been an issue before the country, and I do not think it appeared in the election addresses of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.815.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "I dare say some hon. Members do not know, though of course most will, that in the nine States of Canada the rules differ a, little, but in the main, I think at any rate in eight, there are no such places as public houses where you can go and get a drink; but you may order what you like to be sent to your home; and certainly I think everyone would agree that there is no drunkenness in Canada—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "in America, but we do not hear the truth about it. Before the last election you might have thought that there was going to be a tremendous \"wet\" wave go over the country, but it did not do so. I am not now dealing with America, but with England. The drink trade spends that enormous sum in advertising drink. Think what we spend in advertising milk. Only £20,000 a year goes in advertising milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": ". The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that if his own child wanted to do anything he would not tell him to drink beer but to keep as sober as he could. This is all out of date; so many hon. Members are thinking of times past. We have to think of present day conditions, and we have to face the drink question. The Labour party set up a Royal Commission. I thought that it was a wonderful get-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not want it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "et a great following from the people of the country. 3.0 p.m. All that is wanted is a lead. There is no lead from any of the leaders of the parties when it comes to the question of drink. When we hear hon. Members talk about the Empire, do we realise that there is not one member of the Empire which has not got local option? We the heart and soul of the Empire, are not allowed to have local option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-13", "file": "debates1931-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "30b6db76806b143d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIQUOR TRAFFIC PROHIBITION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " by betting, and no legislation can prevent it. Nevertheless, this particular industry, which keeps many of our farmers and other people going, is to be singled out. We take our lessons from America, but why not go to the country which is just across the Channel? That is a country where you have no restrictions and no drunkenness, where the people are prosperous and there is no unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-13a.831.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.921.4", "colnum": "921", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fortunate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "right in the grave warning which he gave. Yet this moment is chosen by the Government to ask for powers double those that have ever been asked for before, and that the period should be extended for six months. The request is one which the Committee has no right to accede to, and I hope that it will be refused. A few words about transitional benefit. The fortunate applicants for that benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.921.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "Where would you put them? What would you do with the miners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.952.4", "colnum": "952", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ity of the people will have at some time or other passed in and out of benefit. For those reasons, it appears to me that there is a real danger that not only the party opposite, which I always thought would collapse under the transitional benefit, because they would have to meet those hon. Gentlemen on the back benches who say that transitional benefit shall under no circumstances come down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.952.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What will his constituents think?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "e disgraces it.\" He seemed to be going on the lines of one of H. G. Wells's books of just seeing how far you could keep a single cell alive without having to do anything towards the sustenance of that cell. He used the words: \"Just keep them conscious and alive.\" It is not a very Christian conception when you are talking about your fellow-beings, that you should just keep them conscious and alive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.975.5", "colnum": "975", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "—and the long drawn-out coal stoppage, which had a very material effect on the Unemployment Insurance Fund. From 1924 to 1929 we had a Government who really tried to bring this fund into solvency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " position? After all, we must face the situation and consider ways and means of overcoming the difficulty. The causes have been described as being world wide; the general depression in trade and a large increase in unemployment. No one can deny the fact that they have caused a considerable run upon the fund, but I submit that there are other causes, one of which was the passing of the Act of 1930.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "It has not saved our town a great deal. We happen to be very independent hard-working folk and in our chief industry the number of those employed has actually increased. Our difficulties have been caused by people being sent from other towns to our towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And to keep their works together.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "preceding_text": "at these employers really could employ their men full time and that they are doing what they are doing out of sheer spite? I maintain that it is wholly true to say that these employers are doing it in the best interests of their workmen. They think their workmen cannot live on what they would earn in three days, and therefore they say that they will help them to get a little more assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) accused us on these benches of saying that people are drawing benefit when not entitled to it. That is not the accusation at all. The accusation is that there are a great many people entitled to benefit under the law as it stands who ought not to be drawing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": " all. The accusation is that there are a great many people entitled to benefit under the law as it stands who ought not to be drawing it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Hon. Members opposite do not seem to have studied with any care the White Paper issued the other day by the Treasury. They will surely admit that the evidence given by the Government actuary to the Royal Commission may be taken as correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where has it gone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ities closed on Tuesday night and the prices at which they closed to-night, and it will be seen that there is a total depreciation in excess of £72,000,000. You come to the House and ask for £20,000,000 for this fund, but, by your policy and by the entire want of confidence you have caused in the financial centre of the country, you have wiped out £72,000,000 of the nation's wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.996.5", "colnum": "996", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "n of insurance, would ever dare to, mention in the House of Commons the beauties of Vienna in regard to finance, where only 5 per cent. interest is allowed, where the usury laws are abolished, and where the taxation year by year is raised by taxes on the luxuries of the people. We are living, I suppose, in an enlightened England, which is out to-day to regenerate and lead the nations of the world:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.996.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-16", "file": "debates1931-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe199c1baa7508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.999.6", "colnum": "999", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY] (No. 2).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "proposition. You cannot go on increasing the poverty line, and get safety unless you make provision for the people you put in the streets. Therefore, the Minister is morally justified in asking, not for £20,000,000, but for £1,000,000,000. There is something more sacred than wealth. Human life is above all wealth. If you do not manage affairs well, it will be a dangerous day for England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-16a.999.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1072.4", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I cannot possibly allow that statement to pass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1072.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three hours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "It is quite true that, since the business was announced last Thursday, the Chairman of Ways and Means has put down the Surrey County Council Bill. I have no means of ascertaining how long the Debate on that Bill may last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "at, having received, by 23 votes to one, the approval of the Barnes Urban District Council, and having been passed, again with a minority of one, by the Surrey County Council, consisting of 93 members, it ought to be passed by this House, because the two minorities of one consisted of the same person, who, I believe, has supplied the brief for the two speeches to which we have just listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "ir usual slumber, would be highly resented by the inhabitants of the district, while it is by no means certain that the taking down of a couple of public houses would not cost far more in compensation than would have to be paid for the property at the back. With regard to the school, for eight years I taught in Mortlake, so I may be presumed at least to know a little about the accommodation there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "If that is so, it is a great pity that the Minister does not tell us. I have to act, and Parliament has to act, upon this report. In addition to the unallocated balance, there is £1,000,000 which is coming in this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "to act, upon this report. In addition to the unallocated balance, there is £1,000,000 which is coming in this year—[ Interruption .] What we have to justify is that it is a reasonable thing to put this further charge on the industry, and that there are necessarily schemes to be charged out of it. I should have thought that with a million, and three-quarters of the sum unallocated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1198.2", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was responsible?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": "ee—and I regard it as greatly regrettable that agreement has not been reached on this occasion. As the right hon. Gentleman is aware, the industry is now, for the first time, making difficulties about the continuance of the levy. An hon. Member opposite said this Bill passed in live minutes when it, last came before the House in 1925. The House should remember that 1925 was followed by 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain PEAKE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain PEAKE", "preceding_text": " deal of the penny falls on the miners themselves. If it is taken that it all falls on the men, then it costs every man in the industry 23s. a year. If, on the other hand, it all falls on the owners, then it is costing the owners over the eight or nine years it has been in operation £9,000,000, and that happens to be exactly the sum which the industry itself has lost over the last five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ly in a very dubious financial position, and should calmly consider giving a Second Reading to a Bill such as this, which authorises the Minister to acquire £5,000,000 from a harassed industry and find some object to spend it on later. I hope that some hon. Member will challenge this and that the House will not give the Bill a Second Reading until the Minister explains. It is monstrous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " Chancellor of the Exchequer the applause which you are giving me. The House of Commons, which is supposed to be the guardian of the public purse, is calmly considering the Second Reading of a Bill which authorises the Secretary for Mines to rush about the country finding charitable objects upon which to bestow this money. I hope the Conservative party, at any rate, will challenge this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "arly, that there was a balance of, approximately £2,000,000 in the fund, not counting the amount which is coming in, I understand, on 31st March. When tackled on this point, however, the hon. Gentleman began to find reasons for whittling down that figure, until I almost began to suspect that there was a deficit in the fund, and that he would be compelled to come to the House and ask for more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-17", "file": "debates1931-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba043959d8956976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I almost began to suspect that there was a deficit in the fund, and that he would be compelled to come to the House and ask for more. [ Interruption .] There is one point, however, which I would recommend to the attention of hon. Gentlemen who misrepresent the miners and the mining industry here and whose main knowledge of mining seems to be expressed in making a loud noise and not very much else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-17a.1212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1243.6", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not understand that there is in this House a custom by which Members who have rendered pre-eminent services to the State are thanked by the House? It is an ancient usage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1243.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ct that costs are too high, and one item in costs is taxation. If he has to put on fresh taxation it means that it will be still more difficult for industry to recover, and still more difficult for industry to take proper advantage of the change in the world situation when it comes. Therefore, he is in a dilemma. There is one way out, as he himself has said, and that is a reduction of expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Misplaced where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "h taxation it means that it will be still more difficult for industry to recover, and still more difficult for industry to take proper advantage of the change in the world situation when it comes. Therefore, he is in a dilemma. There is one way out, as he himself has said, and that is a reduction of expenditure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] At any rate it would help. A reduction of misplaced expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "000 to £135,000,000 in one year, of which the cost to be paid by the Exchequer is from £50,000,000 to £55,000,000 and the amount of additional debt that is likely to be involved some £40,000,000 to £50,000,000 or more. At the same time, there is every reason to believe, and I say it quite advisably, that a considerable part of this expenditure is not in itself justifiable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1278.6", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I am not concerned to dispute a matter like that, but if it were true, two wrongs do not make one right. It is subsidising wages out of the Unemployment Fund. It means that you are paying money to industry in a way that is legal, but quite clearly ought not to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1278.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "m quite sure that the Minister would say on her behalf, that I resent that aspersion enormously. I may or may not agree with the laws that the Minister has passed, with regard to which both she and the Government have been faithfully served by the officers of the Ministry of Labour, and to cast an aspersion upon any particular official without having any justification for it is most reprehensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1279.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I say quite distinctly, and I think the Minister will agree with me, that the people who are criticised are equal in humanity and feelings to any of the people who set out to criticise them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1282.2", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ll not be capable of competing. The moment you anchor workers in one part of the country, instead of making them more mobile, you again impede our industrial recovery. At the moment they would not find a job in other parts of the country, but before un- employment got so bad as it is to-day workers from the coalfields were able to get a job in other areas, and 900 out of 1,000 were absorbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1282.2", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ent they would not find a job in other parts of the country, but before un- employment got so bad as it is to-day workers from the coalfields were able to get a job in other areas, and 900 out of 1,000 were absorbed— [ Interruption .] They will get absorbed again when trade recovers. Again, there are lots of small pieces of work which would still be available if conditions were proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1282.2", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sugar for the bird!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "se of gingering up the evidence before the Royal Commission in order to get to work more quickly. I put it to hon. Members opposite that from the point of view of proper insurance there is hardly one of them who in his heart of hearts does not know that the criticisms I have made to-day are perfectly true and sound. When we are asking which way we are to vote, let me put this to the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "ated for seven years the Exchequer has to bear interest at five per cent. for seven years on the cost, and five per cent. for seven years at compound interest is exactly 40 per cent. The Exchequer grant to the Newport waterworks is £200,000. What is the Exchequer getting for it? Is it getting new water-works. No, it is paying seven years' interest on the cost of construction and nothing more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would help.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "any more than to have my house repaired by an unemployed cotton operative under the scheme suggested by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Tamworth (Sir A. Steel-Maitland) in an earlier speech. One is as futile as the other. Let us build houses because we want them or not build them at all. But do not let us pretend that we can solve the problem by setting 150,000 building operatives at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": " £145,000,000. I am willing to admit that if we spend £145,000,000 we shall probably get 350,000 man years, and we shall get a very large number of roads, but are those roads going to be national assets? The question of whether a road will become a national asset or not, depends on whether it is essential or not. Does anybody pretend that, at the moment, road reconstruction is essential?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "I would rather have the Tories cheering me than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "sets. These grants merely pay for carrying what will eventually become assets. The only method which we can adopt, of dealing with unemployment, is the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Hon. Gentlemen opposite below the Gangway every now and again start off on great economy campaigns. They are going to try to help the Tories to claw £1,000,000 or £2,000,000 out of the unemployment benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You voted for it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": " now and again start off on great economy campaigns. They are going to try to help the Tories to claw £1,000,000 or £2,000,000 out of the unemployment benefits. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said so?\"] Well, I do not know that they will succeed, but I understand they are going to try. They are ruthless economists. They have even forced upon the House a Committee to see where economies can be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "e going to try. They are ruthless economists. They have even forced upon the House a Committee to see where economies can be made. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You voted for it!\"] I ask hon. Members to wait a moment and to consider what is the position. Hon. Gentlemen opposite below the Gangway are in the position of the man who, having swallowed the camel without the slightest difficulty, strains at the gnat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. TUDOR WALTERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about plasterers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. TUDOR WALTERS", "preceding_text": "Out of the 187,000 building trade operatives now on the dole, much more than the usual percentage consist of skilled workers. It is in fact the carpenters, bricklayers, and the like who are out of work in the building trade.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " and got there first. It must be very annoying to arrive at the head of an angry band of excursionists on a railway platform and find the only saloon reserved for a gentleman whom you expected to be in your personally conducted party. I sympathise with the position of the right hon. Gentleman. He spoke the other day of the \"money barons.\" I think it is pertinent to inquire, \"Who made them barons?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "very moment the war-time Prime Minister of this country—a man whose name is a household word, and rightly a household word, throughout the land—sends forth a lot of loose and wild suggestions to excite the cheers of hon. Members below the Gangway, which, if they were followed in Australia, would only mean the downfall of those Socialist Ministers who are fighting for financial probity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "his country—a man whose name is a household word, and rightly a household word, throughout the land—sends forth a lot of loose and wild suggestions to excite the cheers of hon. Members below the Gangway, which, if they were followed in Australia, would only mean the downfall of those Socialist Ministers who are fighting for financial probity. [ Interruption .] Look at the effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I want to know your Billing on this question—if we are to sit here all night listening to this dialectical oratory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1308.5", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I want to protest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I would rather have him as my Leader than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The people in countries abroad do not understand the context of these speeches, or the atmosphere in which they are delivered; nor do they understand the position of the party which sometimes dictates action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "n countries abroad do not understand the context of these speeches, or the atmosphere in which they are delivered; nor do they understand the position of the party which sometimes dictates action. [ Interruption .] I have no doubt that in many countries people have drawn in their minds a picture of the right hon. Gentleman leading a band of Cobdenites and Clydesiders to the sack of Lombard Street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1345.2", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAW", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAW", "preceding_text": " one-quarter of the income, can buy up 100 per cent. of the goods created by our people? If there is anybody who can solve that problem he will have solved the unemployment problem, but not until then. An equal distribution of wealth is at the bottom of the whole business. I will quote a daily journal which I believe is the official organ of some Members of the opposite party, the \"Daily Express.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about pensions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAW", "preceding_text": "Where we can economise is out of the sum of 9s. 8½d. which goes to the moneylenders. The case of the ex-Service men has been mentioned. What have they been guaranteed? This country gave guarantees to the bondholders, but no guarantee was given to the men who saved the property of the bondholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman who says \"Hear, hear,\" but I do not agree with that statement of our problem for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "hat there is not a temporary problem. There may well be a temporary problem, but in the end it is impossible to consider a condition of world over-production, especially as the result of the bountifulness of Nature under the guidance of man, when large masses of the people of the world are under-fed and under-clothed. As long as those conditions exist, there is no real over-production in the world", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "licy. I can imagine many things that might be said against us, but the last thing that I could imagine would be that we had no constructive policy. Whether hon. Members agree with it or not—and that is quite another matter—there is no question whatever that the policy which we have continually put forward for dealing with unemployment is the only constructive policy before the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Are you going to safeguard agriculture?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": " with unemployment is the only constructive policy before the country. [ Interruption .] I do not deny that the object of those whom the Socialist party claim specially to represent in this House, is to safeguard the wages and the standard of life of the worker; but we claim that that cannot be done without safeguarding the work of his hands. That is a very definite and a very constructive policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": ". Gentlemen opposite break down. The hon. Member for Gorbals, as far as I could gather from his speech on Monday, really would like larger, better, and more generous doles. He is not satisfied with the present distribution of public funds by the Government. Hon. Members opposite are urging their Chancellor and the right hon. Lady to distribute public funds on an even greater scale than at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1361.4", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A money baron?\" \"Is he in the City?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ale. I have never concealed that fact. It is quite impossible to carry them through without borrowing. No business man would mix up the borrowing which a great concern has to undertake for the purposes of capital improvements in its business, with annual expenditure. I was talking the other day to a very important business man, who is known very well by my right. hon. Friend the Member for Epping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1365.4", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "because the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition is clinging to its arms with brave and solid tenacity. Therefore they have not got it yet. There is this much to be said for him and Lord Beaverbrook. They are both starting fair; they have each got one follower in this House. I notice that the right hon. Gentleman turned round and acclaimed that loyal follower with affectionate regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1365.4", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this to do with unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ng which seem to have come from practically the same historical period. Lord Beaverbrook is recruiting, in the Eastern counties, his Ironsides, as Oliver Cromwell did. That is his new model army. But the right hon. Gentleman wants the trained bands of the City. Well, he found it rather dangerous trying to ride to authority on the Indian tiger. Besides, there Lord Beaverbrook has annexed the tiger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You asked for it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ts to know a little more about the other baronies he will learn a good deal about them if he prosecutes inquiries along his own Front Bench. I regret that in a serious Debate of this kind, upon a very momentous issue and at a time of very grave emergency, it should have been necessary to have entered into these recriminations. I should have thought that in the course of one single afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In what way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "nection with his Budget, but in connection with any schemes of amelioration, any effort, whether by loans or otherwise, to do anything which can assist us in dealing with the serious economic situation in which the country finds itself. I believe that that speech of last Thursday by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs has done more harm to this country than any speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "of the way. That is the clear intention and object of the right hon. Gentleman. If I speak for myself alone, in this party or in this House, I say \"Rather the Chancellor of the Exchequer with all the differences of opinion that we have with him, land taxes and the rest of them included, than ever see the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs back on any Treasury Bench in England.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put them on the rates!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "vice of continuing this Bill or anything like it one week longer than is absolutely necessary is that you are hiding the fact from the country that the Unemployment Insurance Fund is hopelessly bankrupt, will never be repaid, and can never get back to an insurance basis on anything like its present lines, and that borrowing to pay out benefits week by week is a thoroughly vicious financial system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "ever get back to an insurance basis on anything like its present lines, and that borrowing to pay out benefits week by week is a thoroughly vicious financial system. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Put them on the rates!\"] If anybody suggests putting them on the rates, that is the most foolish suggestion. Why have the Government not redeemed their promise to take the able-bodied unemployed off the rates?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1372.6", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "nce, the trade and the industry of this country? Until that question is faced we shall get no solution. It requires courage—and there is a vast mass of prejudice on all sides—to grasp this matter; but it is lack of statesmanship to endeavour to exploit it. It is a problem which all parties will have to face, and face squarely, in the interests of the financial stability of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1372.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "Have not the unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1384.4", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "If the House will allow me for a few minutes, I should like to say something from a non-party point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1385.4", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "? Because they had an object lesson in other countries. Soldiers were returning borne, men who had gone through the valley of the shadow, gone through Hell, with nothing to look forward to, and they were likely to be dangerous. You all became generous. Now you have forgotten the War, and all the circumstances arising out of it. What about a land fit for heroes to live in? You all subscribed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1395.0", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Johnston)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Johnston)", "preceding_text": "riticisms which were raised by his friends in the discussion yesterday. It is difficult, after the bottom has been knocked out of some of the criticisms by the very amendment of the Money Resolution, and after the lapse of 24 hours, to re-create the atmosphere in which some of those criticisms were made; and I see that some of the hon. Gentlemen who made them yesterday are not in their places now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1408.4", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "Ruling that you have given. I was merely trying at this juncture to understand the important Financial Resolution which is before the House. I will leave that subject and put to the Minister a very important point that has been raised in the Debate. The hon. Member for Thirsk (Mr. Turton) has put forward very substantial and cogent reasons for a Money Resolution of this sort, where expenses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1408.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1408.6", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Taxpayers' money!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " reply to the very cogent point as to whether there is to be a limit of expenditure so far as these committees are concerned. Are these gentlemen—committees, secretaries, agents—to have a limited resource out of the money we are voting to-night? Hon. Members opposite do not seem to realise that at half-past 12 o'clock we are voting a large sum of the ratepayers' money for this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1408.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": "I would not have risen if it had not been for a suggestion put to me by an hon. Friend on the bench in front of me that under Clause 3 of the Bill, it might be possible for a board to manufacture beer from a cereal product—malt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Beer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": " limit of that small amount to be placed on a measure that would be of such useful service to the community. I have really to put a serious point to the Minister—that there should be a limit to the State liability. I understood that this new Resolution was put forward in order that the producer's liability in case of one of these boards, as it might possibly do, going into liquidation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1411.0", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. William Adamson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. William Adamson)", "preceding_text": "tland is getting some advantage under this Bill. He is evidently under the impression that Scotland is entitled only to eleven-eightieths of the total sum allocated. That allocation has only been applied in certain Acts of Parliament. In others the allocation has been on a much higher basis. In the case of agricultural legislation in recent years we have never got less than one-fifth for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-18", "file": "debates1931-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "adb6dc3a765c4b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "If we take it on a wider issue than we have discussed—and which, I think, I have answered very satisfactorily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-18a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1434.10", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORRIS-JONES", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member aware that the conclusions come to by the Commissioner at this inquiry are regarded by competent opinion as against the weight of evidence at the inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1434.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1459.6", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "SALVATION ARMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On your part!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK SMITH", "preceding_text": "I desire, first of all, to thank you, Mr. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to raise a matter concerning the Second Reading of the Salvation Army Bill yesterday. The reason for my asking this permission is that undoubtedly a most unfortunate misunderstanding occurred in connection with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1459.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "SALVATION ARMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK SMITH", "preceding_text": "d Reading of the Salvation Army Bill yesterday. The reason for my asking this permission is that undoubtedly a most unfortunate misunderstanding occurred in connection with it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"On your part!\"] I am, of course, not questioning your Ruling regarding the decision which you gave, as that would be manifestly improper, but I want to advance reasons to show that the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1459.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "t to be a mere excuse. We had during the year 1930 three separate occasions when an additional £10,000,000 was secured—in April, in July and in November. In April the excuse was that the 12 months was not up and that was a perfectly natural excuse. In July there was an entirely new excuse, and that was, \"Now we have got rid of the idea of solving this by the Government committee\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "s when an additional £10,000,000 was secured—in April, in July and in November. In April the excuse was that the 12 months was not up and that was a perfectly natural excuse. In July there was an entirely new excuse, and that was, \"Now we have got rid of the idea of solving this by the Government committee\"—[ Interruption ]. I hope hon. Members will correct me if I am wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "first time in this melancholy story, on the eve of the day when the Chancellor of the Exchequer made his speech, we are invited to authorise twice as big a loan and to give the Government twice as long a period in which to feel secure from any House of Commons criticism and to bring that period to an end some time in the month of August when everybody will be wanting to go on their holidays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1552.5", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MALTLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MALTLAND", "preceding_text": "possible to get it into operation. Therefore, the earliest date at which any legislation could become effective would be October, or perhaps even later.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th February, 1931; col. 915, Vol. 248.] If I am correct in my interpretation, that quite clearly was an undertaking to bring in legislation after the consideration of the Report of the Commission, and reorganising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1552.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1557.7", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite have been examining, like the rest of the country, the evidence given before the Royal Commission during the last week or so, and no doubt they have been just as shocked as the country is at the figures which have been disclosed by Treasury and other officials who have given evidence before the commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1557.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are sure!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ist party, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. I wish to deal with the question which has been raised by hon. Members on the other side in connection with the Amendment to the financial proposal which we are supporting for the purpose of reducing the sum. Hon. Members opposite seem to imagine that in some way or other we wish to reduce the amount of benefit given under unemployment insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1567.1", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hard-hearted!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is not very good at interruptions, if I may be allowed so to remind him. It would be better at the present time not to vote so large a sum as £90,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1583.3", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "mployment Insurance scheme is to-day in a satisfactory condition. The piling up of debt cannot go on; the scheme must be put on a self-supporting basis. That is agreed. There is also agreement that able-bodied unemployable— workers who fail to qualify for insurance benefit must be provided for outside the existing arrangements.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th December, 1930; col. 65, Vol. 246.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1583.3", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ling up of debt cannot go on; the scheme must be put on a self-supporting basis. That is agreed. There is also agreement that able-bodied unemployable— workers who fail to qualify for insurance benefit must be provided for outside the existing arrangements.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th December, 1930; col. 65, Vol. 246.] [ Interruption .] I take it that the Minister meant \"unemployed\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1583.3", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "d. There is also agreement that able-bodied unemployable— workers who fail to qualify for insurance benefit must be provided for outside the existing arrangements.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th December, 1930; col. 65, Vol. 246.] [ Interruption .] I take it that the Minister meant \"unemployed\"—[ Interruption .] I may be doing him an injustice, but certainly the terms of reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "hich is now adopted by the Minister, will be enormously accentuated, and our demand for a short term for this Vote so that the matter may be reviewed at the earliest possible moment will be enormously strengthened. The huge economic problem before us certainly ought to be reviewed at a shorter interval than six months. The problem before the Germans has shaken that country to its very foundations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ay be reviewed at the earliest possible moment will be enormously strengthened. The huge economic problem before us certainly ought to be reviewed at a shorter interval than six months. The problem before the Germans has shaken that country to its very foundations. [ Interruption .] It has caused the fall of Government after Government there, and is the subject of acute discussion in that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " the Government is a matter which you have to look in the morning paper to determine. That country, with a wide democratic franchise and with an enormous unemployment problem, has frequently taken most drastic steps to deal with the unemployment situation, and has raised contributions until they run to 3s. 3d. per employed person, as against our own 1s. 6d. in its efforts to make its fund solvent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1587.3", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "imited liability in insurance and a wider scheme which will deal with the situation as we find it. I beg the Committee to remember that the whole question of transitional benefit means that a subvention in aid of the trades of this country is being paid out of the general taxes, on the suggestion that it is an insurance payment. That is an entire fallacy, and it is admitted to be such by everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1589.0", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "er the price of steel will alter and he will get a job in his own trade as a steelworker? What is the use, of keeping a man in the cotton trade, which has gone on chronic short time, on the theory that some day or other all the mills in Japan will stop, that the heart of Mr. Gandhi will change, that the Americans will make no more cotton, and that every spindle in Lancashire will be working again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1589.0", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "e utility of keeping a system which does that, I am not going to enter. I am not going to enter now into the whole question of \"Socialism in our time.\" All I can say is that under this system these people are at least getting their breakfasts, they are getting their dinners, and they are getting their teas, while under the Socialist system in Russia they are being sent into the timber camps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wasting?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ther debilitated to deal with the most serious duties of his office. He tells us that it is in order, because the late Conservative Government postponed this matter—a statement which is not very well-founded—that we should postpone the matter for six months, and pay no further attention either to the problem of unemployment or to the vast sums which the Government are wasting in doles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " In that space of time they will say: \"We will do nothing, but we will hope that the Royal Commission will come along and justify us.\" The Government in the meantime will go on spending large sums of public money, and no one will know what the Government policy is for dealing with unemployment or whether they really in- tend to implement the report of the Royal Commission. It is disgraceful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "y interest notwithstanding certain specific contracts made on the bonds when the loan was issued. Such a state of affairs cannot go on. Hon. Members must remember that we owe a great deal of our overseas trade to generous lending overseas. When we lend new money overseas, part of that money goes out in the form of exported goods. It is a good thing for the exporter when new money is borrowed here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " thing for the exporter when new money is borrowed here. [ Interruption .] It is not for the benefit of the export trade that, when securities are launched here on the overseas market, those documents should become valueless. What happens? Later on, when other borrowers come here, the investor does not lend the money and the manufacturer does not get the orders. We should not sit down in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1628.2", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "s, or otherwise; (v) Generally to encourage closer intellectual co-operation and to promote cultural relations between China and the United Kingdom.\" This Amendment represents the result of discussions and agreement between myself and the representatives of the Universities who raised this matter last week and the representations of the Universities China Committee, which is to receive this grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1631.3", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "preceding_text": "I do not want to hinder the House, but I should just like to add my word of thanks to the Under-Secretary for the spirit in which he has met the universities. The group of universities which I represent are also interested in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-19", "file": "debates1931-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0277e68a1b26901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1631.4", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENNIE SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENNIE SMITH", "preceding_text": "The work the university Members have put into this Bill is admirably represented in the Amendment before the House. When university representation in this House is in danger of disappearing we welcome the good work which the University representatives have embodied in this notable Amendment. I think it is fitting that a word of praise should be paid to the university Members in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-19a.1631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-20", "file": "debates1931-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a92106bc57c3a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-20a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Scottish law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLEWELLYN-JONES", "preceding_text": "t a will is made, the members of the family come together, the will is read, in ninety-nine case out of a hundred, there is every desire on the part of members of the family that the wishes of the testator should be respected; but the moment the will is read, if it does not comply absolutely with the terms of this Bill, there will be trouble in the family, resulting in estrangement and litigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-20a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-20", "file": "debates1931-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a92106bc57c3a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-20a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "preceding_text": " cases where a perfectly reasonable provision is being made by the spouse, by agreement with the other spouse. Is it not the case that to require that agreement to be acknowledged as satisfying the provisions of the Bill there must be one of two things. The husband could contract out with the consent of the spouse, in which case the court is very unlikely to make any difficulty about it, or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-20a.1697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-20", "file": "debates1931-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "6a92106bc57c3a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-20a.1716.4", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "assurance.\" I think they ought to do so. I suppose the number of ships lost at sea every year exceeds the number of members of the law who are lost in the bankruptcy court. What does the shipowner do? He insures and recovers this amount. Let the legal profession insure against those \"ships\" that go on the rocks. That is all I ask. But they will not take the risk. The other people do take the risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-20a.1716.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1735.3", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "In the course of the Debate the right hon. Gentleman asserted that there was a, new spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1735.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1754.6", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "His Majesty has been pleased to approve the appointment of a Royal Commission to report with regard to the political situation in Malta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1754.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1764.4", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Mr. Barnes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1814.1", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "onditions at one of the Employment Exchanges, but up to now proper arrangements have not been made. I suppose it is due to lack of money. These financial people do not look at the thing from the point of view of treating these unemployed men and women as human beings. Do they want to treat them as criminals Are they suggesting that they ought to be left outside the pale of ordinary civilised life?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1822.5", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "a proper scrutiny and a proper explanation of a sum of £85,000. If we are going to let the Government have a free run with millions of money, paying no regard to figures like £85,000, the House of Commons might as well give up its functions so far as the supervision of finance is concerned, and I daresay some of the right hon. Gentleman's supporters would rather approve of such a course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1822.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1837.2", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I do not want to intervene at this point if there are any hon. Members who wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1851.3", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "cial Secretary to the Treasury would have been able to tell us precisely on what this money has been spent. The Financial Secretary, however, merely said that the full programme of work had been carried out. In other words, the Financial Secretary, who is supposed to be keeping down expenditure, was boasting that this sum had been spent because the Government had been as wasteful as they could be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend is an example—does not spend one penny more in carrying out a necessary piece of work than it ought to spend. Therefore, the Treasury in conjunction with the Department, fixes the total sum which a job is going to cost, and the reason why we are confronted with a difficulty in this particular case is because of the way in which Estimates are presented to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1885.2", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ssion? Or perhaps he sees that there are a great many unemployed in some parts of the country and says, \"There are some funny looking mines in some fields there, let us dig them up.\" Is that the standard by which he picks out these monuments, or does he take some place like Fountains Abbey or some other ancient abbey and, realising that there is repair work to be done, set about it scientifically?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1885.2", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "some other ancient abbey and, realising that there is repair work to be done, set about it scientifically? [ Interruption .] The hon. Members round me are being frivolous. Will he clear up this point? He said that 1,350 men are employed on this work for £75,000. Not long ago I heard it said by him that it cost £1,000,000 to employ 4,000 men. There is a great discrepancy in these figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1887.2", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ts cost to build. It is embarrassing to know to whom to address inquiries upon this subject— whether to the First Commissioner of Works or to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Camborne (Mr. Leif Jones). I do not know why the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Camborne should presume to answer for the Ministry. One can only come to the conclusion that he is an ancient monument himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1887.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " stop Debate—Ministers are always anxious to stop Debate. The Minister is anxious to get this Bill—Ministers are always anxious to get their Bills. Hon. Members of the Labour party rent the welkin with denunciation of us when we were on that side of the House, and explained what they would do if they were there. Now they sit mum, and anxious only that nothing more should be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " anxious to get this Bill—Ministers are always anxious to get their Bills. Hon. Members of the Labour party rent the welkin with denunciation of us when we were on that side of the House, and explained what they would do if they were there. Now they sit mum, and anxious only that nothing more should be done—[ Interruption ]. These are the people whose hypocrisy we cannot forgive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1898.0", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or an Englishman!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "on as to what their views are about this question of how to handle the unemployed, and on the Third Reading they send down no responsible Minister to give us any further statement than we have been vouchsafed. The present situation is really a disgrace, and hon. Members opposite know that it is a disgrace. whether you look at it from the point of view of a Socialist or a Conservative or a Liberal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1898.0", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "hing to have in any country a Government that is prepared to govern, against one which is not prepared to put forward any constructive suggestions of any kind on any question. At least the Government might have made up their minds about this two years ago and decided what action they were going to take and informed the House of Commons. In the meantime we are slopping out £100,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1900.0", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is a dole?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " Bill by dividing against the Third Reading. There is one small reason why I should like hon. Members opposite to consider whether they ought to allow this system of dribbling out public money to maintain the unemployed to go on. It is a point of view which has not been sufficiently noticed, but they are maintaining one of the worst vices of the capitalist system by this drenching out of the dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1900.0", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " which people contributed, you could speak about it as insurance, but now that you have this transitional benefit, which is not contributed to at all, but which is handed out to all and sundry, it is a dole. They are maintaining an over-supplied labour market. Instead of causing industry to pare its requirements of labour down to an economic limit, they are keeping a floating pool of labour going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1902.2", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Central Nottingham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "that they will carry out what they have indicated, their intention of voting against the Third Reading of this Bill. It will show us that the young Tories, as distinct from the older Tories, are anxious that labour should be made to move more freely around the country, driven by the goad of starvation. That seems to be the moral to be drawn from the speech of the hon. and learned Member for Luton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1906.2", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "on. and learned Member for Central Nottingham (Mr. O'Connor) suggested that it was necessary to reduce the stagnant pool of labour. Is he suggesting that it should be done by the revolver and the river—the United States method? What other proposal has he? Is it to be done by the meaner weapon of starvation? How are hon. Members opposite going to reduce the stagnant pool of unemployed people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1908.2", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. STEWART SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "I have done it. Most of the people there may be getting the dole, but they are people who have earned it and who are genuinely seeking work and cannot get it. We want to keep out the people who are not really badly off. I had an instance the other day of a woman who had bought a new fur coat for £40 and she said she had saved the price of it out of the money which she had drawn from the dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1915.3", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "nactivity of the Government, that there is something that can be done other than \"dishing out\" money, that there is something bigger and better to do than dealing out millions—I would ask them, what are they going to do? Are they going to sit still while the Chancellor of the Exchequer lets drip bitter words which mean the death of British trade; or are they going, like a Greek chorus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Baronet says this Government came in and for 20 months did nothing. During that period the policy that was governing the general conditions of this country, assuming that the Government did nothing, was the policy which had been imposed upon the country by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-23", "file": "debates1931-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2747df034072a656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1919.2", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "iving exactly the same benefits as we are receiving? \"That is a principle which cannot possibly be continued. It would cut at the very root of unemployment contributory insurance. It really is carrying out in practice the theory of the Socialist party of work or maintenance. I think that it is agreed by all parties in the House that a non-contributory insurance scheme is an absolute impossibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-23a.1919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1931.6", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major The Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major The Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": "Arising out of that answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1931.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1931.6", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major The Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major The Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": "Arising out of that answer—[ Interruption .] Mr. Speaker, on a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1931.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, Germany.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "don and one back again. If that were done, I think it would he found that the season ticket system would he cheaper than the existing basis of charges, and I am quite sure that it would he much more satisfactory and convenient for Members. I believe that such an arrangement would save money to the Exchequer. I do not know of any other country where Members enjoy these facilities during the Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ld he cheaper than the existing basis of charges, and I am quite sure that it would he much more satisfactory and convenient for Members. I believe that such an arrangement would save money to the Exchequer. I do not know of any other country where Members enjoy these facilities during the Recess. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, Germany.\"] But they do not enjoy the facilities all the year round in Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " going to be the position during the Recesses? Is it suggested that the season ticket should not apply to the Recess, and, if not, it is suggested that during the interval we should go back to the voucher or warrant system? Do hon. Members wish to adopt the suggestion put forward by the right hon. Member for South Croydon that we should refuse to give any travelling facili- ties during the Recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": "ly met by hon. Members themselves. There is the point about the difference between first and third class. I feel, and I have felt for a long time, that it is not right for hon. Members to travel in any discomfort, but I think we can say that since the privileges were granted the convenience and the advantages of the third class passenger have been very well looked after by the railway com- panies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1997.1", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "preceding_text": "hon. Members themselves. This is a very small sum indeed compared with what we spend on other purposes. If we travel on public business to our constituencies we ought to travel in comfort. I have, therefore, always supported first-class travel for Members of Parliament, for I hold that if there is any class in the community which ought to have comfort in travelling it is the Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1999.1", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "On the railway journeys the railway company would tear off slips and they would have a record on their books. With regard to the question of the single journey, I would ask: Are there any single journeys in connection with Parliamentary duties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1999.1", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By omnibus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "e railway journeys the railway company would tear off slips and they would have a record on their books. With regard to the question of the single journey, I would ask: Are there any single journeys in connection with Parliamentary duties? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Well, I am glad that this question has been raised. If circumstances are such in the case of some Members that they can come back by car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.1999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2000.2", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "preceding_text": "d-class sleeper. The third-class sleepers which are now provided are extremely comfortable and are quite as much as any Member of this House can afford for himself, or at any rate that the majority of Members can afford, if paying for it out of their own money. If we travel in that way when we do so with our own money, then we ought to travel the same class when we do it out of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2004.0", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " is not to extinguish the Vote altogether because it still leaves in hand the normal token sum of 110 in case adjustment is required. I move it in order to call further attention to one point which has already been dealt with. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Camborne (Mr. Leif Jones) seemed to be a little surprised that the House should be so meticulously careful about this Estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2004.0", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "3;16,000 as between third class and first class fares. After what we have heard from the Treasury Bench, after we have been warned that every section of the community will have to put up with some sacrifice, when even the Cabinet is going to do something—not yet described—in that direction, when social services hvae to be checked, when possibly the \"dole\" will have to be reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2004.0", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "with some of their constituents and hear what they think about the attitude and activities of the present Government; and I am sure it would assist hon. Members of the Opposition to travel third class and hear what people have to say about the Government and get more ammunition for their speeches. I put it to this Committee that it is important that we should give a lead in this matter of economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2004.0", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "Socialist Member of the House says that, why should not we all agree and say that the amount paid by the State should be third-class fares, and that, if anyone wants any additional frills, they can get them at their own expense. The great bulk of the community travels third class, and Members of the House of Commons are only, roughly speaking, the same sort of average as the rest of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2004.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2011.5", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Their homes are there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": "he Financial Secretary is suggest-that Members use those vouchers to travel between Westminster and their homes. I cannot see that there is any other logical interpretation to be put upon that remark. It is definitely stated that that is not allowed; that vouchers are to be used for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is for the purpose of travelling between London and their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2011.5", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Return it to the Fees Office!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": "our constituency for some time, and the ticket may become out-of-date. I admit that I should not know what to do with it. It would be contrary to the rules of the railway company to use it, and to throw it away would place an unnecessary burden upon the Treasury, and if you sent it back to the railway company and claimed a refund you would lay yourself open to the charge of taking the money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " to Scotland on public business as a third-class passenger. Third-class travelling is not comfortable enough for that distance, and persons would probably travel first-class even if it involved financial sacrifice at their own expense, but I think the Treasury ought to be able to make a distinction between people who have to take these long journeys and people who have only to take short journeys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You start it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ook the possibility of arranging that in cases where, for example, a night journey is to be taken, first-class facilities should still be afforded to Members of Parliament, but that in cases where there is no more than a few hours journey involved, third-class facilities, such as are enjoyed by the rest of the community, and taxpayers in particular, is all that a Member of Parliament ought to ask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" On one occasion!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " the rest of the community, and taxpayers in particular, is all that a Member of Parliament ought to ask. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You start it!\"] Hon. Members suggest that I should start it. Possibly I am one of very few Members of this House who have this to his credit that I have, at least on one occasion, taken a third-class ticket with my first class voucher. I recommend that to hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2016.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite have indulged in a series of silly interjections—[ Interruption .] This is a very serious matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite have indulged in a series of silly interjections—[ Interruption .] This is a very serious matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Take your hands out of your pockets!\"] I shall do what I think fit. If I had such manners as hon. Members opposite, I would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ht to travel in first-class carriages. I should have thought that we could interpret democracy better if we talked to them in third-class carriages. Every hon. Member who wishes to save public money ought to accept the suggestion of the hon. Member for Central Nottingham. I hope that hon. Members will vote for the Amendment of the hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough (Captain Crookshank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ret democracy better if we talked to them in third-class carriages. Every hon. Member who wishes to save public money ought to accept the suggestion of the hon. Member for Central Nottingham. I hope that hon. Members will vote for the Amendment of the hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough (Captain Crookshank—[ Laughter .] Hon. Members opposite may think this is a very funny subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " for the Amendment of the hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough (Captain Crookshank—[ Laughter .] Hon. Members opposite may think this is a very funny subject—[Interruption.] The Financial Secretary asked us to get on with the business, but we are interrupted by the gruff guffaw of the Under-Secretary of State for Air who if he is not insulting Lady Houston is behaving like a yahoo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it not the case that those who voted for third-class voted for third-class travelling for us, but travel first-class themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2026.2", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2034.0", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "like to know what actually happens to the balance of this sum of £10,000. There is a balance of £400, but the hon. Gentleman did not make clear what the proceedings are. I do not profess to be a financial expert, but when I find a grave difference of opinion between a real financial expert on this side of the Committee and a semi-financial expert on the other side of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Colds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "As to Lancaster House and the cold there, one of the rulers of our country visited that House when it was occupied by one of the Peers of the Realm and it is on record that, when he arrived, he said, \"I come from my cottage to visit your palace.\" I do not understand all this criticism of Lancaster House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ter House and the cold there, one of the rulers of our country visited that House when it was occupied by one of the Peers of the Realm and it is on record that, when he arrived, he said, \"I come from my cottage to visit your palace.\" I do not understand all this criticism of Lancaster House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Colds.\"] Well, I did not get my cold there. We are making improvements to the ventilation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2040.5", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Torquay!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "t that on the present occasion, quite suddenly, we have these travelling expenses in connection with the Public Works Loan Commission, and why has there been such a colossal increase in the amount of their travelling expenses? We have been told that some of these Commissioners came from the country, but he did not say from which country they came. Is it a fact that some of them came from Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2040.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2050.0", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I want to put one point to the Financial Secretary which he has not answered, and that is as to the length of time during which these payments have been going on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2050.2", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "If it was since the summer, might I point out that that is one of the longest times during which such payments have ever been made out of the Civil Contingencies Fund?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2050.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2058.3", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "rds economy. I am, however, certain that we could have conducted these appeals in a more economical manner. At Newcastle there is a local Bar, and while I would not in any way underrate the abilities of the admirable young counsel sent by the Attorney-General to Newcastle, I would point out that there are in Newcastle as competent men to argue the case as those sent up from London at such expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2064.2", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "rom capacity and other considerations, enter into the make up of these Estimates. If I went into the broad question I should probably be out of order, but there is no doubt non counsel has been employed when local counsel could have been secured in the area where the case arose instead of sending up a man to conduct the case. Some big principle might involve the employment of a fashionable lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2064.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2079.0", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "s character and general esteem in this House, he will see there is reason for our complaints and do his best to remedy them. Very serious charges have been made that he does not quite appreciate the importance of his own Estimate. I would ask the Minister to reconsider this Estimate and represent it in the proper form, so that hon. Members on this side of the Committee and on the other side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2086.0", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"No, four-fifths.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not look at this Estimate from any quibbling point of view. It deals with a section of men who are highly respected and honoured. May I compliment the Financial Secretary very sincerely indeed—being a rare compliment it will I expect be even more appreciated—on the close estimate he has made on this Vote. It is roughly within one-fifth of 1 per cent. of the total amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2086.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2088.1", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "The word \"regrettably\" does not occur anywhere in this document, and the hon. and gallant Member has no right to put a word of that character into our mouths in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£300,000 for beet-sugar to-morrow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " has been asked for. Perhaps we may appeal to him to do so, but there are one or two points I should like to put. Having examined the Estimate with great care, I could not understand what you, Mr. Dunnico, said about it being only one-fifth of 1 per cent. I cannot reconcile that in the least with the figures. It is 24,000 out of a total of a little under £000,000, or two-thirds of 1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-24", "file": "debates1931-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "53aab29acb5e77c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did you not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "stimate which could be avoided. The normal practice of any insurance company would be to average out the death rates, and in better years, when the death rate was happily low, to advance the money needed from any reserve that was created, and, when unhappily the death rate was higher and consequently there was a, greater saving, it would be perfectly possible to put the amount so saved to reserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-24a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2169.0", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ned. I do not suppose that any party in the House is very much wrapped up with the idea of subsidising any industry or any section of commerce, on principle, but in this instance the subsidy has proved itself to be so amply justified in regard to the fundamental purposes of the original Act that even the House of Commons is coming to realise that this is one of the exceptions which prove the rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2169.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2180.0", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": "industry began to be discussed in this House and the question of assistance by the Government came up, we realised, and he realised, that he would hold the seat of Greenock so long as he could continue to complain that the subsidy was being given to an industry which competed with the sugar-refining industry in his constituency. I do not quarrel with him, but I discount the value of his criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2183.0", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the intervention of the hon. and gallant Member concerning the reply of the hon. and gallant Member for Rye (Sir G. Courthope) was necessary. I hope that the discussion will not develop on those lines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2212.7", "colnum": "2212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Front Bench upon being so well protected by the Ruling of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2212.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2214.8", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "e actuarial estimate of the number of people reaching the age of 70 and thereby qualifying under the Act of 1908 was too low or not. That is my first point. My second point is whether a number of people provided for under the Act of 1908 would be excluded by the means test or entitled to lesser pensions because of their private incomes being exhausted through industrial depression or other causes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2214.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2216.1", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "l Secretary tell us how much of the increase is due to the one cause and how much is due to the other? I should like, further, to ask him how much of the increase is due to increases of pensions payable to blind persons. Are we to be led to believe that there are more blind persons in the country than the Government anticipated, or that they are living longer, or what is the cause under that head?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2216.1", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "ncrease is due to increases of pensions payable to blind persons. Are we to be led to believe that there are more blind persons in the country than the Government anticipated, or that they are living longer, or what is the cause under that head? [ Interruption .] I quite understand the reason for the interjections of hon. Members opposite. They obviously take no interest in old age pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2217.1", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "rgely, a matter of estimating the probability of persons living, it is one of those subjects on which the most accurate estimation is possible. What has happened is that, in a subject-matter of that kind, the estimate has been for an increase of £1,000,000 over the previous year, and that estimate has been exceeded by £350,000. In other words, if the total amount of money involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2217.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-25", "file": "debates1931-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "326f19e1eb70adb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2220.2", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a Liberal Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "Actuary made his calculation. We cannot tell how many of these people have got the old age pension by reaching the age of 70, and how many are blind persons. I have worked out 10s. a week, for 52 weeks in the year, and roughly it means that 14,000 persons are living longer. Perhaps they are living longer in the hope that the Government will be turned out and a Conservative Government will come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-25a.2220.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-02-26", "file": "debates1931-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f066a80e66f6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2279.2", "colnum": "2279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONVICTED PRISONERS, MILFORD HAVEN (MENTAL TREATMENT).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Quite true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that one of the reasons given for adjudging the younger of these boys to be mentally deficient was that when asked \"Who is Mr. Lloyd George?\" he replied, \"A big Labour leader\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-26", "file": "debates1931-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f066a80e66f6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2283.8", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE (SALARIES AND BONUS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "In these circumstances, if an interim report cannot be asked for, will the Minister stop the cut in the meantime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2283.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-26", "file": "debates1931-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f066a80e66f6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2283.8", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE (SALARIES AND BONUS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "In these circumstances, if an interim report cannot be asked for, will the Minister stop the cut in the meantime? [ Interruption .] Surely, it is not too much to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2283.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-26", "file": "debates1931-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f066a80e66f6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2283.8", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE (SALARIES AND BONUS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have had enough of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "In these circumstances, if an interim report cannot be asked for, will the Minister stop the cut in the meantime? [ Interruption .] Surely, it is not too much to ask—[ Interruption .] I want an answer to this question. In view of the fact that the agreement upon which the Chancellor of the Exchequer bases his decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2283.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-26", "file": "debates1931-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f066a80e66f6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2327.0", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": " admirably presided over by my predecessor the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Brighton (Major Tryon), who is at present engaged in a Commit- tee and who otherwise, no doubt, would have been here. Whatever you may say, that Section has not been abolished. Whatever justification you may give for the review of the new cases, it cannot be said that there has been any legal abolition of Section 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2327.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-26", "file": "debates1931-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f066a80e66f6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2397.0", "colnum": "2397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at paragraph c .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AUSTIN HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ation to have taken place. With regard to the Coal Mines National Industrial Board, there was a good deal of discussion as to whether the chairman and the members should or should not be paid. I see that Subhead G 3 includes: expenses of the Board, including, remuneration (if any) of the Chairman and Secretary. I should like to know whether the chairman is being paid, and, if so, his remuneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-02-26", "file": "debates1931-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f066a80e66f6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2406.0", "colnum": "2406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " ago was complaining of the Minister of Transport having appointed commissioners at £1,000 a year in addition to their pensions. It is ridiculous that we who were complaining on that occasion should now be asked to agree to a payment of £7,000 to the chairman of this Commission. I confess that I would never have believe that the present Secretary for Mines could be guilty of such an act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-02-26a.2406.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree that the—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] Am I correct in saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.24.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree that the—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] Am I correct in saying—[ Interruption ]. I have a letter which is in direct contradiction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM AND NATIONAL GALLERY (OVERSEAS LOANS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "Copenhagen, America and many of the great public galleries of the world. All these national collections lent in some cases one, and in other cases two or three, Italian pictures to the exhibition at Burlington House last year, and the only two collections that were not represented were Madrid and Leningrad. Those two capitals were not represented in the exhibition, and I think that is regrettable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM AND NATIONAL GALLERY (OVERSEAS LOANS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "gardly, but rather unfortunate reservations, that they shall be objects representative of British arts or crafts, and that 1600 be the datum line upon which you may proceed. I should like to ask the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why the words \"outside Great Britain\" are put in. Does that mean that at the present moment the National Gallery could not send a picture to be exhibited in Belfast?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM AND NATIONAL GALLERY (OVERSEAS LOANS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "preceding_text": "eman is wrong and the hon. Gentleman behind him is wrong in implying that the words \"being objects representative of British arts or crafts\" were not in the Bill as originally drafted. All I can say is that Lord Henworth in another place mentioned the fact that, those words \"being objects representative of British arts or crafts\" were in the original draft of the Bill, which was dated 9th October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM AND NATIONAL GALLERY (OVERSEAS LOANS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord BALNIEL", "preceding_text": "I can but say that they stated that they were unanimously in favour of it. That was a unanimous report issued at the beginning of this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM AND NATIONAL GALLERY (OVERSEAS LOANS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "the trustees to lend some work or works of art which they thought it improper to lend. As I have pointed out, it is not merely a question of whether a work of art is suitable to be lent or not. It is also a question of whether the conditions in which it is going to be shown and kept in the country to which it is lent, make it safe that that particular work of art or any work of art should be lent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "BRITISH MUSEUM AND NATIONAL GALLERY (OVERSEAS LOANS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I was somewhat confused by the speech which was made by the right hon. Member for West Birmingham (Sir A. Chamberlain), because, although he was a short time ago a modern and up-to-date Foreign Minister, there are other opinions held as to what would be the position of a Foreign Minister under this Bill; and if I may quote by permission from another place, it will be found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "PROBATION OF OFFENDERS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "impetus which is being giver, to it by this Bill will be equally advantageous in that country. It is quite clear that we do want as many full-time officers for this purpose as possible. Some people object to voluntary work in this connection, and I have heard voluntary workers called all sorts of names because they pry into the business, not only of a first offender, but of the whole family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "GREY SEALS PROTECTION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "preceding_text": "details. The species is rare. It is found on the shores of the North Atlantic and the adjoining waters only within comparatively narrow limits. It is very rare in America, though known off Nova Scotia, Labrador and East Greenland. One of the biggest colonies still existing, which will come to an end, I suppose, if the hon. Baronet has his way, is off an island called Hysker, in the Outer Hebrides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.150.2", "colnum": "150", "heading": "GREY SEALS PROTECTION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ts of humanity. If there is to be a case for a close time, it should be Considerably longer than from 1st October to 15th December. It should be from the middle of September to the end of January. That is absolutely necessary if you are to give these animals a chance. There are really very few of them in the world. They are almost like the Caribs whom we heard about the other day, an extinct race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-02", "file": "debates1931-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "afbda834d1e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "GREY SEALS PROTECTION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "r its introduction from the fact that the Secretary of State or Scotland is a very well known and very successful salmon fisherman. There is undoubtedly and very unfortunately a prejudice—I believe an ill-informed prejudice—to the effect that grey seals do substantial damage to salmon fishing. The right hon. Gentleman has very little mercy on the salmon which it is his hobby to entrap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-02a.170.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.199.4", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Like you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that this rather unworthy agitation springs entirely from certain hon. Members who are quite wealthy enough to pay the difference between first and third-class fares?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "l of 1832 are now, with one exception, to be abolished in three and a-half hours. The Business Premises Vote instituted by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) in 1918 is now to be abolished in three hours. University constituencies, which are not without importance and interest to large sections in this House and to all sections of political opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "r Paper has been reached, the Guillotine falls. Moreover, once the Guillotine Motion has been carried, Members supporting the Government are encouraged to speak. We know very well that the Whips, who usually are so anxious that their supporters should not delay discussion and raise new points, then say to their Members, \"By all means speak on this subject; the Guillotine falls at half-past seven.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "on the Liberal party, one may say that at least one Front Bencher will speak from each side. It is very seldom that, on a matter of importance, they speak for less than 45 minutes each. There is an hour and a half gone straight off. In the last Parliament I tried to get speakers to promise not to speak for more than 10 minutes, exclusive of Front Benchers. I am sorry to say we never achieved that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.312.5", "colnum": "312", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'NEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "unity of moving Amendments to that Schedule and putting test questions as to the way in which they think the alternative vote should be worked. There are on the Paper several responsible and reasonable Amendments dealing with this question. For instance, under the proposals of the Government I see that the electors are to be given the choice of putting first preference and second preference votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "onsider. The first is the Alternative Vote. In ordinary circumstances, I think it will not be half a day only that will be available for that discussion. Then, with reference to the university vote, Clause 4—the group is Clauses 4 and 5—I am willing to give an extra half-day. I think that that is fair. With reference to Clause 6, as a matter of fact a day is given to that Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.338.7", "colnum": "338", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "fferent sums. The first is for new works, additions and alterations, for which another £10,000 is being asked. In view of the present position of affairs, and in view of the fact that the provision for improved accommodation has always been very large and the fact that £309,000 has already been spent, I would like the right hon. Gentleman to explain why there is such a colossal increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.338.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is very exact in his wording, and in present circumstances it is as well that he should be exact. On the earlier stage of this Estimate, Subhead E was not cleared up. There is an increased provision for rents for temporary exchanges of £25,000. May we be informed in connection with this large sum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.348.4", "colnum": "348", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But we got no answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The discussion this evening has ranged over some of the questions that we thoroughly discussed the other night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.348.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "preceding_text": "ther hon. Members opposite are aware that we do not usually make furniture from Russian timber, and that is simply because the timber is not suitable for the purpose. I believe that we make a considerable amount of furniture from timber which comes from a place where the conditions are even worse than in Russia. In countries which supply mahogany the conditions are infinitely worse than in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.357.6", "colnum": "357", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN GANZONI", "preceding_text": " of a somewhat miscellaneous character, including additions and alterations to paths, painting or tarring, hurdles, fences, shin-rails, etc., cleaning out and weeding lakes, ponds and. streams, and so on. I do not know whether that work of cleaning out included the work which we have seen recently in St. James's Park opposite the Horse Guards Parade, where there are many birds and waterfowl—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.357.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Official arbitrators in Scotland not debarred front private practice.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "hink we are entitled to know the saving which the Secretary of State estimates will be made and upon whom that extra charge will be placed. If you have a whole-time official, presumably on a fixed salary, a certain proportion of it will be allocated to an individual arbitration. If you have a sort of free lance in the field of arbitration, what scale of fees will have to be paid in an arbitration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Official arbitrators in Scotland not debarred front private practice.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "alary, a certain proportion of it will be allocated to an individual arbitration. If you have a sort of free lance in the field of arbitration, what scale of fees will have to be paid in an arbitration? [ Interruption .] I am concerned, not only about a saving of the charge on the Treasury, but about the protection of the unfortunate people of Scotland who may have to resort to these arbitrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-03", "file": "debates1931-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ad14d2d509b1bb46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.361.5", "colnum": "361", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The first half of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "5th February—and I am sure he will not want it to go uncorrected—he will see that he stated that money was apparently required to pay for paper on which to print the new Telephone Directory, which had not been printed and would not be printed before the end of the financial year. There must be some mistake. It has been printed, and it is now in course of being delivered to subscribers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-03a.361.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e Amendment postponing the coming into operation of this Clause until after the Dissolution, and that the object of the Noble Lord is to prevent it from being used at by-elections. I think that that is rather a pity. I regret that my right hon. Friend sees eye to eye with the Noble Lord, because I can point out that it would be advantageous to the party opposite at the by-election in St. George's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.- Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.- Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "Might I have an answer to this question? Supposing this Sub-section is taken out, and there are only two candidates. Can someone come along and claim a second ballot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Fermanagh and Tyrone will no doubt take the opportunity of stating his own views but the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy) is entirely wrong—not for the first time—in his suggestion that the hon. Member does not want the Alternative Vote applied to Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "t of the United Kingdom, I think he ignored the facts of the case. The facts of the case are that Northern Ireland stands in a different position. She has a Parliament of her own, she deals with her local affairs in that Parliament, and she only sends a small number of Members here. That Parliament was given by the Imperial Parliament the power of settling the electoral system of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.454.0", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Or Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "Now we have the real secret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir ERNEST BENNETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir ERNEST BENNETT", "preceding_text": "tical organisation. This \"wangling\" is largely a slogan and a fiction. The Noble Lord the Member for Hastings (Lord E. Percy) seemed to suggest that the Alternative Vote was rather a disagreeable novelty, and that people at Hastings or Hull could not or would not understand it. It seems to me, however, that the present generation has been almost brought up on the principle of the Alternative Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "not limit it, of course, to the next election or to that particular issue. If at some subsequent election another great problem is before the electorate, for example, the adoption of definite Measures of a Socialistic character, and the majority of the electors vote for candidates who oppose them, would it be right that the Parliament which follows should carry out definitely Socialistic Measures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"The Trade Disputes Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "o that particular issue. If at some subsequent election another great problem is before the electorate, for example, the adoption of definite Measures of a Socialistic character, and the majority of the electors vote for candidates who oppose them, would it be right that the Parliament which follows should carry out definitely Socialistic Measures? [ Interruption. ] No, there are no such Measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.467.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "spoken of all kinds of metaphysical and mathematical abstractions, and they talk about the comparative value of first and second preferences and how you can weigh them individually. They have nothing to do with it at all. If you come to deal with individual electors, John Smith goes to the poll and says, \"I would like to see Brown elected.\" If Brown is not elected, that same John Smith says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have trespassed again, but I was trying to put forward the case, as I see it, for my hon. Friends on these benches who intend to vote against this Clause, in order to save themselves from the 996 other cuts that will be coming before the Session is at an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "r. Why, then, do we ask for the Alternative Vote? Because it ought to be given as a matter of simple justice to the electorate. That is the only issue. We have been talking of three parties, but how many parties are going to the country from amongst hon. Members above the Gangway? They may live in hope of an agreement being reached between the two B.'s, but, on the other hand, it may not be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": " between the two B.'s, but, on the other hand, it may not be—[ Interruption. ] I was only using the initials of two very prominent Members who seem to be having a conflict for the leadership of the party. It is quite conceivable that in the next General Election there may be two parties from the Conservative benches; and already, I understand, there are three parties on the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HURST", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HURST", "preceding_text": "Oh, no; it is only counted for the first vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "n towards the development of the future. There are many people in this House who are cumbered by traditions, and by the frame of mind which accompanies a long presence in this House. I, coming from outside, am able, fortunately, to shake myself free from those limitations and to see things as they are. This Bill, although one did not think that an Electoral Bill was necessary at this moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.523.9", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your environment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "m. But he only became a convert to any system of minority representation after he had become a member of a minority. He may say that he made a speech in support of this proposal in 1917, hut at that time he was the member of a minority of a minority. He was never in favour of this proposal, any more than his late chief, Lord Asquith, as long as the Liberal party commanded a majority in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.523.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "as been no bargain they too are free, and they can vote as they would have voted on the merits of the question without regard to any supposed engagement undertaken with hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway. When hon. Gentlemen opposite were induced to acquiesce in these proposals there was no bargain. Was there no understanding? Was there no expectation? Who is the dupe of all these obscure intrigues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ountry. I am one whoholds—and I think if I had time I could prove it—that a great part of the success of Parliamentary institutions in this country has come from the fact that we have worked on a two-party system and that, indeed, it is essential to the success of Parliamentary institutions as we have known them, that they should be worked on a party system and not upon a group system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And by Lord Beaver-brook!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "m the fact that we have worked on a two-party system and that, indeed, it is essential to the success of Parliamentary institutions as we have known them, that they should be worked on a party system and not upon a group system. [ Interruption. ] The statement that we have worked upon a two-party system is, I take it, challenged by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Camborne (Mr. Leif Jones).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not three?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " political circumstances, have increased the necessity for this Bill. There are three parties, there are many sections and elements belonging to all parties. How is it wrong to give to an elector who is now limited to one choice, regardless of the number of candidates, the opportunity of saying that if there are three candidates or more, he may express a preference not merely for one, but for two?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ption of that kind can be fittingly and accurately applied to the party now represented on the benches opposite. Representation in Parliament in this country has always been chiefly the representation of constituencies, and only incidentally that of parties. A party relies for its representation in Parliament on obtaining the support of the majority of voters in as many constituencies as they can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "Oh, that is worse, there have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-04", "file": "debates1931-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "8cb21fb17bd8eb8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Voting at Parliamentary elections to be my method of alternative vote.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" The Portuguese manoeuvres.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Members opposite dropped completely this sham of high political morality. Their past is against them, their record is not in keeping with their arguments, and their present manoeuvring is the answer to the case they have addressed to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-04a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.570.8", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep the Clyde Members quiet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. It may not be the right hon. Member's fault, but we could not hear a word of his answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.570.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "I am quite well aware that there are many things of which the hon. Member is not aware.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "SITUATION IN INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry I was not here at the opening sentences of the right hon. Gentleman, but I hope that the document will be available to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.601.7", "colnum": "601", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No, a reasonable hour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "If I am correctly informed, the right hon. Gentleman the First Commissioner did not say \"a reasonable hour,\" but \"a reasonable discussion.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.601.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": "ormation and to discuss the matter. I desire to submit to the Prime Minister, with all respect, that in the circumstances the discussion of this very important matter of the setting up of the Reorganisation Commission, dealt with as a new service in this Supplementary Estimate, is one to which ample time should be given, and I would even venture to submit that it should be taken before 11 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": "ry Estimate, is one to which ample time should be given, and I would even venture to submit that it should be taken before 11 o'clock. [ Interruption. ] If he has already done so, I apologise. The other day I certainly understood from what the First Commissioner of Works said, that this would be taken before 11 o'clock, but I do ask the Prime Minister, even if he should press the first Vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Division of certain double-member constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"He always has been.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "It is very interesting to hear the Home Secretary speak as the champion of constitutional practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Division of certain double-member constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "preceding_text": "heir retention to-day if we have a regard for building upon the past when creating the future. Double-member constituencies have been the basis of our electoral system in the past, and have only been gradually eaten away by the substitution of single-member constituencies. They were actually introduced by Simon de Montfort in 1265 at a period in our history when our institutions were taking shape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On Liberal grounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "sts are so great and have so powerful an influence upon Governments of all descriptions in this House, it is as well that there should be direct representation of them by the retention of this franchise. I do not think so at all. I cannot understand how a Government representing Socialist interests in this country can for one minute on antiquarian, or any other ground, agree to this sort of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "in Parliaments even earlier than the City of London. Certainly, I would suggest to the Committee that the great business centres, the great communities of business men in other parts of the country, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, groups of men to whose creative effort, to whose brain work and to whose industry is due the existence of the whole of the population of those centres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "I have spent the whole of my working days within the shadow of St. Paul s, though probably, in this connection, I should say the shadow of the Mansion House, and although I have not yet received the freedom of the City, nor do I expect it, nor do I wish for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir JAMES REYNOLDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir JAMES REYNOLDS", "preceding_text": "sses of the community represented. A further objection which I have to this Bill leads me to use almost the same phrase as my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery). I feel that democracy has gone a great deal too far when it carries us to \"One man, one vote.\" That is not a business slogan for this country. I would prefer another maxim: \"The man who pays the piper calls the tune.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": " opposite are very glad to have a cut at the City of London, because they think it is a capitalist institution, but I would point out to them that any harm done to the City of London is harm done to their best friend. That £360,000,000 was earned for the country, and enabled a Socialist Government to spend what they did last year on social services, the Unemployment Insurance Fund, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES OMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES OMAN", "preceding_text": "hort of a peerage that the Crown can confer. The second is intermittently in a lunatic asylum, and the third is a skilled artisan who chooses to lose every position which is offered to him through an unfortunate addiction to betting. These three men have the same amount of voting value. It is absurd that the lunatic, and the wastrel living on the dole should have a power of voting equal to the man", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": " for all their money to be transferred back to them, because it will not be safe, owing to the fact that some slight may have been caused to the City of London. After all, the business franchise does not merely enfran- chise the bankers and the financiers, but it enfranchises my hon. Friend the Member for South Nottingham (Mr. Knight) and other people who have chambers in the Temple and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "question raised by this Amendment is not whether the City of London has any right to representation in this House, but whether this House will not be gravely harmed if it cuts itself off and excludes representation of the chief sources of power in this country. Already steadily this House is enjoying less and less prestige with those who have the responsibility for the use of economic power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "this country direct, and not through this House, that it is better to short-circuit this House, to enter into extra-constitutional, direct communication with the Government of the day, than to have anything to do with this House; and if this House wants to know why they take that attitude, they take it for the very reason of that kind of speech which we have heard from the benches opposite to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " House; and if this House wants to know why they take that attitude, they take it for the very reason of that kind of speech which we have heard from the benches opposite to-day. [ Interruption. ] It is because the House of Commons thinks of national policy in that way, because it refuses increasingly to regard itself as representing anything but the dull, average level of mediocrity of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " United States; and that is what hon. Members opposite, by their arguments, are doing to-day. Whatever the Government may do, when we go into the Lobby we shall go not as representing the right of any constituency in this country to send representatives to the House of Commons, but as representing apparently the only party in the State which is determined to have an active industrial policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.719.2", "colnum": "719", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "r for Hastings and the right hon. Member for Sevenoaks wanted to assist the cause of the City of London here they went about it in a curious way when they talked about the power of the City of London. That was not likely to influence many hon. Members on this side of the House. The Clause not merely makes the exception to which I have referred, but it abolishes the business premises qualification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.719.2", "colnum": "719", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman for Darwen said, it is a step long overdue. As far back as 1832 the words \"the representation of the people\" appeared in an Act. I have no doubt it was regarded as a very novel idea in those days, but we have made great progress since then. Various Acts of Parliament have been passed since 1832, and the Act of 1918 gave substantial effect to the extension of the suffrage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-05", "file": "debates1931-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "60f6af2ad8bb9ff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Abolition of business premises qualification for registration except in the City of London.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "I was referring to the Act of 1928. Plural voting and the business qualification have always given rise to great argument and opposition, and on occasions to acrimony. It is a remarkable thing that, as far back as 1913, a Bill to abolish plural voting was passed by the then House of Commons, Only to be rejected by another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-05a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-06", "file": "debates1931-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "c98cc27962f2c65b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-06a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFIT-SHARING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are these jobs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ccess of these industries, and I cannot see, therefore, why it is wise to introduce legislation of this character when we see a rising wage level in those industries which have received protection. Piece work is adopted very largely in these industries, and when a man by piece work can earn £6, £7 and £8 a week he is getting the advantage of profits to which the noble Lord referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-06a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.784.5", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "Have any efforts been made to see that British goods at least shall receive priority over foreign goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.784.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.793.7", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL RESORTS (PUBLICITY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PYBUS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PYBUS", "preceding_text": "42. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will state the cost of grading the 254,569 sides of Home-killed the Minister earmark a contribution for the express purpose of counteracting this unpatriotic propaganda which urges people to desert English seaside resorts and have the time of their lives abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.793.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ws of the right hon. Gentleman that the Pact of Paris, in order to give it any reality or force, needs some other document, that it is in itself imperfect, and that it needs to be buttressed by other documents which will give it a life and a force and a reality which it does not contain within its own four corners. The United States have not joined the League of Nations, and they are not going to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ral obligation in advance to arbitrate questions which may arise between themselves and employers. What are you doing here? You are taking for the nation a risk that you will not take in your own affairs. You are submitting the higher, the far larger and more important, interests of the nation to a procedure which you absolutely refuse to apply to your own minor, narrower and Less vital interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "xcluding the particular parties to the dispute. Suppose that unanimity is not achieved. That is a problem with which we have to deal, and that is the position with which this Act has to cope. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham said nothing, as far as I remember, on that point, and he assumes that in every case the Council of the League will be able to come to a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ation here. A great deal of money is spent in law costs on cases between litigants. Should we say that, in order to avoid those disputes and to stop that expenditure, we should abolish our law courts? That would be as wise as to say that we should not establish a tribunal for fear lest parties should have recourse to it. The right hon. Gentleman leaves us, as I have suggested, with no alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "What could be better? Why should they not continue to do so? We do not take any powers away from them—none at all—but we give a possible alternative in the event of failure. That is all, and there is no more than that; and the Government have very wisely made it quite clear in their Annex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "r in their Annex—[ Interruption. ] Article (2) of their Annex states: That His Majesty reserves the right in relation to the disputes mentioned in Article 17 of the General Act to require that the procedure described in Chapter 11 of the said Act shall be suspended in respect of any dispute which has been submitted to and is under consideration by the Council of the League of Nations\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not always!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "h, I think, the right hon. Gentleman would be able to persuade the American Government was fully justified. Coming to the question of international disputes, the White Paper says: International disputes cannot settle themselves. That is a very high-sounding phrase, but, in point of fact, international disputes, like private correspondence, can very often settle themselves, given time and patience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENNIE SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You cannot speak for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENNIE SMITH", "preceding_text": "ty have now received a large measure of realisation. We have underpinned with peaceful guarantees the Covenant of 1919, and that is why we are proud to stand behind our Foreign Secretary—not only throughout the wide ranks of our Labour and Socialist movement, but through the League of Nations Union and all the organisations that body represents, and in the name of the women of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All three!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": "y, even from the right hon. Gentleman's own point of view, that he did not condescend to a little fuller discussion, not only of the details, but of the principles of this instrument. More than one hon. Member has said that this is going to be a great day, I forget whether it was a great day in the history of the country or of the Labour party or of the right hon. Gentleman's distinguished career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " not believe that you advance the cause of peace by an undue elaboration of the machinery of legal instruments. It seems to me that you do a very ill-service to the cause of peace by casting doubts on the sincerity of nations who have put their hands to such solemn obligations as are contained in the Pact of Paris. Have hon. Members in mind the expressions used in that admirably simple instrument?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.917.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.924.6", "colnum": "924", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Get on with it!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman cannot help it, I think he ought to be pitied rather than blamed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.924.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " for Coventry (Mr. Noel Baker) referred to as the \"twilight zone.\" Suppose that there is some territory where there are not defined boundaries at all, possibly some unexplored territory. You may have nation A gradually encroaching upon it from this side, and nation B gradually encroaching on it from the other side. The lines have never come together; there is between them this undefined territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "tes at a cherry. We are asked, first of all, to spend £30,000 on a piece of land, and then to spend extra money of an unknown amount for erecting and decorating a house. I presume that when this business was started the Office of Works knew what an Embassy required. This is not the first Embassy that has been built. One would have thought that the Department would have profited by experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "urselves, or we can let it out for buildings, but they must be such buildings as will not blanket our building. I wish to point out that the price that we paid for it, we are told, is quite a reasonable price, seeing that we have a frontage on one of the best streets or avenues of the town; and we are advised, too, that, like any other real estate situated in similar cities, it will grow in value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"By the Tories!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ight when I said that his explanation was unsatisfactory. Further, he said that this is a plot of land which is part of the frontage of the new Embassy. In other words, when the original plot for the Embassy was bought, apparently a vast hinterland was purchased which was liable to be blanketed by buildings on this frontage. If that was known, it seems to me a most extraordinarily bad transaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-09", "file": "debates1931-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "b5041ad40c55becb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "niture in various parts of the world, and I hope that in spending this money some opportunities will be given to the younger school of British furniture designers to produce furniture for our Embassies abroad. There is in the Cotswolds and elsewhere a very fine school of young furniture designers, but nevertheless there seems to be a tendency to purchase this furniture in the Tottenham Court Road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-09a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the figures will show that these imports of foreign articles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend replies, will he persuade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.976.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Churchill!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has left me in some doubt. What is the other section of the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " view of undertaking a national duty that they approached the work. They were of opinion that it was entirely wrong to assume that this work imbued the boys with a desire to fight in the sense of warlike fighting, and that, on the contrary, the spirit that the boys got was one of sacrifice and devotion to their country, and they were taught to stand up, to speak up, and to have more self-reliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1015.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "in every possible way, and made better men of them after they had had the training. As to the suggestion that there is a certain amount of compulsion on the boys in the school to join the Officers Training Corps, it is admitted that there is a kind of moral compulsion. The Peace Group in the House wanted exactly what the Peace Societies wanted, that is the abolition of the Officers Training Corps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1015.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Journey's End.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "h officers and men are not represented in a light honourable to them or fair to the men who saved us in the late War. I do not say that the Labour party can stop that, but I do say that, If the Labour Government want recruits, it is up to the members of the Labour party to help their Government to get recruits, and not to suggest that there is something entirely wrong in serving in the Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "ng in the Army—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Journey's End.\"] What would he the end of the journey if our Army had been beaten? There is another point, and that is as to the attitude of hon. Members opposite with reference to military tournaments and tattoos. There is no disputing the fact that there is a strong objection to military tattoos on the part of a number of people on the Labour benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get rid of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": " a day older than the other boy, should be allowed to have equipment and the other should not be allowed to have equipment. The whole thing is ridiculous. I hope, seeing that the right hon. Gentleman has gone the length he has, that he really will not rest by allowing a blot like that to remain. He should take his courage in both hands and do the right thing, either get rid of it altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1029.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "preceding_text": "One would almost ask oneself after listening to the last speaker, whether he has ever been guilty of presenting his young boys with a box of soldiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "preceding_text": "One would almost ask oneself after listening to the last speaker, whether he has ever been guilty of presenting his young boys with a box of soldiers. [ Interruption .] It will come to that presently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hear the hon. Member's statement. The letter comes from a lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1043.5", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "improved since then though the position in the County of London still leaves much to be desired. We in the County of Middlesex have pursued a different way. We have been able to get our recruiting very much more advanced by the sacrifice of time on the part of members of the Association, in interveiwing the employers of labour in the districts and convincing them of the necessities of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1043.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDERS", "preceding_text": "he chief obstacle we have to face in connection with disarmament is the deep-rooted attachment of even the most democratic countries of Europe to the idea that it is the duty of every healthy man to undertake training for the defence of his country. If my particularly pacifist friends want to do their best work on behalf of disarmament they should get among their colleagues on the Continent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OSWALD LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OSWALD LEWIS", "preceding_text": "es as recruits. That seems to me to be by far the outstanding problem that the Secretary of State has to solve—this shortage in the Army. I suggest to the Committee that the right hon. Gentleman is doing very little to attempt to solve that problem. I have yet to learn that he has taken the trouble to go himself and address a single recruiting meeting in the country. Why should he not do it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do they not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ment. There will be no recognition so far as equipment is concerned for any boy under 16. I understand that objection has been raised to what has been termed the apathy of the Secretary of State for War and his want of energy in recruiting. The Adjutant-General's Department is responsible for recruiting, and I think the Adjutant-General and his Department are quite capable of doing their own work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " I have. spoken of, and there is absolutely no challenge to the statement I have made that there is no nation on earth amongst the principal nations that can show a record like it. Facts are greater than mere theories. There is the blunt, startling fact—50 per cent. of reduction unmatched by any large nation in the world. What is the use of talking about our hypocrisy in view of the figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1129.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have only just come in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "I have listened with a little surprise to the speech of the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-10", "file": "debates1931-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "b12e38f8822e5835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Major GLYN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major GLYN", "preceding_text": "etition with other countries which have a most efficient military machine. I should hate it to be left unsaid by someone who has spent some years in the Army that there are not in the Army the sons of most enthusiastic Members of the Labour party. I have frequently met them, and I know that it is so. Moreover, I have yet to learn that those who serve their country do so for the purpose of killing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-10a.1136.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a Pacifist!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "usiness matters, really, I would back the shipowners against them every time. My right hon. Friend referred to dockyards, and I saw a smile appear on the faces of Members of dockyard constituencies because he is giving very little work out to contract. I observe that the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood) the other day was rather vicious because he had not got some ships on the Clyde.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "f peace that would have been made had they won the War. It would have been a very had day for the people of this country if the German had won. The Conservative Government, I admit at once, cut the Navy to the bone, but this Government has not only scraped the bone but scraped it to the extent that it is inadequate to the burden which it has to bear and to the strength which it has to put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "ve forgotten that fact and seem ready to part, not only with the spear, but with the shield of the Royal Navy. We saw last night, when angry passions rise, when comrade is rude to comrade, that other comrades have to take them by the hand and prevent them getting at each other. They do not want guns, pistols or knives; they want their bare hands or their closed fists. And they are pacifists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " incomparable resources, which are buried hundreds of feet under the ground where no aeroplane can attack them. It may be said that, in view of the precarious position of oil supplies in this country, we should go back to coal altogether. The argument against that is, quite briefly, that with oil, for the same displacement, you can get a far larger radius of action and a great saving of personnel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An incubus!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "He has referred to the Navy as the Imperial Navy; and he has referred to the police work, the welfare work and the rescue work of the Navy. He is perfectly right, as we know who have always stood up for the Navy—not because we thought of it as a fighting force but because it is a force for peace. Later we shall hear hon. Members speaking as though the Navy were a great menace to peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "when we have a Socialist First Lord of the Admiralty, who, when he gets into power, attempts to keep some of the promises made when his party was in opposition. I know to-night we are going to be treated to the most bloodthirsty speeches. Hon. Members are going to say that the way to keep peace is to disarm. Well, I wish it was the way to get peace, but I think if there were more Christians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1329.2", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman's attention to the case of unions representing the men in that craft who wish to be represented on the Whitley Council, he says they cannot be so represented because they do not belong to unions affiliated to the Trade Union Congress. There is, in particular, a union to which I have drawn his attention, called the National Union of Government Ship-joiners, Furnishers and Allied Trades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1343.2", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "preceding_text": "l for the maintenance of Britain's position in the world. Who are they and where do they come from? They are men who belong to the class to which I belong, and who now, just as in days gone by and since the press gang was abolished, have been driven into the Service by sheer force of circumstances. They are forced into the Service through pressure of unemployment. That is what is happening to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "preceding_text": "Amendment. Apart from anything else, I would know that those to whom I belong, the workers of Britain, would have at least one foe less to fight in any future strike. There are very many bad patches in the history of our Navy, when these men, drawn from the workers, have been sent under orders and armed, to prevent their fathers and brothers from securing better conditions on the industrial field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "preceding_text": "It's almost like a Soviet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-11", "file": "debates1931-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0ac36b92c0f28d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINLEY", "preceding_text": "So far as the workers of Britain are concerned, the passing of this Amendment would free them from two dangers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-11a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1370.9", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, OTTAWA (TARIFF TRUCE).", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that such action would effectually prevent us from taking any reciprocal action in line with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1370.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW (TEST WORK).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman done away with stone-breaking, which he has said was so brutal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1380.5", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Is there not a suspicion of the Government doing that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1380.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1388.3", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1388.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1393.6", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no business to make that suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "g on in Ireland to-day, that I appreciated the enormous utility of such service, from the point of view of the national interests of the British Empire, in helping to keep alive that spirit of comradeship, that sense of unity and of progress in co-operation which must ever ally and bind together the British and Indian peoples.\"—[OFFICIAL RFPORT, 8th July, 1920; cols. 1731–2, Vol. 131.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "l interests of the British Empire, in helping to keep alive that spirit of comradeship, that sense of unity and of progress in co-operation which must ever ally and bind together the British and Indian peoples.\"—[OFFICIAL RFPORT, 8th July, 1920; cols. 1731–2, Vol. 131.] [HON MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I wish that those words had been mine, but I remember listening to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "tute there the Round Table Conference which sat at St. James's, with the addition of representatives of Congress. The obvious advantages of this plan were outweighed by important practical considerations. Here, the exigencies of the Parliamentary situation made it difficult to secure an adequate Parliamentary delegation. In India, on the other hand, there is much preliminary work to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss PICTON-TURBERVILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss PICTON-TURBERVILL", "preceding_text": "s in India. There may be 50 races but there are not 50 nationalities. It is not race that makes a nation. If that were so we ourselves would not be a nation. We have English, Scotch and Welsh in this Kingdom. I have the honour of sharing the nationality of the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). The English, the Scotch and the Welsh are different races but one nationality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Lancashire trade, certainly a matter for general satisfaction. There was a feeling that the settlement of the Salt Law question was in the nature of a compromise and, lastly, there was great relief, even enthusiasm, when it was known that although the Viceroy had been forced to let the rioters out of prison, he had firmly and successfully resisted the proposal to lock up the police in their place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "sed at any moment by the mere lifting of Mr. Gandhi's little finger. The violation of the Salt Law was specially selected by Mr. Gandhi a year ago as the means of defying the Government of India, as the one means of defying the Government of India which would be most deeply and widely comprehended throughout the land. His lawless act has now been made lawful. Anyone may now make salt from the sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "on. He has elevated his deliberately selected breach of the law into a trophy of victory, the significance of which, believe me, will be appreciated from the Himalayas to Ceylon. Though I approach this question from a different angle from that of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, so far as the practical steps which we should now take are concerned we are in entire agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "or to arrive at any general agreed solution. That can be done at any time. After the discussions which are to take place in India, and after the further conference which, I understand, is now to be held in London, will come the regular constitutional process of drafting and presenting the Government of India Bill. Then there will be its passage through all its stages in both Houses possibly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "sals which were discussed at the Round Table Conference, 80 per cent. of the finances will rest under the sign manual of the authority of the Viceroy. No conference is needed to explain that to Mr. Gandhi. It can be done by a few friendly talks, but it ought to be explained. It is no use misleading people and covering it all up with vague phrases. Then take the question of the two-thirds majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "unless with the powers are given the apparatus necessary to enable their exercise. None of these points want a conference; they are far better approached in private. Then there are all those other questions, not in the nature of safeguards, but questions left over—the franchise, communal representation of Hindus and Mohammedans, the representation of the native States and a whole host—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "dia, and the Socialist Government here, were squeezable, and that enough pressure would make them give way stage after stage. A tithe of those measures would have had their effect, a tithe of the suffering and of the police charges which the right hon. Gentleman has been pouring out and launching all this year would have had their effect if they had been accompanied by a coherent and sober policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Men are not horses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ll easily be able to overcome. After charges like that, surely I am entitled to reply. The Indian problem does not require more force. May I take as an example two teams of coach horses? Under one driver they go along beautifully, happily and in a most elegant manner. Under another, who perhaps uses more force and strength, the horses are driven mad and gallop round the streets causing a disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " as it has been in Calcutta. It is my abhorrence of the use of physical force which leads me to resist a policy which will gradually reproduce over large parts of India the lamentable conditions of Bombay, and I say it is not I, but the Secretary of State and those who think with him, who are bringing bloodshed and confusion ever nearer to the masses of Hindustan. I have only one more word to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1499.2", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "le Conference who, one after the other, said it was an utter fallacy to believe that only the small educated section in India was interested in self-government, but that the movement had now touched many of the rural parts of the country. Further, if we talk about the illiterate masses we may be faced with the argument that the responsibility rests, not on the Indians, but on the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1509.0", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ng part in the Statutory Commission. I am very glad to see the Secretary of State for the Dominions is here, because he will know what I mean. We have heard a great deal about the difficulties of Lancashire and the interests of Lancashire, but I would have hon. Members know that the interests of Yorkshire are also affected, and that in my own constituency a great many people earn their own living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ing movement directed against goods made in this country. Those on the other side of the House for whom the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) speaks are alarmed at the thought of granting India anything in the nature of Dominion status. In the Dominions we get preference, however; whereas under this arrangement not only do we not get preference, but our goods are differentiated against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "do it except by prestige. On a matter like this we have to consider our own prestige, which has been very seriously compromised by the wobbling and vacillation shown by the Government during the last few months. I think that it would have been a far better policy to have repealed the Salt Tax altogether, because that is a tax which bears very heavily on the poorest class of the community in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "that I quite agree. I would like to point out, however, that the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Spen Valley was not allowed to be a member of the Conference notwithstanding his great knowledge of Indian affairs while the hon. Member for Bodmin apparently because he is a protagonist in our own communal differences and knows a good deal about Oliver Cromwell was put on in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ake it a party question, but let us show the people of India that at any rate one party that is in touch with the masses of the British people themselves believes that the policy for which we have always stood in the past is right, and that India should be granted her free self-govern- ment as a Dominion as soon as she is ready for it. Let us stick to that policy, and help her to get ready for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1519.0", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " that Indian will never respect that man again. That is so whether the promise be in business or a question of punishment or anything of the sort. A promise must be kept, whichever way it is given. For the man who keeps his promise the Indian will have respect, just as our children have respect for us if we say that if they are naughty we will spank them and when they are naughty we do spank them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Harrow !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "h I discussed with many Members of the House who appreciated it and enjoyed it very much. Everyone of them was tremendously struck with the great skill with which the right hon. Gentleman, writing about his early life, could transport himself back into the attitude of the five-year-old, the nine-year-old, and the 10-year-old. I remember particularly when he was a schoolboy at Harrow or Eton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1528.3", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "r, and let neither side twit the other with not being wholly united on this matter. In a matter of this kind, where the greatest interests are at stake, some of the highest interests that any nation or any Empire could have to do with, I think the House of Commons and this Committee ought to be the temple of truth, and that it is well that those who have differences of opinion should express them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1528.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1530.0", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Cannot the Noble Lord say a word for Gandhi?", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "to such treatment in British newspapers. It was certainly never done by the man who may be described as a master of his art, the late Sir F. Carruthers Gould, whose very delightful cartoons in the \"Westminster Gazette,\" although they were usually directed against those who sit on this side of the House, we all admired. Perhaps the Committee may think that I am making too much of this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Churchill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ticent about this matter, and although questions have been asked we do not yet know the cause of this rising. Was it due to political grievances, or economic grievances, or is it true, as has been stated in some quarters, that it was instigated by agitators from India? It is an extremely serious affair, and apparently it is not yet over. Who is the rebel leader, and has he been killed or captured?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-12", "file": "debates1931-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f79ce81eb2165294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " of their more irresponsible supporters may be, I am sure the Government will give a courteous answer to a fair and courteous question. I cannot help thinking that the Secretary of State has been rather more fortunate than any of us would have been had we been sitting on that side of the House. I can imagine the rain of questions which would have come from some hon. Members opposite in that event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-12a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Getting less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I want to take part in this Debate in order to protest against the salary which is to be paid to a single individual. I can never get away from my working class outlook. Even after the years I have been in Parliament, I still look at things from the point of view of the working man who to-day is earning less than £3 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Worse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ance and travelling expenses, to organise an industry where men at the moment are cursing everything that brought them into this world and sent them into the bowels of the earth; everything is going wrong with them, and they do not know whether any moment they will be blown into fragments. That is the condition of the miners at the moment, and it is no better than it was under the Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£2,000 a year more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "get in touch with them and the rest of the working-classes—that their conditions to-day are no better under the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Shinwell) than they were under the late Commodore King. Just fancy, here is a gentleman to assist in getting us out of the difficulty in the mining situation, and we are going to give him a, salary equal to that of the Prime Minister of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Shinwell) than they were under the late Commodore King. Just fancy, here is a gentleman to assist in getting us out of the difficulty in the mining situation, and we are going to give him a, salary equal to that of the Prime Minister of this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"£2,000 a year more!\"] You have to remember that the Prime Minister has had a rise in his wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "self who selected him, and, further, if he was consulted about the salary or if the salary was suggested by the Treasury. I notice that there is not one representative of the Treasury on the Government Bench at the moment. We have to remember that the Treasury have indicated to employers throughout the length and breadth of the country that they, the Treasury, are in favour of reductions in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£15,000 a year!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " in this case to a civil servant accepting employment as the secretary of the Mining Association. Those who have stood at this Box before me have consented to the appointment of many eminent civil servants to very high positions in industry. A striking example was that of Sir Josiah Stamp, the president of the London Midland and Scottish Railway, who, I believe, receives a very high salary indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"But he does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "compelled to listen this morning. If hon. Members opposite are opposed to the payment of high salaries, let them be frank and say so. I have been asked to be frank and let us have frankness all round. Let the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hendon (Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister) rise and tell the House that he is opposed to high salaries and does not agree with the payment of high salaries elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "its certain pension rights. In certain contingencies all pension rights are lost, and in the event of his death, obviously, if he is outwith the Civil Service, the usual gratuity cannot be paid. Moreover, should he not revert to the Civil Service, but accept a business appointment—and civil servants have been known to do that, as I have already indicated—he forfeits all pension rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1582.3", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "d Revenue and the like and, secondly, that he should not be seconded from the Civil Service, as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Molton thought desirable, but should be divorced from the Civil Service for the time being while functioning as chairman of the Commissioners, so that no charge could be laid at the door of the Commissioners that they would be dominated by the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1582.3", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman will appreciate this, that we have to secure the goodwill of the mining industry in promoting amalgamations and, if the mining industry dislikes the alleged domination of the Civil Service, it is wise for the time being to divorce the chairman from the Civil Service so that he is perfectly free and independent to carry on his duties. Something has been said about the salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1582.3", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "salaries, I say definitely and without equivocation, certainly not. We have to operate in somewhat limited circumstances not of our making. That excellent picture so eloquently drawn by the hon. Member, which I visualise with him, is not a capitalist picture. It is a picture of another form of society. In existing circumstances market prices have to be paid and market values have to be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1582.3", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "f our making. That excellent picture so eloquently drawn by the hon. Member, which I visualise with him, is not a capitalist picture. It is a picture of another form of society. In existing circumstances market prices have to be paid and market values have to be considered. [ Interruption. ] It may be deplorable, but no one on the other side need jeer or sneer at it. It is a system of your making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " far more than they ought to have supplied in January and February to people who were not contracting people, selling in \"spot lots\" to get an advantage—I know something of what has gone on behind the scenes—but I put it to him that it is not fair that we should suffer on that account, and that it is up to him to make such arrangements as it is possible to make to relieve the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "oals there is nothing to stop them going over to the Dutch side and taking in foreign coat there. That it should be necessary for our trawling vessels to think of going abroad for coal at a time when we have tens of thousands of miners out of work, though willing to win the coal, coal in the mines and ships ready to buy it is absolutely the last word in folly. Something must be done to alter this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is displaying some excitement over this matter, but I assure him that is quite unnecessary. I give him that assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "n the other hand, Durham had fixed its minimum price. There has been some difficulty in Durham; there has been some additional unemployment; but that is not due to the quota in Durham. Durham, because of the fixing of its minimum price at a higher level than the price reigning in Yorkshire, has been unable to compete, and Yorkshire has been capturing trade that might otherwise have gone to Durham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1613.3", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "That is a characteristic touch of the hon. and gallant Member, but, if I may so say, it will not go down with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "er that, apart from being a politician, he is the executive head of an important Department of State, whose duty it is, when it involves itself in great executive responsibility by legislation, to do his best by all classes of people in the country, whatever their political opinions. The issues which have been raised upon this Vote—it is the appropriate occasion on which to raise them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " is, when it involves itself in great executive responsibility by legislation, to do his best by all classes of people in the country, whatever their political opinions. The issues which have been raised upon this Vote—it is the appropriate occasion on which to raise them—[ Interruption. ] If the hon. Gentleman has an observation to make, perhaps he will make it so that we can hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": ". ] If the hon. Gentleman has an observation to make, perhaps he will make it so that we can hear it. [ Interruption. ] I am certainly not being rude. On the contrary, I have consistently heard Members on that side of the House saying \"Speak up\" whenever he happens to speak. If he has an observation to offer that is relevant to the Debate, I ask that it should be made in a voice that can be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "de. On the contrary, I have consistently heard Members on that side of the House saying \"Speak up\" whenever he happens to speak. If he has an observation to offer that is relevant to the Debate, I ask that it should be made in a voice that can be heard. [ Interruption. ] I am glad to hear it, but the hon. Member is sitting in a place where he is not entitled to address the House. He is outside it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1617.3", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "t at all. They are ordinary people, conducting their business in their everyday avocations, and they and the workmen employed in their works are the people who are asking questions, and any Minister, what- ever his political complexion, who has to administer an Act of this kind, is bound to meet this kind of criticism and is bound to say what action he is taking and what he is doing to prevent it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-13", "file": "debates1931-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "390bc337a5776495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1634.0", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Option to statutory small tenant to become landholder.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "f tenure being applied to the Lowlands, and to apply it even to this limited extent is not a good thing. It may be optional, but perhaps not so optional where Liberal Members are representing Lowland constituencies in which there are statutory small landholders. We have always understood that these smallholding Acts were passed because the small landholder was a man without much business capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-13a.1634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1677.3", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADMIRALTY CHARTS (COPYRIGHT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the question on the Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I should require to have notice of that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "As a result, Queen's University was definitely included in the moral obligation into which we entered with Northern Ireland. It may not have been in the strict legal sense of the word a strictly Statutory obligation; it may not have been an obligation such as an obligatoin of the Act of Union, but in my view the very fact that it was a gentlemen's arrangement, that it was a moral obligation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1732.0", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "resent government. He did refer specifically to those forces that are contributing to make the Government of the day possible; he did not refer to the administrative services. Governments are completely dependent upon the products of the universities. There is not a Minister of the Crown who is not absolutely dependent for advice upon men in his Department, the majority of whom are university men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1735.3", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "rom the universities, find themselves in every constituency in a hopeless minority, and they will find themselves more and more in a hopeless minority as time goes on. As far as I can gather, although we are more and more dependent upon the university graduates, and although even the present Government, in every Committee that they set up, appoint a majority of university men to advise them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1742.0", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Central Wandsworth (Major Church) made what, I imagine, his colleagues will regard as a most extraordinary speech, puzzling us by the defence which he offered of the existing system of university representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1742.2", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are represented at the present time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ish a man from his fellows. As education becomes more widespread, the arguments for separate representation of universities become less and less plausible. If university representation is to be retained, it would be equally sensible and fair to give repre- sentation to the great professional interests such as law, medicine, or, better still, on the guild basis, and even to trade unions themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1742.2", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have come in through the front door!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "tation is to be retained, it would be equally sensible and fair to give repre- sentation to the great professional interests such as law, medicine, or, better still, on the guild basis, and even to trade unions themselves. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They are represented at the present time!\"] Yes, trade unions have representation, but they are represented through the ordinary procedure of popular election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bolshevism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "preceding_text": "ialist party a majority of any kind in this House. Yet there it sits and does its work. We may differ from it in many ways, but, on the whole, it is the Government, and we support it as the Government against the rest of the world. But it is an anomaly and quite as anomalous as university representation. If you are going to do away with university representatives, do away with the Government, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "preceding_text": "ad put before them any rational reason why he should vote one way or another, whereas we who are university Members are elected by our constituents all over the world after they have received our election addresses and considered them. They send in their paper and do not hide behind any anonymity, but sign them in the quiet of their own studies, so that we are returned by their intelligence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "preceding_text": " that chooses us, and not their emotions. We do not represent the emotions or the passions, but we represent the wisdom, the thought and the sober judgment of our constituents. Therefore, I say that, so far from our being an anomaly, all other Members except us are the anomaly. We are the only representatives; we are chosen by intelligent people using their intelligence, and not by howling crowds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1752.1", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "ster in the country, however much he may eschew politics, that has not a political influence by his sermons, by their context, by his bearing, whether he be an Established Churchman or a Nonconformist. Educated men have a special influence in securing seats in this House. That is why we have clergymen in all parts of the House, though, for obvious reasons, we have more on this side than elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHAN", "preceding_text": "d H. Cecil) desires to see. I think, if the universities survive this Debate, some system like that might be very well worth consideration in the selection of candidates. A trade unionist who votes in the selection of candidates has indirectly a real share in their election, for the simple reason, as I understand it, that those candidates usually have seats where the particular union predominates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ts, they would obviously not have joined in the protest. There is another very interesting organisation—the National Constitutional Defence Movement. That almost sounds like Toryism to me. You have the Federation of University Conservative and Unionist Associations—and I should think so too! Then you have the Manchester University Constitutional Association, anothery Tory organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"On this side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": ". There are at present in the House of Commons about 53 members of the Labour party who have passed through universities, and who, I suppose, have secured degrees, or, at any rate, ought to have done so. There are about 29 Liberal Members, and 138 Conservative Members of the present House of Commons who have passed through a university. Proportionately, of course, the intelligence is on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "already about one-third of the membership of the present House of Commons comprised of men and women who know something about universities and who have secured degrees from them, there is no reason why we should have separate and special representation on behalf of universities. Strange to say, it is not a university franchise at all. No person gets this franchise until he has left the university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are a don!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY WILSON", "preceding_text": "I have been a resident of my own university for the last 30 years, and I have a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1761.9", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is mostly a guinea!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Ten shillings means a lot to some of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1761.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1761.9", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": ". I object to any young person for the purposes of our electoral or any other system being considered better than his mother, at any rate. I have another point to make against this franchise. The present system is unfair, because it allows a person to vote here though he may be resident abroad. As far as I know, he can become a naturalised citizen of another country and still vote in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1761.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WITHERS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WITHERS", "preceding_text": "hink that university Members are a sort of special feature and that the House does not get value for money. I see that idea going through all the speeches made on the other side. Like all simple people the Socialists want something unusual and picturesque to impress them. I am sure that that is at the back of the whole thing—that we are not sufficiently unusual in intellect or in appearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLAR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many are there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLAR", "preceding_text": "m time to time representatives have been returned for the universities merely as party nominees without any real understanding of the needs of the universities themselves, but to my mind that is no reason why one should support the abolition of university representation. I believe that university representation affords an extraordinarily good opportunity of obtaining an independent type of member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1783.1", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "preceding_text": "But the hon. Member implied it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1784.4", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "preceding_text": "After his two accounts of what he said I am surprised that the hon. Member has the confidence to stand up and answer me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1784.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Into Parliament!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ainst the full expression of the views of the ordinary man and woman. It is assumed that people who have spent a certain number of years at a university are thereby qualified for the 50 years of their subsequent life to speak for the university. Those people for the most part have gone into business, into the law, or medicine, or into teaching work or into the church and various other professions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "attempt on the part of the Tory party to justify sticking to this vote. Our fundamental objection to the university vote is that it is a special kind of franchise conferred upon a very tiny proportion of the electors of this country, and any kind of fancy franchise in our view is wrong. If the party opposite had not deprived us of giving a longer educational life to the masses of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "on. The real demand for the maintenance of the university vote comes from those who have possessed it for years and not from those who are in the universities to-day. I see as much of our undergraduate population as most hon. Members, and you will not find amongst the young men and women in the universities to-day this passion for the university vote which has been expressed by university Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1804.10", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ggested time after time in this Debate, and lastly by the Leader of the Opposition, that the real motive behind this Clause is our desire to abolish seats which invariably return representatives who are opposed to Labour principles. My reply to that is that the real reason why the Conservative party is so anxious to retain every shred of privilege that it can, is that it does not trust the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1804.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1804.10", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "d. We are getting rid of serious anomalies which have hampered the working of the democratic machine. All that has been said by the Leader of the Opposition about education I believe in, but it is quite clear that many of his followers do not, and they have proved it to-night. I want the people of the country to feel that no man counts for more than his quality warrants. You will never get —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1804.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1806.0", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Abolition of University constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "ember some years ago when I was at the university I wondered if I would ever be able to repay in the slightest degree for what I had received from that great University of Oxford, and, even at this late hour, I seek to repay something of that debt by standing up to speak for the right of the university to send its representatives to Parliament. In the 12th century there were 30,000 students—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-16", "file": "debates1931-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dac3ed4e5ccde821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1828.0", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "ECCLESIASTICAL COMMIS- SIONERS (LOANS FOR CHURCH TRAINING COLLEGES) MEASURE, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " House should realise exactly the hon. Member's suggestion. He objected to this Measure because, as I understood—I apologise if I misunderstood him—it was going to increase the facilities for the training of Church teachers; it was not going to give them an increased number of places, but was only going to see that the existing colleges, which would go on anyhow, did their work better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-16a.1828.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-18", "file": "debates1931-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "1069af7b9b7a6e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-18a.2091.2", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY (EXCESS) 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "After all that we hear about the interest which the party opposite take in the Navy, I am surprised to find that only a few faithful souls can find sufficient time to come here to heckle the Socialist First Lord about the disgraceful way in which he is failing to keep the Navy up to strength!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-18a.2091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-18", "file": "debates1931-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "1069af7b9b7a6e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-18a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY (EXCESS) 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "That may be the hon. and gallant Member's view, but it is not the French view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-18a.2098.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-18", "file": "debates1931-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "1069af7b9b7a6e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-18a.2099.1", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY (EXCESS) 1929.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ber for Weston-super-Mare (Lord Erskine) asked me to say one or two things about the personnel. He said he thought that you could best measure the strength of a fleet by the personnel rather than by the number of ships. If that were so, I could save a lot of money by having just a few ships and training a lot of personnel, but perhaps the Noble Lord had better think a little more about that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-18a.2099.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2175.0", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He thought he did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Only the other day, I was talking to a distinguished divine who told me that when he was asked to broadcast a service in five minutes he addressed more people of all ages than John Wesley addressed during the whole course of his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2175.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2252.0", "colnum": "2252", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "the Midland area got out too much in the first two months. They sold their coal in Wales, and they undersold some Durham coalowners in competition.\" I daresay that is quite true. I will accept it at once. But what earthly consolation is that to a consumer who cannot get coal? The hon. Member cannot ride off on that and say, \"That is not the Act. That is the way the coalowners are working the Act.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "done, but compelling it to be done. An hon. Member says that I gloat over it. I do not. It is a very gloomly satisfaction to me to see now in practice exactly what I pointed out through many weary months was likely, and indeed almost certain, to be the outcome of the legislation that they were passing. It is some sombre satisfaction, but no complete remedy, to repoice over a sinner that repenteth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2257.0", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "e temporary Dr which may be more fundamental. One of the questions to which I would ask the Secretary of the Mines Department to direct his attention is, how far are the defects and difficulties that have revealed themselves inherent in the scheme, if they are at all inherent in it, and how far are they, as I believe they are, merely temporary hitches in the operation of an entirely novel project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2257.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2265.1", "colnum": "2265", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ht spot for our people. Half of the coal offered is totally unsuitable for trawlers. That is what has happened under this Act which was to be a great example, from the Socialist point of view, of how to work an industry. It has just set into operation a gang of speculators who are offering these lots of coal and trying to get a big price out of the trawler owners, which means out of the fishermen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2275.1", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "al. It would almost appear as though hon. Members on that side, the official Opposition, glory in the possibility of Polish coal being imported. I venture to predict that there will be no Polish coal imported, and I am very glad to be able to say that the Hull and Grimsby trawler owners are displaying more patriotism than these speeches appear to indicate; they are not prepared to buy Polish coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2279.5", "colnum": "2279", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Warm weather!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " export trade. No complaints have come from Scotland in regard to shortage of supplies. Only in the Midlands district have we heard of such complaints. Last week we were told of complaints about shortage of coal in London. I told the House that, as far as I was able to ascertain, those complaints could not be substantiated. What are the facts? There is no shortage of coal in London, none whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2284.0", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "Despite what the Secretary for Mines has said I am far from satisfied as to the way in which this Act is working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-19", "file": "debates1931-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "295bd230190662e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2284.0", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] In his constituency which is next to mine there are hundreds of men who are deliberately out of work to-day as a result of the operation of the quota. There is no doubt that in certain exporting districts the quota is operating very badly, and unless it is made more elastic, and unless the situation is reviewed more often and transfers made more easy I have no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-19a.2284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-20", "file": "debates1931-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0df1b449654fc3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-20a.2355.0", "colnum": "2355", "heading": "CLAUSE 8.—(Amendment of provisions as to resumption of holdings.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "r. My hon. Friends above the Gangway have been arguing that we should restore the discretion as it was given by the Act of 1886, but may I point out that that discretion was taken from the Land Court by a discretion, considered of very doubtful value, but at any rate, a decision which bound the Land Court, and deprived them of the discretion which, otherwise, they would have been able to exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-20a.2355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-03-20", "file": "debates1931-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0df1b449654fc3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-20a.2355.0", "colnum": "2355", "heading": "CLAUSE 8.—(Amendment of provisions as to resumption of holdings.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "tion, considered of very doubtful value, but at any rate, a decision which bound the Land Court, and deprived them of the discretion which, otherwise, they would have been able to exercise. [ Interruption .] I think, I am correct in what I am saying. It was a legal decision by which the Land Court considered themselves bound, and which, over and over again they said, took from them all discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-20a.2355.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-03-20", "file": "debates1931-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "0df1b449654fc3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-20a.2367.3", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "CLAUSE 27.—(Amendment of Second Schedule to principal Act.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is not a point of Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The Under-Secretary of State says that a mistake has been made owing to the rapid way in which things are being disposed of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-03-20a.2367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.22.5", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Behind the Chair!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Where is the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.22.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " prosperity. It is a situation in which 2,750,000 people are unemployed, the vast majority of them through no fault of their own. 4.0 p.m. I cannot accept the view for one moment that anyone who falls by the wayside and is driven to the Poor Law is essentially and inevitably an immoral person, with some personal defect which merits punishment. That was the whole spirit behind the Poor Law of 1834.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Maximum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "nfortunately, true to-day that many young men set out aimlessly on a search for work. They are not the old professional tramp. Many of them are quite decent people, and they are driven to the casual ward in the course of their wanderings. But even if the casual ward population consisted entirely of case-hardened people, I should still think that they ought to be treated with a minimum of humanity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "preceding_text": "w six or seven months since the Greenwood Act was brought into force. Let us see what chance the man has of getting a three-bedroom house in Manchester. I sent the right hon. Gentleman a copy of this form, so that he can verify it. Particulars are given there of five estates. The first estate is at Wythenshawe. The cheapest family house there is not 7s. 6d. a week but 13s. 2d., and up to 13s. 11d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.81.2", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLDFIELD", "preceding_text": " of London. I think that that is not without significance for Poplarism in local government serves the party opposite very much in the same way in which Russia serves them for national purposes. We spell it with a big \"P,\" and frighten the more respectable parts of London with all the terrible things which are alleged to happen in a district about which the audience knows very little indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.81.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.104.6", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are not doing it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "e told what terrible things were to happen. But to-day it has been delightful to hear the Minister speak of the Act as a great Act, and to hear him say that he is glad because he is able to do something in the administration of it. He has told us, what we knew, that the intention of the Act was to break up the Poor Law and remove its stigma. That was our great claim for the Act when it was a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.104.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": " so many of us recognise is that the money which is poured out by the State is largely—not wholly, of course—going to people who could afford to house themselves. Instances have been given of that to-day; and, on the other hand, the people who really most need the help are not getting it. If only we could get a proper distribution of money the whole question of housing could be solved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "preceding_text": "I should like, before we take a Division, to hear some kind of answer to the questions that were put to the Minister by my hon. Friend the Member for Withington (Mr. Simon). It seemed to me that the Minister's speech was flippant, and even contemptuous of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said a word about it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I was speaking of the figures in the 11th report. I understand that the tuberculosis rate continues to remain at a low level, and that the steady fall which has been a feature of the rate for many years continues to be manifest. The figures as to cancer continue, I suppose, to rise? I do not know whether the Minister will be able to give us any figures or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under capitalism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Whatever has been done, the Borough of Merthyr Tydvil has been left in this position—that the mayor, the deputy-mayor, the director of education and the president of the National Union of Teachers write to the \"Daily Mail\" and beg for charity to get boots and clothing for the children attending their schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " 26th January, 1931. These are rather damning figures, which will take a good deal of explanation, and the Minister will require to explain why, for instance, the promises which were made by the First Commissioner of Works that the passing of the Housing Acts would mean a great reduction in the unemployed have not matured. It is not enough to say that it is due to Conserva- tive local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "r the whole of England and Wales? That is a question which we shall have to have answered. As for rural housing, what is the Minister's attitude towards that? We remember that when the Housing (Rural Workers) Act was under consideration the Minister had some very bitter things to say about it. The Minister said it was a tinkers' Bill, not a builders' Bill, and that it was a dole for the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.147.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-04-14", "file": "debates1931-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8becce295ed9f389", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Who can we blame?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-14a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Per mile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "il spent £7,800,000 on street improvements which meant an approximate cost of over £280,000 per mile. It is also interesting to note that in the half century before the War the cost of street widenings and improvements due to lack of planning in the past cost the city of Liverpool £5,000,000, the city of Leeds £2,500,000, and the city of Bradford something over £2,200,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ionally with the land of the country—rationally with its use. It has very important economic social and aesthetic values. I have tried to outline the economic importance of its provisions, the importance from the point of view of local Government and social service of wise planning, and I need not emphasize the importance of retaining what beauty capitalism has left us in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will have an opportunity later of developing his ideas. There is another point which I would like to make, and it is this: What is it in the case of land which is in the neighbourhood of a large town that makes appreciation in the value of the land? Is it solely the town plan? Of course not. It is the propinquity of a great population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": "nd the green zone; and that an assessment is put upon the land which by that means is brought within a more immediate prospect of building. That is not unreasonable. This land, worth for agricultural purposes only £20 or £25 an acre, would be assessed at, say, £120 per acre, on the ground that at that time land was selling on the outskirts of the town at at least double that figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In heaven!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "on which were displayed the names of some malefactors with a description of their crimes, and Goldsmith, pointing to them said, \"It may be that our names will be written up there.\" I cannot help thinking that it was in some such spirit as that that the names of the earlier mayors were inscribed upon street corners in South Shields. I rejoice that the only place in which my name is inscribed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVAT-FRASER", "preceding_text": "If that cannot be dealt with, the Bill must be altered so that it can be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "s the result? No sooner did the tramcar show its snout in the countryside that there sprang up huge posters saying \"valuable sites for building.\" We found then that we could not plan or rehouse the people so long as the road was blocked with monopolies and private interests. I could have wished that this Bill had been brought in after the Budget, when we are to have some measure of land valuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TRAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TRAIN", "preceding_text": "I am making the statement, and the hon. Member will find it in the OFFICIAL REPORT. I know, because I am in the building trade, and I stopped building at the time. Everybody in the trade will tell you the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By hanging them!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "order on his own responsibility. That matter will have to be most closely scrutinised in Committee. Again without expressing any hostility to the proposal certain suggestions in connection with betterment and compensation will have to be reconsidered. Undoubtedly, if you are going to make a success, as we all desire to do, of these proposals you will not do it by dragooning the owners of property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Miss Lawrence)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Rule is suspended!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Miss Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has every reason to thank the House for the general reception which the Bill has received. The Debate upon the Bill has continued for many hours, and if I do not reply to all hon. Members, I hope that they will excuse me on account of the fact that in 20 minutes it is not possible to deal properly with all the points which have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.316.7", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon. My point is that the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.316.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-15", "file": "debates1931-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "8002ed35130a6617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.316.9", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I have a strong personal preference for legislation by reference. I should have preferred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-15a.316.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "e pledges which they gave at the General Election with regard to unemployment. I would begin by saying that if, indeed, unemployment is to come down into the arena of party politics from time to time the fault is not ours, because the Prime Minister stated quite clearly in his own election address at the time of the General Election that Labour was the first to make unemployment a political issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "city supply, make new roads and improve those already in existence, thus providing much employment for the younger men displaced from the mining areas; drain, reclaim and re-afforest the land of Great Britain, which would mean more healthy employment in the rural areas, increased production from the land and a permanent revival of agriculture; reorganise the coal industry from top to bottom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "ndment on the Order Paper by certain hon. Members below the Gangway. Does that represent the policy of His Majesty's Government, or does it not? After all, it does not matter to us whether it does or does not, but it is really putting hon. Friends of mine on these benches in a perfectly impossible position. They do not know whether the Government are a Socialist Government or a Radical Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "aling with unemployment was divided into 11 specific points. Of those 11 specific points or pledges, eight have now been attempted in this House. One of them failed because it was assassinated in another place. One of them failed because the Dominions were utterly unable in the present state of trade and industry to take further migrants to their shores. That accounts for 10 out of the 11 pledges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " extension orders have been given to the extent of £6,000,000, and presently over 6,000 men are engaged on work provided in that way. The next pledge was in the following words: Pending the absorption of the unemployed in regular occupations it (the Labour party) will take steps to relieve present distress. That pledge has been kept. The \"not-genuinely-seeking work\" Clause has been abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " who wished to try their fortunes in new lands. As I am sure hon. Members in all parts of the House will agree, it is impossible to fulfil that pledge now. But may I draw the attention of the right hon. Gentleman and his friends to this fact, that it is partly owing to the drying up of the migration which we had in pre-War times that our difficulties are so great now. In 1913 the net figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Foreign visitors in France spend annually between £100,000,000 and £120,000,000 within the shores of France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "cotland and in England. We have provided money to assist them. I had a very friendly interview the other day with Lord Derby and the representatives of the Travel Association in this country, and I can say that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Home Affairs is presently engaged on seeing how far it is possible for the Government to meet some of the requests put forward by them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.389.4", "colnum": "389", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will produce his experts, as we have invited him to do, we shall be glad to give him more or less accurate and detailed estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "May I put a question to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "I suppose all these interruptions and points of Order are to be taken as the measure of the disappointment felt by hon. Members behind the Minister at the speech he has made. I do not imagine that there has ever been delivered from the Front Bench such a futile, fatuous and ridiculous speech as that to which we have just listened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " speech dealt with the usual catalogue. He mentioned the increase by £20,000,000 since last February of expenditure here, there and everywhere for schemes which may or may not employ 226,000 men. Except for an expert, it is almost impossible to thread one's way through that part of his speech, because he referred to grants by this and that party for this and that purpose, including gas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about war time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "the experiment in Russia, there is no other country where you could do it. All experiments in Russia have been extremely rough, not only those by the Bolsheviks but by Peter the Great, and all the Russian reformers. You cannot do these things in this country. You have to persuade the majority, that is unless you scrap Parliamentary methods and govern the country, as in Russia, by a small minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very few!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "It is the spirit and temper that I do not like. I have only risen to explain the position of hon. Members who are acting with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are pretty good!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "nguished father of the right hon. Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) and his followers 40 years ago; and 40 years hence men will be saying exactly the same thing with the air of saying something most original. That was the position. Why was it done? I have never seen it done with anything like the skill shown by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. I wish I had one-fiftieth part of his Parliamentary skill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "itution. The strength of the Prime Minister is not so much in his own Front Bench, but in this one. When I feel disposed to vote against him, I just look round and see who will follow. This Motion cannot be carried to-night unless a sufficient number of my friends behind me and myself vote for it. We would like to know: Supposing it is carried, what are your remedial measures? Is food to be taxed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.414.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "What is it? Is it fair to the constituencies, is it fair to the country that you should not tell them what it is that you do propose? The right hon. Gentleman has always been supposed to be more honest than the average politician. Is it perfectly straight that he should not tell us, when he is asking us to turn out a Government which at any rate has given us to-day a very full statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One million unemployed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " us, when he is asking us to turn out a Government which at any rate has given us to-day a very full statement—[ Interruption. ] Well, you may say that it is inadequate, but at any rate it is ten times as big as anything which the Conservative party did when, instead of developing the roads for motor traffic, the Road Fund was raided to make up for the deficiencies of thoroughly bad finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Due to dumping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " but at any rate it is ten times as big as anything which the Conservative party did when, instead of developing the roads for motor traffic, the Road Fund was raided to make up for the deficiencies of thoroughly bad finance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"One million unemployed.\"] Anybody knows the figure of unemployment, and any honourable man would admit that the increase in the unemployed is certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Common sense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "ions of, shall I say, suppleness, in dealing with the situation in Parliament. The right hon. Gentleman referred to certain great people of the past. The action which they took was upon grounds of policy, but what is the policy which induces the Liberal party to go into the Lobby with the Government or to abstain from voting upon so many matters on which they entirely disagree with the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "That Government was elected on a minority vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Harm!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "ir R. Horne) has had, even for him, a rather leisurely ramble over a very wide field. I am afraid there is another split in the Tory party. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has put down this Vote of Censure on the ground that we have done nothing. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead has spoken for over half-an-hour in criticising us for having done too much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.432.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "party came in. The Liberal party and ourselves have been co-operating on this special problem. They have put their ideas and proposals into a common pool, and the results have been good, and that co-operation is not yet finished. Even now, if other sections in the House have experts whom they trust, if they would like to put some people who advise them into contact with us, I invite them to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "very bad at the present time, but what have the Government done to help British industry to face those conditions? The late Lord Privy Seal said that the country was faced with an economic blizzard. The proper thing to do in the face of a blizzard is to shelter those things which you value, but, instead of sheltering our industries, the Government have been busy removing our industrial safeguards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "now Secretary of State for the Dominions. On that occasion the then Lord Privy Seal placed before the House of Commons a definite list of proposals which, he said, were ready to be carried into effect in connection with the alleviation of unemployment. A great song was made with regard to steel sleepers for railways. The last we seem to have heard of steel sleepers was in April of last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "\"No!\"] The last that we heard in this House was on the 29th April last year, just a year ago. On that occasion the then Lord Privy Seal stated that during the previous 12 months some 24,000 tons of steel sleepers had been ordered by the railway companies, and he then expressed the hope that the experience gained would lead to a further extension of their use. I would ask the Lord Privy Seal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good for Aberdeen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALKER", "preceding_text": " community. By our system of credit and finance we have actually fastened a load of debt on to this country as if we had borrowed it from the past. The banks offered the Glasgow Corporation the loan of £2,000,000 so that we could lend that money to the Government. We took on the job, and made a profit out of it. We borrowed the £2,000,000 at 4½ per cent, and loaned it at 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "It would not be tolerated for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a year!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "t the Liberal party ought to remember, when they are consulting their consciences to-night and considering the principles for which they stand—retrenchment amongst others—how long it is that this state of affairs has existed. I would remind them that it was something like two years before our lamented friend, Mr. Hartshorn, was appointed Minister in charge of the unemployment question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " to-night and considering the principles for which they stand—retrenchment amongst others—how long it is that this state of affairs has existed. I would remind them that it was something like two years before our lamented friend, Mr. Hartshorn, was appointed Minister in charge of the unemployment question.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a year!\"] A year and a half after the Government took office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ome in. That is why he, as a good Liberal, believing in representation of the people, for the people, by the people, is doing so much in this \"holy alliance\" in order to see that the people shall not have that opportunity of giving their confidence to a Government they desire. If it will assist hon. Gentlemen opposite, I can very briefly say what I understand is the policy of all my leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " Election, which is what the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs is afraid of. When a General Election takes place will be the time for my right hon. Friend to submit his policy to the country. If the right hon. Gentleman and the Prime Minister are as certain as they pretend to be to-night that that policy would be condemned by the electorate, why do they shrink from an election", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.469.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read on!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " were to us. It is sufficient to quote from \"Labour's Appeal to the Nation,\" the official election manifesto, in which they said: The Labour party gives an unqualified pledge to deal immediately and practically with this question (unemployment). Its record in unemployment is a guarantee that this pledge will be kept. Our schemes for dealing with unemployment have been before the country for years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "g upon which it is going to be judged. I wonder if any hon. Member in the House has the very remotest idea of what all those words mean. The Lord Privy Seal to-day, in bringing forward his ideas, observed that he was going to put them before us in a few carefully chosen words. That phrase seemed to have a familiar ring in my ears. I have been engaged myself recently in one or two interviews—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "efully chosen that there should not be any possibility of their coming undone afterwards. I can imagine the right hon. Gentleman saying to the Lord Privy Seal, \"Of course, you know, I am going to support you all right on that critical Thursday, but I have got some weaker brethren to deal with, and, if I am going to pull the wool over their eyes, as I have so often and so successfully done \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not comrades?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "he tariff propaganda broke loose, and the Liberal party became the subject of vituperation, abuse and denunciation. Nothing was too hard to say of them. It is a curious thing that the Debate should have been so divided. I can only assume that the Whips Office of the Conservative party said to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who were going to take part in the Debate: \"Remember this, brothers \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " and in Germany is anything to go by it can hardly be claimed to be a remedy. The Debate has revealed that the division in the House upon this question, so far as immediate action and policy is concerned, leaves the Conservative party isolated from the rest of the House. There is no division on principle so far as immediate action is concerned between the Labour party and the Liberal party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pure waste.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " big scale, were a big delusion. The moment you had to give a bribe to a local authority to carry out a piece of road-making which they would not otherwise have done it was a piece of relief work. Therefore, in the minds of hon. Members opposite, and it has been revealed amply in this Debate, the whole programme of £176,000,000, the details of which were given by the Lord Privy Seal is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " a piece of road-making which they would not otherwise have done it was a piece of relief work. Therefore, in the minds of hon. Members opposite, and it has been revealed amply in this Debate, the whole programme of £176,000,000, the details of which were given by the Lord Privy Seal is—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Pure waste.\"] As the hon. Member says, pure waste and is doing more harm than good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " in this Debate, the whole programme of £176,000,000, the details of which were given by the Lord Privy Seal is—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Pure waste.\"] As the hon. Member says, pure waste and is doing more harm than good. [ Interruption. ] On the question of providing immediate employment for any body of unemployed the policy of the Conservative party is, not a man shall be put into employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " last Government was in office, that it is of fundamental importance to remember that the falling off in the volume of our export trade is responsible for the unemployment of between 600,000 and 800,000 persons who would have been otherwise employed. This is still true; in fact, it is more true, owing to the great depression in world conditions which have obtained since the General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who sneered?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " becomes possible, by Germany, and not by us. That is a most extraordinary thing for the leader of a great British political party to have said. He says: \"Do not bother about Russian trade, but leave it to the Germans. They can do it much better than us!\" Then to-day we got those extraordinary sneers at the British Trade Exhibition in South America. That was worth doing. It was a good thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "ave it to the Germans. They can do it much better than us!\" Then to-day we got those extraordinary sneers at the British Trade Exhibition in South America. That was worth doing. It was a good thing to do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who sneered?\"] Perhaps the Front Bench did not notice it, but there is sometimes more humour behind them than there is on the Front Bench. There were distinct instances of humour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who sneered?", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "\" Then to-day we got those extraordinary sneers at the British Trade Exhibition in South America. That was worth doing. It was a good thing to do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who sneered?\"] Perhaps the Front Bench did not notice it, but there is sometimes more humour behind them than there is on the Front Bench. There were distinct instances of humour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] There is another phase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.478.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "My recollection is very clear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-16", "file": "debates1931-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9d91d62abc66bf59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.484.5", "colnum": "484", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who sneered?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "I quite expected this. The right hon. Gentleman who preceded me took a much longer time than has been left for me, and I think that hon. Gentlemen opposite are finishing this Debate in a way which is hardly creditable to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-16a.484.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-17", "file": "debates1931-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "50c3e9033663b217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-17a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "ur of the registration of architects, but I want to see the public protected. If this Bill had passed as it was introduced on the Second Reading, it would have been nothing short of a public scandal. I claim credit along with my hon. Friends for having, in a large measure, prevented that from happening. Unless Clause 7 is radically dealt with this morning, there will be no working-class boy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-17a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ary admits, this is predominantly a London Measure. Although there was 4,000 cinemas in this country, only 500, I believe, open on Sundays, in the various parts of the country, and 50 per cent. are in London alone. One thing, in my judgment, Parliament should not do in a grave matter of this kind, involving as it does these tremendous issues: it should never legislate in advance of public opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why does he not go to church?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "vour of legally protecting the worker against the loss of Sunday. He has no wish to be amused on that day by his brother workers. He knows only too well that Sunday opening will mean for his fellows more work, but not more employment, a seven days' opening on a six days' wage. Deep down in his heart he has a cheerful reverence for the association of one day of common rest and common worship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "my support if a Measure is introduced in order to end them. But what has actually been done? There is no doubt that the strongest supporter of the right hon. Gentleman is a league called the Freedom League. It is one of the principal scoffers at those who take the moderate view, which I am attempting to take. They believe that all the old Sunday Observance Acts are archaic stuff and rubbish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or in public houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "obby in support of this Bill. After all, what is the alternative to the proposal which we are considering? Does the right hon. Gentleman suggest that, if people are prevented from going into a cinema on a Sunday, they are therefore going to church Surely we all know that the people who will chiefly frequent the cinemas will, if they are not allowed to go into them, spend their time in the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " going into a cinema on a Sunday, they are therefore going to church Surely we all know that the people who will chiefly frequent the cinemas will, if they are not allowed to go into them, spend their time in the streets. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Or in public houses.\"] I did not wish to put it in a way that would arouse any serious opposition, and therefore confined myself to streets and open places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANG", "preceding_text": "ance to the general welfare of this community than this question of yea or nay with regard to Sunday entertainments. We are asked in this article: Will Members of Parliament be fully representative and vote in accordance with popular desire, or will they cower before the hail of postcards that has descended on them from the rigid sabbatarians who do not represent the views even of all churchgoers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.667.5", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " night, where the daughter has got her Sunday off, where the son or the friend is there in the family? They may be in a single room, and a small room, in which they all have to meet. Every human relation is confined within that little space. Is it really the view of the House of Commons, in the face of a sheaf of postcards, to say: \"You shall stay in that room, or you shall get wet in the street?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.667.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.667.5", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The public house.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "e son or the friend is there in the family? They may be in a single room, and a small room, in which they all have to meet. Every human relation is confined within that little space. Is it really the view of the House of Commons, in the face of a sheaf of postcards, to say: \"You shall stay in that room, or you shall get wet in the street?\" [ interruption. ] Where else are they to be allowed to go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.667.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "er business before Parliament, to take the Bill on the Floor of the House. It has already been stated again and again, but, apparently, it needs to be reiterated, that we are not trying to legalise the thin end of the wedge. That has been in a long time, for over 20 years. Let me say one word with regard to charity. I have been on marches behind banners on which was inscribed \"Curse your charity!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am merely trying to show hon. Members the error of their ways. We are trying to be really logical and perfect in this matter, and there is no such thing. Years ago I had a job in Australia in a slaughter-house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are all intolerant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "founded, not on the Act of 1780, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, but on a much older and more venerable code than that, and these people, who feel strongly on the matter, so strongly that they have bombarded us with postcards, are by no means the least valuable element in society; they are not the least steady, the least independent, the least patriotic members of society that we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ht to speak both for the theatrical and the cinema profession tells us that if cinemas are to be opened on Sundays, then, inevitably, theatres must be allowed to open, and after that we shall have greyhound racing and dirt-track racing, and there will be a general enlargement of work on Sunday. Obviously, the profession of the actor will suffer if he is to be called upon to work seven days a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "rtals of this House. If there are those who feel, as I feel, that there would be a danger of people going to public houses if the doors of the cinema were not open on Sundays, then the obvious thing to do is to close the licensed premises, or at any rate to close the drinking bars. I am not in favour of the closing of licensed premises, although I am in favour of the abolition of the drinking bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the Sunday. [ Interruption. ] I am obliged to my hon. and scholastic Friend for the correction he has been able to administer. In my judgment it is not the Puritans whom the working classes have to fear, but the profiteers, the people who want to commercialise Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAACS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAACS", "preceding_text": "of the great rush that there was to get them out. On the question of Sunday labour, I know that, given safeguards for a six-day week—and, if those safeguards are not adequate in the Bill as it stands, they can be made so in Committee—many workers are willing to do Sunday work, for two reasons. In the first place, when we did Sunday work, we got extra pay, and were jolly glad to get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.705.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Monday newspapers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "emas multiplied by 100 means that 20,000 persons are going to be employed in the cinema industry under the jurisdiction of the London County Council alone. The right hon. Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) spoke of the amount of necessary work already done on Sundays. Another hon. Member referred with scorn to the inconsistency of those Members of the House who took in Sunday newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "opics. Only when it comes to inflicting their own narrow doctrine upon the great majority of the people, who long ago have been disgusted with that narrowness, and will have no more to do with it, do the chapels, the followers of the Carpenter, suddenly decide to interfere to this extent with the legislature of the country. They have been silent while every social scandal has been discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " question at the Assizes and was rebuked by Archbishop Laud. At the interview he had a difficult time, and came out complaining that he had been \"smothered by a pair of lawn sleeves.\" Those were the difficulties which agitated the minds of men in this country three or four hundred years ago. Fortunately, the acerbities, the sharpnesses and the differences of that time have been largely for gotten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "e exploiter says about Sunday, \"What a day to exploit!\" He knows very well that, if he can get that day, he will be getting the day when the best takings are possible, and, if this Bill passes, I believe it will strengthen the forces of exploitation and enlarge the area of their activities. It is impossible to discuss this Bill simply on its actual words. You cannot go half-way down Niagara—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.743.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "ousands of people in London and other towns who are crowded together in small homes and have no library and who want to go to a cinema on a Sunday evening. At the last election we heard a good deal of talk about the flapper and the flapper's vote. There are hundreds and thousand's of young people in London who desire some place where they can go, the young men with their young women, and sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-20", "file": "debates1931-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "79462140a4d242c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.754.8", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "g to be intimidated by this flow of postcards. I would not suggest such a possibility if I had not unhappy memories of the effect a few months ago of postcards on the judgment of some Members of this House. The great bulk of these postcards come, not from the great centres of population, but from the outlying country districts. We ought to be guided by the views of the great centres of population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-20a.754.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "But at the end of the table the right hon. Gentleman has given the difference in the percentages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.782.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "GOODS MADE BY FORCED LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "professes a great enthusiasm for the British Empire, but those who have been in various parts of the British Empire know perfectly well that in some parts, owing to the low productivity of labour and the other conditions surrounding the lives of people in those parts of the Empire, rates of wages, hours of labour and conditions generally are far worse than amongst the industrial classes of Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.810.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. William Adamson)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. William Adamson)", "preceding_text": ", in the event of this Act being extended, that they should be careful, in their administration of the Act, to see that houses in respect of which applications for assistance are made to them are capable of being really fitted for habitation, and that grants are not given for houses which are not worth improving. When this Act was first introduced, there were some of us who had grave doubts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So it was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " have the honour of the presence of the Minister of Health, because it is only fair to reflect that he is one of the intellectuals of the Labour party. He gave us some very striking statements about thee proposals when the Bill was introduced. I shall be very glad to hear him publicly recant them a little later in the Debate. He said the Bill was an attempt to make the land safe for the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": " rural worker in regard to housing, am I to deny him those facilities? Certainly not. When we come down to the substance of the matter, I do not understand this paean of praise about this wretched little Measure, with its poor paltry result, that we have had from the right hon. Member for West Woolwich. Measured by the size of the problem and the hopes of its promoters, the Act has been a failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Westwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Westwood)", "preceding_text": "d be a useful Measure to continue for five years, but I propose as briefly as possible to deal with one or two points that have been raised during the discussion. I would like to point out to the hon. and gallant Member for Kelvin-grove (Major Elliot) that any success that has attended this particular Act in Scotland has been mainly due to the energy of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "That question will be more appropriately put after our Slum Clearance Act has been in operation for two or three years, and, when that question is put to us, I feel sure that, on the tenders approved then and now, we shall be prepared to accept the challenge and prove that our Act is operating better already than this particular Act operated until we were responsible for its administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not amend it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "s Act to small farmers, that the conditions of the grant and the provisions of the Act itself are such that it would be impossible unless these people accepted the conditions, and those conditions are that such a house during the specified period must not be occupied except by a person whose income is such that he would not ordinarily pay a rent in excess of what is paid by an agricultural worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "for Crewe (Mr. Bowen) has found out on more than one occasion before, I am afraid that he will have to confess that there is very little difference between the wicked reactionary Tory Government in this matter and the enlightened Socialist Government which it is his honour and pleasure to support. The hon. Gentleman has permanently reconciled himself to and is budgeting for, that rate of increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.898.5", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "e telephone development. I have in my hand what I presume is one of the first series of leaflets arising out of the new push policy. I do not know what the picture on the front page is intended to mean. It might mean anything. It is the picture of a man emerging from a hole in a pavement with a long pipe in his hand. How that is going to persuade anyone to consider using a telephone I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.898.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.903.4", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "em. We who are customers of the Post Office know that there are many more than the Post Office has ever heard of. In these matters the Post Office has no imagination; that is what makes it different from the Post Office in Sweden. The Post Office in this country assume that you cannot, by offering decent terms, get 50 subscribers, and therefore they have to come down to the measly number of eight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE AND EAST AFRICA LOANS [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Zambesi Bridge\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ady been taken up as far as loans were concerned? The answer is, that the only loan so far is one of £2,070,000 to Tanganyika. No other loans have been taken up. He then asked me upon what the money has been spent. It has mainly been spent upon railways—the completion of the Moshi-Arusha railway, of the railway from Manyoni to Kinyangiri, of the Engare-Nairobi Railway, and realignments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If he died!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major WOOD", "preceding_text": "eeper, or is engaged in some uninsurable occupation of that kind. If these words are adopted you will have this absurd result. If such a man were to fall ill while engaged in salmon fishing, his widow would get the pension, whereas if he fell ill when engaged as a hawker or shopkeeper she would not get the pension. In other words, if he fell ill in the summer time, she would get the pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS', AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "hdraw the Resolution, which, I take it, we are at full liberty to do, the only opportunity that we have will be gone. I recollect that on many occasions Governments have been induced, on the discussion of a Financial Resolution, to withdraw it in deference to the strong expression of the opinion of hon. Members that under it there would be insufficient scope for a number of cases to be brought in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-21", "file": "debates1931-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "a638dd9dc47e53a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS', AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "With very great respect to the Chair, which you know I always pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-21a.949.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.953.4", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — >CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the previous answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.988.5", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "ed. Hon. Members opposite exaggerate the value of motor cars in elections. Their chief use is to bring up the sick, the infirm and the aged, and those who reside at long distances from the polling stations. In the country, where the distance to a polling station is often too great to be walked easily, some people may feel that there is a moral responsibility to see that people are got to the poll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": " speech of the hon. Member for Oxford University (Sir C. Oman), and there are only two things I have to say with regard to it. The first is that the difficulties as to the use of the word \"family\" in the cases to which he referred would really never arise, for the simple reason that a man who is looked after by his daughter-in-law's stepmother would cease to take interest in any election whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "ole of the Clause has to be read together in order to see what its effect is going to be. The problem in the urban areas is not serious. It has just been said that anyone in an urban area can readily walk to the poll. But when you come to rural areas, the problem is a totally different one. I have in my own division people living five, six, and indeed seven miles away from the polling booth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get more polling stations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "that he has some who live 20 miles away. To walk seven miles, even on a fine sunny day, requires a considerable sacrifice on the part of an elector, and demands, in some cases, great physical effort. I have cases where old people of 65 and 70 walk the whole seven miles to the polling booth and back again. That is a totally different problem from the problem referred to by the hon. Member opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "cars. With regard to that, let me ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he realises what he is doing when he is giving power to the returning officer to determine whether a car shall be registered, and for whose benefit it shall be registered. The returning officer only has to consult the election agents of the candidates concerned, and the returning officer himself is not free from political bias.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or trade union organisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": " cars, and election agents certainly attach very great importance to them. If one gets to that point of agreement, I think it will also be agreed that it is not desirable, if you desire to get the fair vote of a constituency, that one party or another should be advantaged by the fortuitous accident of having more cars at its disposal and, therefore, being able to poll a greater number of electors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "oll, and that in their experience electors are honest in their dealings as a whole on polling day. If that be so, surely there is a strong case for having as many cars available for the general body of voters as possible, and some satisfactory means has to be devised by which that can be achieved. The means sug- gested in this Clause seem to the Government to be those that are most likely to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1006.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "ell that the use of large numbers, running into hundreds, of cars at their elections, especially in country districts, is a matter of very great importance to them. The cars will, in accordance with the directions of the Secretary of State, be allotted by the returning officer to work in various districts and will have to carry voters of whatever complexion, irrespective of their party allegiance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "That question does not call for an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "tter which arises very often in cases where cars are hired. People hire cars, as they constantly do, and as a candidate does for his own personal use, and an owner has to exercise the same discretion as regards picking up people on election days. I do not think that there will be any substantial difficulty, although in one or two cases there might be some slight difficulty for a particular person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1009.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is correct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "part from the suavity and moderation with which he had appeared to discuss the provisions of the Clause in the earlier part of his speech. He appeared to have been stung, I am afraid, by the criticisms which have been made about the practicability of this Clause into asserting that everybody on this side of the House is only anxious to preserve an unjust privilege for the party to which we belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1010.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": ", applies to all hon. Members representing rural constituencies. One of the great dangers of democracy is apathy and abstinence, and it is an unhappy feature of elections recently that nearly 50 per cent. of the voters have abstained from going to the poll—[ Interruption ]—and candidates of the Conservative party at recent by-elections only secured 26 per cent. of the total electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1032.2", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OSWALD LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OSWALD LEWIS", "preceding_text": "age to have the use of a large number of motor cars on an election day. Further than that, they seem to be convinced that it is an advantage which the Conservative party gets and which their party does not get. In order not to put it too high, I will put it in this way. The overwhelming preponderance of this benefit for motorcars is enjoyed by the Conservative party as opposed to the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1032.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "ch-men all over the constituency. It is even better than having sandwich-men, because a car can be covered with more placards than a man can display, seeing that the car contains the man and the whole is generally greater than the part. Cars, therefore, give them a very wide area of advertisement, and it enables them, to some extent, to circumvent the limits of expenditure which have been imposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "carriages during the spacious Victorian period. He sat there in full glory, with a man in livery driving him; and when they arrived at the poll he still sat there. The flunkey called out to him, \"Here you are,\" but still he sat there, Presently the flunkey said, \"Aren't you going in there to vote?\" \"Oh,\" said the bricklayer, \"I am waiting until you get down, and open the door to allow me to vote.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "the Bill. I feel that the extent to which the use of cars to take voters to the poll has practically amounted to bribery has not yet been recognised. An incident happened to me some time ago, and had I liked to take action I could have compelled the people to disclose their hand in the matter. On one occasion a poll was in progress in the place where I live, and where I am rather well-known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "oroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), but, as it was made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen, we merely wondered what he was meaning. First of all, he told the House that motor cars were used in elections in such a way as to he in reality a method of bribing the electors. Then, after having given the Government side completely, he turned round and gave to the House the other side of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "rs could not be used at all unless they were registered. He did not say so, but I presume he meant used for election purposes. Surely, a candidate would have the right to use a car; surely ordinary people going about their ordinary business would have the right to use cars; and yet, according to the Solicitor-General's own words, they would have absolutely no right to use a car at all on that day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1065.7", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Census.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "e all night, or part of the night, or called there the night before, they can be driven to the poll in the owner's car in safety. But will the learned Attorney-General tell us if the courts will maintain that definition of residence? This is a new definition of residence which it is now proposed shall be spatchcocked into the law of the land? Will a night's lodging enable a person to be qualified?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1065.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1065.7", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "idate from the Government the meaning of this manuscript Amendment which has now been taken away from us for the purposes of being read by you, Mr. Dunnico. The Amendment is on a piece of paper, torn off \"roneo-ed\" script, and the words previous to it have been carefully obliterated. No doubt they contained other gems of wisdom which the Government did not wish incorporated in the law of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1065.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1065.7", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "for the purposes of being read by you, Mr. Dunnico. The Amendment is on a piece of paper, torn off \"roneo-ed\" script, and the words previous to it have been carefully obliterated. No doubt they contained other gems of wisdom which the Government did not wish incorporated in the law of the land. [ Interruption. ] I can well imagine that there is uneasiness on the part of some hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1065.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "as to give an opportunity to the Committee to consider the words now and get them into print, as the Government have not thought fit to put them on the Order Paper, and with that object in view I suggested that the Amendment should be incorporated in the Bill at this stage so that we might be able to pin the Government down to something which can be considered on Report. That was not unreasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Members opposite, how are we going to transact business in this way? I am not a person who would be called hard of hearing but there must be many people behind the Labour benches who have not heard a word of this Amendment which we are asked to accept now. The Attorney-General, with his great capacity for speech, has not condescended to explain it and here we have to sit ignorant and uninstructed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1073.5", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "es prescribed in Subsection (2). It is almost a matter of agreement that the provisions of the Sub-section are so elaborate that they will not work and that it will be necessary to modify them. Here is the first attempt at modification. As I said it may not be ideal but I have confidence that the Government will see the justice of the point and will do their utmost to meet it in some way or other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1073.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "s for the voters who need motor transport. From the answers so far given by the Home Secretary and the Solicitor-General, it is clear that they are thinking of something quite different from what my hon. Friends and I are thinking of. They are thinking of a very limited number of cars, still placed at the disposal of the returning officer, and still kept under the control of the returning officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "lly, I am inclined to think that the proposal in this sub-section with regard to the voluntary pooling of cars would be, in its effect in obtaining cars, ridiculous. I do not think that the average wealthy Conservative Member or those who support him would go out of their way to offer their cars to the returning officer with the knowledge that they were going to bring Socialist voters to the poll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": " No doubt they would like to have a good poll on that day, provided it were a good Conservative poll. There is another aspect of the matter. Even if any sort of ratio were to be worked out in relation to the three parties which would still leave the principle the same, it would be just as bad as if Subsection (1) had never been passed at all. Take the case of a poverty-stricken country area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "n that day, provided it were a good Conservative poll. There is another aspect of the matter. Even if any sort of ratio were to be worked out in relation to the three parties which would still leave the principle the same, it would be just as bad as if Subsection (1) had never been passed at all. Take the case of a poverty-stricken country area—[ Interruption ]. Someone sneers at that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "t all. Take the case of a poverty-stricken country area—[ Interruption ]. Someone sneers at that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!] I have the highest admiration for the humble men and women who belong to our party in the poverty-stricken country areas. Not only do they require money, but they require intense moral courage in those areas, where they are trying to build up the Socialist party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "turning officer. I find it difficult to understand how the Home Secretary is in agreement with hon. Members behind him, because, in the speech he made just now illustrating what would happen if the numbers in the Amendment are accepted, he said, \"For instance, I might have 100 cars if I could get them.\" That seems to suppose that the cars are to be at his disposal and are not to be allotted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "provisions regarding the Secretary of State. I put a question to my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General, who has been at the Bar for a considerable time and is a very successful member of the Bar. He said that my question was not worth considering. My question was this: Was it right and proper that a Secretary of State, a member of the Socialist party, should be the fons et origo —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": " considerable time and is a very successful member of the Bar. He said that my question was not worth considering. My question was this: Was it right and proper that a Secretary of State, a member of the Socialist party, should be the fons et origo —[ Interruption. ]—that is, the fountain and origin, of regulations affecting the whole of our electoral law as he is, ex hypothesi —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not pons asinorum ?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "member of the Bar. He said that my question was not worth considering. My question was this: Was it right and proper that a Secretary of State, a member of the Socialist party, should be the fons et origo —[ Interruption. ]—that is, the fountain and origin, of regulations affecting the whole of our electoral law as he is, ex hypothesi —[ Interruption. ]—a prejudiced person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": " I think the Solicitor-General might have considered this as a relevant argument to which he could at least have had the courtesy to give a reply. Perhaps I did not give him much notice and he could not think of a reply, but in the courts he is used to having arguments raised against him, and I should have thought that even he, with his short experience in the House, would have been able to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "\"You and your friends have enough motor cars of your own, and you will be able to carry all your people to the poll without my help, but if I lend my beautiful cars you will fill them with Socialists. You will not do any good to yourself, and you will only spoil my cars.\" People are sometimes very proud of their cars, and do not at all like to think that they will be used expressly for Socialists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-22", "file": "debates1931-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "79a961341e080475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1118.2", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "r and constitutional method of discussing them. I am not criticising the expenditure. It would be easy for me to do so under the Financial Resolution, but I am merely criticising the passing of the Report stage, at the present time. Many people are beginning to realise that this kind of thing being done night after night, when the House of Commons cannot possibly understand the full details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-22a.1118.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1144.5", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COTTON INDUSTRY (INDIA).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain P. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "As this question arises directly out of a statement made by the Prime Minister, may I be allowed to read the statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1144.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1158.6", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I did not say they were all Tories; I said they were individualistic Tories. That was what I said, and it will be found in the local newspapers, which gave an extended report of what I said. However, the real question is one on which I would like to take the House into my confidence. I did not know that this question was put to me until the hon. and gallant Gentleman said so just now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1158.6", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "er's questions. If for nothing else, in the interests of public expenditure, that sort of thing will not be encouraged. In a case like this, supposing that I had taken this question, what would have happened? It would have come to me; it would have been handled by my secretaries first of all; they would have wasted their time upon it, and they would have sent it either to the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order. May I call your attention to the Ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1161.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ate. I think it would have been good for this country, good for the House of Commons and good for future progress. But there are 615 of us here, and we are involved in taking that decision. If I may say so of hon. and right hon. Members on the other side, although they breathe threats of slaughter against the present Government, there has been a very marked indisposition to put them out of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I know about them and I know about us. I am speaking as a fairly unbiased looker-on, and the impression that has been conveyed to me is that the Members of the Conservative party have not been disposed to put the Government out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ge great demonstrations, with loud speakers and gramophones and all sorts of things, and there will be a general resort to the rousing of mob passions, which will cost money, whereas if you go to the electorate on the assumption that there are two or three lines of political thought in this country that are each capable of demonstration by simple, intelligent men in a simple intelligent way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "pending thousands of pounds. I would remind the hon. and gallant Member for Oxford that in the recent by-election in the northern part of the City of London there was a candidate who stood without the support of any of the great political parties. I refer to East Islington. The candidate's name was Critchley. In the short period of three weeks would he go beyond the expenditure that was permitted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "d he go beyond the expenditure that was permitted? [ Interruption. ] I hope hon. Members opposite do not suggest that there was any illegality. His name came to be known throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain. It shows that if a man comes forward for a great principle and is prepared to stand fearlessly for it the free Press of this country will give him all the advertisement possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "amounts of between £100 and £200. I could go through the various categories of contests at the last election and give other instances, but it is quite clear to anyone who studies, impartially, these figures—which are public property—that there are to-day many Labour candidates not returning in their election returns an adequate amount for expenditure on clerks and messengers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "I suggest one of two things. Either they were paid and it was not returned, or they were not paid and they ought to have been paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "nce of political organisation, that there are certain items against which actual sums of money have to be placed in an election return. For instance, a candidate cannot have his committee rooms for nothing. Even though a friend may offer him the use of committee rooms, he has to put expenditure into his return against the item for committee rooms, and so it is in the case of clerks and messengers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1201.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ny great quibbling, but it would be interesting to know exactly how it is proposed to enforce these words and how it is proposed to enforce this particular form of oath, which the university elector is to take on these occasions. It rather looks as if the Government are sticking into this Bill words which have no meaning, and I have always been opposed to a superfluity of words in any legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1241.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-23", "file": "debates1931-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "9019de1de82d6acd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "th\" while the signatory put down his cross. In the day schools of the present time, the children, before they are seven years of age, engage in a game called \"Noughts and Crosses\"—under the desks when the teacher's back is turned. That game is a much more complicated thing than a ballot paper. Then people engage sin solving cross-word puzzles. Has any hon. Member ever seen a football coupon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-23a.1280.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1448.4", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I repeat that the particular problem of the dues is at present under consideration by the competent Department of the Government, and, until the Government have made up their mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1469.5", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slathick!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ry and paint the picture of the country's condition in darker colours than are warranted by the true facts. It is the duty of the Government to keep the people informed of the truth, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on other occasions, when it was not spring time, has not hesitated to utter those grave and serious warnings to which I have already called attention. Speaking at Slaithwaite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1469.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "nsurance Fund upon an insurance basis. What then is going to happen? I refer once more to the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the 21st February, when he said: Whatever the Royal Commission may recommend and whatever the Government may do, it is quite certain that in a very considerable measure the Exchequer will have to continue to bear the responsibility for the genuinely unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "n you come to the class of people who will be affected by the present proposals. It seems to me that here you have another example of what the Chancellor of the Exchequer is so fond of—class legislation—class legislation of the meanest possible character, because it affects those who, on the one hand, do not benefit by the reduced cost-of-living which affects the working classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1479.0", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which tariff country?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ines indicated by the Government Actuary—at least that is my opinion—but if we are to compare policies, which is what the right hon. Gentleman for Edgbaston did, in regard to the balancing of the Budget and the position of unemployment in a Free Trade country and in a tariff country, then the advantages are overwhelmingly in favour of this country, with all its faults and difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will you vote against them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "use, will exercise its control and determination to avoid any expenditure which it is possible to avoid. Once a Supplementary Estimate comes here it is pretty well all over. It is the same with every Government. Therefore, the only way in which real control can be exercised is that Supplementary Estimates which might even now be in the minds of some of the Departments shall never reach this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1500.0", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Find work!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "r friends, on spending £8,000,000,000 in destroying life. Are we to be arraigned for daring to run into debt to the extent of £150,000,000 for saving life? What is their alternative? We have heard nothing from them about their alternative, but I hope that before the Debate closes we shall be told the official view of what the Conservative party propose to do about unemployment insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1500.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By Safeguarding!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "poke with gusto of being able to eject my right hon. Friend from the Exchequer, and to put in a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer. That can only be done by a General Election. They must tell the people what they propose. They must be honest with the people. Is it proposed to cut down the benefits or to increase the contributions? How is it proposed to bring the fund into an actuarial state?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We never said that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e people what they propose. They must be honest with the people. Is it proposed to cut down the benefits or to increase the contributions? How is it proposed to bring the fund into an actuarial state? [HON. MEMBERS: \"By Safeguarding!\"] Is it proposed to put off the fund those who have exhausted their insurance right and, if so, on to what other fund? Are they to be allowed to starve walking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1573.0", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": " be put on one side. If we are to deal with this problem of trade and industry we must deal with the gold situation and the international debt situation. If I have one grievance against Conservatives, from the party point of view, it is because of the incredible folly of the way in which they entered into our debt settlement with America. It is astounding that they agreed to pay that debt in gold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HUGH O'NEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is going to keep them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HUGH O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "and who are not covered by any insurance scheme of contributions, those people will have to become a charge directly upon the State, but that in that charge you will have to consider the real needs of those people and not give them benefit, whether or not their circumstances require it. I think that, upon those lines, sooner or later, the reform of the unemployment insurance system has to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-28", "file": "debates1931-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "c6f68e9c385874ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1588.0", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Members below the Gangway, so that they follow him into the Lobby to vote for this duty, it is perfectly safe. His other handlings of the tariff are strange indeed. Hon. Members opposite are accustomed, as are hon. Members below the Gangway, to standing up at elections and elsewhere and asking candidates, \"Where do you stand in regard to food taxes? Are you or are you not in favour of food taxes?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-28a.1588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1621.2", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHOOL TREATS (TRANSPORT FACILITIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "From the cricket match point of view, I do not think the hardship is so great. If it is a question of a vehicle carrying less than eight persons, the prohibition does not apply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "the relief which is desired, but we should have welcomed an indication that the matter was occupying the careful attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. We on these benches moved an Amendment on the Budget last year raising the question of Income Tax on company reserves, which is an important matter to the whole of industry in the country. But it is extraordinarily difficult to devise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "terruption ]—an Amendment which is thoroughly watertight, and the Colwyn Committee did not recommend this reform at all; in fact, they reported against it mainly for the reason that it was so difficult to frame any form of words which would be fully satisfactory, and, when some of my hon. Friends put down the Amendment they declared, when moving it, that it was recognised as imperfect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ittee did not recommend this reform at all; in fact, they reported against it mainly for the reason that it was so difficult to frame any form of words which would be fully satisfactory, and, when some of my hon. Friends put down the Amendment they declared, when moving it, that it was recognised as imperfect—[ Interruption ]—and not such as they would desire to see in that form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " was recognised as imperfect—[ Interruption ]—and not such as they would desire to see in that form—[ Interruption ]. Hon. Members above the Gangway seem to be rather amused, but is it not the case that very often an Amendment is put down in the course of the Budget discussions for the purposes of debate. Hon. Members above the Gangway have taken the same course themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1657.2", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He turned it down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ites which is important and which would have brought in a revenue. As long ago as 1891 Mr. Gladstone, in endorsing the Newcastle programme, approved of this reform, and if it had been carried out then, it would have been of enormous advantage to-day. My right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) will speak upon this matter, in which he has a very special interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "charged the characteristic functions of an auxiliary in battle. First of all, under a cloud of dust, on the extreme flank, he made a sham attack upon the Government, in order to confuse the issue. He then proceeded to carry out the true function assigned to him and that was to try to raise a false issue by a vigorous attack upon the flank of the Opposition on tariffs. We decline that issue to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": " to the boom there. But in the autumn of that year came the crash in the United States, and some of the money came back, until the right hon. Gentleman introduced his Budget. In April, 1930, down it went again. When the Chancellor quite rightly and justly asked the Income Tax and Super-tax payers to pay their fair share of the taxation of this country, that was their reply—to send gold away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1712.0", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And textiles!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": " they also will have to close. These facts ought to be stated very plainly. It is easy to talk general platitudes as the hon. Member has been doing, without knowing the facts of the case. There are three great industries which I may call fundamental, and by which the industrial pulse of this country can be tested. They are the shipbuilding trade, the coal and iron and steel trade, and agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1723.0", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OSWALD LEWIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OSWALD LEWIS", "preceding_text": "There is a certain consciousness among Members of all parties that this week we are taking part in an historic Debate, because it is probably the last time that the House of Commons will be asked to discuss a Free Trade Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"You mean the Tory party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKWOOD", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman for his presentation of the Budget, but there are many things for which I do not admire him, and one is the obstinacy with which he adheres to beliefs which have proved to be wrong, and which are known to be wrong by a majority of persons connected with trade and industry in this country. As politicians, the Members of the House of Commons to-day are in very poor repute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1738.0", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is always inconvenient!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": ", D and E. I look upon this as typical class legislation of the kind of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is particularly fond—attacking one particular class. I do not think that it is in the interests of the country, and it is not fair to these unfortunate people, most of them of the middle class, who will have to pay an extra sum in Income Tax at the most inconvenient time of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1738.0", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " who have families will have their children at home and will wish to spend a pleasant Christmas. At the end of the present year, instead of spending money on Christmas, they will have to keep it in reserve in order to pay the extra impost on the 1st of January. This money could have been collected without any inconvenience to anybody had the Chancellor of the Exchequer not been so pigheaded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "ct to correction, but I think it originated in 1915 when Mr. McKenna made an appeal to the country to provide him with all the dollar securities they held. I handed mine over. We were all given an option. We were asked to take War Loan, but we were told that if we insisted we could have cash. Very few people, I imagine, insisted. I took War Loan, quite a considerable lot, but that does not matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wealth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "in the forties of the last century, as a result of the industrial revolution, money was borrowed, and railways, docks and harbours were built, which not only gave temporary relief, as they reminded us, to the unemployed, but permanently created new industries. We are in the throes of another industrial revolution to-day. Either you must distribute leisure better or you must distribute work better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1750.0", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You voted for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "uch derision poured upon a scheme, especially one from the Liberal benches, as upon the occasion when he made his acrid, acid comments on the proposal that he should accept this committee; and in the end what he virtually said, after stating that he himself could at that moment write the report—indicating that he had done everything which was already possible—was that he went on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "tely exhausted by what he does. Accordingly, no provision is envisaged at all for next year to meet that expenditure which he must necessarily expect. That is bad finance. In the second place, half of the sum which he takes is capital which he derives from the fund which has been lying in America, and which he devotes—a thing which he has hitherto condemned—to meet current expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-29", "file": "debates1931-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "00314739f84736a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1770.2", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " peroration and has not dealt with one of the practical points raised. It really is disgraceful that the Committee should be treated in this way. I know that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are very anxious to burke discussion on this issue. The Chancellor's Budget is absolutely hollow and rotten. It has not provided for an enormous amount of money which really will have to be raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-29a.1770.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-04-30", "file": "debates1931-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "251434d5cef982f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-30a.1792.11", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RIGHT OF ASYLUM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Further on that point of Order. If we put down a ques- tion and present it to the Clerks—and this question has got to be discussed on the Floor of the House of Commons—that here is a man who has been driven out from his country, without doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-04-30a.1792.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.14.3", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the attitude of the Soviet representatives is purely one of obstruction, and that they do not wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.14.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.29.9", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Put it down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member answer my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.29.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.47.4", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EX-CHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EX-CHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)", "preceding_text": "receive proper respect and consideration. I do not believe, in view of the general opinions on this question, that any party in this House will have the temerity to oppose the proposals, although it is quite within the rights of any hon. Members, a\" they may desire, to endeavour to amend them in certain details and particulars. We have set our hands to this task and we are going to see it through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.47.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "sments where the amount involved is negligible, and where the amount of tax will probably be no more than a few coppers, and, obviously, it will not be worth while to collect these small taxes; so I propose that individual taxpayers shall be relieved of tax for any year for which he proves that the total amount payable by him does not exceed 10s., a sum equal to tax on a capital value of£120.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bribery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "l taxpayers shall be relieved of tax for any year for which he proves that the total amount payable by him does not exceed 10s., a sum equal to tax on a capital value of£120. [ Interruption .] As hon. Members opposite appear to be much interested in the matter, I will add the further information that this relief will relieve practically the whole of the dwellings owned by the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Possibly the hon. Gentleman will show me the same courtesy as was shown to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and allow me to proceed. I have shown that in many cases the value has been created by man. The land itself has been created by man in some cases. You ignore that,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Are the schools and educational institutions of the country, in respect of the sites of their buildings, their playing fields, and so forth, to be subject to the tax, or are they to be exempt? What is to be the position? Not one word was said by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on this subject of open spaces and playing fields. Are they all to be subject to a site value tax on their building value?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "erhaps that is also what the Chancellor of the Exchequer desires. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman welcomed the Chancellor's first announcement with a wild shriek of joy. This tax, he said, would depress values, and that was why he welcomed it. You value as things are, and, according to the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, you at once, by your tax, destroy the value upon which it is assessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "mpossible to get a valuation of the unimproved value of land. I think he exaggerates the position. If he had been in the House in those days he would have known why it became excessively difficult to get a valuation under that particular Act. The lesson that we learned then can be applied now. In those days the opposition against any form of attack on landlordism was much greater than it is today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are all right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "nt there. I deal with Liberalism, and, up to now, there has been a solid block in that constituency of some 13,000 Liberal votes. Most of those voters own shops, houses, and smallholdings, all of which will have a building value, upon all of which they will be valued, and upon all of which they will be taxed, and I assure hon. Members below the Gangway that those 13,000 votes are no longer theirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Lord Rothermere!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "preceding_text": "kness of the case of hon. and right hon. Members opposite. First, however, I would like to ask a question as to what really is the attitude that the Tory party have made up their mind to take on this proposal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer reminded us of the fact, when he introduced this Motion, that the organs of Lord Beaverbrook are suggesting a sympathetic consideration of the proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": " he attempted to extract from the City of London the perfectly colossal sum which this tax would realise, on the system suggested this afternoon, the valuation of a clear-site basis and on the assumption that the other existing buildings are in their place, that is to say, a basis of pretending that things are nothing like what they are, the City of London would migrate. You would create a desert.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": "ilable. I have tried to show how that theory is wrong anyhow and how, once the land has changed hands, the tax is discounted. In any case, if he ever were right, he is now 20 years out of date. Every local authority has got power to acquire whatever land it needs at a price agreed by the Government Valuer. As it is now, public authorities can acquire property a great deal cheaper than they should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.99.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALPASS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALPASS", "preceding_text": "Then I will leave that part of the subject to the imagination of hon. Members opposite, and will conclude my remarks by saying that I believe that when the results of the valuation are tabulated they will be astonishingly surprising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": " murderer, that he was not there when the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Bir- mingham (Sir A. Chamberlain) withdrew the taxes. He has said, I think, he was at San Remo and could not possibly have had anything to do with it. When the late Lord Melchett taxed him with having discussed the matter in the Cabinet room, the right hon. Gentleman again pleaded an alibi; he said he was not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You made the charge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "Then may I ask the hon. Gentleman what was the question he was asked", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much did he spend on the roads? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": " operation in Scotland which is known as \"contract of ground annual,\" by which he secured for the same piece of land an additional sum of£38. I happened to meet the builder and bluntly asked him why he had imposed this additional burden on a piece of land which was already burdened to the amount of£70 by the ground landlord. His answer was, \"Oh, I was laying something by for my old age.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. POWNALL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. POWNALL", "preceding_text": "untry clergy. I shall be very much interested to hear whether the proposal applies to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and to hear also the views of the hon. Gentlemen who represent the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in this House. Next, with regard to debentures, Many big debenture issues are made on the security of the land. The first charge for the security of the debenture holders is upon land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "hich, whatever may have happened in the past, will be checked by the Chancellor's scheme. When the matter comes to Committee, I hope that consideration will be given to some of the points that have been raised in the Debate. I was sorry to hear that, on ground of economy, apparently, it is not proposed to make a complete valuation of land, and that large tracts of agricultural land are to be left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "I do not think He gave it to anybody. It was there for the people to make the most of and to develop, and that was done by private enterprise, from beginning to end. Hon. Members talk about what the community put into the land, about the money spent by local authorities, but who has found that money? The owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSBOTHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSBOTHAM", "preceding_text": "munity throughout the country have been waiting with anxiety for that announcement. The reason for that anxiety was that a section of the Press had stated that agricultural land was going to be taxed, and that announcement caused considerable anxiety in my Division. We are pleased to hear that agricultural land, including smallholdings, cottage holders, and allotments will be exempt from this tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-04", "file": "debates1931-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "90cd8d4e645da006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Major AIRHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And to which this Resolution does not apply!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major AIRHEAD", "preceding_text": "rder to force him to do it? Or do they, on the other hand, propose to penalise him because he does it? Those are two quite different things, and I am at a loss to know whether the Government propose to treat the landlord more as a knave or more as a fool. I want to say a word on the subject of agricultural land, because that happens to be the particular form of land in which I am interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-04a.153.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.205.9", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUDGET.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Surely it is a question of fact? I wanted to be sure whether, under the existing law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.205.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.205.9", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUDGET.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "y we are entitled, during the Budget Debates, to ask questions closely connected with the Budget. The assumption is that the existing system is that the transitional benefit begins to stop in October of this year, that several thousands of men will begin to run-off in October, and that thereafter several thousands a week will be knocked off for a year when the thing will come completely to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.205.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MARRIAGE LAW, SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Westwood)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Westwood)", "preceding_text": "Irregular marriage is frequently contracted in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.222.6", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "rrific. Again, take the case of turpentine. Turpentine is sold by the hundredweight at 43s. 6d., or, less tax, 37s. 6d. The tax per hundredweight comes to 6s.; that is to say, on the price of 37s. 6d., 15 or 16 per cent. That is not so dramatic, but it is the sort of tax that is put on raw materials in high Protectionist countries. It is not the sort of thing that you expect in Free Trade England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.222.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUFF", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUFF", "preceding_text": " Exchequer has said that he was not lacking in resource, and though the hen-roosts are somewhat scarce in these days, I know that in his fertile brain there are other and more equitable methods by which he could obtain this money. My hon. and gallant Friend mentioned that even the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or rather he himself, sometimes indulged in flirtation with the idea of a revenue tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " I do not want to resurrect old speeches, though I have them here, and could show that the President of the Board of Trade voted for a reduction of the Petrol Duty in 1928. The Chancellor of the Exchequer himself moved a reduction of the duty from 4d. to a 1d., and my right hon. Friend voted in favour of it and so did the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. I looked up the Division List just now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HUGH O'NEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO Signs of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HUGH O'NEILL", "preceding_text": " the party to which I belong. The deficiency which a reduction in Income Tax might cause in the national revenue would have to be met, in our view, first, by decreased expenditure and secondly, as is well known—I merely mention the fact, as it would be out of order to go into details—by duties on foreign manufactured goods. Events are rapidly marching in the direction of those changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s the addition of 6d. to the standard rate of Income Tax by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last year. When the right hon. Gentleman opened his Budget last year, the principal feature of which, I think we must all agree, was the increase of the standard rate of Income Tax, I recollect that he said that he had to impose a new burden, but that he would place it on the shoulders best able to bear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Social services!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HURST", "preceding_text": "to hold its own. If that is true, and I think most reasonable men will agree that it is, with regard to our country in competition with less taxed trades in other countries, it is equally true with regard to the ordinary Income Tax payer at home. The less money he has with which to buy, the worse it is for those from whom he would buy. If he pays money in taxes, it goes in unproductive expenditure", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HURST", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HURST", "preceding_text": "ure, and that therefore the money must be raised, and this is the only way in which it can be raised. There are two objections to the view which the President of the Board of Trade has put forward. In the first place, we are not committed as a country to this high rate of expenditure, because the Conservative party, representing at least half the population of the country, is in favour of economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": " and other small merchant businesses. That, again, is a class which is, as it were, the seeding ground whence the growth of big businesses springs. The real substance of the Amendment is, I think, contained in this consideration. I believe it will commend itself to all those who have come to see that under present conditions we have made a dangerous divorce between effort and the reward of effort,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "his year. That anticipation of Income Tax the Committee, when it has got used to the idea, when it has stripped away the trimmings, clearly perceives to be the imposition of a fresh heavy burden of direct taxation upon Income Tax payers of the professional class and the small business class in the current year. It is equivalent to the addition of a rate of Income Tax of 1s. l½d. in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-05", "file": "debates1931-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c8ae9c6a054d654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Land Values Tax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disappoint the hon. and gallant Member for Oxford (Captain Bourne) and the hon. Member for Hereford (Sir S. Roberts), but they cannot get round a constitutional principle by an Amendment of this kind and it is a constitutional principle that a Parliament cannot tie the hands of a future Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-05a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.380.7", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain MACDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "As the Government seem quite incapable of coming to a decision on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.380.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.388.11", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Cannot the Prime Minister give a plain, straightforward answer to this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.388.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "l is determined by the value of the site in which he places it. No man would be mad enough to go to the Sahara Desert, and I knew that hon. Gentlemen opposite would resent my proposition. On the face of it, it is laughable. The reason why Sir William Morris goes to Oxford, or someone goes to Bournville or Letchworth, is that there is a communal demand for the use of that site for certain purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.419.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Grouse!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "en I go outside Leeds, to the moors, I come across the owner of the moors. I say to him 'What are you doing with this land?' 'Oh,' he says, 'I am just holding it up for so many years' purchase, because the Leeds Corporation want it for a reservoir for the Corporation.' And I, as assessor, say, 'Give me your hand. I suppose you want that money for that land because it is disturbing your pheasants.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": " The right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, after giving that parable in 1913, said: Do you think I am caricaturing? That is the rating system. If you build houses, you are rated and penalised for doing so. Leave the land vacant, and under the administration of the late Government you pay no rates at all. Then you wonder why we have a housing problem. So much for the viciousness of local rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.425.6", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "ubsequent valuations based on the primary or first valuation should not run as easily as clockwork, and cost the State little or nothing at all. Therefore there is really nothing in the argument about the £5,000,000 for the cost of collection, which, I dare say, hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will trot about the country. There is nothing in it at all. It is only £5,000,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.425.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.425.6", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The War intervened!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "nt, although many a time I used to think that with his power over his party in those days he could very often have checked the intimidating influences behind him. When the courts through their legal decisions made the Budget taxes unworkable, promises were given by the Liberal party in those days that in subsequent Finance Bills these things would be rectified, but they were never carried through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.425.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "it to his memory. The right hon. Gentleman is a master of language, of simile and of dexterous, flashing, brilliant eloquence. He knows much more than I do the value and the weight of words. He knows how so to use his words that they fly directly to the spot that he means them to reach. As a master of language, I will quote his words. This is what he said at Drury Lane Theatre on 20th April, 1907.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " end of that perusal whether the Conservative party mean to fight these taxes. There were bitter memories of 1909–10 as the result of the conflict at that time. How bitter those memories are one can learn from the way that the references to that conflict are greeted after a period of 20 years have elapsed. I think the right hon. Gentleman certainly means to fight these taxes root and branch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " think the right hon. Gentleman certainly means to fight these taxes root and branch. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] The cheer was very much more vigorous in 1909. There was a greater air of conviction about them in those days. One would like to know, because unless the principle is challenged, these two days' Debates are wasted. It is no use discussing the details of a Bill which has not appeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Solved? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "of a Bill which has not appeared. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Well, they cannot appear until a Financial Resolution of the House of Commons has been passed. There was the same experience in 1909, and the Conservative party on that occasion realised how futile it was to go on discussing the proposition and asking questions upon matters of detail which would be solved the moment the Bill appeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " take time. I gave in; I was far too meek. But I have great confidence in the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and it is upon that that I base my confidence that the valuation will not take too long. There is only one way to get a valuation, and that is by having a simple and direct principle of valuation. It may interest the right hon. Member for West Birmingham to know that I have not seen the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "et a valuation, and that is by having a simple and direct principle of valuation. It may interest the right hon. Member for West Birmingham to know that I have not seen the Bill. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] That is another question; but if the right hon. Gentleman is under the impression that I have some information which he does not possess, which I am in a position to convey to him, I have not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " Income Tax, but since the War there has been an Income Tax. I think the same applies to Denmark and New Zealand and New South Wales. I think my hon. and gallant Friend will find that that is the case. Very well, it is being done, and why should it be such an outrage? There was a Noble Lord who was speaking here the other night and who was very angry. He was in a state of incoherent fury about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " the Land Utilisation Bill, that is nationalisation, and it is to be used for the right purpose. But a penny in the £ is rather a slow process of nationalisation, and it does not come into operation for two years, and if it is added to at that rate, how long would the process take? Four hundred and eighty years. Really, for the land taxers to expect anything, they must get back to Methuselah.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is paying Death Duties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ", but I think the Noble Lord has mistaken my point. That is true with regard to the rural landowner, but if he takes the urban landowner, he is only paying in respect of an income which he is receiving for agricultural purposes, while at the same time, year by year, the real value of the land is going up by £50 or £100 a year. He is paying nothing in respect of that, and he ought to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": " large towns will, however, have an effect on the selling value of that land. If you put the tax on the landlord you will increase the cost of the land to the farmer; and how about the many farmers who have bought their land and are their own landlords? They may possess land which has a bigger value than its agricultural value, and that is to be taxed. They cannot pass land tax on to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman was in the House when we discussed the De-rating Act, and I am surprised that he should make the statement he has just made. He spoke of the advantages that have come from it. The late Lord Advocate had to admit that the only advantage of de-rating would go to the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " makes Glasgow so bitter, in regard to its attitude on this question of the taxation of land values? The Glasgow people desired to get good drinking water on one occasion, and the Glasgow citizens had to pay the landlords a sum of £106,820 for the right to use the water for domestic purposes. That was for just the water, not the land. Last week, when I was at the Bar of the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.469.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Earl of DALKEITH", "preceding_text": "This property was developed at great expense by my great grandfather, as a result of which it appreciated in value, and the town council of Edinburgh have since agreed that they made a very good bargain in their favour by purchasing. If the hon. Member wishes any further statement, I have the whole thing here and he can see it afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STAMFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STAMFORD", "preceding_text": "nd values that in any way alters the extent of that demand. On the other hand, what we claim for a tax on land values is that it does tend to increase the available supply of land. If I happened to be a landowner, which, fortunately or otherwise, I am not, I am certain that I should find it much easier to hold land out of its full use in the absence of a tax than if a tax is actually in operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STAMFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STAMFORD", "preceding_text": " hon. Members opposite to tell us plainly and simply where the flaw lies and where the unsoundness of that argument is. May I now turn to one rather wider consideration? This proposed tax on land values is not, as many Members on the other side appear to imagine, an additional tax. It is an alternative tax. It is a form of taxation which will provide revenue without hampering and hurting industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN MILLAR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN MILLAR", "preceding_text": "of the Government's scheme, which will in due time be presented in the Finance Bill. At the same time, I think the issue before the Committee is a very simple one. We are dealing here with a question of principle on which we shall have to record our votes to-night. The principle is whether it is proper to levy a duty which is based upon the value of sites, limited, as I understand, to urban areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLAR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLAR", "preceding_text": " the actual value of the land taken. In the third place, I think it will be agreed by all sections in this Committee that it is very desirable that something should be done with regard to relieving improvements in the form of buildings, including factory buildings, from rates and taxes through the readjustment of taxation which will bring in a source of revenue which at present escapes altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member speaks of carrying out its mandate, he will know that mandates are sometimes differently interpreted by different people, and I am quite satisfied that certain of those whom I have called \"L.G. Liberals\" regard their mandate as being what I have described, namely, to keep the present Government in office as long as they can, and, incidentally, to hold their own seats as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": "e land in Lincolnshire presumably is the owner of land that is only agricultural land. He will escape. The rich, prosperous and fortunate owner of that land will escape the tax. What about the owner of the poor low-rented land in Essex, that is adjoining this great Metropolis and has a building value far in excess of its agricultural value? That farmer is to have placed upon him a crushing burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": "l land. He will escape. The rich, prosperous and fortunate owner of that land will escape the tax. What about the owner of the poor low-rented land in Essex, that is adjoining this great Metropolis and has a building value far in excess of its agricultural value? That farmer is to have placed upon him a crushing burden. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite with their limited experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hich follows, as surely as night follows day, is that if you are going to increase the overhead expenses, you either increase the cost of production or you must reduce the wages of the workers. Which will hon. Members opposite prefer? If they tell us, as I suppose they will, that they will never consent to a reduction of wages, they must consent to an increase of the cost of the articles produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "Sir T. Inskip) said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not given any details of this tax, indeed, that he has not stated what sort of a tax it is or what the incidence of the tax will be. I can only recommend the hon. and learned Member to read again the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He will there find, as in the Resolution, a clear statement of the sort of tax that is proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "appear in the Bill. The hon. and learned Member has said that the strict logic of this tax has been departed from by the exemptions; but this was stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself in introducing this Resolution and, moreover, the reason was given. There are cases of very small values, where it would be a waste of time and money to enter into a valuation and taxation of the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "or has it had any effect in the reduction of the amount that the local authorities have to pay, except the 10 per cent. which was allowed under the Lands Clauses Act; and I can assure the right hon. Gentleman, from my own experience in arbitrations all around London, that consistently the prices paid by the London County Council, for instance, for land for their housing sites have been exorbitant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " Sir Edgar Harper, as mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman, gave evidence before a Select Committee and then stated that the expenditure up to September, 1915, was £3,000,000, of which £2,000,000 alone was for the first valuation. Subsequently to September, 1915, as the right hon. Gentleman said to-day, no further money was expended on that valuation, which was entirely shut down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "money was expended on that valuation, which was entirely shut down—[ Interruption ]. Subsequently to September, 1915, the valuation under the 1909–10 Act was completely shut down, there was no further expenditure on the valuation, and up to that date it had been £2,000,000. Therefore, the total expenditure on the 1909–10 valuation was £2,000,000 and not £5,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ation form had to be calculated and filled in; and, as the right hon. Member for Croydon (Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson) will no doubt recollect from the forms which he must often have seen, a mass of particulars had also to be supplied. If that cost only £2,000,000, it would seem that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's estimate for a single valuation of a single figure is a very liberal one indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ard to the question whether we were not taxing the wrong man. I think it was stated by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Tam-worth (Sir A. Steel-Maitland) that there was no justification for taxing the man who paid the figure—the high figure—and not the man who received the high figure. That argument might be applicable if we were dealing with an increment duty, which we are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.518.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-06", "file": "debates1931-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "820a63636af6acef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES TAX.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the attention of the Committee to a statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer with regard to Becontree. As I was Chairman of the London County Council Housing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-06a.524.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.536.7", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOMESTIC SERVANTS (HOURS OF WORK).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that there is a tremendous number of vacancies for domestic servants, and does not the right hon. Lady think that she should go into the matter more carefully with a view of seeing whether it is possible to reduce the dole, and put these people on a basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.536.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.557.8", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DERATING (EXCHEQUER PAYMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the right hon. Gentleman himself stated several times in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.557.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAYMENT OF INCOME TAX BY INSTALMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is taxed at the source!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " not certain that there are any of the latter category. I will take the case of the Cabinet Minister with £5,000 a year, married, with one child. At present he pays his Income Tax with the regularity which we should expect from those in high office; promptly to the day—£486 13s. 9d. twice a year. I see that many of them shake their heads. Does that mean that they are not paying it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAYMENT OF INCOME TAX BY INSTALMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "preceding_text": "ject to it on another ground as well, because this, of course, is merely financial juggling. It is obvious that under this for the next financial year there will only be a quarter to come in July and unless, some ante-dating is made again for the other payment, you will get only your half on 1st January, and so, naturally, only three-quarters of the tax will be obtained in the next financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAYMENT OF INCOME TAX BY INSTALMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"His father!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " intended to deal with the fantastic speech of the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benson) but his argument was blown into smithereens by the President of the Board of Trade and it is unnecessary to descant upon it, save to say this: Upon looking up that valuable publication \"Dod's Parliamentary Companion,\" I find that the hon. Member was for many years treasurer of the Independent Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAYMENT OF INCOME TAX BY INSTALMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "al that would relieve farmers of £75,000, and said that it was too large a sum to contemplate. Now that £250,000 is to be taken from the farmers, it is a most reasonable and equitable proposal! The right hon. Gentleman piles Pelion on Ossa by suggesting that the farmer can pay £250,000. Leaving out of account altogether the shopkeepers and traders this tax will hit the typist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " for benefits received. Just as I measure on the meter the gas which I use in my house, and pay for the quantity I use, so here a man pays for the amount of benefit he receives by the expenditure of public money in the rent he pays for the plot of land. In the last few days we have had nearly all the old saws trotted out. We have had the story of £150 which was invested in land 300 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "efit he receives by the expenditure of public money in the rent he pays for the plot of land. In the last few days we have had nearly all the old saws trotted out. We have had the story of £150 which was invested in land 300 years ago. [ Interruption .] We have not yet had the widow and orphan, and we have not yet had the suggestion of a tax on red-headed men, though we shall have it shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "It is said that when the secrets of all hearts are open, the recording angel will be able quite easily to divide the sheep from the goats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I realise the point the hon. and gallant Member was trying to make and I think he was wrong. If we were in this resolution to exclude from the scope of taxation any improvements even if they were effected prior to 50 years ago we could not afterwards limit the exclusion to those that took place subsequently to 50 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "n of this country? The fact of the matter is that the Government quite obviously do not know at the present time what it is they mean to value or on what basis they are going to value it. It may be—I do not know whether it is the case or not—that the Bill is already drawn, but I am perfectly certain that, if it is drawn, the Financial Secretary has not the slightest idea what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": " intended to be a tax upon people who are holding up the development of the land. The fact of the matter is that, as shown by the discussion on this Amendment tonight, the proposals, whatever they are—we have only the vaguest notions of them—will tax the small landowners and will tax those members of the community who only own that little bit of land on which their own home is erected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "act of the matter is that shopkeepers who have had to pay these enormous prices for their properties have been valued for rateable purposes on the prices which they paid—not on the site value but on the site value plus improvements. What is more—and hon. Members opposite will doubtless cheer this also—they complain very bitterly that they derive no benefit from the De-rating Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " whether these proposals give a clear idea of what they are and whether they are consistent with the reasons put forward by the various speakers on behalf of the Government. When I think that for two whole days we debated in Committee the general proposals in a sort of fog of doubt, and uncertainty, when the Government employed every device of evasion and postponement and downright rudeness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "probably spent several times as much money upon the development of his land as he paid for the land itself. What is the result of that upon the value of the land? The value of the land is improved, and it is improved by the expenditure of that man, and not by the action of the community. After all, the community is there all the time. The community was there before the man spent money on the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the Amendment to the Amendment which has just been moved by my right hon. Friend. I do it with a certain amount of regret, because I frankly prefer the original suggestion which was moved earlier in the evening. The Government rejected that, and I am not surprised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " to get at the landlords at any cost and by any means. If they reject this Amendment, it is not the least use of the Chancellor of the Exchequer coming down to this House and telling us of the Creator's intentions. I do not know how the Chancellor knew what those intentions were, and, in fact, I do not believe that the Chancellor did know. I decline to accept him as an interpreter for the Creator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "cost and by any means. If they reject this Amendment, it is not the least use of the Chancellor of the Exchequer coming down to this House and telling us of the Creator's intentions. I do not know how the Chancellor knew what those intentions were, and, in fact, I do not believe that the Chancellor did know. I decline to accept him as an interpreter for the Creator. [ Interruption .] It is no use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Front Bench say, that this is a class attack. They do not trouble about justice and equity. Their attitude is, \"Let us get at them.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "thers to enjoy games in the open air. In any constituency there are several dozen clubs—football, cricket, law tennis, bowls and other clubs. Some of them are the property of big banks and private firms, but the majority of them are clubs run by poor clerks and dependent upon the subscriptions of their members, and often maintained only with very great difficulty. Under the Bill as it stands", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Are our school play-grounds to be taxed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Are our school play-grounds to be taxed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It does not say so anywhere in the Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It does not say so anywhere in the Bill [HON. MEMBERS: \"What Bill?\"] I do not know whether hon. Members opposite are in a hurry to go home, but the quieter they are the sooner my speech will be finished. In London there is no less an area than 13,000 acres of public open spaces, and, by a coincidence, the area of private open spaces is exactly the same. According to the Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "What, I should like to ask the Members, is the site value of a privately owned common? It cannot be enclosed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "I see that the right hon. Gentleman the First Commissioner of Works is in his place, and he has done a great deal to support the playing-fields movement, and he bas realised that it is for the benefit of the country that we should have as many open spaces as possible. If the Bill foreshadowed by this Resolution becomes law, all these open spaces will be closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "t to realise that there are in Greater London and the rest of the country thousands of acres of private open spaces used as cricket grounds, bowling greens and other forms of sport which are supported by some of the very poorest people in the country. It is not a question of the rich, because in many parts of the country these open spaces are supported and kept up by the boy scouts and boys clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And unconvincing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " the question which comes very intimately to my constituency. I wish to describe the system by which practically all the land in my constituency has been developed during the last 50 years, and to show how the incidence of the tax will fall, the unfairness of the incidence and the effect of such taxation upon unbuilt-on land. I am afraid the explanation will be technical, dry and somewhat lengthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "k it is. I would ask them the question: \"To whom did God give the land of the United States of America, 'God's own country'?\" When they have answered that question, then they will probably see that they have to realise existing facts and circumstances. They will have to realise that the land of the United States of America belongs to the landowners of the United States, and not to the Red Indians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.737.6", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OSWALD LEWIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OSWALD LEWIS", "preceding_text": " of taxation by indirect taxation. The other object with which this Resolution has been put before us would appear to be to dangle a bait before the palate of the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs. I suppose the Government feel that he has been given a little too much stick by his own supporters, and that they ought to reward him. He has had his reward; it is in the Scarborough by election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Captairt HAROLD BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are sick of playing fields.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captairt HAROLD BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " we see the worst before us. I say these few words in the hope that just the balance of logic and common sense may tip the scales in the minds of the Government before this Bill goes to print. In my constituency there is no direction in which this Bill will not hit those who are endeavouring to earn an honest livelihood in the different industries. Playing fields are used in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-07", "file": "debates1931-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5ce551c0c1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [6TH MAY].", "cue_speaker": "Captairt HAROLD BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captairt HAROLD BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "ll not hit those who are endeavouring to earn an honest livelihood in the different industries. Playing fields are used in my constituency—[An HON. MEMBER: \"We are sick of playing fields.\"] Hon. Members opposite may be sick of playing fields, but in my constituency they are not, and perhaps these interruptions show the utter contempt of hon. Members opposite for those who use playing fields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-07a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-08", "file": "debates1931-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "70ad540b862334f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "preceding_text": "and that he is going to object to this Measure, on what grounds I do not know. If the hon. Member is going to object on the grounds that there is a Shops Committee, of which he is a distinguished Member, sitting to deal with this question and has not yet made its report, may I point out that that committee is dealing with hours of employment, and its terms of reference do not cover Sunday trading?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-08", "file": "debates1931-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "70ad540b862334f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.772.5", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ed to say, if Sunday trading by private traders were legalised, \"We cannot compete with these people, and we also must open for two hours on Sunday as well.\" Consequently, this would affect the co-operative movement very greatly. I think I am right in saying that neither the co-operative movement nor its employés would be willing to support in any way whatever the opening of shops on Sundays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.772.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-08", "file": "debates1931-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "70ad540b862334f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.772.5", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "t the co-operative movement very greatly. I think I am right in saying that neither the co-operative movement nor its employés would be willing to support in any way whatever the opening of shops on Sundays. [ Interruption .] I am not disputing that there is the question of selling milk; I am dealing with the goods that people can do without on Sundays or can buy on any other day of the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.772.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-08", "file": "debates1931-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "70ad540b862334f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "le should not be called upon to work every day in the week. If we passed this Measure— happily there is no chance of it becoming law—the one-man shopkeeper would work every day in the year without a stop. What else can he do? If you give an order from the town council that shops are entitled to open, it is obvious that the one-man shopkeeper will be there every day throughout the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-08", "file": "debates1931-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "70ad540b862334f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ose hairdressing shops on Sunday. A conflict is proceeding regularly on the Floor of the House of Commons, one section wanting to close certain establishments on Sunday and the other wanting to open them. There would never have been an argument at all in favour of opening them were it not for the fact that one little shopkeeper is always afraid that another little shopkeeper is going to keep open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-08", "file": "debates1931-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "70ad540b862334f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " may have a Republic very shortly. Co-operative Societies' committees always used to tell my trade union officials, \"We cannot possibly close at 10 o'clock if the private trader is allowed to open to 11.\" Once private traders are allowed to sell their goods on Sunday, we shall have no argument at all, unless we oppose this Bill, against the co-operative movement asking that they shall follow suit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-08a.774.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-11", "file": "debates1931-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc85ee462a03159d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us have it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "In order to save the time of the House, I am circulating a rather long statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.797.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-11", "file": "debates1931-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc85ee462a03159d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.833.8", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM WHITE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"16!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM WHITE", "preceding_text": "riends made into the conditions of the cutlery trade in South America—a very important mission, and one which will bear important fruit in increased business for Sheffield. The Master Cutler, however, is reported to have said, without contradiction—the statement sounds almost incredible—that from the end of the War down to the time his mission went out, some 10 or 11 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.833.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-11", "file": "debates1931-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc85ee462a03159d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "trade policy came when the leader of the Liberal party was Prime Minister and induced us once more to trade with Russia. That policy was initiated with a speech, which is famous throughout the world as the \"bursting corn-bins\" speech. We were told of the bursting corn-bins of Russia and how we could clothe the Russians with cotton shirts and woollen garments in exchange. That was all a fairy tale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-11", "file": "debates1931-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc85ee462a03159d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MATTERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no morality in trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MATTERS", "preceding_text": "or wounded by British bullets fired from British rifles made in Birmingham. Under those conditions we are trading with almost every country under the sun. At one time the whole of the Siberian mining industry was conducted by exile labour, and this country very gladly bought gold and silver and other products which they produced, and no argument was raised at that time about the morality of trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-11", "file": "debates1931-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc85ee462a03159d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": "ng have complied to a most satisfactory degree with the Government regulations on the subject. It is true, as the right hon. Gentleman pointed out, that the late Governor of Hong Kong, at the time my Noble Friend gave his directions, did not approve of the instructions which we gave on the matter, but surely we are not to be blamed for that, but rather to be commended for not accepting his advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-11", "file": "debates1931-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc85ee462a03159d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss PICTON - TURBERVILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss PICTON - TURBERVILL", "preceding_text": "rate statements and allegations. I think that every one who is interested in this subject will regret any inaccurate statements or any exaggerations; but the hon. Gentleman was replying to the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley, and I do not think that the right hon. and learned Member made a single statement in his long speech which was not substantiated and thoroughly well documented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.951.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-11", "file": "debates1931-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc85ee462a03159d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Shut up!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "What about the Black and Tans?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-11a.954.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that in Russia they cannot get butter at any price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.963.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes, it will.", "preceding_speaker": "Major McKENZIE WOOD", "preceding_text": "Will it assist this industry if we impose import duties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.972.9", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH SHIPS (MANNING RULES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL-CAINE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the steamship \"Dryden,\" owned by Lamport, Holt & Company, sailed from Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.972.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman say why so much foreign material is being sent into this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ve. Then, at the second count, under the Government scheme, A will receive five votes and B seven, and B, who ran second, will be elected by a majority of two. Now in fact that result may be against the wishes of the majority of the electors. In order to demonstrate that that is so, we have only to suppose—a very natural supposition—that all A's five voters would have preferred C to B.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1013.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ommittee to agree to let the whole number of electors be equal to 2N. Then let those who prefer B to C be represented by N + a . Consequently, those who prefer C to B will be N - a . We can find other beautiful expressions for other possible preferences. It is easy now to see that the number of votes polled by A, B and C respectively at the first scrutiny will be 2N - b + c 2N - c + a 2N - a + b .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1013.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot force the voters to indicate their preference!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": " going to deal with it under their scheme. If they do not deal with it their scheme is reduced to mere nonsense. A large proportion of the voting papers under the Alternative Vote are not completed. I have heard of one colonial election where only 50 per cent. of the voters expressed their second preference. What is to become of a scheme in which there is no provision made for these obvious cases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1013.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "te vote in that case means a plumper for one candidate. How are you going to deal with that? I ask hon. Members to make one supposition. If the voter casts a plumper he is equally favourable or unfavourable to the two candidates for whom he does not vote. He has expressed complete indifference to them. We deal with that in this way; that you count his vote, not as two, but as one and a-half—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1013.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1049.2", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "he 2,000 who had voted in the first instance for the United Empire candidate were only allowed one other preference, and if they gave their first preference to the United Empire candidate and their second to the Empire Crusader, they would have shot their bolt, and, in the final count, where the issue would be between the Labour candidate and the official Conservative, their votes would disappear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1049.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": " as well? If so, are second preferences only to count as half a vote or as one vote? And is it not possible, in the case of there being nine candidates—the case I mentioned just now—that if only first preferences are to count for the purposes of losing a deposit, the whole nine candidates might lose their deposit, including the candidate who succeeds eventually in winning the election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "lf. The hon. Member for Leigh has pointed out a fact that we all know very well, that in a constituency like mine in the south of England the Labour party always like to keep the poll open to 9 o'clock. They like to do that—and they have a right to demand it—against the general, the majority, feeling of all the population except their own supporters, who, unfortunately, are a minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for West Middlesbrough (Mr. K. Griffith) is under a misapprehension. My hon. Friend has not moved this Amendment to eliminate the party below the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ect that the halving of the second preference vote is intended to destroy the Liberal party. That is an admission from the hon. Member for West Middlesbrough that the Alternative Vote will save the Liberal party. I do not want to comment on this at length, but I am very sorry for a party with a great past and with distinguished Members in this House which really thinks this is likely to save them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One and one make two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ve a full vote, and some half a vote. The fallacy of saying, as the hon. and earned Member who moved the Amendment said, that two votes are given by this Bill, is the fallacy which lies at the bottom of this Amendment. Two votes are not given by the Bill. One vote is given, and if that vote becomes useless because of the elimination of a candidate, then the voter has another opportunity of voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ould be, and that is the kind of thing that ought to have been done before the Bill was introduced. The Government have a passion for Committees—even the Chancellor of the Exchequer says that when you have got 70, one more will not do any harm—and another one really would have done no harm; in fact, it might have done a good deal of good. I accept the proposal to set up this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " concerned about the terms of reference. The Minister will remember that during the Committee stage the Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) raised the question of miners' pensions, but he did not press his point very far. At the fourth sitting of the Committee, I brought forward a suggestion which had been handed to me by certain miners in South Wales. I had been down in South Wales myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not correct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "trict in South Wales there are a large number of men who were not compensated because of accidents but were kept at work on light occupations. Owing to the fact that the collieries have been taken over by other companies these men have been thrown on the scrap heap, and they have been told that they are not entitled to unemployment pay, and in many cases they have had to apply for Poor Law relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1145.5", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": "t make in Clause 1 of the Bill. I very much regret the halfhearted attitude which the Minister of Health adopted towards these proposals. It was a strange contradiction of the attitude adopted by the right hon. Gentleman opposite, who very generously commended the proposals under the Bill and referred in very glowing terms indeed to the success which the Act of Parliament has achieved in Scotland,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-12", "file": "debates1931-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "61836900d67f38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "ormation as to what the probable anticipated cost will be. On reflection, we shall all appreciate that it is necessary, in considering the merits of the Bill, to know what the Government contemplate, because here we have the Secretary of State commending this Bill, and the knowledge that he commends it disarms suspicion on all sides of the House. But we have his colleague who is absent here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-12a.1156.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " business in this country and in India. I have seen, and I have no doubt the Secretary of State for India has seen, because he and the President of the Board of Trade must be in daily touch both with Lancashire and India, many a letter coming to great houses in Manchester from merchants, dealers, agents in India showing day by day and week by week what is the effect on the trade position in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. Gentleman does not wish to be unfair, and he will allow me to point out that it was said specifically, with the approval of our leader, that we did not bring the question of tariffs into the discussion at all on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "hey do attempt, to produce the better quality goods, they will not be able to use Indian cotton and will have to go abroad for their cotton, as we have to go for our cotton. Consequently, they will not be in the specially favoured position that they are in to-day, taking the cotton of their own villages, ginning it, spinning it, and weaving it on the spot for the market which surrounds them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "only to consider the poverty of Indians, but the keenness of Japanese competition. That is a matter which the Lancashire trade will have to consider for itself, I hope with success. Therefore, it is shown that if discrimination between British and other foreign goods comes to an end, there is a fair field and no favour, or, rather a slight favour of 5 per cent. in favour of the Lancashire product.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1234.2", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "om a telegram which appeared in the \"Observer\" of Sunday, 3rd May. I will read the relevant words: Many who have formerly regarded Mr. Gandhi as a faddist now announce their conversion to the view that he is the shrewdest of all Indian Nationalists in selecting the point of attack. British commercial circles rather impatiently ask how Lancashire can hope to sell more cloth by Churchillian methods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "address ourselves to what is our duty in the face of it. We have not heard this afternoon, but perhaps we shall hear, of the extraordinary profits of these Indian mill-owners. I believe that no class of capitalists in the world, in this present year of disgrace, of economic misfortune, has made such vast profits. I was sent a whole list from Lancashire of the profits of some of these Indian mills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ". Consequently, the Moslem is a greater individual consumer of cotton cloth than the Hindu, and all this boycotting process is being conducted in the main by the Hindus. What are we to think of a proposal which places 70,000,000 Moslems where they will be bled and exploited and made to pay through the nose by this group of Hindu capitalists who are the chief subscribers to Mr. Gandhi's party fund?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "indu, and all this boycotting process is being conducted in the main by the Hindus. What are we to think of a proposal which places 70,000,000 Moslems where they will be bled and exploited and made to pay through the nose by this group of Hindu capitalists who are the chief subscribers to Mr. Gandhi's party fund? [ Interruption. ] May this not cause further ill-feeling between these two religions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "It is quite right for the hon. Member to make a clean breast of it. Just let us look into this argument, which I have heard used in other quarters besides the one I have mentioned. How can you pretend that this Indian boycott has any resemblance at all to the \"Buy British Goods\" campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ides the one I have mentioned. How can you pretend that this Indian boycott has any resemblance at all to the \"Buy British Goods\" campaign? [ Interruption. ] If a number of people in this country choose to band themselves together and to agitate to purchase British goods or Empire goods, there is no objection to that; but if they band themselves together to prevent the sale of foreign goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shoot them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rced in India, is most discreditable to those who do so. I really wonder that they can use such arguments. What ought we to do? I submit that the policy which is being pursued is injurious to the people of India and ruinous to the people of Lancashire, and that we are responsible until we hand over our responsibility. What ought we to do? I say that we should do our duty. We should proclaim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "it that the policy which is being pursued is injurious to the people of India and ruinous to the people of Lancashire, and that we are responsible until we hand over our responsibility. What ought we to do? I say that we should do our duty. We should proclaim—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Shoot them!\"] No, I did not say that. I will come to the shedding of blood and the responsibility of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "bitions and pedantries from which we are suffering, this long tangle of disingenuous formulas, have no reality except in our own minds. The problem would present no difficulties to any Frenchman, or any Dutchman, or any German, or any Italian, or any American, in dealing with a similar situation in one of their dependencies. We, in our helplessness and fatuity, are the laughing-stock of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " of the fruits of all that evil policy of seeking peace. You have sought it perhaps in your hearts, but by your actions you have produced misery such as India has not seen for half a century. All your arrangements are steadily on the way to magnify and multiply that misery in the future. This boycott is only one of the fruits. You have poisoned the relations between the Mohammedans and the Hindus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "have a Debate on the massacre at Cawnpore. The right hon. Gentleman gave assurances, I understand, which I am sure he will act up to, that not a moment is to be lost in presenting the House with the results of the Commission of Inquiry which is sitting there. I do not wish to anticipate that Debate, which certainly will deal with one of the gravest and most horrible events that have ever happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERS", "preceding_text": "nd an Indian Dhoti trade. The China trade went years ago. The Dhoti trade was dealt with more from Blackburn than from any other town. During the last seven weeks there has been a progressive improvement in the number of employed. If I take the case of Bolton, which I have the honour to represent—and I want the Committee to understand that I am not the man who makes certain statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERS", "preceding_text": " India has decreased. The point I wish to make is that we in Lancashire are developing an inferiority complex. As a matter of fact, we are beginning to boast that ours is the most depressed area. Other people are taking us at our own valuation. We want more courage, more initiative and more vitality. These discussions are driving new capital out of Lancashire. We are frightening the investor away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1265.0", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "preceding_text": "n behalf of the Government brought this obligation to the notice of the Government of India, or do we so lightly treat our international obligations that he regarded them as mere verbiage? It must be made perfectly clear in any future constitution for India or any other Dominion that this obligation shall be incorporated in that constitution. The right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Query!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "n and sympathy, about the condition of the people in India. We had later on the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill)—in my opinion an inflammatory and mischievous speech. I only hope that, although it was received with cheers, it represents no substantial body of opinion in the House. I am sure it would not be welcomed by any European association in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "a is not one people. It is a ramping, raging mess-up of climates and nationalities and faiths and races. You might just as well call the zoological gardens England. The second undoubted fact about India is this, that no country so riven with discord and so backward in culture is entitled to govern itself yet. It is our purpose on this side of the House to see that India in the end governs herself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1303.0", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander O. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hong Kong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander O. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "believe was married at the age of 12 or 13. Child marriages were contracted at an earlier age still before we arrived upon the scene and started reform. It is not for me to urge the claims doctrinally of religion. Let us leave out of the question all the dogmas of Catholics or Protestants and Nonconformists. The fact still remains that a Christian spirit has worked through our Government in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "I know that, and we all know that he has declared against untouchability. But he has never done anything in the whole of his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1324.0", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "I want to direct the attention of the right hon. Gentleman to paragraph 7.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1326.3", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "I am trying to answer the questions which the right hon. Gentleman has put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "I am voicing the opinion of almost every hon. Member on this side of the Committee when I say that the Secretary of State has made no attempt whatever to answer the grave questions which have been raised during the Debate. The right hon. Member for Hendon (Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister) put to him very important questions which he has not had the courtesy to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ons which he has not had the courtesy to answer—[ Interruption. ] My right hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) addressed quite a number of questions to him, which again he has not answered, and the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Ken-worthy) received only half an answer to a very important question which he addressed to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member, apparently, is easily satisfied, and he is definitely getting nearer and nearer to his main desire and objective—the Treasury bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member, apparently, is easily satisfied, and he is definitely getting nearer and nearer to his main desire and objective—the Treasury bench—[ Interruption. ] There is one very important question which the Secretary of State for India has not answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1328.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Are we to have noanswer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Are we to have noanswer? [ Interruption. ] The Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Are we to have noanswer? [ Interruption. ] The Secretary of State—[ Interruption. ] Do hon. Members really think that they benefit their case by interruption? Do they think they can silence debate by vulgar clamour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1330.2", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "\"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1330.2", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "\"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.\" [ Interruption. ] I must warn the Secretary of State that this habit which he has resorted to, of trying to stave off debate by a lot of trifling details, while all the time grave action is going on outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-13", "file": "debates1931-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a46add93a90db70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1330.2", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "\"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.\" [ Interruption. ] I must warn the Secretary of State that this habit which he has resorted to, of trying to stave off debate by a lot of trifling details, while all the time grave action is going on outside—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members laugh, but why do they laugh?—the crackling of thorns under a pot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-13a.1330.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-14", "file": "debates1931-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "7420ea33bf8f4dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-14a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Is not the Financial Secretary to the Treasury aware that the President of the Board of Trade, acting for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told us definitely in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-14a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-14", "file": "debates1931-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "7420ea33bf8f4dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-14a.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "I was not attempting to make a speech. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury has made a definite statement of fact, and I am asking him whether he was aware that the President of the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-14a.1362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-14", "file": "debates1931-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "7420ea33bf8f4dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-14a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": ", is that the report does not show that there is anything wrong with airships as such. It points out the difficulties and the various causes of this disaster, but the various causes of the disaster are, should we wish to make experiments, susceptible of being overcome. The report shows again, if I read it aright, that there is nothing inherently wrong either with the material of the airship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-14a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-14", "file": "debates1931-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "7420ea33bf8f4dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-14a.1453.2", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WELLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For starting the engines.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WELLS", "preceding_text": "eard Major Scott say that on many occasions. The advantages of heavy oil are that it costs £5 per ton against £25 for petrol, is safe from fire, and gives an increased range of 30 per cent. It has been said in the House that heavy oil is not safe in case of fire, because of what happened in this disaster, but I believe, in fact I am perfectly sure, there was petrol on board this airship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-14a.1453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-15", "file": "debates1931-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "226a66da3e6c31c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1495.2", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Viant)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Viant)", "preceding_text": " asking the House to grant this sum, that we should be able to inform the House that we have good reasons for asking for this sum, and we do so knowing that, should we need more, we can again come to the House and ask for a further sum. We are optimistic in this sense, that during the past three years, in spite of trade depression, we have put on 110,000 new subscribers in each of the three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-15", "file": "debates1931-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "226a66da3e6c31c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "I am speaking only of countries which have a substantial population. We have to bear in mind certain facts in connection with our own telephones. We have an exceedingly good postal service in this country. We can post a letter here in London early in the evening, and that letter is received in Ireland or far beyond the Tweed the next morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-15", "file": "debates1931-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "226a66da3e6c31c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "n post a letter here in London early in the evening, and that letter is received in Ireland or far beyond the Tweed the next morning. [ Interruption .] I am not speaking of the more remote parts, but it is no mean achievement that you should be able to post a letter here early in the evening and know that your friends will receive that letter without a shadow of doubt the next morning in Aberdeen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-15", "file": "debates1931-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "226a66da3e6c31c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1513.4", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "I am asking a legitimate question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-15", "file": "debates1931-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "226a66da3e6c31c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member wants instances, he will find them in the case of the Newcastle telephone exchange and the Manchester telephone system; he will find quite a lot of correspondence with regard to both those places. But you cannot do a thing like this by spasmodic action. The question ought to have been dealt with in the first town planning Bill that was introduced, and that was before the war", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-15", "file": "debates1931-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "226a66da3e6c31c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " no telephone exchange pays unless there are 50 subscribers. We have 3,361 rural telephone exchanges, and of those 2,538 have less than 50 subscribers. Every one of those exchanges is being run at a loss, and a wholly unnecessary loss, as I maintain, because if the local inhabitants had been allowed to put up their own telephones, they could have done it very much more cheaply than the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-15", "file": "debates1931-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "226a66da3e6c31c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. RILEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. RILEY", "preceding_text": "gest to the Postmaster-General that more attention should be paid to it. It is a very wide service and offers a great many advantages. It can be used for almost the minutest object that comes within the rules, as well as the largest object, and I believe the Post Office would accept anything for delivery including a person, a lap dog or even an elephant if it comes within the conditions laid down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-15", "file": "debates1931-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "226a66da3e6c31c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1543.4", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "s money, or the spending of large sums of money, if we were certain that it was going to be properly applied to the development of our telephone system, but what we do not want to see Is money being wasted on new buildings as it was in the case of the new Sheffield Exchange, where £17,000 was paid for a site in a main street when the exchange might equally well have been put in a side street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-15a.1543.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1572.0", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Are we not withholding any Debate upon this subject because we are waiting for this report, and, if the right hon. Gentleman throws doubt upon the date upon which we may get the report, or indicates that it may take a very long time, will not that be a reason for making it necessary, perhaps, to bring on the matter before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1571.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1626.2", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you getting for it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1626.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1627.6", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ry on a natural and mutually beneficial trade, but to have in her hands the instrument of revolution, and to use the resources she has produced to wreck this market or that market or the other. To-day it is the corn market of the world, with consequent distress in the Balkan countries, where the great mass of the people are entirely dependent upon their crops for their welfare and their existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1627.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1627.6", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ced to wreck this market or that market or the other. To-day it is the corn market of the world, with consequent distress in the Balkan countries, where the great mass of the people are entirely dependent upon their crops for their welfare and their existence. [ Laughter .] Hon. Gentlemen laugh as if they supposed that I attributed all the troubles in the corn market of the world to Soviet Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1627.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1629.0", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "good deal of amazement to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman. He ought to have done two things before he decided to make himself responsible for this Debate. He ought, first, to have reminded himself of his own past, and then he should have equipped himself with some new facts. What single point, specifically stated, has he made against the Soviet Government? What single complaint has he made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "xpert fishers in troubled waters, and India at the present moment undoubtedly gives them a certain opportunity. But here again let us be realists. There is a great deal of excitement in India. I am glad to see the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) in his place. India is in a very unsettled condition, and that excitement may be increased by \"Pravda\" articles and propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Then I am in the same position as my right hon. Friend the Member for West Birmingham, but I wish to keep in your hands, Mr. Dunnico, very closely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "uation in India would not be improved; it would not be imprived in China; it would not be improved here; it would not be improved in any part of the world where we have interests and where at the moment we are facing unsettlement. Is there any hope in a position being created such as that after the Arcos raid? We say there is decidedly no hope whatever, and, being realists, and facing facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1638.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1652.4", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did you mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "I do not accuse, directly or indirectly, hon. Members opposite of lying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1652.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1653.2", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "Of course, I withdraw. I have not accused, neither do I now accuse, any hon. Members opposite of deliberately lying or of saying what they believe to be untrue, hut I am going to say, and I am going to say it as emphatically as I can, and with deliberation, that lies have been told about Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1653.6", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": ". I would remind hon. Members that a responsible Government Department, Scotland Yard, forged the whole newspaper, \"Pravda.\" Let us not be too squeamish. I am reminding hon. Members that Scotland Yard forged \"Pravda.\" They imported the type and included in the forged edition of \"Pravda\" all kinds of lies, and they nearly got away with it. They printed it, they forged it, but they made one mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1653.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Luton printers \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "ers opposite will get more than they want about \"Pravda.\" \"Pravda\" was forged, from the title to the headlines and everything by a responsible Government Department, and it was found out in a most peculiar way. There is a law that the printers must put their imprint, their name and address at the bottom of the last column. In this case the London printers who had printed the forged \"Pravda\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "he papers into big bundles and sent them in a British warship to Riga. The game was flourishing merrily and everything was going according to plan until two working compositors brought a forged \"Pravda \"into the office of the\" Daily Herald.\" The matter was brought up in this House, questions were asked and the result was that Sir Basil Thomson, the chief instigator of this business, had to retire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1654.4", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "rs opposite object. What of all the stories about the nationalisation of women. Was that propaganda built on the rock of truth, or was it sheer lies? What about the other fairy stories? What about the last story of the slave labour in the Arctic circle? The notable thing about the last lies is that they come from the most incompetent liars of this age. They do not understand the business of lying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1656.4", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "stand his trial in a criminal court because of that illegal war. He spent that money. Then there was the blockade, one of the most inhuman things in history, when we put a cordon round Russia and refused to allow anything to go over the boundaries, any medicines, or disinfectants—quite contrary to the Geneva Convention. It was one of the most damnable, diabolical, caddish, inexcusable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1656.4", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "ite contrary to the Geneva Convention. It was one of the most damnable, diabolical, caddish, inexcusable—[ Interruption .]—things to do. I tell you what it is, I know nothing more callous. When that blockade was carried out Russian mothers watched their kiddies die before their eyes. They could get no medicines, and in the hospitals operations were carried out without any anaesthetics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "That was a tragic occurrence. Russia committed the indiscretion of telling the world what the last war was fought for, and if there is any person who will apologise for the secret Treaties, then, believe me, they have some courage. The next thing they did was to take away the land from the landlords. That was the sin against the Holy Ghost. That is why hon. Members opposite dislike Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1660.3", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "empts to throw the whole country into a state of revolutionary disorder. There is this difference, I may point out, between the kind of speech which I make to one set of people and the kind of Communist propaganda handed out to another. But the people who are angered by the speeches which I make are the enemies of this country, and those who are angered by the Communist propaganda are its friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1661.4", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "debate this matter without individual Members jumping up here and there and taking points of Order which they well know are an abuse of the rule which entitles a Member to interrupt a speech. But let me say, since the Prime Minister has referred to me so pointedly, and I think wrongfully, that I am not at all prepared to accept from him guidance in public matters as to what is right and patriotic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who is a very perfervid partisan, and very properly, of his leaders, must recognise that in all these questions it may be asked, who began it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It was after the War.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "But you said it was wrong to interfere in other countries affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1675.3", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "lions of voters, who voted for my hon. Friends, and the somewhat smaller hut still substantial number of millions who voted for the Liberal candidates, voted with a clear knowledge that this would be done. In due course it was done and approved by a substantial majority of this House. Nor, if a straight vote could be taken now, is there any reason to suppose that this House would vote differently?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "to remember that during this period prices had fallen, and consequently the increase in trade was larger than would be supposed by merely looking at the plain figures expressed in sterling. This is an increase which is traceable, in large measure, to the steps taken by the present Government to resume relations and judiciously to extend export credits to British producers engaged in Russian trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1687.5", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral BEAMISH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral BEAMISH", "preceding_text": ", and the stuff out of the pipes floats up and down as the tide turne, and runs out and in as the case may be, the result being that the whole of the river from Teddington Lock to the mouth is to be still further polluted. We see the effluent, dirty and murky, floating past the Embankment of this House, and it is not right for it to pass the Embankment in that condition and it ought to be cleaned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1687.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK SMITH", "preceding_text": "I beg to Second the Amendment. Like the hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) I feel considerable difficulty in dealing with a single issue when the Bill has not been debated as a whole. One of the curious features about the Bill is that it has never been before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. KNIGHT rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "preceding_text": " years have proved so eminently successful. This communication is signed by a large number of officers, soldiers in the Army, from the highest to the humblest rank. We have been told that every effort has been made to secure adherence to the proposals of this Bill. I want to say that if efforts have been made to secure adherence efforts have been made also to suppress the expression of objections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "preceding_text": "r views at Westminster in opposition to the Bill. What is the answer? The answer of General Higgins to that inquiry from a loyal officer, loyal to the Army to the core, is this: It would be contrary to all known principles of Salvation Army Government for you to oppose what the Army is now trying to accomplish. Perhaps those who said \"No\" will have reason now to realise that there is another side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruptio", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "preceding_text": "spirit of the Salvation Army know that an expressed wish is an order—but it goes on to say: You will realise that this must be done without fail on Monday, and your letter should be addressed to the House of Commons, Westminster, and should be worded as follows. Here is the letter which hon. Members of this House received, and which they thought was a spontaneous expression of opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "preceding_text": "ish is an order—but it goes on to say: You will realise that this must be done without fail on Monday, and your letter should be addressed to the House of Commons, Westminster, and should be worded as follows. Here is the letter which hon. Members of this House received, and which they thought was a spontaneous expression of opinion—[ Interruptio ]—but which was engineered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1724.0", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "They did not do it!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. SMITH", "preceding_text": "— that is not from the constituents, but from the officer in charge— expressing their desire that you should support the Army Bill as drawn. Yours truly \"— and then it says: Sign, giving your title. This was issued by the divisional commander from Nottingham, and the officer who sent me a copy of it puts these words at the bottom: Salvation officers have no choice in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "t the real feeling of those who are held to have given expression to it. I second the rejection of this Bill on the ground, which among others has been referred to by my hon. and learned Friend, that it is unnecessary, and I ask the House, ought this House to agree to its machinery being used where it is unnecessary? This Bill is unnecessary because what it asks for can be done without Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1731.0", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ion Army to the man whose name was in that envelope. I should think he did so and that General Higgins or whoever is head of the Salvation Army could do the same thing. I am speaking not as a lawyer but as a layman, and I believe that the general who puts the name in the envelope can, at the same time put in a will transferring the whole of the property to the person whose name is in the envelope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-18", "file": "debates1931-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "68fe2d5a28a6690c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1731.0", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALVATION ARMY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "k he did so and that General Higgins or whoever is head of the Salvation Army could do the same thing. I am speaking not as a lawyer but as a layman, and I believe that the general who puts the name in the envelope can, at the same time put in a will transferring the whole of the property to the person whose name is in the envelope. [ Interruption .] Of course no one knows what he might have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-18a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1745.4", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman going himself, and has he still the same enthusiasm for Empire as when he took coal over?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1747.7", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say into which category this country falls?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1747.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1785.5", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "HOSPITAL LOTTERIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "stake there was a total sum raised from the pockets of the purchasers of £798,433, of which £249,000 went in expenses, organisation and the selling of tickets and £417,000 went in prizes. Out of the sum of £798,433, the hospitals took £131,671. In other words, out of each 1s. raised ostensibly to help the sick, maimed and weak, 2d. went to the avowed purpose of the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1785.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "thrift in freehold property. Only yesterday morning I received a letter from one of my constituents, not personally known to me, which bears so directly upon this subject that I hope the House will allow me to read one or two sentences from it. This lady writes to me: Sir,— Re Land Taxes. I venture to write and ask you if you will kindly put forward the case of a poor spinster, alone\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1807.3", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "at they have not the courage to say so. Why is it that we have not heard about nationalisation of the land at the many recent by-elections? Why is it never mentioned in the innumerable letters which the Prime Minister writes to his supporters in the constituency? I almost see the perspiration pouring off Members in their vain efforts to stir up an agitation in the country about the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1807.3", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "more of the nation's money than we are receiving. Never mind, we are borrowing the difference, so that your children will pay instead of you.\" Let them say: \"We are going to help to pay for our extravagance by squeezing a few professional men who have not many votes and cannot defend themselves, but we are going religiously to preserve from taxation all those upon whose votes we ourselves depend.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1815.0", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "May I ask —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1815.3", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "I rise to ask a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1815.8", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "though each one of those units may have to be valued unless they happen to be under a lease the term of which was over 50 years originally, and the term is still running. What will be the extent of that land, I do not know. All the land units under Sub-section (3) of Clause 20, which exempts from the tax persons whose total capital value of land is only £120, are also exempted from valuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1815.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1825.0", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 'Daily Herald.' \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "n 1930, and the provision which is included in this year's Budget is of the order of £30,000,000. 6.0. p.m. The right hon. Gentleman demands in powerful terms across the Floor of the House information as to what we intend to do with this great problem in our midst. A Royal Commission is sitting on the whole question of unemployment insurance, and no one knows what that Commission will report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "f their estate. They have marked down areas which are intended to remain as open spaces, and in some eases vacant plots of land for purposes of churches and chapels. They have spent to my certain knowledge large sums for the purpose of making roads and sewers, all in the course of estate development. I am not suggesting for a moment that it is not done as a commercial proposition; of course it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1845.0", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "eman has called a redistribution of an existing charge, that is rates, and the present Bill is dealing with a new tax, with the possibility, as has been stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of changing it into a rating proposal at a later date, the two Bills are in principal identical—except, I agree, in one small detail, and that is the question of the cutting out of all improvements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1845.0", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e not been split up. The case which the right hon. Member for Edgbaston put was the case of an estate which has been split up and sold off in plots for houses. In that case several different sets of conditions may prevail. First of all the roads may not be part of the land units at all, and therefore they could not possibly come into the valuation, whether they were left out by words or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1845.0", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "refore, I am sure he will not expect me to deal with his particular instances if I deal with the more general points he put forward. I have dealt already with his first point, as to owners' improvements, because that really concerns roads only. There is no other type of owners' improvement that will be included within the ambit of the valuation, leaving aside such things as drainage and sea walls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1845.0", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "oads only. There is no other type of owners' improvement that will be included within the ambit of the valuation, leaving aside such things as drainage and sea walls. [ Interruption .] As regards the second point he made, he stated that in his view the tax would fall on thousands of the thrifty poor. An argument of that sort is very much on a par with the argument that this is to attack the dukes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1866.3", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "ble him to convert Five per Cent. War stock to a lower rate. Financial conditions will be favourable during the year. Trade is bad and capital is seeking employment, but there is a lack of confidence. I have no desire to stress the point unduly or unfairly, but there has been a lack of confidence because the present Chancellor in his financial statement did not face the realities of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1880.3", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "upply of building land. I put out one danger signal about this talk of ribbon houses. It has become the fashion now to say, \"These ribbon houses are spoiling England.\" I want to know where our poor people are to be allowed to live. Are they only to live in the ghetto or are they to be allowed to live in the country? What is the objection to ribbon houses? It is that they are houses of poor people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1880.3", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is Addison?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " unit as compared with the proportion in the large case, that man will have to pay tax. He pays the tax simply because of the size of the unit. As a large unit will escape, there will be a tendency for large units to be created in order that they may escape, and we shall, without intending it, have encouraged the development of large farms, which is just the sort of thing we want to get away from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1880.3", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "hey get it—which will not include more than two-thirds of the agricultural land in that borough. Why? Because the Bill exempts all land owned by the municipality from valuation and from tax, and like a sensible authority they have nationalised—bought, paid for it, of course—about one-third of the agricultural land in that area. So that valuation will not be any good either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "That may be true, but, if the hon. and gallant Member will allow me to give a little private information, on the one occasion when I was out having some food I met him in the corridor; and, if he will allow me to go a little further into the privacies of private intercourse in this House, he was not discussing with me the financial crisis, but how I could improve my golf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "t of the unemployed? If it is the fault of anybody, it is the fault of the right hon. Gentleman sitting on the Front Bench who assured me with all that sure-as-death style that nobody can adopt better than he, when he was introducing his Unemployment Bill, that he had received sound advice from the experts that the numbers were going to be down to 600,000 within a few months, and that he was safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " enough, mean enough, difficult enough and sordid enough, without making it any worse, and when people, in whatever part of the House they sit, talk about making economies for the national purse at the expense of those people, they are recreating the spirit of Bumbledom, and they are still shocked that Oliver Twist should dare to ask for more. I am going to support the Second Beading of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "preceding_text": "e Exchequer vacates that place, it is extremely probable that another Free Trade Chancellor may fill that office. The Amendment represents the second thoughts of the Opposition. Their first thoughts were expressed by the right hon. Member for Edgbaston as being those of general relief. The first impression of the City was one of relief. Everybody was relieved. The Opposition are really ungrateful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEIF JONES", "preceding_text": "han they have ever been. I have lived a long time and seen many changes, and I say the working classes are better off to-day than they have ever been be- fore. While there is much more that we have to do, do not let hon. Members under-value what has been done, and do not let them undervalue the suffering that will be inflicted on the working classes if there is a breakdown of the financial system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1921.0", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Opposition!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "ploded the idea that it was the valuation alone that cost £5,000,000 last time. He explained that something like £2,000,000 was really the cost of the valuation and that the other £3,000,000 was due to extraneous circumstances. The Debate to-day has ranged over a large number of subjects. We have had a considerable amount of desultory criticism from the Opposition above the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1921.0", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": " to be a protective tariff.\" I shall have something to say later in relation to that panacea and the solicitude which they profess to show for certain persons and institutions under the Land Tax proposals. I would say this to them now; that by nailing the tariff colours to their mast they are abandoning any hope of obtaining the support of the bulk of the Liberal party to vote down the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "refully considered in regard to its implications by the Members of the Government responsible for it and there is no shred of an excuse for seeking to put responsibility on those who have drafted the Bill for us. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have shown great solicitude for charitable institutions and have expressed the desire that no additional burdens of any kind should be put upon those institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-19", "file": "debates1931-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "e292bb87a21ab854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1933.0", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And yesterday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "her to the right nor to the left, and I shall not swerve now. Pacts, alliances, understandings with other parties make no appeal to me. In my first speech, after my return to British politics I said in a democracy the best tactics are no tactics. Say what you mean, mean what you say, go straight to your object. There is no other sound rule in politics. At any rate to-day he is taking a firm stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-19a.1933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.1978.5", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "us and inconvenient delays are to be avoided. As regards the business when we resume, it will be as follows: Tuesday, 2nd June: The Allotted Day for the Third Reading of the Representation of the People (No. 2) Bill. Wednesday, 3rd June: Supply—10th Allotted Day. The Vote will be announced later. Thursday, 4th June: A Motion setting up a Time Table for the further stages of the Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.1978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2003.0", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stillbirth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHAN", "preceding_text": "o-day are administrative, business, practical questions, where the one thing to be sought is efficiency, and there is a growing belief that democratic institutions and efficiency cannot go together. You find that belief in many parts of the Continent. You find it in Hitlerism and in Fascism, and, I think, you find it in the New party which has recently come to birth on the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2010.3", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "What is the Bill for but to give two votes to the Liberal party because it cannot get into Parliament without them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2010.3", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "What is the Bill for but to give two votes to the Liberal party because it cannot get into Parliament without them? [ Interruption .] I am glad to see that the right hon. Gentleman at last understands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2010.3", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "head? Cannot they have a little imagination? Do they suppose that, if university representation remains, with this new influx of life from new quarters, the party representation of the universities will always remain the same? Do they not see that they are taking that representation away just at the time when it is beginning to come within their reach to acquire that representation for themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2018.0", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have—the Chancellor of the Exchequer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "eir heads. But there are other people in it. If this House is to be the mirror of the nation, I can see us having—I am not certain whether it has not already been said to have had them in 1918—the profiteering class represented. It is not for me to make that suggestion now. We might also, since it has been represented as the mirror of the nation, have the burglar class represented too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2018.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2033.0", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "and knowledge and interest, or, what is really the subject of this new Clause, whether there should be additional votes given to certain favoured or selected individuals. Those are two entirely separate problems. The first, that of special representation, we have already decided by the Government's acceptance of a decision that the universities are to have representation. That is an accepted fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The School Attendance Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVANS", "preceding_text": "nation and that if this House deprives the universities of their special privileges, it will be administering a rebuff to a large number of people who are desirous of seeing educational facilities increased. There are enthusiastic men and women up and down the country who spend hours and days and weeks of their lives in trying to extend facilities for education for all the children of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2037.2", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "at has concerned the highest interests of the country. As the son of another university, I would agree with that, but I say that equally it is true of the agricultural labourers of the country. They have for more than 1,000 years been bound up with the highest interests of the country. If we are to have special representation because people confer benefits, we cannot limit it to these two classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2040.1", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "give a second vote to the man who sits in the principal chair in an office in the City, you ought to give a second vote to his typist. She not only puts the letters right, but my typist writes a good many of my letters for me, and the most successful ones at that, and I think the same is true of a good many business men. We are being asked here to preserve two interests that in the main vote Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2046.7", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " many advantages in the political system which do not depend upon logic for their attractiveness or usefulness. That is really the point of view from which hon. Members opposite ought to approach this question of the university vote. Let us get rid of the idea of the supposed disadvantage to the working class, which I have tried to show is not in question here. Let us get rid of any idea of logic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2046.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": " to consider that the State is some amorphous body with an inexhaustible purse from which inexhaustible supplies of money for their necessities can be drawn. The State consists of their fellow men and women, and the persons from whom they are drawing the necessities for which, through misfortune, they have to come to the State, have to provide those necessities by their hard work and their brains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2052.0", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ney, they have no right to interfere in the spending of them. Yet they, who say that the manual or industrial worker has no right to interfere in their universities, claim special rights to interfere with other people's affairs. It may be said that we are actuated by class motives. But what about the business people and university people who vote Tory? That is why we intend to take this vote away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2056.0", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "preceding_text": "The only reply I shall make to the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) is that, on rising he said he was only going to ask a short question of the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and this led us immediately to the soap-box, an attitude in which I admire the hon. Member, for there is no brain in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "sentative has had a training which has better fitted him to deal with our problems. If we are to abandon logic and fall upon experience, again, unfortunately we have empty hands. I think the university Members themselves would be prepared to admit that there is one of the university Members who stands out, intellectually, shoulder high above them all, but only one, and how often is he here?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2102.0", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSS", "preceding_text": " but I am afraid I cannot go so far. After all, what did she say that has offended the hon. Member? As far as I understood it, what she said was that she had inquired into the matter, and had found that in every constituency the working class was in the majority. Does the hon. Member resent that, or is it because he finds, to his disappointment, that that class does not always vote for such as he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2112.1", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hat the. English people have such power of working even the impossibly bad system that the Alternative Vote does not do very much harm in politics after all. That is the only justification to be found for the Alternative Vote. At this moment, when all our energies ought to be bent to ensure that future Parliaments and future Governments shall represent, not any dull average level of opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2112.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-20", "file": "debates1931-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "d48d2527b65dc2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2126.0", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the Labour Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "n. I will given an instance which happened to me last week. Someone rang me up at half-past ten, and, as a result of a telephone message, they wrote a letter which came through the post and was delivered in another part of London to my house by the one o'clock postal delivery. I think that that is astounding, but I wish it were true of other parts of the country. It is not true by a very long way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-20a.2126.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2208.0", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ommittee. I have no pecuniary interest in the firms in my constituency which are engaged in Anglo-Russian trade, and my motives in this matter are entirely the service of the constituency that I represent. For many years prior to the War a great export trade with Russia was done in my constituency, and I ask you, Mr. Speaker, in these circumstances, to give to me such protection as you can afford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2207.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2236.0", "colnum": "2236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTE", "preceding_text": "ltural districts. They know that as a rule the agricultural worker is a Conservative, and therefore they are determined to make it as difficult as possible for him to get to the poll. Their one object in the Bill is not to bring any fairness into our elections, but to make them as inconvenient as possible. The Solicitor-General sat there sneering and grinning while the hon. Gentleman was speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2236.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2267.0", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Trade Disputes Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": " principle, and that it may be made to work both ways. At some future time some high-spirited Members on these benches, who may then be sitting on the opposite side of the House, will urge Measures of a similar character to this directed against the other side, and though, of course, the Conservative party as a whole would never agree to them, it is a principle that can be made to apply both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2267.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2281.1", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "I did not really expect the hon. Member to know anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2281.1", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "2;and we must all admit, because it is not a party question, that there is a distinct difference between agricultural and urban districts. I would make everyone who lives in a town or city who has two legs and is fit walk to the poll. We pamper people too much these days. I do not see any reason why people should expect, when they go to vote, to get a ride in a car. After all the vote costs a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2281.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2326.0", "colnum": "2326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And above!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "ly consistent is the support which they have received from certain right hon. and hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway. In view of that fact, it would have been extremely ungrateful on the part of the Home Secretary to have refused the request of the right hon. Member for North Cornwall. The effect of the Amendment is to make it easier for certain hon. and right hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2332.0", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "May I put a question which in all seriousness the House ought to consider? I have been looking at the maps of some constituencies which may illustrate the question as given in the Report of the Boundary Commission in 1917–18. Take my own constituency as an illustration, although it is not an illustration in an extreme form. It includes in its boundary two very large areas of water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2355.5", "colnum": "2355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "money over to them, and I could not go to my constituents and say that I voted for handing over money to the most incompetent individuals who ever sat on the Front Bench. Not one of them would expect me to do a thing like that, and if I said that they were competent to look after half a crown, they would doubt my word. I do not want the kind of woolly speeches that we had on Friday and last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2364.5", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were a bookmaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " always deprecate running down anything that belongs to this country simply for the sake of doing so. I will not say our system is extraordinarily good, because it is not. It is a useful, though from time to time a most irritating, system but, generally speaking, there is very little difference between this and other countries. For 21 years I did all my business through the longdistance telephone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2364.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2366.4", "colnum": "2366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "every Clause and in nearly every Subsection of the Bill. It says: The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund. The Treasury may, if they think fit. The Treasury may also, if they think fit. The Treasury is mainly responsible for securing and handing over the money to the Post Office, and I desire to protest, because there is not a member of the Treasury present on the Front Bench opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2371.0", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "o believing his statements. That brings me to the third reason why the Act has not been as successful in England as we would have liked. Everybody knows that Labour Members of district and county councils have done their best in many cases to prevent the Act working. They have done so, quite sincerely, because they believed in the words of the Minister of Health, that this was a dole to landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2375.0", "colnum": "2375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "lly useful Act for the benefit of the country workers in England as well as in Scotland. In order to give the Minister of Health that opportunity, which I think he ought to accept in view of the criticisms he passed on this Act in its early stages, I wish to move the adjournment of the Debate. If he is prepared to get up and say that he was at one time under a misapprehension about this Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2379.2", "colnum": "2379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to incur your displeasure, Mr. Speaker, but I must point out that we have been subjected to a very strong attack by the right hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-21", "file": "debates1931-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "5e6131394e511c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2379.6", "colnum": "2379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ly called for, it would not have been necessary for the House to have been delayed for half-an-hour, nor would the right hon. Member for Fareham (Sir T. Inskip) have sought to move the adjournment of the Debate. I only wish to say that this is an excellent Bill and that the Minister would have shown more political courage if he had admitted it. He dare not abandon the Bill, because he knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-21a.2379.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2436.1", "colnum": "2436", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "I do not think that hon. Members can complain about not having assistance to carry a Measure when they have not attempted to bring it forward. We do not even know what the policy of the Government is. If the Government will produce a policy which is going to help farmers to pay good wages to their men, we will help to carry it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2446.3", "colnum": "2446", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRANVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And opposed by the Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRANVILLE", "preceding_text": " constituencies where the Anglo-Dutch factories are operating it has been impossible for some farmers to renew their contracts, and they are left in the air. It is a matter which the Minister and the House ought to deal with, to enable these people to continue something which was initiated, I believe, by the party opposite and was followed by the Conservative Government when they came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2460.3", "colnum": "2460", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "it there already. When the noble Lord was talking his noble rage called to my mind that verse which says: I envy not in any moods, The captive void of noble age, The linnet born within the cage That never knew the summer woods. I thought of the Conservative linnet. There it was for four and a half years with the cage door wide open, and all these fundamental matters were in the woods all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2461.2", "colnum": "2461", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "I do not suggest that the noble lord and his friends are not entitled to credit for it, I only say they did not invent the idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2461.4", "colnum": "2461", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think it was quite so; some were for the rooks and some were for the rabbits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2461.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2463.0", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is that the same with co-operative bakeries?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "d flour prices for 1930, compared with the same figures for 1913, show that the public were, in the later year, paying on an average 2½d. more for the quartern loaf. We know that the modern housewife likes to have bread delivered to her door, and wrapped in paper, and all that kind of thing, but these factors do not make that amount of difference. The bakers' labour costs were about the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2462.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2464.3", "colnum": "2464", "heading": "TITHE RENTCHAUGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": " an increase in wages of 430 per cent., and there has been a fall in prices of 30 per cent. The whole ground upon which the legislation was passed and administered has been vitiated by the changes which have taken place. I know-it was said in the Acts that tithe rent-charge was to \"issue out of the land\". In the county of Kent now, and in East Anglia, the county courts are literally crowded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2472.4", "colnum": "2472", "heading": "TITHE RENTCHAUGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MIDDLETON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MIDDLETON", "preceding_text": "e before, and the House if ever it tackles the question of revising the formula will have to take into account, amongst other things, the claim of the clergy. I want to remove, if I can, the impression that the Church is some great monster which is going about trying to devour the people who have to pay tithes and to say that the people against whom any complaint must lie are the underpaid clergy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2472.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-05-22", "file": "debates1931-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "b7aebfa3542272f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2476.1", "colnum": "2476", "heading": "WEST INDIES.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "e British Government have appointed committees and commissions to inquire into everything from live beasts to dead mice, and surely they can appoint a Parliamentary Commission to go out and see, first, whether we are fit for government, and, secondly, whether they can do something to redress our grievances.\" I apologise for having dealt with a matter which is of no interest to the House of Commons", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-05-22a.2476.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What section?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "That matter, of course, lies with the Opposition, or one section of the Opposition as regards putting down the Board of Trade Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.8.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.13.8", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REPEESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read it now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "If it be the wish of the House, I certainly will, but might I suggest that I could hand the list to the hon. and gallant Member?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.13.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I cannot say, and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "f vehicles at Parliamentary elections; and, indeed, this latter change was made by the House in accordance with almost unanimous opinions expressed in the course of our Debates. Therefore, after the long discussions that have taken place on the Bill, it is difficult at this stage to find anything new to say about it. I submit its principles as being in keeping with the wishes of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "e for its Third Reading. As a believer in democracy and in the equalising of opportunities, I count myself fortunate to be in charge of a Bill which, as far as the franchise is concerned, is the culmination of a century of effort and, as regards other matters dealt with in the Bill, is a great step forward in the direction of the levelling up of opportunities between candidate and candidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why worry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "incing energy, determination and strength, but nevertheless futile, started too late to stave off the inevitable defeat, and bound to lead to utter failure without achieving anything. I would ask hon. Members below the Gangway to look into their hearts and ask themselves: are they not afraid that my words are true and that their last great effort is unlikely to be followed by such an effort again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": " the country. We are passing through an economic crisis perhaps unparalleled in our history but certainly unparalleled for a century. This is the time His Majesty's Government choose to introduce an electoral reform Bill which reforms nothing, which is not wanted, and was not asked for by the country, which has occupied a great deal of time, and which has roused party feeling to the boiling point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "use it, if they wish to use it. The suggestion that there is any compulsion upon electors who may not agree with either of the first two candidates, to transfer their votes is absurd. There is no such compulsion. They need not vote for either of the other two candidates if they do not wish to do so. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping is to take part in this Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "reak down under that stress. I would counsel hon. Members opposite not to be too enthusiastic in the search for a perfect mechanism. The Germans made that mistake. Their minds are far better trained for that kind of scientific research than ours, and they produced a scheme which every German will say, though mathematically perfect, has resulted in almost destroying the German Parliamentary system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "more is this true when such enormous masses of voters are attached to no particular party, and when vast numbers of electors take little or no interest in public affairs, when they have to be almost dragged out of their houses to poll, when millions of people treat the whole process on which the Government of the country rests with indifference or, again, may vote on some sudden wave of prejudice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.105.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "himself in only a small way. In making a speech against the Bill I recall that the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) talked as if the Bill were the baby of the Liberal party, which in fact it is. We have all along realised that the present Government never wanted the Bill and would not have introduced it had it not been that there was an underhand arrangement between the two parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "l party and the Government and therefore one cannot be surprised that a Liberal speaker should have blessed this Measure far more than any Member of the Government has done up to the present—and far more than any Member of the Government is likely to do. We have to remember that although the Socialist party may be defeated at the next Election, they will come back again at a future Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "I know a great deal about the position of London vis à vis the rest of the world. I think the question of motor cars is put on an absurd basis. I do not think it is workable. There may have been a certain amount of hardship in some constituencies with regard to motor cars, but I do not think it was sufficient to worry the House of Commons with. Some of us have possibly profited by motor cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption ,", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "preceding_text": "ot taken his bachelor's degree, can vote as though he had got his bachelor's degree. The vote has also been conceded to the ladies, who have to pass the final examination before they are given a B.A. It is the passing of the final examination which gives the vote, and not the possession of a degree. Hon. Members opposite have to be instructed about that, as they have to be instructed in many ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. B. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Oman), who has referred to this Bill as being criminal—I am not inclined to think it is so much a crime as it is to make a poor woman with a small family have to push a perambulator two or three miles in order to record her vote. As a plain blunt man from the country who endeavours to speak what he thinks is right, I think that we hear a good deal of piffle to-day in regard to these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-02", "file": "debates1931-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "381ea4c71cecbc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Short)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Short)", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman and his friends to find themselves in this House as a Government with a majority of 200 but with a minority of supporters amongst the electors, satisfies the aspirations of Toryism, but it cannot be regarded as otherwise than subversive of the true principles of democracy. The right hon. Member for Bewdley (Mr. S. Baldwin) who has just been compelled to leave the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-02a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-03", "file": "debates1931-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "5e0897b4d996a825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ernment after Government, you are driving those men away to other occupations. I have at the present moment on my table at home, applications from 17 young fishermen in my own constituency who say that no longer can they follow the occupation of their fathers, and that they desire to get something to do in the outside world. It is false economy to attempt to economise in, an industry of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-03", "file": "debates1931-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "5e0897b4d996a825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Liberal Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "o the Moray Firth, and its power to legislate with regard to trawling in that part of the country, and they laid it down as Scottish law, from which there could be no appeal to the House of Lords, that no trawler had the right to go there and create damage within the three-mile limit. What happened? The Government of the day took the law into their own hands, over-riding the law of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-03", "file": "debates1931-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "5e0897b4d996a825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " from Grimsby or Hull, the two pirate ports, choose to go to those places, what happens? They are not taken in and fined and cheerfully pay £100, and then show defiance by blowing their whistles as they do when leaving our courts, because they have caught £1,000 worth of fish. In Iceland and Denmark they seize the boat for 12 months and put the captain into gaol and fine him £2,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-03", "file": "debates1931-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "5e0897b4d996a825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Scotland for whisky?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "rdeen haddock—is one of the finest to be had. It is splendid. I have been talking about a practice that has sprung up south of the border, the result of which is that an Englishman who buys a kipper gets one of these dyed kippers, which have a musty flavour, and he says, \"Do not order kippers again.\" The genuine oak-smoked kipper suffers in consequence, and is being driven out of the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-03", "file": "debates1931-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "5e0897b4d996a825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Westwood)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have plenty of time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Westwood)", "preceding_text": "sult of the Debate will have some benefit and some good effect as far as the fishing industry in Scotland is concerned. I have been asked many questions, and if I do not reply to every one, it will not be because I do not wish to do so, but because it is really impossible to reply in a single speech, and in the time at my disposal, to all questions put by Members who have taken part in the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-03", "file": "debates1931-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "5e0897b4d996a825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the coming year with a view to collecting valuable information in order to help materially in a direction in which hon. Members in all sections of the Committee desire to see improvements, namely, to get fish to market in the best possible condition. A question was asked as to whether we have been carrying through any work in connection with exploration. That, again, comes under the English Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-03", "file": "debates1931-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "5e0897b4d996a825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forty miles wide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "r my own people or the fishermen from any other port. They must respect the law of the country in regard to this matter. Hon. Members will never hear me either in this House or outside it defending the man who deliberately poaches, but when it comes to a question of fishing in a stretch of water 70 miles wide and 40 miles deep, I maintain that you cannot talk about that as being territorial water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-03", "file": "debates1931-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "5e0897b4d996a825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLAR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Introduce tariffs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLAR", "preceding_text": "e the necessity of trying to capture the market which is at our doors in meat, and dairy and poultry produce, which have the advantage of being produced under fresh and excellent conditions in this country. Our home farms produce animal products to the value of £200,000,000 and in addition we import more than £200,000,000 worth. If we were able under a wise system of mixed farming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-03a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.329.4", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "Do these regulations apply strictly to Soviet citizens coming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.329.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Enjoys!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " present legislation expires on the 8th July. Therefore, if anything as to be done by new legislation to ease the coal situation, that legislation must not only pass this House but must be on the Statute Book by the 8th July. So far as Unemployment Insurance is concerned, by the 9th or at the very outside the 10th July the financial powers which the Minister enjoys by reason of legislation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Those are the facts. The combination of the Bowles Act and the Parliament Act means that we have until the 3rd of July to get the Finance Bill through this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "and Valuation (Apportionment) Bill, 1928, on which a Guillotine Resolution was passed on the Motion of the present Leader of the Opposition. In face of this record it is idle for the Conservative Opposition to pretend that this is a revolutionary proceeding adopted for the first time. To be perfectly candid, I do not like these Guillotine Resolutions, but I have to get business through this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " 60 Amendments meant. I would not venture to say what was the result of a very patient examination on my part that morning, of every one of them regarding their contents or their merits. Even supposing that they were all very important and necessary to be put down, the fact that 60 Amendments to the first six Clauses, not including any of the Land Tax Clauses, or the \"objectionable Clauses\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And you have just called them objectionable!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "mportant and necessary to be put down, the fact that 60 Amendments to the first six Clauses, not including any of the Land Tax Clauses, or the \"objectionable Clauses\"—[ Interruption ]—the first six Clauses went through without a Division, and nobody objected to any great principle. Objections were taken only to the Land Taxation Clauses, which the Opposition called objectionable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "rt, as I have said, but we wish to be reasonable in our allocation, and when we come to the details of the time table, I am prepared to accept, not exactly some of the Amendments, but the request that has been made from all parts of the House for a further extension of time. That time has got to be within the limits set down by what I said in the beginning. We find that we can give two extra days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "If it is a cheer of welcome acceptance, I am very glad. If it is a cheer which indicates that my offer is not acceptable, I am perfectly willing to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": " that time that the finances of the country were not the most important matter under discussion. There was the great Irish question, a great constitutional question; the country was very rich and the Budget was £200,000,000—a mere fragment of the national wealth. To-day, however, if we are not bankrupt, we are an the verge of bankruptcy, and once more in the age of Snowden and MacDonald", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "sing of the Resolution, and it is now argued that 5th August is the proper date. If, on the other hand, it is contended that what matters is the date of the presentation of the Income Tax Resolution. I should like to know what authority there is in law for that. The Government should say what authority these unnamed authorities have for saying that this procedure must be got through by 5th August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "will they say, whether inside or outside this House, in the future, if the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) should stand there as Chancellor of the Exchequer and bring in a long schedule of tariff taxes of all kinds? I ask them what they will say if the right hon. Gentleman should use the Guillotine based on this precedent, which can only be given by our votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "rariness? If the right hon. Gentleman is so pressed for time as he indicated in his speech, there would be no two days to give away. The Prime Minister has been upon weak ground all day. What has been interesting—and I hope that the House as a whole will notice it—has been the absence of the two chief actors in the position. The chief Government Whip has not attended the Debate to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " that the House might be in a better position to allocate time for the Report stage when they see in what form the Bill emerges from the Committee—that if we leave it in the form in which it appears now, we will give an opportunity for the discussion of a revised time table on the Report stage, if the Opposition so desire, on the further condition that it is not taken out of Government time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " on the sixth day. Therefore, they will not be reached before the week after next. At any rate, we will put down the Amendments as early next week as we can. As I have said, I hope that this allocation will at any rate meet with the general approval of the House. No doubt the Opposition will not be entirely satisfied with our proposals, but at any rate we have gone a considerable way to meet them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": " view that even a period of 14 days is an inadequate allowance, and, therefore, a fortiori , we are bound to resist the proposal that the period should be 10 days. When we say that a period of 14 days is wholly inadequate, we base that statement on past experience. We know quite well the sort of complications into which you get when you start to discuss the question of the taxation of land values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": " We know quite well the sort of complications into which you get when you start to discuss the question of the taxation of land values. [ Interruption .] If hon. Gentlemen opposite, who seem rather prepared to indicate some doubts on the matter, will either refer to past Debates or consult those who took part in them, they wall begin to realise the sort of thing they are letting themselves in for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": ". Friend has not referred to the rest of the Bill, which deals with the finance of the year and consist of 18 Clauses. Under these proposals we are going to be allowed the extraordinary-time of 2½ days on the Committee stage of the Finance Bill for the year. Does anyone on that side suggest that some two or even three days are sufficient time to deal with the finance of the year in Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "The learned Solicitor-General knows as well as anybody in this House that Mr. Hamilton has six months within which to appeal to the House of Lords. He knew that all the time. The Solicitor-General may not know this, but I know it and have it from Mr. Hamilton personally, that he is still considering the question of an appeal to the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER (Sir Robert Young)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it was on the other side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER (Sir Robert Young)", "preceding_text": "It was from hon. Members on ray left that the cry came.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER (Sir Robert Young)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER (Sir Robert Young)", "preceding_text": "It was from hon. Members on ray left that the cry came. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it was on the other side!\"] The cry which came from two hon. Members above the Gangway on my left was that the Solicitor-General should withdraw, and then the cry was repeated by hon. Members on the opposite side below the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": " rich and increase the social services. For this reason, I shall support any suggestion which makes the discussion of the Bill as short, concise and concrete as possible. I want to suggest also, that we should support the time table to make the discussion of this Bill as short as possible, because the attention of the House should be turned to the really vital questions which exist in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigie Aitchison)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Craigie Aitchison)", "preceding_text": "occupied in speeches and, accordingly, we shall look forward to hearing from the benches opposite speeches of a much more relevant kind than we have been experiencing. I have no doubt that the hon. and gallant Member for Kelvingrove will be able to say all that he can say against the tax and its relation to Scotland within the compass of 10 minutes, if he will only take the trouble to be relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.478.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman concede 11.30?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "he second reason was that he had regard to the rest which he thinks is necessary for my hon. Friend. That really discloses the genuine reason for the right hon. Gentleman's refusal to accept the Amendment. It is pure laziness. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite are paid to come here and do the business of the nation. They are asked to give an hour and a-half of extra time for seven nights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Doing nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "ter 10.30 and I noticed that his brain was active, and that he spoke with acumen and ready repartee. I feel sure that after 10.30 this year he will again be able to deal with the arguments brought forward. Similarly, the learned Attorney-General will be able to deal with legal arguments after 10.30. Last yea there was no inconvenience when we argued on the Budget until four or five is the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "We really cannot let this Debate end without some further remarks from the Treasury Bench. The Prime Minister has gone, and so have the President of the Board of Trade and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Chief Whip shakes his head. Will he indicate to me where they are sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.505.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh, shut up!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman sits down, may I not ask whether the object of the Opposition, to secure a better attendance of hon. Members at the Debates, would not be better secured if the smoking rooms and bars of this House were closed when this important Measure is under discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "come down from upstairs to vote in Divisions on subjects of the Debate on which they have not heard one word; and to make that the normal procedure and force it upon Members seems to me to be absolutely shocking. I believe I was on the Committee in 1912 which first sat, as a great concession to the Government, on one or two occasion during Question Time in the afternoon, commencing at two o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "tance to any protestations, made by responsible members of the Labour party, of their wish to preserve the constitutional rights of Members of Parliament, when they persist, in the most extravagant degree, in their present course of refusing to allow us the opportunity for reasonable discussion. Reference has been made to what, it has been suggested, is a waste of time in sitting up late at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.527.4", "colnum": "527", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member referred to any hon. Member of this House, as \"blethering,\" he must certainly withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.527.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.528.4", "colnum": "528", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Wrong. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I only want to make plain the position of the Prime Minister. It has been most noticeable that the Prime Minister has, been absent during the whole of this Debate. [ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-04", "file": "debates1931-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "29bd7edd663cb7ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "(3) THIRD READING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "If any hon. Member imagines I was accusing the Prime Minister of not having been here during the whole day's Debate, there was nothing further from my mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-04a.529.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-05", "file": "debates1931-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7e0251e8a419c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-05a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBATION OF OFFENDERS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ficer, but it may be found, when the matter is worked out, that this may rule out one or two people who might usefully have accepted such an appointment. The words or has at any time been a member of a police force, certainly go very wide. They would apply to a man who 20 years ago may have been for a month or six months a member of a police force, and that would exclude a large number of persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-05a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-05", "file": "debates1931-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f7e0251e8a419c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-05a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBATION OF OFFENDERS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "ethod of approach towards a young delinquent which is not quite the method of approach that is to be desired in cases of probation. But it seems to me that, if the Lord Advocate really abides by the definition he has just given, including within the prohibition anyone who has at any time been a special constable, it is carrying it very far. Special constables are not in any way regular constables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-05a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. PENNY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. PENNY", "preceding_text": "Is there any likelihood of the Minister of Agriculture resigning if the Cabinet do not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.621.8", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT WORKS (MATERIALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have they; have the other people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Certainly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.621.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a member of the Cabinet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "rwise have been the case. The Secretary for Mines, when the Budget proposals had been disclosed, went back to his constituency, and in Broxburn he said: Having learned their opinion, he made certain representations to the Government, and last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer increased the Petrol Tax from 4d. to 6d. That is rather an interesting declaration to have from a member of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.666.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Petrol Duty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "n this year £248,000,000. One-ninth of that, that is 6d., represents £27,500,000, a little more than the right hon. Gentleman mentioned. That £27,500,000 is needed, and, if it is not to be got from this source, where is it to be found? The right hon. Gentleman suggested revenue duties. The country is not having revenue duties. It sent a Labour Government here against revenue duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.709.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benson) gave a number of quotations as to what our income was. I do not care very much for his quotations from well known gentlemen; I prefer to turn to what I have to face in the way of facts, namely, 2,500,000 poor people out of work. That is what we have to face as a result of Labour legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "for Chesterfield (Mr. Benson) gave a number of quotations as to what our income was. I do not care very much for his quotations from well known gentlemen; I prefer to turn to what I have to face in the way of facts, namely, 2,500,000 poor people out of work. That is what we have to face as a result of Labour legislation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We have had two years of Labour legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "e state. I am very much astonished to hear the-arguments about unemployment in Germany and the United States. The hon. Member argued that there was a great deal more unemployment in Germany than here. I, and most of us in this House, have very sad reason to know why Germany has more unemployed than we have. We know that there has been a War. We have to think of graves of our own people over there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "es. The hon. Member argued that there was a great deal more unemployment in Germany than here. I, and most of us in this House, have very sad reason to know why Germany has more unemployed than we have. We know that there has been a War. We have to think of graves of our own people over there. [ Interruption .] My bank balance was not increased; my gains were nil; part of my family circle is gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Canada\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "manufacture, but with Wall Street gambling, boosted up by borrowing for gambling. That is what has brought America to the position of unemployment that she is now in. It was not caused by legitimate expansion of trade. It was the expansion of credit for gambling. People who compare America and Germany with us have not begun to understand what the two positions are. It is a perfectly false analogy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that the cause of the world slump\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "used by legitimate expansion of trade. It was the expansion of credit for gambling. People who compare America and Germany with us have not begun to understand what the two positions are. It is a perfectly false analogy. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Canada\"?] Canada has been drawn, just as the re3t of the world has been drawn, into the maelstrom and the difficulties set up by Wall Street gambling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ould be reduced in the sense that my hon. Friend has suggested in order also to give people an inducement to venture their money. With the Income Tax at 4s. 6d. in the £—we are seeking to bring it down to 4s.—plus the very large amount of Surtax, and then Death Duties which hon. Gentlemen opposite advocate should be increased, there is no inducement for a man to venture his money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REID", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REID", "preceding_text": "he Committee of what has happened within my own knowledge. Each one of those cases resulted in a number of men employed in a business for a number of years being definitely thrown out of employment. Hon. Gentlemen opposite tell us that Income Tax does not affect the cost of production, and that it does not affect enterprise, because it is levied only on realised profits. What are realised profits?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I suppose that I am entitled to use unparliamentary language about myself, and I say quite frankly that I was a fool to respond to the appeal that was made to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir William Jowitt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Autocratic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir William Jowitt)", "preceding_text": "ret that, solely for the reason which I have stated, I cannot do so now, and I am sure that the hon. Member will not think me discourteous for not dealing with the matter. I think that a good many of the observations which have been made are rather out of place. If I may say so without disrespect, it seems rather ridiculous to refer to our conduct in this case as being that of an automatic despot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ollowed by legislation, it would have cost the Treasury round about £3,000,000. That was perhaps not a sufficient reason, but I venture to think that it is a reason if I can show that you will have a vast amount of litigation, and that so far from benefiting the taxpayers, if you benefit the taxpayers at all, you will merely benefit some rich taxpayers to the prejudice of many poor taxpayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": " their best to follow the technicalities of the Income Tax Acts will not have been surprised at the speech of the Attorney-General. Whenever similar questions come up, we get the same type of reply. We get a great statement upon the effect on the revenue, and a special statement about the effect on the small taxpayer. The small taxpayer is always produced for the purpose of playing to the gallery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "On a Motion of this kind it would be quite out of order to discuss the action of the House in passing the Guillotine Resolution or the attitude of the Chair, which is only the servant of the House, but it is necessary to realise that for the last 10 minutes the Government have been raking money out of the taxpayers' pocket at the rate of £1,000,000 a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "use, but it is necessary to realise that for the last 10 minutes the Government have been raking money out of the taxpayers' pocket at the rate of £1,000,000 a minute. [ Interruption .] I make no complaint of that. It is no doubt right for the Government to bring forward whatever Motion they please. The Government supporters will have to answer for their action, not to us, but to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": ". [ Interruption .] I make no complaint of that. It is no doubt right for the Government to bring forward whatever Motion they please. The Government supporters will have to answer for their action, not to us, but to the country. [ Interruption .] But the action of the Government in submitting this Motion to the House is one which deserves the most unshrinkable condemnation in every quarter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "should not report Progress, but I should have thought that the proceedings of the last few minutes were a sufficient answer. The Government have shown the most arrogant contempt of a minority ever shown, and an overwhelming class prejudice. The Amendment we were proposing to put before the Committee, if an opportunity had been afforded us, was to call attention to the case of the professional man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.4", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "n to limit debate was brought forward by the Conservative party when they were in office. I wish to draw the attention of the country also to the fact that we are asked now to report Progress, and to carry this Motion with the assistance and the connivance and the active support of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) and his friends. It is the action of the Darwen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interrupttion .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "a fashion? Should we be within our rights in discussing whether or not we should report Progress or whether we should now proceed to discuss further Clauses of the Bill? I quite realise that it would be out of order for us to discuss the merits of Clause 7, owing to the Resolution passed by the House, but it seems to me that we are fully within our rights in discussing whether we should now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.762.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-08", "file": "debates1931-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1a66d1e89f3e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.763.8", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ments to show why it should not be carried. I have put forward, to the best of my ability, arguments to show why it is a Parliamentary scandal that the Motion should be put and carried now with public business in such a condition that the Government can pass the whole of a year's Budget through the Committee stage in one day. Protests have come from other sections of the House beside this section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-08a.763.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (COMMITTEE ROOMS (STRANGERS' ADDRESSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ommittee rooms for meetings and addresses by gentlemen other than Members of this House, to whatever party the audience or the speaker belongs. I want to ask the Prime Minister two questions arising out of this incident. The first is whether he does not think it would be desirable, perhaps through the usual channels, to have this matter considered by the representatives of the three parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.816.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "DOMESTIC SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speak up!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, indeed, to appear to oppose a well-meant attempt to deal with what is a serious problem, for I am the last person on earth not to wish to see an improvement in the conditions of domestic service——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "RURAL EDUCATION AND BETTER FEEDING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "stion, I hope that it will recommend itself to them. I do not think that there will be any particular expense, because if you had the children drawing their home supplies and feeding themselves they would be saving a great deal of the cost of providing their sustenance under present conditions. My object is to bring back the people to the land, because fanning is the finest occupation for anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " of the revenue or the achievement of some social function—are the reasons why this proposal has been brought forward, I can understand why the Government desire to fix the date in the Bill itself. It is because it is inspired and controlled and achieved by a third reason, which does not vary, and that is the reason of malice and spite, which will be the same two years hence as it is to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.851.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I will withdraw it. One could not refrain, having regard to the history of the hon. Member, from making use of the expression, but I am very sorry I did so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "s taxation are entirely and totally irrelevant to the tax itself. The picture which it is sought to impress on the mind of the public is that this is a tax to redress what is Called a social wrong, namely, the acquisition of value in land which has been created not by any efforts or expenditure on the part of the owner, but by the expenditure and, in some cases, the mere presence of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.872.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What is the source of that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ses or vacant. Thus the tax encourages undesirable density of building in suburban areas also. The tax, in fact, militates against gardens, residential estates, nurseries, playing fields and farms within a wide area around cities. In one city two years ago 10,000 lots were advertised as being for sale to meet unpaid taxes. This shows that the value of the property to the owners had been destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "It is exactly three weeks since the Second Reading of the Finance Bill was taken——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The poor!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ard hitherto is the answer which was given by the Solicitor-General, who was pleased to observe that these people have \"chosen to invest their money in land,\" and so they must pay the penalty. Yes, Sir, but may I point out that these are institutions which, to a large extent, hold land because it was an ancient endowment or an ancient benefaction, and that they apply the proceeds to educate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "benefaction, and that they apply the proceeds to educate— [HON. MEMBERS: \"The poor!\"] I hope that whatever happens in this Debate we shall not conduct it on a level, which I should have thought a degrading level, of pretending that these great institutions of learning are not applying the greater part of their resources for the assistance of those who otherwise would not be able to go there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And pay for it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ve thought a degrading level, of pretending that these great institutions of learning are not applying the greater part of their resources for the assistance of those who otherwise would not be able to go there. [ Interruption .] I hear an hon. Member say, \"Why not all?\" Because there is no reason why a man of reasonable competence or a rich man should not be educated at Oxford or Cambridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ng, the burden of this tax is to fall upon the superior in part or in whole. Does anybody suppose that the shrewd Scotsman will in future take the risk of increases of a duty of this sort when he can do nothing, after having once granted a lease, but sit there taking the fixed feu duty and paying the tax, whatever it may be? There are many in this House who know this subject much better than I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " this tax is something new, something original, that has never been thought of before, or that it is a wicked device of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer? The right hon. Gentleman has told us that this is a new theory, but may I point out that this is the only form of taxation of land values that has been adopted in any part of the world. It is the form of tax which is in force in Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " hands were forced by the Midland Bank. The reason why all these people in the past have advocated this form of tax, as opposed to the proposal now supported so strenuously and unanimously on the Opposition benches, is that this tax is not a burden upon industry, and cannot be passed on to the consumer while the increment duty can be and is passed on to the consumer. Does anybody doubt that still?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "oposal now supported so strenuously and unanimously on the Opposition benches, is that this tax is not a burden upon industry, and cannot be passed on to the consumer while the increment duty can be and is passed on to the consumer. Does anybody doubt that still? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] We all realise now that this is a burden upon the landowner. But can the tax be really passed on to the consumer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is a quota.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "hon. Members opposite in bringing forward this question of the absence of any shortage of land in this country. In my district of North Staffordshire, mine after mine has been shut down. Directly a mine is shut down there are no more rates and no more taxes to pay. The minerals are there, and the miners are there, begging for the opportunity of working that coal, but they are not allowed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "\"] Yes, all sorts of unsound dodges have been undertaken on the advice of hon. Members opposite. There is what is called rationalisation, but what is really the building up of a monopoly, whereas, as everyone knows at the bottom of his heart, the right thing to do is to allow people an opportunity for using nature and producing from nature the goods that we all want at the cheapest possible price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "d learned Gentleman finds in it much to attack. Every form of new taxation is, of course, liable to attack, but what hon. Members, I think, forget is that when we have the heavy burdens that we have at the present time, not only of taxation, but of rates, it is of very high importance that new sources of revenue should be found which are free from some of the disadvantages of the existing burdens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "definition in the law imposing the tax. A rate, however, is a burden on enterprise, but a land tax is a tax on the monopoly value of the land. The right hon. Gentleman opposite made great play with the idea that this was penal taxation. It is nothing of the kind. Other Members have attempted to attack this proposal because it is not an increment tax, but it does not pretend to be an increment tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "mpost that we are now making. We have not passed the Bill yet, and, until we see in what shape it emerges from this House, it is quite impracticable to foretell what will happen. In any case, however, it will relieve other burdens to that extent, and for that reason I say that people will gain from the relief, while they will lose, of course, on account of the burdens that are to be put upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "he points which he raised. It was an attack at once subtle and significant which raised points which seemed to have substance in them, and I am quite sure that the opponents of the project behind the tax were simply entranced and impressed beyond all measure upon what seemed to them to be an inevitable part. To be quite frank, the speech from beginning to end was nothing but a farrago of nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.916.3", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not pay the tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": " arrant nonsense. All that we are proposing to do is to take a little from the landowners of what they have been taking in the form of rental for years. We are told that we should not put a 1d. tax upon the small shopkeeper. We are to send a valuer down to see how he is geting on. If he is selling plenty of ham, eggs, and greens, he will pay the tax; but if he is not, then he will not pay the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.916.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.916.3", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "oyment problem. If you will not feed the poor, if you will not give \"doles\" to the poor, if you will not give them and their dependants 30s. a week, if you will not maintain them out of State funds, then the challenge will come home to you, as sure as you are here tonight. If you will not feed them with State grants, then you must open the land of England to them and allow them to feed themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.916.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All the difference!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "Having heard that interjection, I ask the Committee what is the difference between it and what I said——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "apital value, and what is wrong with the State calling for a tax on the capital value? I have made it clear that we are determined that this is but the beginning, in spite of the exemptions, in spite of the handicap at the start, in spite of the long time for the valuation and the circumstances that may arise. Who knows how easily the public will be gulled by The Parliamentary quacks——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Send for him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "is. He is informed by such tremendous learning, that his speech was like a river in spate. We prefer his enthusiasm, however, to the enthusiasm of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, because he has not always been such an enthusiast for these taxes as he is at the present moment. The right hon. Gentleman is not present to-night, and he was not present the last time that I spoke on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.924.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "e beginning of the process of getting rid of private property in land?\" The answer of the hon. Mem- ber for Burslem is \"Yes, that is why we are introducing it.\" He says it is what the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised years ago to introduce. This is the first step in getting rid of private property in land. Do the Liberal party realise where they are going? What have they got to say about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "ite values would promote that end. That has been the effect in Sydney and, I believe, in every other town there where it has been tried, but when you are applying this principle to an absolutely built-up area, totally different considerations come in. I had not prepared my speech until the right hon. Gentleman spoke, but I should like to imagine myself as addressing an audience in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": " an absolutely built-up area, totally different considerations come in. I had not prepared my speech until the right hon. Gentleman spoke, but I should like to imagine myself as addressing an audience in my constituency. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Of Tories?\"] No, I think most of my audiences are made up of working men, working in factories, but a good number of them, let us say, are Free Church Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman who has just spoken. He took up, in the first place, the case of the Churches, and particularly the Free Churches. If there is one argument that has been used on the Opposition benches, it is that the result of this proposal will be to depreciate the value of land; that is one of their main objection; What do the Churches more need than cheap sites for the building of their churches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are broke!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "new place in which to start it looks for cheap land? Therefore, the firm itself is going to be benefited. The hon. Member told us that he could, make no reply to his constituents who would have to pay this tax. I will give him a reply. When I was out in Sydney, I found that, because they had this system of taxation fend rating, there was not a single other rate charged in the whole city of Sydney.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "cines as they do for their land, it will be well if the people can keep in good health as long as possible. Why were they able to charge that price? Not because of anything that they had done, but because of what the community and the city of Glasgow had done with their enterprises; and in taking that we are only taking for the community the wealth that the community of Glasgow itself has created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"'Old' is good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "eat scheme for a new dock road, and for the land we have to pay £600 an acre. There is a big difference in 32 years between £40 and £600 an acre. It is the local people who have to find it. The people who are taking that money from us do not pay a single penny piece in rates. They do not live in the area. They are absentee landlords. I find my old friends of the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take the lot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ke pouter pigeons, go to their constituencies. They talk of the necessity of economy with efficiency and the necessity of reorganising our industries. Here we have a chance of finding a bit of money in the place where it is to be found. You have been trying to rob the unemployed poor; we are going to rob the unemployed rich. You would be willing to pay 1s. in the £ if we let you off the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "st End of London or down in the dining room here. But it is not that which troubles you. What troubles you is that we may find out how we, the people, have been robbed. You did not put the Thames in London, did you? Along the banks of this mighty river have grown up huge industries. Who made them? Not the people who bought the land and claim the right to own them, but the great mass of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Dutch courage!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "expropriation. I hope the Labour Government will take their courage in both hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "e land? Under this scheme, if the cultivation value of agricultural land is less than the site value, the owner will be liable to tax. Take the case of any main road running through the country. The land on each side of that road is used for agricultural purposes. Under the proposal of the Government, the valuer has to value the land on the assumption that the land surrounding it remains as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "uggestion which is put forward in this Amendment would quite obviously defeat the whole purpose of the Land Value Tax, because, whatever may have been said against the taxation of land values in built-up areas, I think it has been generally agreed that the land which is ripe for development round about towns, but which is not being used for development, can justly be charged with a land value tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that is land which only has an agricultural value and nothing more, will be excluded under the Bill as it stands. Therefore, this land which it is now proposed to exclude, in addition to the land with only an agricultural value, must be the land on the outskirts of towns which is still used for agricultural purposes but which is ripe for development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "My case still remains watertight. It is true that there is, as I say, other land available in the district, but it does not happen to be so near to the towns as this particular land, which has a greater building value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": "London comes to meet it from the other direction, no doubt you will find an increasing number of persons who will treat the land as ripe for development, but what, I should like to know, are the farmers to do until the land actually is ripe for development? I should like the Solicitor-General to consider this matter, and treat it in a little less airy way than he has treated it this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.960.2", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Scotland? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "g to-day if only he will clear it. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Canada which anybody can have for the clearing. I imagine that those who cry out about God giving the land to the people are very unwilling to do the job. That is why to-day so much of the land in Canada has been surrendered back to the Government, who would be delighted to find anyone who would come and use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.960.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go home!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": "hom purchased their land at a high price, when agricultural land was more prosperous than it is to-day. Nearly the whole of them have mortgages on their land of as large an amount as they were able to obtain when agriculture was more prosperous. The mortgagees are already anxious about the margin of security for the loans which they have made. What are you going to do by creating this uncertainty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-09", "file": "debates1931-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "a505f6e04a0709cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.966.4", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "May I then ask——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-09a.966.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say who is the responsible officer in this matter? Is he aware that on one or two occasions some hon. Members of this House have almost met with what might have been a serious accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A very low rent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "I think £l an acre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BIRD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BIRD", "preceding_text": " admittedly are marvellous building sites, but there is no demand for them at present. The boards erected advertising \"This eligible freehold site for sale, ripe for immediate development,\" have been up so long that the announcements have become almost illegible. In the mind of the owner the land is ripe for immediate development, but he has found by experience that he cannot get anyone to buy it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What if he cannot? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that we are at cross-purposes. The advantage he gets is that next day he sells the land for £120 an acre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Assumption!", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " land which is not payable at once. In either case, immediately the road has gone through \"A's\" land he possesses land which is estimated to be worth £120 and for which he has paid £100 to the original seller, \"B,\" and £20 to the local authority in betterment. Hon. Members opposite say: \"If he can sell it.\" The whole assumption of the valuation at £120 is that it is for a sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "y people have redeemed tithe in recent years, and many people have redeemed tithe, acting through their ancestors, many hundreds of years ago. Land tax also, whenever redeemed, has to be taken into account, and it goes on: or on the enfranchisement of copyhold land or customary freeholds. It is an inquiry into the value of any plot of land taken, not two, but 20 years before these things happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "gh, as soon as it is made clear that it is not to be an additional tax, not to be a double tax upon property, but a substitutional tax, we shall, as far as is humanly possible, relieve buildings and improvements from taxation. We cannot go any further. I should like to go with the hon. and gallant Member the whole of the Way, but I know that it is impossible. Let us therefore take what we can get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "chequer on the Second Reading that he ought not to be so foolish as he himself had been, and not to allow those exemptions which make the valuation an impossibility—that although it might be desirable in order to maintain the strict purity of the theory of land value, obviously, if the tax is to be imposed, it is absolutely essential to have a practical and a practicable scheme of valuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Directly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "he railways. How is a valuer to ascertain the amount of the site value in a back street of that seaside town which is attributable to that advertisement appearing, say, on all the stations of the Great Western Railway? If that is what right hon. Gentlemen opposite call a practical method of valuing land, I am afraid my ideas of what are practical in valuation must differ fundamentally from theirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1101.2", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "et the difficulties which have been raised. As the Bill stands it really comes to this, that to make the tax fair presents great difficulties. Unless, therefore, they are prepared to try themselves to help with Amendments to meet admitted hardships, it seems that they are going to leave it unfair—and deliberately so, having admitted that there are hard cases which ought to be remedied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ssible to make allowance for improvements of this kind, or for agricultural improvements, because they go so far back. Surely it is open to the Government, if they want a practical valuation, to meet this case by inserting a time limit. It is not necessary to go back to the time of Noah and the Flood, but it ought to be possible to have a time limit. We would certainly consider a time limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1107.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BOYD MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the bunkers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BOYD MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "golf courses, and in the same ownership, but will be levied upon the golf links themselves. Those who know the Bramshott Golf Links, as I do from one or two visits, will know that the two main features of that course, as on some other golf links in Surrey, are grass and heather. For the purposes of this valuation it is to be assumed that the club house and the caddy shed are removed from the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to intervene again, but I would like to reply to the two last speakers. I think there really is a misunderstanding. This does not apply to agricultural land at all——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " never entitled. It is really a monstrous thing that the Government, who purport by this Bill to encourage the effort to wrest from the landlord part of the monopoly which he enjoys should actually tax him upon the one-tenth part which 400 or 500 years ago he surrendered. I notice the obvious anxiety which is displayed upon the benches opposite by all those who attempt to understand this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "All hon. Members on this side, at any rate, will be equally surprised and resentful that the Government have thought fit to move to report Progress and ask leave to sit again. In view of the Puling which was given two nights ago, we know now that it is perfectly possible for us to go on discussing the next Clause in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " of them, Clause 11, deals with the whole subject of appeals, and is therefore of vital important to all those whose interests are affected by the Bill or who will be subject to the charges imposed by the Bill. I took the trouble to see how many Amendments hon. Members desire to have discussed on Clause 11, and I find that from my hon. Friends behind alone there are upwards of 50 Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ch have nothing whatever to do with politics. They are business Amendments put down on behalf of all kinds of organisations, some of whose sponsors are in favour of the tax. For instance, the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, who is Member for Central Edinburgh, knows that I have to-day put down a very important Amendment on behalf of the Edinburgh Corporation——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-10", "file": "debates1931-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "259226a27a28227b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "I am sure that every independent back-bench Member of the House of Commons who has any respect whatever for the dignity of the 11.0 p.m. House is grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) for having uttered his emphatic protest. I wonder what the people outside will say when they look round and find out who are the protectors of the liberty of the subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-10a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind how his party, when in opposition, were always taunting us with not doing something—in this respect?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1190.3", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Are not these local education authorities mainly Conservative?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1223.5", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " unfair, just because they formed at the last valuation part of one land unit, that after the splitting up the person who wishes to acquire one of these new valuable sites, or a site less valuable, should not have the opportunity of having a valuation placed upon his site against which he can, if necessary, appeal. I put that case to the Ministers opposite, as I do not think it is already covered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " entertained under this section except on the ground that the value or values of the former unit have been wrongly apportioned by the Commissioners as between the several parts thereof. Therefore, any owner of a part of an original unit can appeal on the apportionment, but when the apportionment is made the commissioners will not be able to put up the total aggregate value; that cannot be altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I did not suggest that there was no right in the Bill as it exists to appeal against the grouping, but what I did say was that the inevitable result of such an appeal, if it did exist, must be to go against the owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1253.2", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MUIRHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MUIRHEAD", "preceding_text": "e an objection. Let me take an instance which has just occurred in the Committee. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Rusholme (Sir B. Merriman) raised an objection to the sparseness of the attendance on the opposite benches during these proceedings, and he was bold enough to attach to his objection a numerical estimate of the number of hon. Members opposite which turned out to be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1305.0", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ot experts upon valuation points. The ideal would be to add to the selecting body under the Finance (1909–10) Act, 1910, the President of the Law Society, but frankly I am not quite certain whether that could be done, and it would be necessary to consult the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls and the members of the panel before such a proposal could be accepted by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1318.4", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BIRD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BIRD", "preceding_text": "You said it must be the ground landlord. It is not necessarily so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1318.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1333.4", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "making a statement on the 6th Allotted Day, to utilise that time on Monday night during which either the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or somebody on behalf of the Government, could make a statement as to what exemptions they propose to accept? That would have this great advantage, that there need be no further Debate, and hon. Members would have the night to reflect upon and consider——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1333.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1336.2", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " and recast this Clause. We shall really be confronted not with a Committee discussion but with a Second Reading Debate on a new proposal, and we are expected to conduct that Second Reading Debate and the following Committee Debate on the Amendment within the narrow limits I have mentioned. On all sides of the House we are regretting the lowered estimation of this House in the eyes of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-11", "file": "debates1931-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b274983f5fbf72e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1336.2", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about last night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e are regretting the lowered estimation of this House in the eyes of the country. [ Interruption .] I thought we all were, but if some Members do not feel that regret, I am sorry that it should be so. I am quite sure that the Prime Minister, as much as myself, cherishes the honour and the traditions of this House, and regrets anything which leads to it being held in less estimation in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-11a.1336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-12", "file": "debates1931-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1bdfc53e7ae4f37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAURITIUS LOAN (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " such matters very largely on the basis that Mauritius, like ourselves, and we, like Mauritius, were suffering from temporary depression, that the clouds would roll by, and that drastic measures were not necessary. What has happened in this country and all over the world is that all parties have realised, in theory at any rate, that it is not true that we are dealing with a passing blizzard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-12", "file": "debates1931-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1bdfc53e7ae4f37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAURITIUS LOAN (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Churchill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ffering from temporary depression, that the clouds would roll by, and that drastic measures were not necessary. What has happened in this country and all over the world is that all parties have realised, in theory at any rate, that it is not true that we are dealing with a passing blizzard—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—with an economic blizzard in the words of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-12", "file": "debates1931-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1bdfc53e7ae4f37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAURITIUS LOAN (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do they check them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "use I am a believer in 100 per cent. trade unionism in all industries in all countries. The position, as I understand it, is that the Secretary of State has to satisfy himself that the works are undertaken after enquiry of the Government to see that the conditions of employment, which will be partly governed by the labour laws of the colony, and the wages paid, are fair in the local circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-12", "file": "debates1931-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1bdfc53e7ae4f37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "otest strongly against that observation. The attitude of hon. Members on this side of the House is that the prosperity of agriculture is necessary before a living wage can be paid. The people who are suffering most from the agricultural depression are the agricultural labourers who have been turned out of work as a result of it, and for whom hon. Members opposite provide no unemployment insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-12", "file": "debates1931-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1bdfc53e7ae4f37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1401.3", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "ay was to help and not to hinder. If it is difficult to consider the matter further, it might be taken into account another time. I want to know what is the position in regard to the rights of private Members. The calling of a Measure is not dealt with in the Standing Orders, At ordinary times we can take a hop, step and a jump from No. 2 to No. 9 on the Order Paper. It has been done on occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-12a.1401.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1463.7", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "cceptance by the trustee of his duties as trustee of the testator, and it is a little difficult to appreciate exactly the meaning of the Amendment. If the Committee will bear with me, I will go through the words of the Amendment. They will see the difficulty as regards the second half of the Amendment. It is on the Paper, but I am afraid that, in order to make the point which I wish to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1463.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1463.7", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "t if it will assist them in their understanding it. It says: Provided that no assessment shall be made on the personal representatives of a deceased owner who was a trustee of the estate\"— that is to say, this Amendment only deals with a man who has been owner by virtue of the fact that he was a trustee of an estate— by reference to which the ownership of the unit is determined\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1463.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1463.7", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ing it. It says: Provided that no assessment shall be made on the personal representatives of a deceased owner who was a trustee of the estate\"— that is to say, this Amendment only deals with a man who has been owner by virtue of the fact that he was a trustee of an estate— by reference to which the ownership of the unit is determined\"— [ Interruption .] It is in page 15, line 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1463.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ue is an extremely technical one and we are informed that it is of sufficient importance to necessitate the hon. and learned Gentleman going to a Division unless he can be satisfied. We have had an explanation from the Solicitor-General which seems to me entirely adequate and it seems to be most unfair in the special situation which hon. Members have been creating for their advantage——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1471.3", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "When I was interrupted by the many points of Order, I was, after all, pursuing a proper course, and I am grateful to you, Sir Robert, for your support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1471.4", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "I take the cheering which is going on as a reflection upon you, Sir, and I want to put a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order. Are not hon. Members opposite wilfully obstructing the business of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1472.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "I have been trying to define the words specified. I always understood that hon. Members were not entitled to charge each other with wilful obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1472.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. EYRES MONSELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. EYRES MONSELL", "preceding_text": "On a point or Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1473.10", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. EYRES MONSELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. EYRES MONSELL", "preceding_text": "Opposition working under a very strict Guillotine, with very little opportunity for debating fully the subjects which we wish to debate? It appears to us that there is wilful obstruction for some reason or other, and curiously enough from the Independent Labour party, whom, I hope, the Government thank for coming to their rescue in time to-day. Is this wilful obstruction to be allowed to continue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1473.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1479.8", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "He called out: \"You will get a job now.\" I say that that is a reflection on the character of the hon. Member——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1479.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1479.10", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "I want to ask you whether that is not a clear imputation upon the character of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1479.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "needed to bring discredit upon this wretched Bill it is the proceedings of the last hour, and as you have allowed the hon. Member opposite time after time to repeat the question as to whether or not any explanation is to be given of this Amendment I presume that you will allow me to give one or two explanations. During the Debate, on the Finance Bill hon. Members opposite sat like dumb dogs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "is Amendment I presume that you will allow me to give one or two explanations. During the Debate, on the Finance Bill hon. Members opposite sat like dumb dogs—[ Interruption ]—but since it became obvious not only that their arguments were exhausted but that their numbers were not available in the Division Lobby they have ceased to become like dumb dogs and have become like deaf adders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "Whether my hon. and learned Friend was going to press one of the Amendments or not, I understand now that the Solicitor-General and my hon. and learned Friend are in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "this Government who claim to represent their interests, when they are told that they must be ready with the cash within 28 short days of the assessment, or be subject to the penalties which the hon. and learned Gentleman's Government, if still in power, will be prepared to enforce. It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to think that 28 days is enough, but is that the opinion of the public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1488.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-15", "file": "debates1931-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "b87f9fe34494ce72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All land!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "te agent all my life, and know what I am talking about. The only case in which land tax is likely to be larger than the amount of rent receivable is that of undeveloped land which is ripening and which has a high capital value. If this Amendment is accepted, that is the kind of property which is going to be exempted, and no other, and that is just the kind of property this Bill is designed to tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-15a.1549.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1637.0", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "ect, and you would be no further forward as regards the matter of convenience if you left it without the 10s. exemption at all. The object of the exemption, as my right hon. Friend explained on the Second Reading, is in order that there shall not be put upon the Commissioners the liability to collect such small sums that the cost of collection substantially amounts to as much as the tax collected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1637.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "o a Division. Living close by Dulwich, I hope that the people of Dulwich will read the speech that we have just heard, and that the people of London will take note of the statement from the Liberal benches. What is there that is not equitable in the Government proposal? It is asking that those who have a possession which is not worth more than £120 shall be exempt from the payment of the 10s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ncome are not asked to pay Income Tax. Hon. Members opposite were forced to agree to that; they cannot help themselves. We are now dealing with people whose possession does not demand from them that they should pay more than 10s. Hon. Members opposite would have us believe that they believe in equity. They say that if you are a wealthy man and you are possessed of 100 or 1,000 units of land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " themselves. We are now dealing with people whose possession does not demand from them that they should pay more than 10s. Hon. Members opposite would have us believe that they believe in equity. They say that if you are a wealthy man and you are possessed of 100 or 1,000 units of land—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Or two!\"]—or two, if you like, but 1,000 units is more in mind at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1661.3", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "y. As I say, we shall gladly take up that challenge and I am looking forward to going down to the Forest of Dean to point out that the hon. Member for that division has to-day agreed to letting off the landowners in Bond Street while he is not going to let off the people in his own division who own properties of £121 a year. We are told that God gave the land to the people, and to the chosen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1661.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What date?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "These words express in better language than I can hope to command the sort of feeling that we have about the provision to which this Amendment is offered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1664.4", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "h he thinks had some relevance to this Debate. I am afraid the statement which he has just quoted has no relevance whatever. There are two points which make it wholly irrelevant. In the first place, the question then being discussed was not the taxation of land values but the question of Increment Value Duty, which is an entirely different subject, and depends upon completely different principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1664.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1665.5", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON MEMBERS", "cue_text": "We understand it!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman explain that to his followers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1665.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1665.6", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " land and land value which they own. The reason, as has been explained several times, for the exemption is one of convenience. It will, in fact, probably result, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer says, in a large number of people who own only one small property being exempted. That is the inevitable effect of it. The reason for it is the inconvenience of attempting to collect small sums of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1665.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1667.2", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "body above the limit will come in, and everybody below the limit will come out, and that is a necessity if you have a limited figure of any sort. What hon. Members do not realise is that it is no disadvantage on the man with a valuation of £121 to pay his share of the taxation. It is an extra concession to the man under £121 not to pay his share of the taxation, but there is no hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not corrected!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " excellent speech we have had from the hon. Member for Blackley (Mr. P. Oliver) was an interesting contrast with the extraordinary confusion which the Solicitor-General found himself in when he was interrupted by the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon). It was clear that his mind was in a state of confusion between income and increment duty. He was pulled up and corrected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1673.3", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "Then the protest is that the exemption is not going far enough, that the exemption up to the amount of 10s. should be extended to every rich and poor landowner alike. The protest is that a distinction is being made between what is termed the poor man and the rather wealthier man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1698.4", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "preceding_text": "e will be a tax falling upon the landlord for that particular field. He may say: \"No longer will I bother to let this field for allotments,\" because the tax will come well above the more or less nominal rent that he is at present getting for it. The present income is not the income of any purchase price that he could expect. He may, therefore, decide to throw the land open for building operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1698.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major LLEWELLIN", "preceding_text": "would extend as far as Uxbridge, which is the extreme western boundary of my constituency. It is clear that in the opinion of the Solicitor-General, the oracle of the Government on this Bill whom I can quote as the authority in my constituency, that every farmer in my constituency, and there are many, every market gardener, and there are many of them, and every allotment holder, every owner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed, agreed!", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can only make a statement by leave of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1711.2", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ave taken. In substance we are satisfied. We agree that it is a compromise, and a compromise does always involve that both parties should give away a certain amount. The whole of British politics is based upon compromise. It is a reconciliation of two principles which appear on paper to be quite irreconcilable, but where sensible people, who are anxious to avert some disastrous consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-16", "file": "debates1931-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "32481223347dd4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1711.2", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For an election!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " paper to be quite irreconcilable, but where sensible people, who are anxious to avert some disastrous consequences—[ Interruption .] I have never made any concealment that that will be my object, and that as far as I was concerned I was prepared to go as far as possible in order to avert what I should regard as a disaster. Therefore, when the time comes, I shall be perfectly prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-16a.1711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1721.4", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "It is not very easy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1721.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1752.4", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "STANDARDS OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "e safeguarding of industry had completely failed. In the cutlery trade of Sheffield I found that after four or five years of Safeguarding—and the present proposal would be another means of Safeguarding—the wages for females in that safeguarded trade were 7s. weekly for a girl of 14, and for a woman of 21 years of age the maximum wage was 23s. a week. That is what Safeguarding has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1752.4", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "STANDARDS OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ten upon how well organised they are in their trade unions. It is possible to see the working people of a country sweated by their employers, whether you have Free Trade or tariffs or restriction of imports. Consequently, the Labour party take another point of view. The way we should handle this problem is not by this means. We should utilise the machinery of the International Labour Organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1752.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1788.2", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [EXPENSES OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND REVENUE].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Uncertain!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "I am suggesting that such a request would be unreasonable. This Government cannot give an estimate of the cost of the valuation. All it can do is to ask the House to make certain financial provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1809.2", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [EXPENSES OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND REVENUE].", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "sury officials will not be very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the testimony he has given to the scrutiny which they exercise in regard to expenditure, if he tells us that they are so simple and so wicked as, when they see a maximum inserted in an Act of Parliament, to close their papers and say that they need not ask anything, because they are obviously intended to spend up to the hilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1813.2", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [EXPENSES OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND REVENUE].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another £1,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "ount that we are going to allocate to you for expenditure on a certain object. If you want more, come and ask for a Supplemental Vote,\" and the House, as a rule, grants it, but it has an opportunity of scrutinising it carefully and seeing exactly how the money that has been voted, has been spent. We are suggesting that we will give them up to £2,000,000 if they find it necessary to expend it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "CLAUSE 21.—(Tax not to be included among impositions payable by lessees.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "Having regard to the very short time at our disposal, it will probably be better to accept your Ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1883.1", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "CLAUSE 27.—(General conditions.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "soil to its actual formation. When are we to consider the actual formation of the soil? Are we to go back to those geological ages when the configuration of the soil was very different from what it is to-day, or is it the actual formation of the soil after a professional builder has dealt with it? Is it the configuration of the soil after the last land burst or the last earthquake has taken place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "CLAUSE 27.—(General conditions.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Cecil!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "It is all very well to take the case of a terrace, but let us take the case of the site of the Strand hotel which is being pulled down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1884.3", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "CLAUSE 27.—(General conditions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "As regards the last question, I do not presume that was a work. I do not know whether it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1885.1", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "CLAUSE 27.—(General conditions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "If at the time when the site was inspected the actual formation of it was without the hole, it would include the filling up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1885.2", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "CLAUSE 27.—(General conditions.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. MERRIMAN", "preceding_text": "This definition which we are discussing goes to the root of the system of valuation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1885.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-17", "file": "debates1931-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "93ee38202062de81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1910.1", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND ASSEMBLY (POWERS) ACT, 1919.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The hon. Member should learn the procedure.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Under the Rules of the House this matter is exempted business, and the other is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-17a.1910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1915.8", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I desire to ask the right hon. Lady if she is prepared——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1915.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1933.11", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LEE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LEE", "preceding_text": "original answer, is the hon. Gentleman aware that both in Glasgow and in the county of Lanark there are thousands of families now living in condemned houses, and will have to live in them for two or three years according to the present building programme; and, although the hon. and gallant Member for Kelvingrove (Major Elliot) may not think them important enough for a supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1933.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady can rest assured that I am doing all that I can to fulfil every promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1934.2", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nothing!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady can rest assured that I am doing all that I can to fulfil every promise. [ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1975.5", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "s desire to run at the tail of the English cart. He will run at the tail of the English cart whether he makes this con- cession or not. He does not propose to argue with his Scottish colleagues, or give any justification. All he says is that what my English allies say must be observed. If they say cottages shall come in, they shall come in, but if they say cottages shall go out, they shall go out!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1975.5", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ve it to other Scottish Members to press home the importance of this matter on the Lord Advocate. He has made a poor beginning on such a controversial Clause as this in taking the view that the affairs of the Scottish nation are to be discussed merely as ancillary to the discussion between) the hon. and gallant Member for Oxford and the English Solicitor-General. It is a bad look-out for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1978.2", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only some!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "effect at all, it will have an effect upon land outside the agricultural area altogether. Therefore, this new-found difficulty has no substance in it. I was very much distressed to see my genial colleague, the hon. and gallant Member for Kelvingrove (Major Elliot), working himself up into such a hot passion. I was born in Glasgow and I am proud of some of the representatives who come from Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1978.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "minium utile of land\" have nothing to do with the words they are trying to interpret in Scottish legal phraseology. This \"incorporeal hereditament\" has nothing to do with the words which it is proposed to insert in their place. One has to be careful when these innocent Amendments are projected into a Bill. Instead of dominium utile, what about dominium directum? Utile here really means the tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is Scottish law!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "e words they are trying to interpret in Scottish legal phraseology. This \"incorporeal hereditament\" has nothing to do with the words which it is proposed to insert in their place. One has to be careful when these innocent Amendments are projected into a Bill. Instead of dominium utile, what about dominium directum? Utile here really means the tenant. [ Interruption .] Oh yes it does, in Roman law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS: \"This is Scottish law!\"] I agree, but Scotland has stuck very strictly to Roman law, and if this innocent little passage had been injected into the Bill it would have meant that the tenant would have been left chargeable with the tax and the directing owner would have got away scot free. This little Amendment was put forward by a gentleman with great foresight, a sunning and cubtle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.1999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2005.1", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "t cannot be accepted. The proposal is that the words and expressions which are interpreted in the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1924, shall, save as thereby qualified, have the meaning assigned to them respectively by that Act. We cannot accept that proposal, and for a very simple reason. In this Bill, certain terms are given meanings which are different from the meanings which are ordinarily used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2011.0", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " when we are working under the Guillotine procedure. If he tries to pass all these things over to the Report stage, it will take up time then which will be very valuable, and they will be brought forward under conditions in which discussion cannot be as free as now. I have listened for some time to the answers of the Lord Advocate, and a more pitiable spectacle I have seldom seen in these Debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2046.1", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ll have no burdens to pay.\" It is perfectly obvious that this legislation will be highly detrimental to the welfare of our country, and will break down a system which has been one of the glories of Scotland. Though I have very much more to say I will only add this. I see here one Member of the Liberal party from Scotland, and I hope to get sympathy from him for the propositions I have put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2066.4", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " for the payment of his feu duty. When I came to deal with the operation of his rights I said that his case was very much more like the analogy of a perpetual rent-charger in England, or a mortgagee. I have a communication here from the Scottish legal societies. I do not know whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman receives these communications or not, but, if he does, I hope he studies them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2066.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "s. What has been the result of that? Superiors possessing upon titles containing mere general descriptions have acquired rights to land for which they had never paid one single penny. As the right hon. Gentleman is well aware, nine-tenths of the foreshore of Scotland has been annexed by the landowners in that way. It is in defence of those great, powerful, intensely selfish landed interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": ", under the Clause, a right of relief against the superior, and in practice that means that he deducts it from the feu duty which he pays to the superior. That is how it works out, and I venture to say that that is right. What is the alternative to that? Is the alternative which the hon. Members opposite propose to leave the tax upon the vassal and give him no right of relief against the superior?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2069.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2073.3", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "But who does get it Do you know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2073.4", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who does get it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": ". Members will be kind enough to give me their attention. If you cannot cast the tax back upon the superior, then you are really allowing the land value to escape. After all, what is the feu duty but land value? The proposal of hon. Members opposite is that the receiver of the site value, who is the superior, is to pocket the whole site value and make no contribution to the needs of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2073.4", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "ich the Joint Legal Committee say on a matter of this sort, but it is not amiss to remember that legal societies in Scotland, as elsewhere, are notoriously conservative. I am not using the term in any party sense, but lawyers instinctively dislike change. If lawyers had their way we should still be living in the Middle Ages. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hill- head is well aware of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-18", "file": "debates1931-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "a500a0ce2f0fab47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2076.0", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "superiors said, \"We have not had the land value, and we should not pay the land tax.\" This question was decided in the Court of Session in 1602, and the Lords of Session then said that the land tax was a proper charge upon the superiors and should be paid out of the duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-18a.2076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " the House or disturb hon. Members opposite by quoting from speeches made in connection with that Motion their prognostications of evil and all that sort of thing, but the fact remains that with the assent, I believe, of everybody who sat on that Committee the Chairman exercised the \"kangaroo\" with great discretion and with a very fine sense of fairness, and the result was a most happy one indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "d experience of it. In the first four sittings four lines of the Bill were dealt with, and that was only possible because my right hon. Friend the First Lord of the Admiralty, who is in charge of the Bill, moved one of those jumping forms of closure which is legitimate. After four sittings of the Committee four lines of the Bill have been disposed of, that is, rather less than half a line an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "isible. Whether there were any that were not seen, I do not know. I will not, as I have said, deal specifically with the question of the dilatory tactics upstairs; there are other Members who can make their case on that matter, and they can be contradicted by hon. Members opposite. The only information that I have is that, more recently at any rate, the Bill has been going with tolerable rapidity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "ircumstances it would be quite impossible to conduct any debate on the Finance Bill downstairs without the Solicitor-General. I know that that point meets with agreement from Members of the Government. In conclusion, I would repeat what I said at the beginning. I regret this procedure for the sake of the House of Commons, and I shall continue to protest against it as long as this Parliament lasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": " I said at the beginning. I regret this procedure for the sake of the House of Commons, and I shall continue to protest against it as long as this Parliament lasts. [ Interruption .] I would remind hon. Members opposite once more that, while I can protest against this with a clear conscience, there is not one of them who may be in the next Parliament—I do not know how many they may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2112.0", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "re which on the whole has given more general satisfaction to the right hon. Gentleman himself. He slipped into a phrase. I am never a believer in taking advantage of a slip, but it just happened that this slip expressed what I am certain was his view. He said that his objection would continue as long as this Parliament continued. I have not the slightest doubt that, when he comes into power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Autumn sales!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSBOTHAM", "preceding_text": " very much impressed by the arguments relating to precedents. Precedents may be bad, and, in any event, it is very seldom that the circumstances are the same. In the case of the Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Bill the argument was that it was urgent because of the spring sowing and the operations of nature. No such argument as spring sowing or autumn sowing applies to the Consumers' Council Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MESSER", "preceding_text": " on the somewhat complicated point of appointments. The Amendment comes into its place at this moment in order to safeguard the appointment later on, and, whatever views we may have upon the wisest date to appoint, we cannot set the Bill in motion before the appointed day.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT ( Standing Committee D ), 5th June, 1930, col. 2132.] The hon. Member went on to develop his argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MESSER", "preceding_text": "ay have upon the wisest date to appoint, we cannot set the Bill in motion before the appointed day.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT ( Standing Committee D ), 5th June, 1930, col. 2132.] The hon. Member went on to develop his argument. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"]. I do not want to mention his name, because he is not present and I have not given him notice that I was going to raise the matter. He is well known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2128.2", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The scrub bull \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER STANLEY", "preceding_text": "The House has listened with a mixture of amusement and apprehension to the heartfelt confession of the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy). He has recounted the misdeeds of Parliament in the past, taking us as far back as the amalgamation of the railways, and bringing us up to date with what I understood to be a quite unreasonable objection to the Scottish bull.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2140.0", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "the Amendments to this Bill? Is there no way of stopping this criminal waste of time?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT ( Standing Committee D ), 5th June, 1930, col. 2140.] That was my observation at the second sitting of the Committee in June of last year. I am glad that the Government have decided to cut down irrelevant Amendments, and I hope that facilities will be given to cut down irrelevant speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2140.0", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "ater share, a reasonable share, of that which they produce. I have not been impressed with this House in the way that the hon. Member for Mid Bedford (Mr. Gray) has been impressed. I do not look upon it as a great institution. I have said so outside the House, and I have had the courage to say inside what I think about it. But at the same time I hope I have done my little bit to help to improve it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2140.0", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": " think about it. But at the same time I hope I have done my little bit to help to improve it [ Laughter ]. May I remind right hon. and hon. Members who are developing a sense of humour where it is not entitled to be present that no small tribute—and I make these observations with a due sense of modesty—can be attached to my action in regard to the measure before the House this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2142.2", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "I have not finished with the short quotation. The hon. Member for Ashford continued: That seems sufficient for a number of hon. Members anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2142.2", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: Or beer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "I have not finished with the short quotation. The hon. Member for Ashford continued: That seems sufficient for a number of hon. Members anyway. [ Interruption .] Does this Bill go carefully into the origin of the sausage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2142.2", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And obstruction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": " hon. Member: Or beer.] Let us pursue the sausage. 'Oh, where, oh, where, has my little dog gone.' 'Oh, where, oh, where, can he be? ' Every time I see a sausage I stop and whistle.\"—OFFICIAL REPORT ( Standing Committee D ). 19th June, 1930, col. 2164.] After that I wonder why there is so much objection to the desire of our Government to cut down irrelevant amendment and irrelevant speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2142.2", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would not be here very long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "t down irrelevant amendment and irrelevant speeches. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And obstruction.\"] Yes, obstruction to the point of enabling the community to get a real conception of the attitude of mind of hon. Members; of this House. It would certainly please me if some measure could be introduced making it compulsory for all the speeches in this House to be broadcast—and speeches in Committee too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "The ex-President of the Board of Trade. I beg his pardon, and yours, Sir Robert. I do not want, as did the ex-President of the Board of Trade when this Consumers Council Bill was before the Committee, to have the question of housing introduced for discussion. I never knew that houses were a consumable commodity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You make a start.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "the Consumers' Council Bill Committee. Fortunately the Chairman of the Committee ruled houses out of order and we were able to get on with the business. These are three points which will justify me in voting for this Motion to-day. I hope it will not stop here. I want further restrictions in order that Members may be compelled to filter the best out of their speeches before they address the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDHAM", "preceding_text": "out of order and we were able to get on with the business. These are three points which will justify me in voting for this Motion to-day. I hope it will not stop here. I want further restrictions in order that Members may be compelled to filter the best out of their speeches before they address the House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You make a start.\"] Such a thing would not disturb my peace of mind at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2150.9", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "I am doing my level best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2150.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2161.2", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "oughly. On another Amendment the First Lord began to argue as to whether or not the Kangaroo should be applied to the Bill. That is hardly a Committee point; that is a matter to be decided by the House of Commons. So I ask the First Lord to remember that he has been responsible over and over again for greatly enlarging the scope of the debates of that Committee which has been so unjustly assailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2171.2", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "l a process of great degeneracy, and I must say that I prefer the methods of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to those of the Prime Minister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is at any rate downright. He is the first man in this country since Charles I, at any rate, who has ever claimed to govern by divine right. He comes down here and claims to represent the Creator, and to have a mandate from Him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2171.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2183.3", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "egislation means more officials and more complicated life for the people of the country. Therefore, on all counts the practice of a Committee sitting while the House is in Session ought to be deprecated and terminated as soon as possible. With regard to the particular question as to who has been most to blame for the alleged slow progress of this Bill up to now: It has been the First Lord himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2184.1", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "than two and sometimes only one. With all deference to the First Lord of the Admiralty, that is not the way to conduct a Bill. He ought to have been a little more sympathetic towards our point of view and to have followed the example of the Minister of Agriculture on the Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Bill who conducted the business without the necessity for the application of the Closure at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "nical methods of the present Government. I really do think that we should have an explanation from the First Lord of the Admiralty, such a lifelong defender of the liberty of free speech, why he comes down to this House and tells us that the Kangaroo must work upstairs while the Guillotine works downstirs. I appeal to hon. Members of the Liberal party, those who are awake and those who are asleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " and tells us that the Kangaroo must work upstairs while the Guillotine works downstirs. I appeal to hon. Members of the Liberal party, those who are awake and those who are asleep. [ Interruption .] What is to become of the House of Commons if we throw away our liberties downstairs and are compelled upstairs to assent to any sort of decisions which may be imposed upon us by some upstart Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "f decisions which may be imposed upon us by some upstart Minister. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members opposite have a very pitiful method of intervening in Debate. Their gruntings have no effect upon argument. Look at what the Liberal party is doing. It is giving away the rights of free speech. I see the hon. Member for Mid-Bedford (Mr. Grey) laughing. I am almost a resident in his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2188.1", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ho believe in free speech and who voted for him at the last election will severely censure him when the time comes for him to ask for their support again. I see here my own Member of Parliament. How can he support a proposal of this kind. To force this important Measure through by mere brutal and bullying methods is really preposterous. I am not going to take up any more of the time of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2188.1", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": ". How can he support a proposal of this kind. To force this important Measure through by mere brutal and bullying methods is really preposterous. I am not going to take up any more of the time of this House. [ Interruption .] Having had so much applause from hon. Members opposite I think I ought to continue my speech because every word I say must burn into the minds of hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2188.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-19", "file": "debates1931-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "98c01c97b21f24d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2189.5", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL (SELECTION OF AMENDMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "I suggest that this proposal of the Government is reducing Parliamentary government to an absolute farce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-19a.2189.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Land Tax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "hey have before them the final conclusions of the Commission. I am confident that every Member on these benches will support the Government whole-heartedly in that decision. In particular, with regard to increased contributions, the Government have consistently held the view that in times of economic difficulties such as the present no avoidable increased burden should be placed on industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What article?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "I was dealing with the articles in the \"Times.\" I was saying that in 1923 the wages curve encountered some obstacle which stopped its fall. These are the words used in the article about this obstacle: This obstacle was obviously unemployment insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.76.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.77.8", "colnum": "77", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "It means that so long as you are permitted to pay sufficiently low wages, you are not to have mechanical improvements. That is the capitalist system. The capitalist system, according to these articles, offers either the lowest possible wages with no mechanical improvements, or mechanical improvements and unemployment. You can take your choice, but whichever you choose, you will not get your money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.77.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.87.4", "colnum": "87", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": " we know that we shall be able to judge whether their proposals are adequate, and how far they go towards avoiding the dangers of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer or his officials have warned us. It is absolutely essential that we should be told by the spokesman for the Government who is to reply what is the attitude of the Government towards the system of a contributory tripartite insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.87.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And no soup kitchens.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "son to know, are sending special envoys to this country not to look for the abuses of the dole but to look for its uses. Their prosperity has gone, they have a greater unemployed problem than we have, and they are without organisation. I do not want to belittle the tragedy of our problem or its gravity, but I do say that we at least have no bread lines and no unorganised problem such as they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " it even with 3,000 or 4,000 categories. The hon. Member for Gorbals may say that the anomalies ought not to be touched, but let me say to him, and to those who think with him, that the reply is, surely, this: If the fund is solvent, and men who do not need it are drawing money from that fund, they prevent a higher rate of benefit being paid to those unemployed workers who have no other resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "es. [ Interruption .] That may be nonsense, but it only means that my standard of nonsense and that of the hon. Member are two entirely different standards. Any man who is drawing—and there is evidence to prove that there are such—£2 10s., £3 or £4 a week, and is also drawing benefit, is taking money which might be applied to his needier brothers, if the fund is solvent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " year before the War, and the Government seem to think nothing of it, because the hon. Lady comes down here in a very self-satisfied way and asks for this further Vote. A year ago the Chancellor of the Exchequer was risking all the troubles of a European outbreak at The Hague, yet here is a colleague of the right hon. Gentleman asking for £25,000,000 without a murmur, without an interjection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "un the risk of finding ourselves without a scheme at all on account of the misuse of the fund. Our complaint is that the Government talk like this, but whenever an opportunity recurs, and they keep on recurring, they do absolutely nothing, forget all that they have said and try, unsuccessfully, to show the country that they are a respectable humdrum Government. It is really monstrous——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " be deducted from the limit of the amount that can be borrowed. The hon. Member for Rushcliffe (Sir H. Betterton) told us that the money left would carry us on to the autumn. Suppose that by the autumn the right hon. Member for Bewdley (Mr. S. Baldwin) has formed a Government, and that his plans for dealing with unemployment are no more successful than our carefully thought out plans——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "endent on the little finger of the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs. He may be in a minority; he may not be able to carry out his plans for improving trade, to bring in the various fiscal proposals of the several wings of his party. What is he going to do about this fund? May we have an answer to that question before the Debate is over and before we are asked to go into the Division Lobby?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "gest this to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. Why not borrow for armaments? Then we would have the City of London on our side in cutting down the Estimates, and we could pay for unemployment insurance out of current income. Why not do that? Why is it any more wrong to keep your future cannon fodder efficient than to pile up battleships and artillery and aeroplanes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tariffs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "rdice, will not face up to its financial responsibilities, it is throwing out of gear, or tending to throw out of gear, that mechanism and is doing harm not only to the people in its own country but to the people in the other countries of Europe. We cannot afford in this country to make experiments. This country is over-industrialised and depends on foreign trade and experiments may be disastrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM WHITE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Capitalism cannot afford it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM WHITE", "preceding_text": "ple, with a family of five would get in unemployment benefit 32s. a week, but the requirements of the poverty line, which means the bare minimum necessary to keep them alive, amount to 37s. 7d. a week, so that they are 5s. below it. If the family is increased to seven, they will get a dole of 36s. 9d., but the poverty line will require 46s. 2d. What is the deduction to be drawn from these figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "able to see what, on an average, would be the weekly cost per family. I suggest an average family of a man, his wife and two children. I am certain it would work out at much more than Professor Bowley's investigation shows. If, after that, they were prepared to give the measure of sustenance which represents only the bare existence limit they would all be demanding increases instead of reductions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain HAROLD BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HAROLD BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "ader of the Opposition has already pointed out, if the country is faced with a crisis, the Country will invariably rise to it, and be willing to take the steps necessary to remedy that state of affairs. Hon. Members opposite speak as if there were certain people who were unemployed who, because they were members of a certain community, have a right to be treated the same as those who were insured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Inquisition!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " woman; I would not reduce the amount which one man or one woman is to have. I have said that the recommendation of the Royal Commissions divide the fund into two, and I would say, \"Yes, you can draw benefit at a certain rate if you are entitled to that benefit as a sound insurable subject; or you can be given an amount of money under reasonable conditions which you have to satisfy \"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "ck of voting strength by prostituting every decent principle of insurance for the sake of party advantage. That is where they are going to break down, because the national character of this country is sound and good and solid, and in the long run I believe that Labour candidates and agents who go round the country telling people that if they vote for the Tories they will have lower benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "an from this country is really a credit given to the borrower to buy his goods here. That is a very good Free Trade doctrine. It is part of the Free Trade doctrine that I entirely accept, and it is absolutely true. The high credit which Britain enjoys in the world's monetary market is not merely a question of high finance but of bread and butter to our people, of orders for our shops——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scrap it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "aid that he relied upon this Commission to ease his difficulties and to find some way of curbing the expenditure of this year, an expenditure which I must remind the Committee is only £130,000 less than the estimated revenue. He expected to get something from this Royal Commission, which the Government themselves appointed. They have their report. What do the Government propose to do with it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": " piled upon expenditure and a practical House of Commons, composed of business men, takes no action to remedy the situation. It is unworthy of the House of Commons. Every other country is facing its problems to-day. The Government are bound to find their own suggestions, but the sluice gates for these abuses were opened when the phrase \"genuinely seeking work\" was cut out of the Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Miss LEE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LEE", "preceding_text": "ny real sense of the Word, but merely giving back to the community what the community ought to have, for common use. I am sorry that the Government ever were responsible for setting up this Royal Commission. The Government choose the members of the Commission, and I do not see how we can justify ourselves in appointing a Commission, only two members of which were known to have a Labour background.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": " for the basic removal of the great evil of unemployment. That is one duty to which the Government have been false. They have been false to two others. They have been false to their duty to those who are in insurance. We accept the principle of maintaining the benefit in comparison with those who are out of insurance, and that can only be done by admitting a difference in the treatment of the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And others!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sevenoaks (Sir H. Young) opened his speech with a statement that this was an extraordinary difficulty. That is the part of his speech with which I entirely agree. It was left until 10.25, speaking, as he said, not for his party but for himself and his constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"General Strike!\" \"Your Strike!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " he was lecturing us on the unbalanced Budget, and although he said to this House and to the country that he was gravely apprehensive of the tendency of a continued deficit in the fund, what he did not tell the House and the country is the fact that in 1924, when he took office following our Government, the deficit was £4,750,000 on this same fund. When he left office it was £36,750,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-22", "file": "debates1931-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "370a387b6a2368ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the insured.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "y, announces to the world that they have a better scheme than that of the Commission but they will not say a word about it, although they condemn us for not adopting a scheme of which they themselves do not approve. In the second place, speaking again as the Leader of the Conservative party in another place, the Noble Lord says there is to be no reduction in benefits, no increase in contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-22a.185.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "As English trawlers——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.218.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.232.6", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROCKWAY", "preceding_text": "May I ask, in view of the declared policy of our party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.232.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": " whether the nation can afford these luxury roads, and these grandiose schemes and whether the financial state of the country warrants us in allowing the Chancellor of the Exchequer to advance to the Road Fund during this financial year no less a sum than £9,000,000 sterling. Many of us, I am afraid, have lost our sense of proportion in regard to these matters. In Mr. Gladstone's time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "Those bypass roads will relieve some of the second class roads, and then the local councils will have an opportunity of improving the rural roads. I come from the county of Essex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "extravagant, notwithstanding the fact that we spend a good deal of time disagreeing with the local authorities on the ground that we want their schemes to be less expensive than they sometimes want them to be. The hon. Member would like the Ministry of Transport to be abolished. He can go on liking. There is no sign of that contingency at present. The Ministry is thriving and getting on very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALTER GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ing of its administration, knows that those who are the servants of the State and responsible for this administration are extremely kindly and long-suffering people. If I may give another illustration, one would very much rather, in most cases have to deal with an appeal before the special commissioners of Income Tax, who, after all, are servants of the State than before the general commissioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.322.6", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Catholic Church, or the Nonconformist bodies, or charitable organisations are going to get out of the taxpayer's pocket by this relief. That is left out. Nevertheless, the rest of the taxpayers are contributing that money. It is so easy to press for exemptions. I understand that every Member of this House on the Labour benches, except myself, has put down an Amendment to exempt something or other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.322.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.326.5", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "economy than wage earners.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th February, 1931; cols. 447–8, Vol. 248.] That was a grave and courageous statement for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make, but when, three months afterwards, he comes forward with a new tax directly on industry, what are we to think? There is no doubt that this will be a direct new tax on industry unless this Amendment is accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.326.5", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": " carrying on its business. How will this tax fall on industry? If the manufacturer owns the land, it will obviously fall on him directly, and will thus be a direct addition to his overhead charges. Hon. Members may say that it is small, but what about the last straw? A straw seems a small thing, but it breaks the camel's back, and I shall be prepared to prove later on that it is not so very small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "eling that the hon. and gallant Gentleman with his Scottish precision, but utterly lacking in Scottish logic, was going on to argue a ease on all fours with the case that I have often put up. He did not seem to see that what he is arguing for is the very negation of all that we are trying to get by imposing a tax upon land values. This is not a tax upon industry. How often are we to tell you that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "nt you to watch what happens. Whether you are standing on an industrial subject or in your own house, there is a landowner demanding rent from you for standing there. Have you never noticed that? It is amazing that one has to lecture Members of the House of Commons on a simple matter like that. This is not a tax upon industry, but upon land. In my Second Reading speech I made that my first remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is all dredged!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "That is to say, that here is a shipbuilding yard on the Clyde. It is constructed because of an, accident of nature, because of deep and smooth water on the Clyde.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "The river has been dredged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "The river has been dredged. [An HON. MEMBER; \"By whom?\"] By the Clyde Trust. The corporation is a common unit; it is a public corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are constantly reducing rents!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "k at what happens now. I ask this question of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite who may resent what I am saying. Does the landowner who is collecting rent stop collecting rent when he finds the industry in distress? Your rent is a first charge. The landowner's demand must be met annually, or, if you like, you have to have a capitalised sum in being. But the landowners collect land values now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "m in being. But the landowners collect land values now. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They are constantly reducing rents!\"] There may be some compassionate ones, but speaking generally—and hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite know it—the landowner collects his rent as regularly as the clock ticks, and with no regard whatever to the distress or otherwise of the industry from which he collects it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the owners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "values men. They take their toll of rent out of industry in this country. Rather than proceeding further to tax industry, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has an alternative plan before him. He can either increase taxes upon industry, or he can do the other thing: He can put taxation upon the rent which the landlords are receiving. You cannot have it both ways. I would advise you to take it my way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He provided £300,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "an. In London we have had an example of the application of the law of rent. Gamage attempted to have a big business near the Marble Arch. The landowner wanted £20,000 for two years and £30,000 for 99 years for the site. Gamage has gone out of business, but the landowner's claim remains. He was the land value taxer. He was the gentleman who is demanding the value of the site——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.336.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.347.5", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ason why rents paid by industry should be treated in any different category from any other kind of rent, nor does there seem to us to be any reason why industrial rents should be sacrosanct. Industry has already been de-rated to the extent of £25,000,000 to £30,000,000 and that no doubt is a wise procedure, but only if you substitute for those rates some other means of getting the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.347.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.347.7", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not proved that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had been in the Committee he would have appreciated that this is not a tax on industry, but I do not propose to go into that argument again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.347.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.349.5", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And industry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "t never to have been imposed at all, because, in order to get out of one injustice, you have to commit another. The real answer is that this fantastic proposal had better be withdrawn altogether. The learned Solicitor-General is not consistent. He makes exceptions for the friendly societies but not for industries. Why? I suppose because he thinks he is going to get votes out of friendly societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.349.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is on the rent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ng lease the long leaseholder cannot pass it on either. Therefore, every industry is going to be hit, and, what is more, the industries which are suffering most today will be the hardest hit of all. The depressed industry occupying the largest site will pay the largest tax. The industry in populous places will pay a larger measure of tax than the industry which is carried on in a country district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "he greatest firms in the world—Fords, Limited—have bought up land which used to be worth only marsh value and was practically useless for industrial purposes. That land has been bought up at a fairly decent price, but we have no right to say that Mr. Ford has created the value. Some people say that Mr. Ford is a splendid employer, but he is a clever business man at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.353.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "he Government to face up to the implications of this tax, and to state the principles which underlie it. He does not deny, and no logically-minded person could deny, that this is a tax upon industry, because in resisting this Amendment, which is designed to remove a burden upon industry, he did not base his reply upon that footing at all. He does not deny that this is fresh taxation upon industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "e that the clubs and such bodies for which I am pleading are really of benefit to the community as a whole. I take, for instance, Lords Cricket Ground, the headquarters of the M.C.C. who are the great governing body of cricket. They not only provide cricket on Lords Cricket Ground for themselves but send teams to secondary and public schools, to the Colonies and Dominions and to foreign countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "entary school boy receives coaching free, and I am very glad that he does. In September Lords Ground is used by working boys and working men. I am taking the M.C.C. at Lords as an example of the many governing bodies of sport. Were Lords Cricket Ground to be taxed it would not cripple Lords and the members of the M.C.C. as such, but it would prevent the M.C.C. helping boys and girls and such like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "ny governing bodies of sport. Were Lords Cricket Ground to be taxed it would not cripple Lords and the members of the M.C.C. as such, but it would prevent the M.C.C. helping boys and girls and such like. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] Because they would have so much less revenue. By sending teams overseas, I believe that they are doing just as much good for the world in general as the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "aying the game and learning the rudiments of the game, because it appeals to those of middle age as few other games do. I appeal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to do something for these golf courses. Unless the right hon. Gentleman does something in this respect I believe that a great many courses used by those of slender means who have started to play the game, will have to close their doors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "the different aspects which are presented by those other Amendments. For instance, the right hon. Gentleman mentioned the fact that on a later page of the Paper there is an Amendment in his name. That Amendment is one which raises the problem in an extraordinarily different form from the one which we are now discussing, and is one which would be far more easy to meet than the one under discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "n the Member for Bromley (Mr. Campbell) mentioned that as far as he was concerned, he was speaking on behalf of what one might call the non-commercial playing-fields, that is, the non-profit earning playing-fields, The Amendment deals with every kind of playing-field, whether commercial or not. It will exclude all the racecourses of the country, which hardly seems rational, to say the least of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "the appropriate town planning authority, immediately after the passing of the Town Planning Bill, that that land shall not be used except for the purposes of sport, or however they like to express their undertaking, in perpetuity. Whether it is in perpetuity or not they can choose. The result of that will be that to a very great extent the land will be de-valued in consequence of that encumbrance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "preceding_text": "Will not the value of Lords be the value that any body of capitalists would give for Lords?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.377.3", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "If the proposition of the hon. Member is correct, that their profits are all devoted necessarily to the general purpose of promoting sport among the public, they will be entitled to be relieved as a charity under the Income Tax Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I will repeat what I said. I think I made it clear that where moneys were necessarily devoted to the advance of sport for the public generally and not for any particular body of persons, it would be, in my view, a charity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.378.2", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " in regard to charitable exemptions, the matter can be substantially dealt with, and will be substantially dealt with. If it is found when the Town and Country Planning Bill is in force, and the required undertaking is given, there are any substantial cases of the class I have mentioned which are not relieved from the tax, we shall be prepared to consider them with a view to giving them exemption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.378.2", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.—(Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "nd when the Town and Country Planning Bill is in force, and the required undertaking is given, there are any substantial cases of the class I have mentioned which are not relieved from the tax, we shall be prepared to consider them with a view to giving them exemption. [ Interruption. ] The hon. and learned Gentleman opposite might, I think, give us some credit for having thought out this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "d gallant Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy), who has not taken the trouble to take his place here on this occasion, the question, \"What do you propose to do?\" Our policy is perfectly clear in the matter of social insurance. We made it clear when we were in office with our widows' and old age pensions proposals. Our policy is one of helping people to help themselves——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "elieved the industrialists by defeating the Education Bill is far greater than the burden which she declines with horror to inflict upon industrialists to-day. If she thinks this burden is not going to fall on industry, where does she imagine these £30,000,000 are going to come from? Is it to come from the sky? What sources of wealth have we in this country except the industry of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "sked to pass a Resolution which embodies no less a sum than £25,000,000. I think that this House should enter its most emphatic protest at such proceedings. I do not think the Government quite realise the position they have reached in the eyes of the general electorate of the country. The other week it was my privilege to preside over a meeting of a branch of the National Conservative League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " League. [ Interruption. ] It won Sunderland for the Conservative cause. When the details of the year's working came to be presented by the treasurer, he said: \"Mr. Chairman, I am glad to report a good year We have to report a balance of £2,000,000.\" He then paused and said: \"I mean £2, but we have got so used to talk in millions now that we do not know whether it is pounds or millions.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "the figures got down to 800,000 there would be no redemption for the Unemployment Insurance Fund. The Minister of Labour said the day before yesterday that until the figures got down to 750,000 there would be no redemption for the fund. Not a word has been said regarding the redemption of the situation in which we find ourselves. We on this side of the House feel the impact of this very seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " to 750,000 there would be no redemption for the fund. Not a word has been said regarding the redemption of the situation in which we find ourselves. We on this side of the House feel the impact of this very seriously. [ Interruption. ] I want to draw the attention of the House to the pronouncement of no less an authority than Sir William Beveridge, in which he told the country very plainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " view of the fact that I have been devoting my attention for weeks and months to try and find a comparative position between this country and our competitors in Europe and elsewhere. Taking into consideration the position that has arisen since 1929, the truth is that further you get in your comparative figures there is no other competitor of ours that can show such a chronic state of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "unemployment. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite jeer. I take this opportunity of challenging them on the point. Take the position of France. Today, according to the international figures given by the Ministry of Labour, she carries something like 77,000 people on the register. That is one-thirtieth of what we are carrying with the same population. In March she was only carrying 4.3 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.403.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "I wish to add my protest to that uttered by the hon. Member who has just spoken against the procedure of this House in voting £25,000,000 at this hour of the night without adequate discussion. The position of this country is, financially, becoming desperate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "version of the £2,000,000,000 of 5 per cent. War Loan from a 5 per cent. to a 4 per cent. basis. The saving would be £20,000,000. I will ask the right hon. Lady, the Minister of Labour, this. She said that on no account would the Government be willing to lower the standard of living—I am interpreting her words, and I think she will agree that they are right—of the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ont Bench opposite, the Front Bench of the Liberal party, and the Front Bench of the Conservative party know perfectly well. It is a perfect scandal that we should go to bed to-night, having voted £25,000,000 more for this Insurance Fund, without any attempt being made to deal with the situation. We are doing a disservice to the country. We are betraying the masses of the people——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-23", "file": "debates1931-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "f8d44c005b16c9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ecture us on economics and finance to look at themselves in the glass sometimes in order to understand their ignorance. We hear a lot of talk about the financial ruin of this country, and yet we know, although supposedly the country is on the basis of bankruptcy from the standpoint of our political opponents, that, as a matter of fact, the country was never richer than it is at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-23a.406.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "In view of the recent performances of that House——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is an absurd tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " companies' departments are arranged, all the restaurant cars and all the refreshment rooms are dealt with as part of the hotel business of the railway company, and it is obvious that nobody can go up and down the country and separate at every station the site value of the refreshment room in order to charge that department of the hotel with the tax, and not charge the rest of the railway station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is absurd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "If it does not matter to the railway company whether it makes a loss or not on the hotel business because they can meet the loss by the profit on the other part of the railway business, the question of the tax falling upon the hotels will not affect the position very much, because the railway companies can make up the business from their freight receipts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " all State schools, and, as far as I can make out, all schools not run for private profit. But you will then come up against the case of the small private school, which fulfils a very great purpose in the State and relieves it of a considerable amount of expenditure inasmuch as the children who attend it pay for their education instead of Coming on the State for it, particularly in suburban areas,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bribery!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "n charitable objects, and the land free from the burden included land used and occupied by— any corporation sole and all universities. I have no personal knowledge as to the nature of a \"corporation sole\" but the Solicitor-General will correct me if I am wrong in thinking that it includes bishops, deans and incumbents. If he will come on to the terrace and have a cup of coffee with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you put in it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "oration sole and all universities. I have no personal knowledge as to the nature of a \"corporation sole\" but the Solicitor-General will correct me if I am wrong in thinking that it includes bishops, deans and incumbents. If he will come on to the terrace and have a cup of coffee with me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Bribery!\"] I do not know how a House of Commons cup of coffee can be described as a bribe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " hon. Members are really ruled out on that line, apart altogether from their merits. Reference has been made to private schools. I think that hon. Members have exaggerated the effect of the proposal on private schools. Let us take a case and see how it would work out. Let me assume that a private school occupies two acres of land, which is a very fair area for a playing field and school to occupy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "gerated the effect of the proposal on private schools. Let us take a case and see how it would work out. Let me assume that a private school occupies two acres of land, which is a very fair area for a playing field and school to occupy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Hon. Members say \"No,\" but I suggest that the type of school mentioned, that in a suburban area, very seldom has more than two acres of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": " Why did he not go a little further? If he went across the river, or if he entered the Library of this House and looked across the river, he could see there land owned by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, a report on whose property eight years ago is a standing disgrace to anybody who says that they are going to use the income derived from that morass of vice and immorality for religious purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "urne Terrace, which is a regular morass of the vice and immorality such as you find near any London terminus. That land is owned by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. It is leased to people and hotel proprietors, who use those hotels for one purpose and one purpose only. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Bishop of London's estate derive their income from that land, and under this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.512.5", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MORGAN", "preceding_text": "arvenus of Dulwich, through the machinations of the Dulwich College trustees, keep the land valuable and this land, the income from which is being used for education, is land which is being used to the detriment of other people in the vicinity, is land to be exempt from land value taxation. I would have liked the Government to have been harsh on this point and to see that such land was not exempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE 19.— (Exemptions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "raft which is to develop this very admirable germ of an idea which my right hon. Friend has been endeavouring to incorporate in the Bill, and probably in the circumstances the matter has been carried as far as it can be carried. I think, also, that my right hon. Friend is perfectly right in saying that the issue was rather confused last night. No one was quite clear as to what had been said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Raged?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "t now, to see whether we can graduate the tax according to the degree of development, so that the person who had spent large sums of money upon the development of a site, and usefully from the point of view of the community, should not be taxed quite so highly as the man who was leaving his land unused and undeveloped. We drafted that formula in the first instance and the discussions ranged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "namely, the owners of under-developed or undeveloped land, should pay in proportion and in a proper proportion. The only discussion which took place between us was as to the proper multiple to use. The multiple suggested by them was two; the multiple which we fought for was that which experience has taught every valuer in the land is the proper one in respect of fully developed land, namely, four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five times!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ch took place between us was as to the proper multiple to use. The multiple suggested by them was two; the multiple which we fought for was that which experience has taught every valuer in the land is the proper one in respect of fully developed land, namely, four. [ Interruption. ] Every valuer of experience will tell hon. Members that usually a building is worth four times the value of the site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "t choose to do so. With regard to the one-eighth, I agree that that was a concession to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Chancellor of the Exchequer wanted every fully developed site—not merely the underdeveloped or the undeveloped but the fully developed site also—to bear the same tax and in order to meet him we agreed to what we thought would amount to no more than a nominal tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As a what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer may well behave like Pilate and ask \"What is truth?\" and refuse to wait for an answer, but I ask my hon. Friend to give me an opportunity to answer him. Naturally, as a Liberal, I would not——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "hat would happen to the fortunes of his party, because by that time the bureaucratic proposals of unemployment insurance had been transplanted from Germany into England, and the stock was going down. There were three by-elections, and what did the Liberal party do then? It is all very well now for the hon. Member for Devon-port to stand, in his youth and sublime arrogance, and repeat——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Arrogance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "on in which it finds itself to-day from the moment that they were false to the principles with which they had fired the people in 1909–10. I see that the hon. and learned Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr. C. Davies) and a few others have been looming before the country as the men who have been drafting this Clause because of a remark I dropped about Schedule A when I was speaking in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.559.5", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "Since 1906—and I know the literature of the Liberal party on this question upside down——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "se to what appears to be a farce; but if, on the other hand, one takes examples which actually occur in practice as regards fully developed sites, one will find that the result is extraordinarily different. It is quite well known among people familiar with values that, in a case where you have the value of the building less than the value of the site, you must have a very grossly undeveloped site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "rue analogy. It is upon a subject matter, the mineral, the profits from which are taxed under the Income Tax Acts, and the Mineral Eights Duty is an extra tax upon this particular source of income. It does seem that that is a true analogy, but the question whether what is incorporated in the Clause before the Committee is double taxation or not would seem to be for the moment an academic question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "se before the Committee is double taxation or not would seem to be for the moment an academic question. [ Interruption. ] I am not suggesting that our view may not be one thing and the view of other persons another thing. The whole point of the Clause, and it was expressed quite clearly by my right hon. Friend, is that this Clause is a compromise. It is an arrangement which has been come to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "of other persons another thing. The whole point of the Clause, and it was expressed quite clearly by my right hon. Friend, is that this Clause is a compromise. It is an arrangement which has been come to—[ Interruption. ]—and as to which neither we nor right hon. and hon. Gentleman below the Gangway need be in the least ashamed; it only shows that we are both endowed with common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ich has been come to—[ Interruption. ]—and as to which neither we nor right hon. and hon. Gentleman below the Gangway need be in the least ashamed; it only shows that we are both endowed with common sense. [ Interruption. ] We are practical people, as the right hon. Gentleman would have us believe his party is. As the result of the compromise, an arrangement has been brought out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "estion must necessarily be dishonest from his point of view. What about the right hon. Gentleman himself? From his point of view, there is no more dishonest man in politics to-day. For weeks and months he has been fighting against a principle which he opposed. The gyrations, the meanderings, the contortions of the right hon. Gentleman were simply the derision and contempt of everybody in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "and hon. Members must listen to me. The right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have been forced to make an arrangement. On the face of their correspondence, it was something that neither of them agreed to in principle, but it was necessary for some purpose of their own politically, which they regarded as a more important matter, to enter into this arrangement. There is no man in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "gement. There is no man in this House—[ Interruption ]—there is no man in this House, I repeat, who has less right, in the face of his record of the last 12 months, to taunt anybody. May I point out—it has already been pointed out by the Solicitor-General—that the right hon. Gentleman himself does not seem to understand the very principle which he is here to advocate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "by the right hon. Gentleman—there, of course, the tax will be higher, but, when you come to a fully developed site, that is the position that will occur. There are lawyers on both sides of the House. Many a time they appear in the courts and fight for something which they regard as complete justice for their client. Does it mean that when they settle an action for a variety of reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "site, that is the position that will occur. There are lawyers on both sides of the House. Many a time they appear in the courts and fight for something which they regard as complete justice for their client. Does it mean that when they settle an action for a variety of reasons—[ Interruption. ] I have never concealed from the House or the country why I was anxious to have a settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I ask the right hon. Gentleman, if he says that he did not compromise any principle when he made that arrangement, why did he not say so before, and not wait for six months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "posing Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, or he was abandoning principle when he made the arrangement. He can choose the dilemma. He made an arrangement when there was a division of opinion inside his own party, in order to reconcile two conflicting parties, two conflicting sections, two conflicting principles. Having done that in his own party, he has no right to impute motives to anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-24", "file": "debates1931-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "786e741001a329ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW GLAUSE,—(Reduction of land value for purposes of assessment to tax.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Sir W. BRASS rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-24a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-25", "file": "debates1931-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "30084c5d2faf0310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.600.4", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIMINAL ASSAULTS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that there are a great many boroughs where there are no women police and that until the Home Office make it compulsory——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-25", "file": "debates1931-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "30084c5d2faf0310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister of Health aware of the fact that a report made by an inspector of his Department in Fubruary, 1929, recommended as follows:—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-25", "file": "debates1931-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "30084c5d2faf0310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "Regarding the second part of the question, if the right hon. Gentleman will be good enough to repeat it next week, I shall then be in a position to make a statement. There are certain things that are uncertain——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-25", "file": "debates1931-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "30084c5d2faf0310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " local authority as absolutely unfit for human habitation. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned that houses were occupied now which, according to the date over the door, had been occupied when Prince Charlie came here. My hon. Friend the Member for Western Perth (Duchess of Atholl) is in occupation of a house with a date over the door which shows that it was occupied when Robert the Bruce was there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-25", "file": "debates1931-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "30084c5d2faf0310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "the surveys and inquiries necessary for the preparation of schemes of arterial drainage works under Section 3 of the Act are being actively undertaken. The chief schemes under examination are the Kelvin Valley Drainage Scheme, the River Annan Drainage Scheme, and the River Nith scheme, and surveys are also in progress for the preparation of schemes of works to prevent flooding of the River Lossie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-25a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since the War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Lady was only too wise in her introduction of the Bill to-day when she said that this Clause was in the usual form, and that Clause was in the usual form, and the other Clause was in the usual form and so on. What is this Bill? It is the fifth borrowing Bill since this Government came into office, and I believe that it is actually the 27th Unemployment Insurance Bill since the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "er Clause was in the usual form and so on. What is this Bill? It is the fifth borrowing Bill since this Government came into office, and I believe that it is actually the 27th Unemployment Insurance Bill since the War. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Since the War!\"] Yes, the 27th Bill since the great War. I am only mentioning that as an example of the position into which we have got in relation to this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-two were yours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": " is actually the 27th Unemployment Insurance Bill since the War. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Since the War!\"] Yes, the 27th Bill since the great War. I am only mentioning that as an example of the position into which we have got in relation to this question. [ Interruption ]. I wish hon. Members would follow what I am saying, I am saying that this is the fifth Bill of this Government and the 27th Bill in all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "aken to mean that in no circumstances ought benefits to be reduced. I do not accept that statement. I do not, however, put that interpretation upon the words of the noble lord, but I regret that the statement was made in equivocal language which is capable of that interpretation. I read that statement as meaning that benefits are the last elements in an insurance scheme which ought to be attacked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.807.5", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "heme or any measure for asking for sacrifices all round. They say: \"We will not accept these recommendations.\" But they make no proposals of their own. Therefore, personally, I should not rule out a reduction in benefit to accord, roughly speaking, with the price level. I would not rule out an increase in the workers' contributions, but I would rule out an increase in the employers' contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.807.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "st outgoings. They are borrowing for the purposes of this Fund, for purposes producing not one penny of assets, four times as much as the total amount of capital assistance lent under the Credit Facilities Act, which is money lent for constructive purposes and for enhancing the wealth of the country. But here, if these borrowing powers go through, you are simply pouring money into the sands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "schemes must be shut out. To get the unemployed back to work, the one thing is to restore the prosperity of industry. We must realise that until we do that we shall have what, for want of a better word, I must call a permanent unemployment problem. I think there is no dispute in any part of the House that the first thing to be done is to get our unemployables separated from the genuine unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have only just come in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "ven find it possible to have here the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr. J. Hudson), his Parliamentary Private Secretary, on whom devolves the great responsibility for the national finances in his absence. The House of Commons and the taxpayers of the country are invited to incur a debt of £1,000,000 a week towards unemployment insurance, but there is no representative of the Treasury present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To keep the unemployed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " the House whether they would put those recommendations into effect? Do hon. Members opposite realise that it is not only a question of borrowing money, but it is a question of paying interest of £4,500,000 a year, which takes 2d. out of every week's contribution paid by those in work? We on this side of the House are told that we have no policy. What is the policy of hon. Gentlemen opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same old story.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "our, was in censuring my right hon. Friend. It seems hard that he should be censured for reproducing in the form of an Amendment almost the actual words which the Government themselves had drafted weeks ago for the guidance of their Royal Commission. We have had a great many debates on unemployment insurance. I cannot remember how many times I have spoken in the lifetime of the present Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has been quoted before!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "xchequer's finances, neither he nor his Financial Secretary has honoured us with his presence to-day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said in the City: I have to find this year £21,000,000 to finance a large class of unemployed persons who have no insurable qualification. I think it is the duty of Parliament now to face up to this problem and to put the Insurance Fund upon an insurance basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is afraid that I may say something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman not only has a guilty conscience and is afraid that I am going to say something which is not in the interests of his party, but has abrogated to himself a function which did not belong to him, namely, to make my speech instead of letting me make it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman will recognise that this bantam, at any rate, has had all the notice it deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "had all the notice it deserves. [ Interruption. ] The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he was basing the whole of his Budget scheme upon the economies that would be effected on unemployment insurance. Now he has abandoned all that. He faces now a certain deficit. He has accepted the position of having an unbalanced Budget. Every principle of finance which the Chancellor of the Exchequer professed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "te content. I can make my point just as well by the practical demonstration as by any words that I can say. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has abandoned all those principles which he used to profess so loudly, so austerely, and which he condemned with so little consideration when they were broken by others. He has cast aside the reins and thrown them on the horses neck. He has abandoned the helm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "al demonstration as by any words that I can say. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has abandoned all those principles which he used to profess so loudly, so austerely, and which he condemned with so little consideration when they were broken by others. He has cast aside the reins and thrown them on the horses neck. He has abandoned the helm. [ Laughter. ] Will hon. Members allow me to make my point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "broken by others. He has cast aside the reins and thrown them on the horses neck. He has abandoned the helm. [ Laughter. ] Will hon. Members allow me to make my point? [ Interruption. ] We are going to listen to the right hon. Gentleman opposite and I hope that we shall give him a fair hearing. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has thrown the reigns round the horse's neck. He has abandoned the helm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " on the horses neck. He has abandoned the helm. [ Laughter. ] Will hon. Members allow me to make my point? [ Interruption. ] We are going to listen to the right hon. Gentleman opposite and I hope that we shall give him a fair hearing. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has thrown the reigns round the horse's neck. He has abandoned the helm. [ Interruption. ] He has released his control of the brakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.841.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Those who vote Tory.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "That is a strange remark for a Labour representative to make, to describe as fools millions of his own class, millions of people who choose to exercise their undoubted rights by voting for someone a little different from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.844.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tion from that great Empire built by Bismarck, who saw and understood how a nation could be made strong and its people united—all these schemes, which the hon. Members and the party opposite would have been incapable of devising, and not had the wit or the patience to devise or the power to execute, now constitute the characteristic social bulwark of the British working classes——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Johnston)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Johnston)", "preceding_text": "d, with its own independent income, to the National Exchequer when the National Exchequer had a debt which was eight or nine times its annual income, whereas the Fund had only a debt of less than one year of its annual income.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 28th March, 1930; col. 850, Vol. 237.] What does that mean? That borrowing is a virtue up to £50,000,000, but is a crime over £50,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am saying that I spoke my own view, and borrowing up to the limit of a year's income of the Fund was not an imprudent step to take in those exceptional circumstances, but you are already borrowing up to two years' limit and——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Within your means.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Now we understand where we are. Borrowing is a virtue up to £50,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-26", "file": "debates1931-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "caf99b481cd911e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A rotten Socialist Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ended benefits, there have been transitional benefits; and for the past 10 years—not for the past 10 months, when the present Minister of Labour was in charge—all parties in the State have been driven, willy nilly, to recognise the fact that large numbers of our unfortunate fellow citizens, unemployed through no fault of their own, unemployed as a result of a rotton social order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-26a.851.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-29", "file": "debates1931-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b8cff51e1f69d077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-29a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I. TREASURY AND SUBORDINATE DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "g like £20,000,000, the actual Budget figure this year being, we believe, somewhere in the nature of £34,000,000. Italy, similarly, shows an increase of some £6,000,000 on the 1922 figures. Our own Air expenditure shows no such marked proportionate increase. It is, indeed, only £2,000,000 in excess of the figure of 10 years ago, and is actually lower than it was five years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-29a.912.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-29", "file": "debates1931-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b8cff51e1f69d077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-29a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I. TREASURY AND SUBORDINATE DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Central Powers are disarmed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "orld may not be a guarantee of peace. Possibly it could be done by a country situated like Denmark, and we all honour the initiative which Denmark has taken in this direction. But the conditions of the British Empire are very different, and a disarmed British Empire in the presence of an armed world might expose other nations to temptations which they might find it exceedingly difficult to resist,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-29a.927.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-29", "file": "debates1931-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b8cff51e1f69d077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-29a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I. TREASURY AND SUBORDINATE DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Washington?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "deals. I am of opinion that up-to-date, whatever may happen in the future, nothing has been achieved by all these conferences that have been held, and by all the immense amount of pressures of argument and eloquence which has been applied. I believe that the armaments of the world to-day would be positively even smaller, certainly no greater, if none of these discussions had taken place at Geneva.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-29a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-29", "file": "debates1931-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b8cff51e1f69d077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-29a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I. TREASURY AND SUBORDINATE DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ities, but I feel entitled to probe a little more precisely into the causes of the failure of these Disarmament Conferences, and, if the Committee will permit me, I will try to do so. The foundations of world peace are strengthening among all the civilised countries of the world. That is my firm belief, but there is one country that is outside the scope of these considerations, and that is Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-29a.955.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "tion to the imposition of an additional tax, and I pointed out that what is being assumed is no imposition of an additional tax, and what I said was that before the suggested change you have got the burden of Schedule A on the one hand and the burden of rates on the other, but after the change is made you have the burden of Schedule A on the one hand and the burden of rates, the same burden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "n. They are carrying on their business where they were built, probably many years ago, and they are getting no more value from the name of the towns in which they are than if they were new factories on the outskirts, where there were railway or canal facilities, and where the land may have been cheaper than that on which they were originally built. They are there because they were put there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "ve, they would have to scrap all the bricks, mortar and machinery that they have, and would have to put up new buildings on the outskirts, which at the present time is absolutely impossible for them. I do not think that hon. Members opposite realise the terrible position in which most industrialists in this country are at the present time. They are entirely unable to raise money for new buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "uddenly alarmed about double taxation is amusing. If the goods produced by labour are taxed not once but many times there is no reason suddenly to talk about double taxation. No taxation is levied upon the value of land. Under Schedule A you levy a tax upon the profits, the income, derivable from property in land. Schedule A has no more to do with land value than this Bill has to do with the moon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "xes upon the things produced by labour—you can count them up, and you may have anything from 50 to 100 various taxes all imposed upon the product of labour—that no tax has been imposed upon land, and it is only when we come to impose a tax on the value of land that we suddenly hear something about double taxation. With regard to the formula, which emanated from the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "e could not move. Let us look at that for a moment. It could not possibly happen. These are not merely theories but out of actual practice in valuation. A factory in the middle of a town will be occupying a very valuable site, otherwise its owner would not be called upon to pay a greater tax. If the site has a high value, the gentleman can realise on his site, and can get out and get another site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1194.4", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "The value of the site must be high, and the tax will be determined by the highness or lowness of the value of the site. Therefore, the tax will be no distress to the man who is occupying a site that has a low value. If it has a high value, he will realise and clear out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1195.8", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you pay it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "value of £400,000. As he was being robbed of something like £4,000 in respect of rates, he came to the last good Government in this House for de-rating as an industrial hereditament and got a reduction on his reproductive hereditament, and he was then rated at £1,000, although we knew as members of the corporation that for the bare naked land the value of the site was £400,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1195.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1195.8", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not get the £400,000?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "he last good Government in this House for de-rating as an industrial hereditament and got a reduction on his reproductive hereditament, and he was then rated at £1,000, although we knew as members of the corporation that for the bare naked land the value of the site was £400,000. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you pay it?\"] We did not pay it. That is an example of a factory in the middle of a town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1195.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": " bring anything in the nature of strict justice in its operations. I believe that certain anomalies will arise, but I want to say this, that it is a new revelation to me to find that there is a small section, I am glad that it is small, of the Liberal party who have to-night come forward in their true colours and have broken definitely from the very policy which made their party great in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "preceding_text": "greed amongst ourselves that the proper method of dealing with this was to have the formula which was originally proposed by the Solicitor-General. I do not hide from myself that in that formula, in some instances, there were injustices, but, on the whole, through and through, and throughout the country, it may be taken as a fair compromise. You cannot have a a compromise without hurting somebody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you not fight this out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "preceding_text": ", and throughout the country, it may be taken as a fair compromise. You cannot have a a compromise without hurting somebody. [ Interruption. ] During the 20 years' experience that I had at the Bar I realised it was better to fight for your client than to try to effect a compromise. If you compromised you lost your client, and both sides hated it, but if you fought it out both sides were satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEMENT DAVIES", "preceding_text": "tion. ] During the 20 years' experience that I had at the Bar I realised it was better to fight for your client than to try to effect a compromise. If you compromised you lost your client, and both sides hated it, but if you fought it out both sides were satisfied. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you not fight this out?\"] So far as this compromise is concerned I think it is fair and will satisfy everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "This is a matter of two principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "r of that. So far we were united. The only question was whether that tax should fall in addition to another tax or not, and so far as we could we tried to meet that point. The only question is whether that will now work generally for the benefit of the country We on these benches desire to support the right hon. Gentleman in the great step which he is taking in having, once again, the land valued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "so hard to take back words; it is so easy to make a man look ridiculous if you say, \"I stand for two, you stand for five; why not make it four?\" It is one of the best known methods of compromising when an immovable object apparently meets an irresistible force—I say \"apparently.\" That is exactly what happened here, and that is why some of us will go into the Lobby to vote for this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "husband said:\" My wife and I had a quarrel the other day. The quarrel was over the painting of the parlour. I wanted the parlour painted green and she wanted it painted red. I did not want to dictate to her, and she did not want to dictate to me, and the result was that we came to a compromise.\" The husband was afterwards asked what the compromise was, and he said that the parlour was painted red.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1207.3", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "A shipbuilder who is making a profit to-day is not very easy to find. As one knows, a great many of them are organisations which have to depend to a considerable extent upon borrowed money for the carrying on of their industry, and from time to time have to issue debenture bonds in order to raise money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1207.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " to depend to a considerable extent upon borrowed money for the carrying on of their industry, and from time to time have to issue debenture bonds in order to raise money. [ Interruption. ] I do not understand that interruption; I should imagine that both the industries and the investors of this country have been greatly benefited by the process of issuing debentures upon establishments and shops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " is to add yet another trouble to its existence. I cannot imagine that that can be good policy, and I venture to suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he will find difficulties coming back upon him through the lack of earning power from which many of these great industrial organisations will suffer by reason of this taxation. I do not propose to detain the House any further——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": " this fund. The whole basis of our social structure is that the money has to be found by the productive industries of the country, and every step which retards the productive capacity of those industries makes it more difficult for the scheme to function satisfactorily. The history of the Government's policy on this question is well known. They have had reports of Royal Commissions and Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ment knew, as we all knew, how much she had been condemned by her party for her views over the Blanesburgh Report. What has happened since the right hon. Lady became Minister of Labour? What disappoints me is that she has not shown the courage of her convictions. She is not showing, as we hoped the first woman Minister would show, the honesty to say to the Government and the country what she felt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "stion will have to be faced, and faced courageously. I deeply regret that we cannot get a conference, and all agree about this matter. I know how difficult it is going to be when it comes to elections. We all know that the Labour party would promise any thing for a vote. We all know how difficult it is to go to men and women who are out of work and say to them that they must cut down——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTO R", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTO R", "preceding_text": "nd I will get back to it. I beg the right hon. Lady to have the courage to put the country even before her party. If she did that, she would have the best part of the country behind her. If the financial stability of the country was in jeopardy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has himself said that the first people who would suffer would be the poorest of the poor. That is what we are thinking of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1230.2", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "preceding_text": "present. The best illustration I have heard is that quoted by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Edgbaston (Mr. Chamberlain) which struck me as an extremely good one. It was that capital is like a swimming pool. Hon. Members opposite seem to think as long as you take water out of the deep end the poor people at the shallow end are not going to suffer. Of course, the exact reverse is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1232.6", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "s will run out on the present basis of unemployment, at the end of the year. Our criticism is that it is bad enough that this vast sum should cover the few remaining months of the year. What is really alarming about the situation, and which ought to be brought out as strongly as possible, is that this is not the last borrowing Bill that we are to have, if the present Government is still in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1232.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1232.6", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "e required, before the Government do any thing to fulfil their absolutely declared intention to put the Insurance Fund on a self-supporting basis. It is that which is the bad part; not only the borrowing, but the absolute certainty that the borrowing must be followed by further borrowing before anything effective is done to deal with the situation. That is why we ask, in our Amendment, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1232.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1232.6", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "rry if anything that I have said is out of order. The hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to object to the facts of the situation being brought out. I am not surprised, because i£ there is one thing which hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite try to do the whole time—and the right hon. Lady is included, among the members of the other sex—it is to try and hide the facts from the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1232.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1234.2", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " to do. They are taking away something from a contract which they have forced people to enter, whether they wished to do so or not. I am not saying that the people did not wish to enter into it, and I am not saying that unemployment insurance is a bad system, but if the House compels people to go into the fund it is the duty of the House to see that there is sufficient money behind the fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.0", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady say whether it is not dishonest to come and borrow again unless she had some scheme for putting the fund in a sound position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "Borrowing, when you know you have no opportunity to repay is a dishonest course. We have been driven into that dishonest course —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "Borrowing, when you know you have no opportunity to repay is a dishonest course. We have been driven into that dishonest course —[ Interruption ]—by economic circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " the Minister has been in and the fact that she has had to contend with her own colleagues, but when she states that she has been driven into dishonest courses, I am moved to wonder how many criminals at the Old Bailey have, before being sentenced, put forward precisely the same plea in mitigation of their offence. [ Interrup tion. ] The Minister also said that she had inherited a bankrupt scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "wonder how many criminals at the Old Bailey have, before being sentenced, put forward precisely the same plea in mitigation of their offence. [ Interrup tion. ] The Minister also said that she had inherited a bankrupt scheme. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] That remark is always cheered on the opposite side. Hon. Members opposite never like references to the General Strike, or the coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "not had an opportunity to carry out its contents. I would reply that the Government themselves washed for an interim report on which to base some legislation. They got the interim report but we have had no legislation worth speaking of—we have had this borrowing Bill instead. To-night, I continue to voice our protest against the complete disregard of their responsibilities by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "unwilling they are, the more conscious they appear to be of the fact that they are wrong. As I say, we protest against the complete disregard of their responsibilities by the Government and the injury caused by that disregard, not only to the fund, but also to the stability of industry, to employment and to the country as a whole. The Minister said that nothing had been concealed from the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your alternative? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " of them have any doubts as to the gravity of that position, they should recall the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, not so very long ago, when he spoke of the danger which existed, not only to Budget equilibrium, but to the whole industry of the country. It was a remarkable speech and there is only too much cause to fear that there is danger to the industry of the country at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "he Exchequer, not so very long ago, when he spoke of the danger which existed, not only to Budget equilibrium, but to the whole industry of the country. It was a remarkable speech and there is only too much cause to fear that there is danger to the industry of the country at the moment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your alternative? \"] These questions are always being put as to what our plans would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "r which existed, not only to Budget equilibrium, but to the whole industry of the country. It was a remarkable speech and there is only too much cause to fear that there is danger to the industry of the country at the moment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your alternative? \"] These questions are always being put as to what our plans would be. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!'] Yes, \"Hear, hear\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "I very much regret that this Third Reading has been brought on at this very late hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "tion has been merely to procrastinate and to delay, and to find one excuse after another for not facing up to the problem and dealing with the solution. There are rumours or suggestions once more being made throughout the country that, since the present Government have found it impossible to deal with the problems un aided, they should once again make an appeal to the other parties to assist them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "to the problem and dealing with the solution. There are rumours or suggestions once more being made throughout the country that, since the present Government have found it impossible to deal with the problems un aided, they should once again make an appeal to the other parties to assist them. [ Interruption. ] If only these ignorant, foolish and vulgar interruptions were to cease, we might get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1240.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1241.4", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "ir declared intention of taking steps to balance the fund and to put it on a self-supporting actuarial basis, because, of course, if and when they do take steps to carry out their expressed intention in that direction, then, but only then, will it be unnecessary to continue this process of perpetual borrowing of millions, and now it is running into hundreds of millions. Therefore, I do hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1241.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "[ Interruption ] I am not going to sit still under the insults that have been flung across the Floor from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "till under the insults that have been flung across the Floor from the other side. [ Interruption. ] If they can keep us here until one o'clock, then we can keep them here until 20 minutes to six o'clock in the morning, and we can adduce from this side of the House as many reasons for supporting the Government as alleged reasons we have had from the other side against the Bill now under discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-06-30", "file": "debates1931-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9181e6bd8ad73c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 4) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "I was merely drawing an illustration that, if £96 a week is necessary for him, then the amount paid to the unemployed with wives and children is not too much. Some of us think it is not enough. Those men and women have as much self-respect as some of those on the other side of the House who come in white shirt fronts and dress coats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-06-30a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not now?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "The main part of the two questions has to deal with what has happened in India in regard to civil aviation. I admit that the question asked about the amount of the extra subsidy, and I will do my best to let both hon. Members know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1261.7", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that his statement definitely commits this country to certain contingent obligations, in view of which the investors throughout the country are being guided, and that thus, in a way, we are being committed to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1261.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1265.4", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "May I refer to that point——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that two doctors certified at the inquest that, had this person not died from another disease, he would have died from asbestosis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is that already!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": " these cases of valuation, depending on the view of the valuer, cases of hardship may arise, and anyone who has had any experience of valuations knows that however carefully you try to safeguard the position as regards valuation, you are always liable to get cases of hardship. On the other hand, if you do what was done under the 1909–10 legislation, you might reduce the Bill to an absurdity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1306.7", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " inquiries throughout the country on this subject We came to the conclusion that all these serried ranks of houses, built on parallel roads, with right-angle roads connecting them, like rows of little boxes, had as bad a social effect on the population as the slums. Those conditions may not have been as bad for the health of the people as the slums, but they were worse for the minds of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1306.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some of them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": "he interpretation of a legal phrase with reference to a particular set of facts. That is an illustration of the kind of question which would have been appealable under the Bill as originally drafted. The Bill was regarded as unsatisfactory in that respect, and I, on behalf of the taxpayers in England, and the hon. Member for Leith (Mr. E. Brown) on behalf of the taxpayers in Scotland——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1371.9", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ainly of appeal on facts. That is clear from the discussion, and the passage which the hon. and learned Gentleman read from the Lord Advocate's speech said this: This is pre-eminently a matter on which the Government are prepared to take the sense of the Committee.\"—[OFFICIAL REPOET, 18th June, 1931; col. 2023, Vol. 253.] The sense of the Committee had already been taken on the English side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1371.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. When a Minister says he is prepared to take the sense of the Committee, does it mean the Commit tee which he is addressing, or——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "The Lord Advocate shakes \"his head, but we may be able to argue this out in terms of Scotland tomorrow night. I am now arguing with the Solicitor-General. Let me ask the House these four questions—first, what was in the mind of the Committee on 18th June; second, what was the promise of the Lord Advocate——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1378.0", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "matter on precisely the same footing as under the practice prevailing in the matter of land valuation appeal in Scotland. As I have said already, if the hon. Member for Leith had understood what the practice in Scotland was he would have realised, and so would the hon. and learned Member for Fareham (Sir T. Inskip), that we have given him the substance of the Amendment which he moved on 18th June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1383.0", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": " arbitrator under the Workmen's Compensation Act or by an arbitrator under some other Statute. What I had in view was that the appeal would not be limited merely to principles of valuation, but that it would be wide enough to cover the case where the Commissioners or the Referee purport to draw an inference of fact where there is no evidence to support it. That was what I had in view——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1383.0", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "distorted and ill-instructed criticism which has been directed against the Government would never have been levelled by the hon. and learned Member for Fareham to-night, or concurred in by the hon. Member for Leith, if either of them had taken the trouble to know what the provisions as to appeal are in Scotland; but in their anxiety to seize upon any weapon with which to beat the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1407.3", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The words that the hon. and gallant Member used were that it would have been better if it had been left in its original state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Double taxation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ch the hon. and gallant Member for Oxford said, with which I entirely agree, and that is that a tax on land values is a totally different thing from Schedule A, and the tax under Schedule A. I agree with that statement, and it is for the reason that we look upon the tax on land values as a new tax. It will not be a tax which will be deducted in arriving at Schedule A. It will be an additional tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "I would reply by asking, Why anything?. Why, in fact, these taxes at all? No satisfactory explanation has ever been given. In answer to the question \"Why five?\" I would say that six would be a better number, and seven would be better still, because cither would reduce the incidence of this futile and unfair tax, and, the larger the number, the smaller would be the taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-01", "file": "debates1931-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "d5437501ec184950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKW00D", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKW00D", "preceding_text": "I only want to say in answer to the Member for Wolverhampton East (Mr. Mander) that it is not true that the arguments put forward from these benches have been put forward with the object of wasting time. The only thing we are trying to do is to protect the vested interests of the citizens of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-01a.1422.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The right hon. Gentleman has not replied to the demand for the release of these men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1467.4", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I want an answer to the question. Is he prepared to release these men at present in prison?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1467.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1467.4", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "I want an answer to the question. Is he prepared to release these men at present in prison? [ Interruption .] I want to know if he is prepared to release these men. He has not given that undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1467.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I must press for an answer to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I must press for an answer to that question. [ Interruption .] I ask the right hon. Gentleman to answer that question. I must demand an answer to a question which is agitating the minds of the public of Glasgow at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I must press for an answer to that question. [ Interruption .] I ask the right hon. Gentleman to answer that question. I must demand an answer to a question which is agitating the minds of the public of Glasgow at the present time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I must press for an answer to the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "MBERS: \"Name!\"] I must press for an answer to that question. [ Interruption .] I ask the right hon. Gentleman to answer that question. I must demand an answer to a question which is agitating the minds of the public of Glasgow at the present time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I must press for an answer to the question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"] I will not sit down. The question has not been answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Protection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "harves are carried on for private profit. That is a disease which is rapidly disappearing in this country. There is no profit anywhere, and there is not much likely to be made on the docks. If this special taxation is pat on them, that private profit which causes so much objection to the Government is likely to disappear, and when it disappears how are the dockers and wharfingers to be kept alive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " in this country. There is no profit anywhere, and there is not much likely to be made on the docks. If this special taxation is pat on them, that private profit which causes so much objection to the Government is likely to disappear, and when it disappears how are the dockers and wharfingers to be kept alive? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Protection.\"] If we had Protection we might have something done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1511.4", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "at profit taken away from them. The companies of which I am now speaking have done a splendid philanthropic work in this country, and at the same time have made a profit for their shareholders, many of whom are people of very moderate means. Such companies are the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company, of which I my self am the chair man, the Metropolitan Industrial Dwellings Company——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1523.2", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "On the housing side they have had the usual subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1527.5", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " They can get out of the Land Tax by limiting their dividends either to the 5 per cent. or the higher sum for the time being prescribed by the Treasury. That is a satisfactory answer to the hon. Gentleman in regard to his particular set of companies. Everybody will agree that, clearly, you could not put any unlimited companies in this Amendment, because you would bring in every commercial company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1527.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1527.5", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "lings, and I was answering the point about industrial dwellings. The difficulty as regards garden cities is that they do cover industrial dwellings as well as others. Concessions, once they are given, necessarily lead to a demand to go one step further. It is always the great difficulty in which anybody finds himself who is good-natured enough to make a concession when pressed from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1527.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1530.0", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which garden city?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "preceding_text": "y well. I lived there for nearly 10 years. I saw the beginning of it. I was one of the first 200 inhabitants of the garden city and took an active part in public life there for a number of years. It was an active part in demanding public control, and we had to fight every inch of the way in getting control, for the citizens and the inhabitants of the garden city, over the town in which they lived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "preceding_text": "I am not making any suggestion of that kind, but let me show how;t worked out. The interests of a private company at some time or other must conflict with the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on with your speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "Then do I understand that the factory is held on a long lease by the shredded wheat company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "preceding_text": "The interest and the loan charges are all paid out of the rents paid by the tenants who live there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "he matter. The hon. Member for Bromley (Mr. Campbell) made a remark which. I think, should be dealt with at once. He tried to make some party capital out of what he alleged was the action of the Liberal party as a whole in failing to support the Amendment on playing fields which was put down the other night. It cannot be too clearly stated that it was not an official Amendment of the Liberal party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1567.2", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? It is a game.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ain, I cannot give the hon. and gallant Member an answer. Obviously, the intention of the Amendment is to deal with polo as played on polo grounds, and on the main issue it is a matter of argument as to whether this particular form of sport should or should not be included in the exemptions. The position of the Government is that this particular sport should not have the benefit of the exemptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1567.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Because it is not in!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "Why is polo ruled out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1568.3", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell it to the marines!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "or thankfulness towards the Government, because it has been a belated concession. I want to say in fairness that I protested against any form of exemption at all where private interests were making profits, but all the time there was in the minds of the framers of the Bill and those of us who are supporting it the possibility of drawing up a Clause which would exempt really genuine playing fields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-02", "file": "debates1931-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9040be39d057cfcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1568.3", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "erstand the only things which are not exempt now are dogs, horses, mechanical mice or something of that kind. Everything else is exempt—even professional football grounds. There is a football ground at Chelsea which is a positive harassment to the whole neighbourhood when the howling mobs let loose cheers at each goal which is scored. When they get going for acres around people cannot sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-02a.1568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "It is an effect of the right hon. Gentleman's tax, for which there is no compensation to industry. There is the tax, again, when the cotton, is spun, there is a tax on the process of weaving, there is a tax on the merchanting—there is a tax at every stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "t that dissention amounted to nothing more than difference of opinion. Their chagrin is quite natural. They have attempted to paint in glowing colours something in the nature of an illicit combination between two parties in the House to carry through the Bill. 12 n. What is there improper or illicit in two parties who have a great desire to carry through a broad general principle, combining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": " by saying what is the the principle of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, because the right hon. Gentleman has never disguised it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's principle is this; that it is the right of the community to own the land, that private individuals are to have only a nominal claim, and that having only a nominal claim they must pay rent to the community for the ownership of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "as there are others who wish to speak. But if the House will allow me I would like to take quite briefly two or three instances of methods. Let us see who has the burden upon him if he asserts the Liberal doctrine in relation to land values—the man who supports or the man who opposes the present Finance Bill. I start with this: Is it disputed that the present Finance Bill taxes improvements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "e down and use specious arguments to try to twist and turn their previous pledge. I do not want to use any unparliamentary language, but may I be allowed to say that they misled the House. The House of Commons is the most generous body in the world. If the Lord Advocate had come down here and said, \"Mr. Speaker, I want to tell the House that when I made that speech I was not properly primed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Now we know where we are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "time permitted, I could quote authority which would make that matter abundantly plain. It is said this Bill is going to wreck the feu system. Everyone who knows anything about it knows that that system has had a stranglehold not only on our towns, but on the country. It has throttled the whole development of Scotland, and, if the Bill is the first step towards bringing that system to an end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ow, on the Third Reading, we are able to come back from the discussion of details, which always rather obscure the principle and purpose of a Bill, to the general purpose of the Bill as it stands. What is the purpose? That land, the value of which has been created by communal enterprise and expenditure, should make its contribution to taxation on the basis of its real value. That is the principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "m the discussion of details, which always rather obscure the principle and purpose of a Bill, to the general purpose of the Bill as it stands. What is the purpose? That land, the value of which has been created by communal enterprise and expenditure, should make its contribution to taxation on the basis of its real value. That is the principle. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] On the basis of its real value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e is a real lineal descendant of Henry George and came from the same county, and, apart altogether from his attachment to the principle, there is a patriotic feeling which has inspired him to follow this great principle and make it very much his own. It is true that the three of them, and myself, when we have come to putting that principle into operation, have approached it from a different angle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not by this Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " Who pays? The motorist pays. He contributes in his licence, in his Petrol Duty and in other ways. The general public contribute in rates and taxes. The one man who does not contribute is the man who gets the most direct financial benefit, the man whose land is increased in value five-fold by that expenditure. The Chancellor of the Exchequer by this Bill will bring all that land into contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ple and that they alone are sound. Quite frankly, the one concern which those hon. and right hon. Gentlemen have about Liberal principles is this—I am not blaming them—that they want to use Liberal principles as a crowbar to overthrow the Government at a time when they think that trade has not turned and that they will be able to secure Protection. That is all they are concerned about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " about it. I have never pretended that I am not, and I have said so. The Noble Lord who interrupts me has only discovered it for the first time now. He is not very quick in the uptake. Does anyone imagine that this 5s. 2½d. tax is what has induced the right hon. and learned Gentleman to sever from his party and to turn his back on the principles that he has devoted his lifetime to advocating?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "at he has devoted his lifetime to advocating? [ Interruption .] The right hon. and learned Gentleman has been criticising and attacking and sneering for a fortnight, and hon. Members must allow me to reply. If the right hon. and learned Member imagines that anybody believes that, he under-rates the perspicacity of his countrymen. He says, \"Ah, it is not the amount; it is a question of conscience.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "t, he under-rates the perspicacity of his countrymen. He says, \"Ah, it is not the amount; it is a question of conscience.\" [ Interruption .] Suppose instead of 5s. 2½d. it had been 2½d., still it would have been a question of conscience—a 2½d. conscience. I have been taught on pretty high authority to distrust that kind of conscience which strains at a gnat and swallows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "cience. I have been taught on pretty high authority to distrust that kind of conscience which strains at a gnat and swallows—[ Interruption .]—cannot you stand your friend being answered?—the whole camel of Protection. It is no use pretending that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is merely criticising this Bill on details. The principle of the Bill has been repudiated by him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEK: \"That is not the Bill\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "earned Gentleman is merely criticising this Bill on details. The principle of the Bill has been repudiated by him. [ Interruption .] At any rate, there is no doubt that the Opposition are opposed to the Bill on principle, and they have attacked it on principle. They have never made any pretence about it, but while we have in the principle of the Bill the taxation of land upon its real value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "f the Bill has been repudiated by him. [ Interruption .] At any rate, there is no doubt that the Opposition are opposed to the Bill on principle, and they have attacked it on principle. They have never made any pretence about it, but while we have in the principle of the Bill the taxation of land upon its real value—[An HON. MEMBEK: \"That is not the Bill\"]—I must be allowed to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "t on principle. They have never made any pretence about it, but while we have in the principle of the Bill the taxation of land upon its real value—[An HON. MEMBEK: \"That is not the Bill\"]—I must be allowed to proceed. [ Interruption .] An answer is to be given to me from the Front Opposition Bench. Are hon. Members above the Gangway never going to have any confidence in their leaders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1666.1", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ves. They never taunted them with lack of principle, with being mere manoeuvrers and tacticians. They, I at any rate, did not leave behind the slime of hypocrisy in passing from one! side to another. It is a thing that I pro-I test against most strongly. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman says, \"Well, I propose to change my view on this fundamental question,\" he has a perfect right to say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "mented friends. May I just give him, as a lamented friend, a word of warning. The Conservative party will hail with rapturous delight his criticisms upon his friends and his attacks upon the causes to which they adhere. They will applaud him. They will use him to the utmost—all his powers and all his gifts—and when he ceases to be useful to them, they will fling him aside——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1668.4", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "The extremely amusing and diverting speech to which we have just listened from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) has, so far, diverted the House from the fact that at a moment when there are 2,500,000 unemployed, we are now considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1668.6", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": ": He talks about the fundamental principle of this Bill, and he gives His own definition of that principle, but that is not the definition which the Chancellor of the Exchequer gives. The Chancellor's definition is this: The fundamental principle of the Bill is to assert the right of the community to the ownership of land; and, I would add, to recover land ownership by the process of confiscation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1668.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1668.6", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Appropriation by the State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "is to assert the right of the community to the ownership of land; and, I would add, to recover land ownership by the process of confiscation. [ Interruption .] It is denied that the object of this taxation is to initiate the process of gradually recovering the right of the community to the ownership of land? The Chancellor of the Exchequer acquiesces. That is the fundamental principle of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1668.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "nbalanced Budget, a Budget which was described by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Billhead (Sir R. Home) a week or two ago as a cooked balance-sheet. The right hon. Gentleman ought to have some knowledge of balance-sheets, and I should like to hope that all the companies with which he is associated present balance-sheets which are as honest as the balance-sheet which I submit to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The £10,000,000 comes from the advance the Income Tax payer is paying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e prepared to co-operate in these sacrifices. I come now to the matter which has occupied most of the discussion this afternoon, namely, the land Clauses in this Bill, which have emerged in a somewhat different form. I never expected that I should be able to carry them without making some concession, but I was determined to maintain intact and unimpaired the essential principles of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "reducing its capital value. There is another fact which appears to have been lost sight of in this discussion. There has been a great deal of talk about double taxation. But, if this tax raises revenue—about which the right hon. Gentleman appeared to have some doubts—something can be done with that revenue. It will be used for the purpose of reducing taxation in other directions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-03", "file": "debates1931-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6db1b697a8ac9668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He will then pay the tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " the effect of lightening the burden upon industry. Taking the admission of hon. Members opposite that it will reduce the capital value of land in the future—and it is to the future that we must look for the effective benefits of the tax—every manufacturer who wants to buy a site for a factory will find that he can get it, on the admission of hon. Members opposite, at one-twelfth less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-03a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1717.9", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WESTMINSTER PALACE YARD (HOARDINGS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "Who gave the right hon. Gentleman authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1717.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1720.2", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE (PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that any communication was received, but it is equally true to say that no useful purpose is served by putting questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1726.0", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "The answer to both parts of the question is in——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1747.2", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " side that we were willing to consider something else. We put before both sides this alternative, during the negotiations and while it was still possible to get agreement—that we would make ourselves responsible for agreed legislation, and if that could not be got, we could commit ourselves to nothing, except that we would have most seriously to consider whether we should do anything at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1747.2", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sixty days!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "ble step. To use what seems to be a contradiction in terms it would have been a step of negation. The Government, after a careful consideration of the situation which was left when the negotiations had broken down, decided that it was their duty to try to give both sides further time for consideration and negotiation and at the same time to keep the industry going. The way to do that——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1753.2", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "o, that I thought one of the great problems of the next 10 or 20 years would be the reconciling of national and international interests in industry. It affects this country perhaps more than any other country in the world, and I believe—of course hon. Members opposite do not—that this reconciliation will be made more easy when all the countries of the world have the same fiscal system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "the present agreement comes to an end a new agreement should be negotiated nationally, but for some years the Mining Association, that is, the mineowners, have refused to enter into negotiations on a national basis in the manner they used to in days gone by. I can well understand that in 1926 and in the few years preceding that date the patience of the mineowners was tried almost beyond endurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "period in which to consider what would be the outcome of passing this Bill in its present form. In the first place, I think it is agreed that there is a general recognition among all parties that it is not possible to return at this moment to the 7-hour day. It would be very easy for us to twit the Government with election promises and so on in regard to that matter, but that would get us nowhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "ore, the miners in Scotland decided to carry on and work 11 full days and alternate Saturdays, That was carried on daring the winter, without complaint and in a good atmosphere between masters and men. At the end of March, however, the Miners' Federation definitely exercised their right to apply a veto, and the other districts which at that time were working the spread-over then dropped out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would have happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "re money; and they also realised, though they seem to have forgotten it to-day, that it was of national importance to Scotland that the spending power of these men should not be reduced, and that their wages should be retained at as nearly as possible their present level. On any day a miner could come to the shaft and demand to be taken up; but no such thing happened, and there was no prosecution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "That shows how great is the need there if that small organisation is still maintaining the spread-over. It also shows how necessary it is if a single body is not attacked by the Government. This is a foul deed which must not be done——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1790.0", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "preceding_text": "nion leaders who are associated with them, have criticised the coalowners and have acquiesced in the Bill. The right hon. Member who has spoken from these benches has criticised all parties, and has acquiesced in the Bill. I do not acquiesce in the Bill, and if any hon. Gentleman in any part of the House likes to meet me in the Lobby when a Division is called, I shall be pleased to meet him there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1790.0", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "preceding_text": "nment are leaving the miners in the line to fight a soldiers' battle. In every industry they are going to leave the men to fight a soldiers' battle in the next few months. Having led the miners into this position the Government are well content to leave them there. They have evacuated the general staff, and whatever happens to the miners His Majesty's Administration will still be on those benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "Is it the nature of the legislation to which objection is taken? If that be so, hon. Members so far have managed to conceal their real opinion regarding this legislation. There has been some talk about the need for continuing the spread-over discussions, but who that has had experience of the spread-over in Scotland desires its continuance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did you not prosecute?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": ", it is to go. I observe in the speeches of hon. Members opposite a continuance of the threat that, if the spread-over were abandoned in Scotland, the wages of the Scottish miners must inevitably be reduced. That serves to confirm our suspicion in regard to the spread-over. We have maintained all along that the spread-over was utilised as a weapon, in effect, to intimidate the miners——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1802.3", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ore than five years, and I agree that it is very hard lines on the Government that they should have to deal with the matter now, but I cannot see why they should not take five years also. The spread-over in Scotland has been agreed upon and I do not see why it should be given up. It would be an intolerable hardship on the Scottish miner, and no finer fellow walks the earth than the Scottish miner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1864.0", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Information to he furnished for purposes of register.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "oing to be the effect of foreign imports flooding an area, and under paragraph ( g ) they will be able to ask that question. I suggest that anybody reading the OFFICIAL REPORT of the Committee proceedings and of this. Report stage must take special note of the fact that the committee and the Conservative party as a whole thought that this Bill would be useless unless it dealt with foreign imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1864.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-06", "file": "debates1931-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b860e38d61475dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1868.2", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Submission and approval of schemes.)", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir ROBERT HUTCHISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what the Amendment does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir ROBERT HUTCHISON", "preceding_text": "r did in Committee. Many of the items recorded in the Fourth Schedule require a much more precise definition than is possible under it. Take cattle, for instance. It may be desired to deal with fat cattle but not with store cattle. The same consideration applies to the various types of cereals. We ought to know from the Minister whether it is his intention to remove the Fourth Schedule altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-06a.1868.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1893.4", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will not condemn Canada or any other Dominion——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VACCINATION (INFANTS' DEATHS, LEICESTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FREEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FREEMAN", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that vaccination is now discredited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1953.0", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for North Lanark (Miss Lee) made a passionate appeal against the reduction of living of the miners—an appeal which received sympathy from every section of this House—but, nevertheless, when the Coal Mines Bill, 1930, was being discussed here she went into Division after Division to vote for it. That Act has done more than anything else to lower the standards of the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1954.5", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "t we can get. If hon. Members opposite—I do not think they would do so—went into the Lobby with our Friends on this side and defeated the Government on this Amendment, what would be the alternative? The alternative would be that the Bill would have to be abandoned, and we should have to face a 7-hour day, which I am quite prepared to face, because I have a mandate from my men to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1954.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1957.2", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member wishes to inform the House that he is a wee bit mixed up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1957.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1979.0", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "I am not concerned with what the hon. Member meant but with what he said, and if he consults the OFFICIAL REPORT to-morrow, he will find that I described what he said accurately. This Bill means that the coal industry is to be brought back into the political arena in a year's time, and I take it to be an admission that the Government do not expect to be in office in a year's time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1981.0", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "l have to get it from the White Paper that has been promised. I want to ask the President of the Board of Trade a question which is relevant from the point of view of how quickly we may look to see an international convention put into force. The Secretary for Mines, as I understood him, said that nothing stood in the way, and that it would be a fairly simple matter to get complete agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.1981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2015.0", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "preceding_text": "e calmly contemplates at an early date a demand for another £2,000,000 in the same direction. Those who are familiar with the agricultural situation know that, owing to the conditions of agriculture and the absence of any effective remedial measures to assist agriculture to do its business, there are many parts of England where cottages are falling vacant with a rapidity which is distressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2015.0", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "preceding_text": "00,000 in the same direction. Those who are familiar with the agricultural situation know that, owing to the conditions of agriculture and the absence of any effective remedial measures to assist agriculture to do its business, there are many parts of England where cottages are falling vacant with a rapidity which is distressing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] There are a good many districts in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2021.1", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "hat within our knowledge, and while it is something to take powers so as to be able to say to a rural authority, \"If you are unable to do it, then we will do it for you,\" yet there is no power, as far as I can see, to deal with people who are unwilling. I should be very glad, however, to be reassured on that point. I cannot see that the Government have taken powers to deal with people who default.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will it be carried out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "they think fit. There cannot be more complete powers for dealing with default than those which already exist under the Act of 1930. You can build the houses, you can hand the houses over to the local authorities to manage, and you can charge the local authorities not merely with the amount which ordinarily falls to them but with the whole cost. That is the procedure for those who can and will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-07", "file": "debates1931-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ce52716a0bd64a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "y draw the line at rural districts, but will have to include urban districts also. Some rural districts in the county to which my right hon. Friend referred are far richer than a great proportion of urban districts. I will take the case of the Epsom Rural District Council. Its general rate is 6s. 2d. in the £, its 1d. rate produces £1,529, and it can build 100 houses for a ¼d. rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-07a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2150.2", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "al problem is the gift of a live pig, the prize in a clock golf competition. Then we have an excellent boxing programme, with a contest between Harry Crossley of Mexborough and Kid Moose of Southport and so on. As the hon. Baronet's contribution to the aid of industry, a Morris Minor saloon car is to be \"given away absolutely free—see big bills.\" The poster says \"What a day's entertainment!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2152.2", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": " heavy attractive boxing programme, a first-class sports programme, two high class band contests, a tip-top stage performance, a bit of sport winning a live pig, and a chance to win a Morris motor car—all for 1s. 2d. All these attractions are apparently necessary in order to interest the populace sufficiently to go and listen to the hon. Baronet the Member for Smethwick. I support this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2163.0", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "preceding_text": "claims disallowed on the ground of not being normally employed in insurable work was 65; in 1929 in the first six months of that year the number of claims disallowed on that ground was 79; and, after the passing of the Government Bill abolishing the not-genuinely-seeking-work condition, we find that the number of claims disallowed in three months on that ground in this year was no less than 2,007.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2174.0", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERVAIS RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "an extent which, in their judgment, requires urgent legislative action, in justice to the enormous number of persons who are genuinely insured and who, therefore, have a direct interest in the whole scheme being made actuarially sound, and in justice also, in my view, to the country, which is faced, as we know on the most unquestionable authority, with the terrible dangers of an unbalanced Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2194.0", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the bread line?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "eceiving, to work three weeks on and two weeks off, and in that way the personnel necessary to carry on the business was maintained. There was no ease of anybody creating anomalies or trying to get money to which they were not entitled; and at the same time the personnel of the works are kept in a state of efficiency and are ready, when world markets improve, to seize the opportunity and go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2194.0", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "h I wish to congratulate the Minister, and that is Clause 3. There she has taken power to transfer workers from one part of the country to another, and in that respect she has made a start towards dealing with the problem presented by those of our industries which have redundant workers, many of whom, as the Government know, will never again find work in the industry in which they were brought up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "these reports and regulations can only be discussed after Eleven o'clock at night, and he protested bitterly. I know, and we all know on this side of the House, that makers of eloquent speeches earlier in the evening frequently leave before Eleven o'clock, particularly when there is an all-night sitting, and leave the loyal Members to do the hard grind through the early hours of the morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": " on this side of the House, that makers of eloquent speeches earlier in the evening frequently leave before Eleven o'clock, particularly when there is an all-night sitting, and leave the loyal Members to do the hard grind through the early hours of the morning—[ Interruption .] Surely, Eleven o'clock is not too late to ask the hon. Member to stay. He is eloquent enough at Five o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2202.5", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "What was the complaint that he professed to have? It was that certain hon. Members in his party have been more faithful to their principles than he has. They have had the courage to stand up in this House, without hope of any reward, to speak for those who elected them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2210.0", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is not present, so perhaps the hon. Member will allow me to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2210.1", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A bit of Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "use with any socialistic scheme for solving the problem of unemployment? What is there to stop them? At one time it could be said that they had not got a majority, but we know now that they have got the most obedient, the most docile, the most servile majority in this House. Can they be afraid that the Liberal party, which last week voted for the nationalisation of land by a gradual process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2210.1", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "which to go to the country and something for which to ask for a majority. We do not believe that they have any scheme, because if they had, they would have brought it forward long before now. The fact is that they have no policy, they have no scheme, they have no plan, and this Advisory Committee, this Bill that we are discussing to-night, is simply a smoke-screen put up to conceal a vacuum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2217.0", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Guillotine?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "preceding_text": "est that you can. In Clause 4, there is a proposal providing that the scheme will be ready in three months' time, and the committee ought to be set up, chairman and members complete, in about six weeks. 11.0 p.m. Let me now turn to what has been said about giving up the powers of the House under this Bill. We are the last party in the world to try to take away from the House of Commons its powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2217.0", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "preceding_text": "uble the average wage. I am not in favour of paying a man of that kind unemployment benefit. I do not want to use strong words, but I know the words my own people would use about cases of that kind, and if I want to hear strong words on this question I can go to my own people. I do not claim a very high moral standard, and I do not claim that I am the only person whose heart beats for the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2217.0", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Did not the poor provide the suit you are wearing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "preceding_text": " want to hear strong words on this question I can go to my own people. I do not claim a very high moral standard, and I do not claim that I am the only person whose heart beats for the workers. [ Interruption .] I was earning my living at an age when many people who talk about the poor and about the workers were preparing for the university, and I have been actually poorer myself than most people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2225.0", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " that they -cannot even imagine that there are other people quite as good as they are themselves. Let them get it out of their heads that we look upon them as being superior persons. When they can talk as equals, we will talk with them. When they sit in solitary grandeur and pride themselves that they are the best and noblest and that they alone look after the poor. We listen with amused contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2112.0", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "l is being broached this afternoon. The question is, Can this House directly control the enormous schemes for which it is ultimately responsible or are we to adopt the principle of the statutory commission, such as we have in the case of the Electricity Commission and the British Broadcast Corporation—the new 20th century idea of a removal of administration from the attack of the electorate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2121.0", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "s, and bloodshed, and a complete upheaval of our commercial and industrial system. There has not been a life lost, and scarcely a pane of glass broken. I say that, with all the abuses, and they are great, the expenditure of the country has not been altogether wasted, and hon. Members above the Gangway, representing, as they do, in many respects, the great financial interests of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2140.6", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "May I put this point to you, Mr. Speaker? All the speeches that have been delivered already, with the exception of the speech of the Minister of Labour, have been speeches against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2140.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2144.3", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "oper test which, in the event of his refusal, would properly disqualify him. No, it is the abandonment of all these work schemes by Liberal party and Labour party alike, which places them in this dilemma. To-day the spokesman of the Liberal party comes along, not with proposals to put 600,000 men into work or to put one man into work. All that has been dropped since the new alliance and coalition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-08", "file": "debates1931-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d37a2e42bf2fe064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2148.0", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With satellites!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "ly claiming that to which they are entitled by law. I have taken the trouble to look up the meaning of the word \"anomalies\" in Webster's Dictionary, and I find it there defined as \"an irregularity,\" or \"a deviation from the ordinary rule,\" or, in astronomy—and this is a definition which I feel sure will commend itself to the hon. Member for Smethwick—\"the irregular motion of a planet.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-08a.2148.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2268.1", "colnum": "2268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX EVASION (REWARDS TO INFORMERS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "By a Tory Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it is true in this case that a proprietor of this firm was granted a knighthood?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2291.9", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "lytheistic religions of the world. There is no doubt that certain practices of the Moslems are considered by Hindus on the one hand, and certain practices of the Hindus are considered by Moslems on the other, to be the most appalling blasphemy. Friends of mine, Hindu and Moslem, have said to me that certain practices of the one or the other made them sick not merely to see, but even to read about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2291.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2311.3", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cawnpore and Dacca!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": " to preserve public order, but as a result of the conference, and of the impression gained by the delegates of the conference, and the desire and opinions of Members of all parties in this House, we sent back to India a series of qualified and authoritative missionaries, ambassadors of peace, who were able, with the brilliant assistance of Lord Irwin, to secure peace where there had been conflict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2315.11", "colnum": "2315", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Simon Commission!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "e been made for peace have been successful. We have extended the area of good will. We have extended the area of co-operation. We are looking forward to the time when we shall have in this country representatives of all sections of Indian opinion who are also seeking for peace. What is the alternative? After all, it is useless to challenge our policy unless you are going to suggest an alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2315.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2315.11", "colnum": "2315", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "ng back to India from their mission of peace broken-hearted, going back to find that they had failed in their efforts to produce an understanding between the two countries. The right hon. Gentleman in a recent speech spoke as if the delegates to the Round Table Conference had been pushed into the background. I remember the sentence well—\"pushed into the background.\" Does he realise that now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2315.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2320.4", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I listened most attentively to every word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2320.5", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "The answer has been given, and the right hon. Gentleman must be satisfied with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2350.0", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Australia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "moment we have to face another assumption of responsibility and new liabilities have to be put upon our finances. I should like to know what is the sense of talking from that bench almost in the same breath about Dominion status and guaranteed finance. The two terms are identically contradictory—responsible government and guaranteeing finance. There is no meaning whatever in such statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2350.0", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ration is of the utmost gravity and consequence. We have had the Report of the Commission which has examined into the state of labour in India—the Whitley Commission. Certainly, that Report should be read by Members of this House with the same attention with which they have read these other publications. The shocking conditions which are revealed to exist in the mills throughout India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2350.0", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "cations. The shocking conditions which are revealed to exist in the mills throughout India—[ Interruption ]—are indeed most painful, and I am not at all surprised that hon. Gentleman should be eager to say that this disgraceful condition has occurred under British rule. Why did it occur under British rule? Because British rule has not been exercised with that thoroughness——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2350.0", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " you now have to negotiate, but who cannot guarantee the execution of any instrument which may be arrived at and by which you will be bound. On the other hand, opinion in the Conservative party and in the Liberal party—I do not care what is said in dispute of it—is steadily stiffening. I feel a very different atmosphere now from what there was in the days of the Round Table Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2355.0", "colnum": "2355", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " the last Government, from 1924 to 1928 and 1929, there were a number of Cawnpores although not so intense and not involving so many casualties. Was there no blood upon his hands if these accusations are made against right hon. Gentlemen opposite? His suggestion that what has happened under the Irwin-Gandhi agreement is the cause of all this trouble, he must know to be untrue on his own statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2356.1", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only a Primitive Methodist could do that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "pal, who has played so splendid and conspicuous a part in recent months. In every speech they asserted that they claimed for their country the right of India to manage her own affairs. What right has he to attribute to them dismay at watching this hideous act of self-mutilation? In another part of his speech he referred to the Christians. What authority has he to speak for the Christian community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2356.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2358.0", "colnum": "2358", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Was that before Mr. Gandhi spoke against the missionaries?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "t does not respect Indian sentiment and make for the recovery of national self-respect. We, therefore, urge that the principle shall be fully and frankly recognised, that the determining factor in laying down the lines of India's future constitution should be the wishes of the people of India. I tender that. What has the right hon. Gentleman to tender in claiming that he speaks for the Christians?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2360.8", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has no right to comment on a point of Order which was perfectly properly put by me. He has commented upon it in a characteristically offensive way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2360.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2362.1", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "country was the division of the parties and that the danger in India was the antagonism between the communities. \"Anyone,\" he said, \"who wanted to destroy the settlement would try to break up the unity of parties in this country and to increase the communal antagonism in India.\" It is our duty to assuage and lessen that antagonism, to take a self-denying ordinance, and to put a seal upon our lips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2362.1", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "urselves some here would have said, \"Fight it out.\" That is the policy that some Members behind me apparently would have welcomed. Either it has to be fought out now or settled by arbitration. What third course is possible? Fifty or sixty or a hundred years ago, if our position in India had been that which it. is now, we should have said, \"We will fight it out.\" Now we say, \"We will talk it over.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2378.1", "colnum": "2378", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "many years of my life closely connected with a large Government institution which has tried and done much to improve the housing conditions of Bombay. The greatest difficulties are in front of a movement of that kind. It is easy to build houses, street after street has been built throughout the city and suburbs of Bombay, but it is much more difficult to get the people to live in the new quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2396.0", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST BENNETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST BENNETT", "preceding_text": "ment for life downwards. That is truly out of date, and I hope I may have an assurance from the Secretary of State that none of these executions have yet taken place of men captured in fair fighting with unexampled courage against tremendous odds. I know that these men are being condemned in Burma on the ground that they are levying war against the King—that they are in a state of rebellion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2415.3", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "ake great additions to the police. For example, as illustrations, the numbers were Madras 600, Bombay 2,200, Punjab 900, the United Provinces 1,224 and so on. I am completely in accord with the right hon. Gentleman as to the necessity for maintaining public order, but I devoutly hope that, in the condition of civil quiet which prevails, it will be possible to dispense with these additional forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2415.3", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "ditional armed police in connection with the civil disobedience movement. We must also take into account, in this connection, the severe financial stringency which faces the Government of India to-day, and the prime necessity of seeing that their expenditure comes within the ambit of their revenue. I am tempted to say a word about the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2417.1", "colnum": "2417", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly willing to put at the service of the right hon. Gentleman any officials of the Government, either here or in India, to answer any questions he cares to put", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2417.3", "colnum": "2417", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "No; I cannot give any such undertaking. With regard to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Eipping, I do not take these effusions of his too seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2417.3", "colnum": "2417", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENN", "preceding_text": "ard to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Eipping, I do not take these effusions of his too seriously. [ Interruption .] I commiserate with him on the fact that in the newest of new parties there are already divisions. The hon. Member for North Paddington (Mr. Bracken) is not in agreement with the right hon. Gentleman on the subject of his Motion on the Paper. I think that that is deplorable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-09", "file": "debates1931-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9faa0e1e904b6edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2427.6", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE E.—(Right of appeal against removal of name from Register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "It is not my desire to keep the House long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-09a.2427.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-10", "file": "debates1931-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f6552a1d9abb919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2449.1", "colnum": "2449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in the workhouse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "ing a certain rent, and others under the Chamberlain Act paying a certain rent, while others under this Act are paying a much reduced rent. I do not know how this differentiation in rent is going to be defended to the people living in those areas. It is no use quoting to them particular Sections from the Statute and saying, \"I am very sorry, but you are in a Chamberlain house or a Wheatley house\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-10", "file": "debates1931-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f6552a1d9abb919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2462.1", "colnum": "2462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. QUI BELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bricks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. QUI BELL", "preceding_text": "agree also with the remarks that have been made with regard to costs. I believe that the costs of building are as low now as they will ever be in the lifetime of any of us here. After all, wages are a fixed quantity, and in the building trade to-day are, at most, 1¾ times what they were pre-War. The only materials I know of in which a reduction can be hoped for are slates, particularly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-10", "file": "debates1931-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f6552a1d9abb919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2494.2", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "a grant to help rural districts, and Members who represent rural areas will naturally be grateful for it, but what about the urban areas? I feel certain that, if this act of generosity on the part of the Government in regard to housing had been carefully considered, they would have come to the conclusion that the urban and municipal areas really deserve this grant almost more than the rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-10", "file": "debates1931-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f6552a1d9abb919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2501.0", "colnum": "2501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "horities would not move even with a big \"bribe of 75 per cent., and they had to be promised that they would be relieved of all expense except a penny rate before they really undertook building. That was a most expensive and extravagant scheme. Why is it that we object in theory and in principle to this question of subsidies? It is very clear that the subsidy often finds its way into other pockets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-10", "file": "debates1931-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f6552a1d9abb919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2501.0", "colnum": "2501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the children?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "houses for the poorest of the working-classes. With every sympathy for working men, and with every desire that they should have the best which they can possibly use, I think it is quite wrong for certain classes of workers, those who are casual and careless, to be put into these new houses. I do not say that they are not often improved thereby but that is not putting our resources to the best use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-10", "file": "debates1931-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f6552a1d9abb919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2509.1", "colnum": "2509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is more than they are worth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "han to build him a new cottage for which he has to pay a rent of 4s. 6d. I should like to impress upon the right hon. Gentleman the Lord Privy Seal that the agricultural labourers of this country will not thank him enthusiastically for cottages at 4s. 6d. They are getting now, from the much abused and much despised landowners, in hundreds and thousands of cases, cottages at 1s. 6d. and 2s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-10", "file": "debates1931-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f6552a1d9abb919", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2511.0", "colnum": "2511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "n to state what we have done for the benefit of agriculture. This afternoon we must confine ourselves to a specific measure for providing houses for the agricultural labourers which our predecessors never dreamed of providing. I do not wish to make a provocative speech, particularly as I understand that by general agreement it is desired, if I sit down in good time, to get through another Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-10a.2511.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (FOREIGN MATERIALS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "preceding_text": "Would it be possible to find out the extra cost per house involved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.22.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY, NORTH RIDING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order‡", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "But if the local authorities do object, will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "Clause is optional—it says: Subject to the approval of the Minister a scheme may provide\"— and so on—the Clause is headed, by a strange irony: Regulation of marketing and encouragement of co-operation. We are asking farmers to support a scheme for the better marketing of their produce, and at the same time we are asking them to allow some Government inspector to come along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "he Clause is headed, by a strange irony: Regulation of marketing and encouragement of co-operation. We are asking farmers to support a scheme for the better marketing of their produce, and at the same time we are asking them to allow some Government inspector to come along—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—we are asking them to vote for a scheme which may provide that a Government inspector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "us things in order to see that they are complying with the scheme. With a view to helping forward the acceptance of these schemes, I would suggest to the Minister that he should consider this point. These schemes are to be put forward by agriculturists themselves, and I suggest that he should allow those who are working the scheme to decide what they think are the necessary steps under the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "It was generally of the largest size. I am very glad indeed that that step forward has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.54.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must have misunderstood me if he thought that I said that. I said that it represented the greatest organisation of consumers in the country, but, of course in some branches there are many other activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " condensing operations would cost, and the like. The Postmaster-General and the Minister of Agriculture propose to arm the Commission with powers which would enable it to go to trade rivals of the Marketing Board to get the information. Under this Sub-section it could require United Dairies, for instance, to show the whole of their books, the whole of their costs and give it all their information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": " not impress me in the very least, because, under the Act of 1921, the chairman of the tribunal certifies the offence to the High Court or the Court of Session, That means that, if a witness fails to answer, the chairman cannot deal with the witness at his own hands as for contempt of court, but has to refer the matter to the Judges of the High Court in England or the Court of Session in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": ";and, of course, it is necessary—it none the less ceases to be a reason why this tribunal should not exercise the powers, which in 1921 Parliament was prepared to give to it, upon condition that it sat with the searchlight of publicity upon it, except on the very special and few occasions that in the words of the Act it was in the public interest inexpedient that it should not sit in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.159.4", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "I have the reference to the statement here, and it appears to have been in the course of a discussion in which the Food and Drugs Act and other Acts were mentioned. I do not propose in this Bill to appropriate the Food and Drugs Act or anything of that sort. This is a definition of \"agricultural product.\" It ought to include milk. Milk is an article of drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "There has been much talk about the manufacture of power spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.168.7", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUGDALE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the Empire!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUGDALE", "preceding_text": "n £50,000,000 and £59,000,000 worth of milk.\" What have we to do with this industry? Surely, common sense must tell us that we have to build up factories in order to deal with this industry. When we look at the statistics of the cheese industry we find that we only manufacture £3,000,000 worth of cheese in this country, whereas we import £12,000,000 worth of cheese from abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.168.7", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUGDALE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUGDALE", "preceding_text": "ndition of the industry in that part of the counry. It is the same in other parts of the country. Will this Bill do anything to relieve their distress and their present crisis? The other class of farmers who have been suffering during the last few years are the fruit farmers. Will the fruit farmers in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and other parts of the country benefit as a result of this Measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman the Minister of Agriculture. Probably he will not be a very busy flea. I hope and trust that he will see that the more he restricts his activities the better chance the Bill will have to operate. There is all this interference and inquisition, and I say that the producers of the country are going to be pinched between the pincers of compulsion and the thumbscrews of inquisition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": "n the pincers of compulsion and the thumbscrews of inquisition—[ Interruption ]—at every stage. The Minister has the reputation of being a most mild mannered Minister—and most deservedly so. In Debate he wears a velvet glove, but the Debates have lasted so long that the gloves are becoming rather worn, there are some holes an them, and peeping through those holes, what do we see?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de ROTHSCHILD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de ROTHSCHILD", "preceding_text": "and I read: Peter the Great commenced the system of regulating and interfering with the trade and manufactures in Russia. Another example added to those of Cromwell, Frederick the Great, Louis XIV., Napoleon and Mehemet Ali, showing that warriors and despots are generally bad economists, and that they instinctively carry their ideas of force and violence into the civil policy of their governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "Before we part with this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "Before we part with this Bill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"]—the House ought to know the real desires of farmers with regard to the marketing of agricultural products. The hon. and gallant Member for Galloway (Major Dudgeon) made a statement about agricultural opinion in Scotland and said that the National Farmers' Union in Scotland had always supported this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "I make that statement and I defy any hon. Member opposite to contradict it. I propose to prove my case from the National Farmers' Union's own statements. It is true that they have supported agricultural marketing, but what they want is control of imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "o discuss with you the question of control of imports which it is hoped might be added to the Government's Marketing Bill or passed separately and simultaneously. That was from the Union branch in my own constituency. I have also here an official document of the National Farmers' Union of Scotland. It is dated 12th March of this year. I will read the whole letter if the Minister wants me to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "sed to the Bill unless it contained the control of imports. A member of the Government said I was wrong, so I asked the Chamber of Agriculture again, and they informed me that the memorandum of the Chamber, dated November, 1930, expressed generally the views of the Chamber on the Bill, and that if there was to be no control of imports it might be taken that the Chamber did not approve of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "es and to promote orderly marketing will be crippled in its efforts unless protected from the operations of speculators. It follows, therefore, from what I have said that a good many of the organisations in Scotland are opposed to this Bill unless it contains provisions for the control of imports. I want to go further than that and to show why it is absolutely necessary to have control of imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir ROBERT HUTCHISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir ROBERT HUTCHISON", "preceding_text": "o improve prices. If it is to improve prices, you have to set off against that the investigation committee's, the consumers' committees, and they are out for the very reverse of what this Bill proposes to do. It is perfectly certain that the Bill as at present drawn is no earthly good to our farmers in the North. They have a financial liability with no possible chance of advantage out of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HUTCHISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HUTCHISON", "preceding_text": "This Bill is going to affect our agricultural community for which I have a great regard. You have taken power in this Bill to coerce a minority which I consider is far too-large. You are to compel them to come into this measure whether they want to do so or not, and you are to compel them to come into a financial liability whether they want to do so or not. I think that is monstrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HUTCHISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HUTCHISON", "preceding_text": "kets which have been built up for generations, which have been in existence for over one hundred years, and which have helped farmers through very difficult times. This Marketing Bill ought never to be supported by any reasonable or substantial farmer. Then you have the very difficult question of price. How on earth are you to control prices in this country if you do not deal with foreign imports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HUTCHISON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HUTCHISON", "preceding_text": "ryone who has had anything to do with the marketing of cereals knows that there is a limited market, and, therefore, if you allow unlimited imports as opposed to controlled prices for home cereals you are going to create a very difficult situation for the farmers. Not one word has been said by the right hon. Gentleman with regard to dealing with potatoes. This is purely a milk and hops Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": " hon. Members above the Gangway we should not be here at this hour. It is because they are quite sure that it will work that we are having all this fuss. I noticed that the hon. and gallant Member said that the Bill would be useless unless they controlled imports. Control of imports in relation to hops is an outstanding example. You had a £4 duty on hops and your hops came down to 50s. a cwt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.195.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "u threw the whole hop industry into chaos. I want to point out, on the other hand, in relation to butter, that you had an advertisement from two of the largest local authorities in the \"Farmer and Stockbreeder,\" and other papers, asking for tenders for British butter. That advertisement was from two of our largest institutions, and they did not get a single tender for the supply of British butter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Bill be now read a Second time.\" Hon. Members have no doubt looked at this Bill and are aware of the principal contents of it. The usual practice in these Bills is followed, and the amount I am asking for is £30,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury says that he does not think he need take up the time of the House to explain this Bill. A more cynical form of disrespect for Parliament I have never heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "l by saying it was a normal and ordinary Bill, just £30,000,000, which the House of Commons has always passed in past years. He knows, as a matter of fact, that we have not passed this Bill automatically and that we have not taken the Second Reading at this hour of the night. I ask the House to consider how it likes the country to see it at this hour not very burdened with a sense of gravity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-13", "file": "debates1931-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "a7084548b3da06a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "] The interruptions are quite characteristic. This is the atmosphere in which we are discussing an addition of £30,000,000 to our Debt, and hon. Members opposite think it a sufficient reply to say that the benches behind me are empty. I shall not pause to discuss whether the benches should be empty or filled, but it is a fact that the House is half empty and quite unfit to discuss the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-13a.202.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE (BONUS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not tell the House?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I received the deputation this morning. I have arranged for the issue in the usual way to the Press of a report of the proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.236.6", "colnum": "236", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So we are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry that the right hon. Gentleman's last statement should be true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.236.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.236.6", "colnum": "236", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "posed to-night to dispose of the Committee stage of the Housing (Rural Authorities) Bill, and the Second Reading of the British Sugar Industry (Assistance) Bill. There is a small Bill, the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, which has come down from another place where it has received no opposition. I hope it will be received here with unanimous assent. If it is possible to get that Bill through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.236.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I do not want to enter into an argument with the hon. Member. I come from a rural area and I know that one of the restrictions in that area was that if relatives visited you in one of those cottages they were breaking the regulations as soon as they dared to go into the cottage. Those regulations were made by the landlord. Relatives or friends could not be guests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " House laid down most prudently, the houses for which that money was to be spent—the size of the houses and the area of the houses. Everybody remembers those Debates except the Minister of Health. The Minister, in his Opposition days, was all for tying the hands of the Government of the day, and now he says: \"Well, other Governments are not to be trusted, but my Government is to be trusted.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.277.2", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " be exceptional cases. What area will not be able to prove that it is dealing with exceptional cases 1 The right hon. Gentleman says that this applies, in particular, to certain regions in Scotland, but there are regions in Wales which can make just as strong a case. The whole finance of the scheme has been abandoned. Therefore, when the Minister is talking of houses running up to £500—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.277.2", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Gentleman says that this applies, in particular, to certain regions in Scotland, but there are regions in Wales which can make just as strong a case. The whole finance of the scheme has been abandoned. Therefore, when the Minister is talking of houses running up to £500—[ Interruption ]. I am only quoting the Minister's own words. The £500 was the Minister's statement and not ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.277.2", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "here are regions in Wales which can make just as strong a case. The whole finance of the scheme has been abandoned. Therefore, when the Minister is talking of houses running up to £500—[ Interruption ]. I am only quoting the Minister's own words. The £500 was the Minister's statement and not ours. [ Interruption .] The Minister will not deny that £500 was the figure mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly willing to put my recollection against the recollection of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I remember very well the passage which the Minister used, but I was distinctly under the impression that the right hon. Gentleman also used the illustration of a house running up to £500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "to be paid to live in them. I presume that that is what the shilling-a-week cottages are like. If there are no proper sanitary arrangements and no water supply, the tenants often have to go a quarter of a mile to fetch water from a running stream. How nice and handy that is! I should like to see some hon. Members opposite having to go a quarter of a mile on Sunday before they can get a cup of tea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "eeded if this Act is to be administered with proper economy and substantial justice to the persons concerned. The underlying fear in the minds of those who have spoken in favour of this Amendment is as to whether this supplementary Act is going to be a check upon our main housing proposals—whether it is going to induce workers not to apply the Act of 1930 and the Housing (Rural Workers) Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "sing (Rural Workers) Act by means of administration. We desire that, under the Acts both of 1926 and of 1930, every local authority that can shall do its best. To say that we are not to help the poor people who cannot help themselves unless they have already helped themselves—and that is what the Amendment says—would be to make the whole Act a silly piece of work which could not stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You made a mistake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "I certainly should not say that the provision of the 2,000 steel houses did not contribute in some way to dealing with the housing problem in Scotland. I was one of those who did not oppose the building of steel houses, but what I did object to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "g him aright—by building more houses, you could therefore build them considerably cheaper. It will be remembered that he made that speech in February, when he opposed the idea of a subsidy. Since that date, he has accepted the idea of a subsidy. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Penryn and Falmouth was not very gallant when he accused the Minister of helping to put whisky in his water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "th that or not, she does not want to see the cost of building go up to-day. If by Regulation a limit were imposed on the rent that can be charged, it would act as an automatic brake on a rise in the cost of housing. My hon. Friend the Member for Grimsby (Mr. Womersley) pointed out the other day that whenever you have a great national pool, a gift from the State, everyone wants a finger in the pie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. TUDOR WALTERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. TUDOR WALTERS", "preceding_text": "ning and methods of construction to be adopted, to assist the local authorities in the Organisation of their cheap building cam- paign and in this way to reduce the cost of producing houses to the lowest possible figure consistent with a decent standard of housing. That is the object and policy of the Committee. At the same time that is the only purpose for which this Measure is before Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. TUDOR WALTERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the captain?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. TUDOR WALTERS", "preceding_text": "s. 7d., 4s, 8d., or 4s. 9d. a week. Is this a kindergarten school or is it a Committee of the House of Commons? Are we here to play spillikins across the Floor of the House, or are we here as a body of men who are really anxious to get something done for the agricultural community? If we are to do that, we must trust someone. If we are going a sea passage we must trust to the captain and the crew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " agricultural labourer and a subsidy for building houses. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman, leaning back and no doubt feeling his position keenly, must appreciate, if his conscience will allow him to appreciate, that it is a very appropriate protection to have in this Bill an economic rent for the agricultural labourer. There is an atmosphere of hypocrisy throughout the whole of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": ". We have always taken up the position that it is right to give these things to the workers of this country if the country can afford it. Here we are supporting that policy. We are asking that the rural workers should have this extra £2,000,000, but we say that if you are going to give any benefit to these workers you must give that money to them so that the rent they pay is an economic rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " we are supporting that policy. We are asking that the rural workers should have this extra £2,000,000, but we say that if you are going to give any benefit to these workers you must give that money to them so that the rent they pay is an economic rent. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members might listen instead of jeering. It is quite easy to jeer, but they hate to hear their own promises falsified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " hear their own promises falsified. [ Interruption .] The Minister of Health knows as well as I do that a large number of these so-called houses which he proposes to build under this subsidy will not go to the people for whom they are intended. No agricultural labourer in any part of the country can afford to pay 4s. 6d. rent out of his wages, and it is nonsense for hon. Members opposite to laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVERARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do not they do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVERARD", "preceding_text": "ifficult to select sites for building houses in agricultural parishes which are of any use to agricultural workers. They are nearly all far away from the farms where these people work. To be of any use those houses should be very near to the farms where the people are employed. That is another reason why I say that the old system is the best system, and infinitely better than what is now proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " bon. Gentleman that only a limited sum of money is to be voted by Parliament, and, if it is divided among the parishes, it will mean only four cottages a parish. There must be some discretion left to the Minister as to which parishes shall have the cottages. If we carry out the hon. Member's idea, we shall have to have a great housing scheme and take it away from the local authorities altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary is no doubt an attractive personality but he must not assume that he can practise the arts of a mountebank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "g of which he is ignorant and the Under-Secretary is profoundly ignorant of the plain Scottish law on this subject. I fail to believe that it is a tradition among Scotsmen to look with honour upon the law as some mysterious background to his existence to which he must be faithful until death takes him away. A Scotsman has an inquiring and metaphysical mind and wants to get to the bottom of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "errupting me know that it is the duty of Ministers to be present in the House and to explain every question which affects the administration of their Department. The Lord Advocate treats the Committee with the utmost contempt. The Eleven o'Clock Rule has been suspended and the Lord Advocate is not here. The Lord Advocate is enjoying himself, whereas we in this Committee have a perfect right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.394.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is this in order?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "d paramount importance on this Clause. I feel that the Minister should, at any rate, have given more consideration before putting into this Bill the definition of agricultural parish as it applies in the other Housing Acts. He knows exactly all the representations which have been made to him as to how unjust and unfair this definition is, cutting out as it does the confines of many rural parishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am telling the hon. Member that that is so and giving him a statement of fact. The hon. Member may be unfortunate in the choice of his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "of the country at the present time permits of this additional subsidy? If he holds that opinion, then it is directly against the point of view expressed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Does the Minister think that a subsidy of this sort, when it has been accepted by all parties in this House, except the remnants of the Liberal party here present, does he think that it is possible for us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "ts of the Liberal party here present, does he think that it is possible for us—[ Interruption .] There are a few Tories who stand up for the principle of economy, but I intend to do so. Does the Minister think that, when we have spent this money, that is the end of our liabilities? It obviously is not. The sugar industry is slowly but surely building its nets about all parties in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " at the same time, a large number of sugar companies in this country. I think this is the greatest ramp of our time, and that we ought to look very carefully at the list of shareholders in these various companies. I would remind the Minister of Agriculture, who has recently written a history of British politics in the last 10 years, which included some ferocious insults to the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "rious companies. As has been said before, In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. In this case the taxpayers, who are finding it very difficult to live, and the workers, who are being told that no funds are available for anything promised by this magnificent Government which says, \"We have no money to clear slums or fulfil any of our promises\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Here is the Lord Privy Seal, who has been in the House for many years and has made this interruption to put me out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "r subsidising the sugar industry in the West Indies and how that can be reconciled to this Bill, especially in the present state of the public purse. All that this incompetent Government can do is to shell out large sums of public money on an industry that is utterly incompetent to compete with industries in other parts of the world. You have nature against you, and you cannot compete with nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "thing to spend this money on a sugar subsidy in Great Britain, will he say exactly what is the Government's policy in spending large sums in the West Indies? The House of Commons, we are told, has failed absolutely as the guardian of the public purse, but that is not the least accusation against it and the Government to-night. All I can say is, that at a time of the gravest financial crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "onstituencies is the same statement as I am making to-night. I do beg the Minister to get up and say what the Government are going to do. Would the Minister kindly give a little attention instead of colloguing with the Lord Privy Seal, and say what exactly is the Government's policy. Would it not be better, on the whole, to give every worker in the industry a maximum living wage for doing nothing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-14", "file": "debates1931-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "6134d3a6d090db54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " I do beg the Minister to get up and say what the Government are going to do. Would the Minister kindly give a little attention instead of colloguing with the Lord Privy Seal, and say what exactly is the Government's policy. Would it not be better, on the whole, to give every worker in the industry a maximum living wage for doing nothing? [ Interruption .] Do hon. Members opposite, then, deny it 2", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-14a.412.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.464.7", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (ALLOWANCES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he will also give facilities for a Motion in connection with the payment of salaries to Members who are not in the House for long periods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.464.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (ALLOWANCES).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Resolution is down. We propose to give time for it. It certainly will be a decision of the House of Commons when the decision is taken. A subject like this ought to be dealt with, not as a party subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " which, by their very composition, are loaded against the interests of the working classes. An exceedingly strong case can be made for objecting to the appointment of this committee, and for pressing to delete the provision for its appointment from the Bill. There is nothing more contemptible in political life than what I would call duck-shoving. That is a preoletarian phrase for dodging an issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.497.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "factory form of words that might be a greater safeguard to these people, whom the Attorney-General said we ought to protect, I feel that the Minister should, in view of the fact that the Attorney- General so frankly, honourably, and openly told us that the Minister made a mistake, be here now to rectify that mistake and tell us, in view of the highest legal advice, exactly what she proposes to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "ct, which I submit will be the result of the Amendment now proposed; and I do not think the Committee ought to proceed further with this Amendment without knowing precisely what is the effect of it. It is a most iniquitous thing to come to us at this stage with an Amendment the effect of which will be to bring within the ambit of the Bill tens of thousands of persons who are not now covered by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.560.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.589.8", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "s, who remains outside the trade union, with the result that his wages are low, we say to him: \"Because you did not organise, because you do not get £4, £3, or £2 10s. for two days' work, but only £l or 30s., the Labour Government, because you have not organized, because you have not fought and because, as a result, your remuneration is low, will give you unemployment benefit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.589.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I am shaking my head because the right hon. Gentleman is saying something more than the Minister of Labour said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.608.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "who sits here, the Minister of Labour—will endorse the statement I have made and I put it to the Committee that the maximum, which they have a right to expect in the circumstances is the promise which has been specifically made. Having regard to the promise, I am not going to ask the hon. Member to withdraw the Motion, because the only contribution which he can make, is a delaying one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.622.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.633.14", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "More than half of the party are here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I beg to appeal to the Minister of Labour to take back this paragraph. I am sorry that no Members of the Liberal party are here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.633.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " industrial centre, because they have absolutely nothing to depend on and cannot be thrown on the local authorities which are impoverished, apart from the outstanding fact that single girls in any case will not get any assistance. There is no doubt about it, that, if this paragraph goes through, the Government will be responsible for driving thousands of decent respectable girls on to the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "It was not rubbish in the 1927 Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "( a ) of Sub-section (2), but of paragraphs ( b ), ( c ), and ( d ). I then raised with the Deputy-Chairman a point as to putting down an Amendment in order to bring paragraphs ( b ) ( c ) and ( d ) into line with the new situation which arose from the dropping of the early words of limitation by the Minister. I understood from the Deputy-Chairman that he would favourably consider the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.639.3", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I submit, in connection with this Amendment, that the Deputy-Chairman, when he was in the Chair, practically gave us an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.645.4", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "You have had enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "n regard to unemployment insurance but to treat him more generously. I quite fail to understand the logic of the argument which says, \"If your circumstances are unfortunate to the extent that you can only get work for five days in the week we will give you unemployment pay for the remaining sixth day, but, if you can only work for two days we will deny you unemployment pay for the remaining days.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "wo days in the week. There is the case of the printer who is occupied exclusively at the week-end, and it is said he gets quite a good wage. Then there is the case of the young woman who is engaged in the shop at the week-end and is not available for the rest of the week. I submit that these are cases that no working-class man or woman who knows anything about working-class sentiment would defend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "workmen's compensation is in receipt of that because of the physical injury which he has received, and which injures him in his search for further employment, and that such receipt should not debar him from unemployment insurance. There is a further category, there is the man who is injured in his employment and has commuted his claim and receives a lump sum. Suppose he contracts miner's nystagmus", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " which he has received, and which injures him in his search for further employment, and that such receipt should not debar him from unemployment insurance. There is a further category, there is the man who is injured in his employment and has commuted his claim and receives a lump sum. Suppose he contracts miner's nystagmus [ Interruption ]. I am not aware there is any humour in miner's nystagmus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.659.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.661.7", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I want to say quite frankly—[ Interruption ]. I am free to admit that I found it impossible to be here because I was not in sympathy with many of the Amendments that have been moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.661.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lady CYNTHIA MOSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about six months' holiday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady CYNTHIA MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "ved that it was the Conservative Government bringing in a Conservative Measure. I could also very well imagine the speeches that hon. Members on the Government side, who have sat mum and dumb the whole evening, would have been only too glad to make if they had been in opposition. It is sickening and shameful for people to be one thing in opposition and another thing when supporting the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " when the full deliberative assembly could have been brought into force. If the issues had been taken when Members could have been in attendance in such numbers they could give better attention to the questions. There is only a small group opposed to this Measure, and while some think that they are doing the right thing in passing this Measure, we think we are doing the right thing in opposing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "The intention of the Government is to sit and finish the Committee stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " as if there were a large and imposing opposition. It is particularly the duty of the Opposition to see that the rights of private Members are preserved. That we are expected to finish this important stage of the Bill without a solitary word of helpful criticism or guidance from either of the two great Oppositions is, I think, one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.684.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": " such system. I hope that the Minister, on consideration, will agree to the deletion of this paragraph. Other powers are being taken to deal with anomalies in this Bill. They are wide enough powers, and we ought not to set up a system of discrimination in this way between the different parts of the country. I believe it would be a bad day for the working of this scheme to have such discrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LEE", "preceding_text": " all similar in that they want women's representation to be assured on the committee. The one to which my name is attached asks for the addition of three women. An Amendment from another part of this Committee asks for two women. The Minister's Amendment says one. I do not think we ought to have undue discussion or controversy over the exact number if we can come to an accommodation on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "r a little light or leading from the official Opposition, that I thought I would comply with that request. But, of course, as it is written in Holy Writ, there is a time to speak, and there is a time to refrain from speaking. I want to say one word before the finish. Of course, we do not particularly approve of this Amendment, at the same time, we do not propose to divide the Committee against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Were you here when it was called?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " seven Members of this House can keep it in session for some time if they wish. On the other hand, we have no wish to keep hon. Members here long, and one reason why we do not propose to divide against this Amendment, and one reason why we have not spoken in the course of this stage of the Bill, is that we take no responsibility for this Bill at all. It is a poor one, but it is the Minister's own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-15", "file": "debates1931-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7bd3253dbda4bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": ". Go on and crucify the unemployed. We stand by.\" That will not do, because, in my view, what we have had to-day is a great coalition of the three principal parties in the State, all united to save public money, because that was the original bond, to save £5,000,000. \"It docs not matter how you do it, but save it—at the expense of the unemployed.\" There has been a great coalition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-15a.738.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.759.10", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC SITUATION, EUROPE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman at any rate assure the House that His Majesty's Government will be no party to imposing political conditions on Germany?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.759.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.764.5", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE (ARABS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Free Trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend deal with the case of ships from Hull to the Plate paying off their white crews and engaging Arabs? Can nothing be done about this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM LANE MITCHELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM LANE MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "Has any other country defaulted more than Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has he started yet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " Many of our ablest men and women do not start to mature until they are 14 or 15. In a previous Debate, I referred to the brilliant career of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill). Recently the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping told us that he was longer in the bottom form at Harrow than any other boy. He did not start to mature until he was 16 or 17 years of age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": "e. It is necessary that hon. Members should have some sort of picture of the position. Do they realise that there are 340,000 mental defectives in this country; that from 1906 to 1929 mental deficiency doubled; that there are 55 per cent. more mentally defective children in rural areas than in urban areas; that the incidence per 1,000 school children in urban areas is 20.7 and in rural areas 39.7?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.837.5", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": "ere is a patient, hopeful method of dealing with mentally defective children, and that is the educational method. Mental deficiency of the type which we know is best dealt with as a social and not as a pathological question. Of course, I am not dealing with the congenital idiot. We know that congenital idiots are to be found in every class of society—both here and in the other place as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.837.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.837.5", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": " other children in a class, and that they will become a burden and a drag on the community—and an increasing burden and an increasing drag—I ask the right hon. Gentleman to give this question sympathetic consideration. I will turn to the children at the other end of the scale, our boys and girls who have a high intelligence standard, those who ought to go on to get secondary education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.837.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "like the size of classes, black-listed schools, and so on. These matters are of immense importance, but, after all, they, and the reorganisation of the break at II, are administrative matters which have been decided, and can now run on their own account with a minimum of administrative pushing. They are no longer the important things. They go on from year to year without showing much change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "under their charge, undertaking, if you will, in return, so far as teachers are concerned, to turn out a certain minimum number of teachers with their diploma every year. I was in negotiation with the universities on that subject in the last two years that I was in office. Only one Vice-Chancellor of one university opposed the idea. All the others were, I think, very keen on going further with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "om sources other than these two. A question was asked as to the Council of Education in Scotland. I do not think that we had better pursue that subject too far. They last met in the year 1913. The composition of the committee is the Lord President of the Council, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Advocate, and the right hon. Lord Craigmyle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "ver had been in Scotland, was when I had to climb over a wall on purpose to play out in the street because of the limited amount of playground accommodation. It is a fact to-day that under the new system of administration, if they want to get a piece of ground for the purpose of a war memorial, or anything of that sort, they do not try to get a new site, but just pinch a bit out of the playground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": " war memorial, or anything of that sort, they do not try to get a new site, but just pinch a bit out of the playground. [ Interruption .] I have had to deal with cases during the limited period I have been in Office, in which I have had to go down and see a site where they have not only fenced a limited playground for war memorial purposes, but have pinched a piece for public convenience purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ch is borne out by many employers, and that is the lamentable lack of instruction in the three \"R's\" which is evident among boys and girls who apply for employment. They are nothing like they used to be. I do not want to say I am one of those of whom the hon. Member for Camlachie spoke and of whom it might be said that he held with the Roman satirist: Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit nos nequiores.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ucation. What is education? It is the formation of character. It is not only book education; it is also physical education. That was the Greek education. In times gone by they did not take children into the Scottish schools, but they gave them more or less an open-air education, and there are certain open-air schools to this day. Nothing could be worse for the children than constant study indoors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "necessary to have a Parliamentary committee at all.\" I think, in the first place, that was an unfortunate statement to make to the Welsh Members who were supporting her to-night, that the sum of money to be given under this Act is so small. Apparently the sum is so small that it should be left to English hands to administer. But surely Welshmen can be trusted even with a small sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " upon the people who made it, and I ask any hon. Member opposite, in his heart, to apply the same consideration to this question as he would apply to any of the ordinary affairs of his own life. Does any hon. Member think that a promise given under those conditions, with the results to which I have pointed, is one which he could honestly, even under the dictation of a party whip, refuse to honour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he was able to make a statement and satisfied the county councils on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "very important part in these housing proposals, because they keep the applications which are registered. It will be necessary for the committee to consult the county councils for two reasons. There is the question of the county contribution of £l a house. It will also be necessary to know whether the county council accepts the estimate of the rural district council as to the number of houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.951.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-07-16", "file": "debates1931-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "e1170263ab180623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "No. Wages vary and the district rates vary, and a 10 per cent. rent in one area would be lower than a 10 per cent. rent in another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-16a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIDSON", "preceding_text": "ing tenants. Cottages already in existence are better built and have stood the ages very much better than a great many houses that have been built under council schemes. Of course, they are not up to the standard of modern civilisation, but if they can be brought up to that standard, the first and most economical thing for the committee to do it to satisfy themselves that they have been renovated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Minister on this Bill, and also the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Penryn and Falmouth (Sir J. Tudor Walters) for the assistance which he has given, which I hope will be continued. The consultations ho has had with the Minister have produced a rare and refreshing fruit. This is one of the best Bills that the Government has yet produced", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "ountry side, the tied-cottage system. It is very distressing for people to be unemployed in the cities, but after they have gone about looking for work and come home tired in the evening at any rate there is a home waiting for them. If they become unemployed in the countryside and happen to live in a tied cottage they are turned out of that cottage, and are on the road and have nowhere else to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "aid to let it be known that they were listening; they were afraid to be seen at the meeting. I was told by one old campaigner that if I wanted to get a really good meeting in the countryside I should have to hold it out of doors, when it was dark, and when there was no moon. I did so. The whole place was as dark as a wolf's throat. It was crowded with people. There was an enormous crowd of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "I thought it only right, Mr. Speaker, that both sides of this question should be stated. The hon. Member for Broxtowe is ruggedly honest when he expresses his views in this House, and he has told us that in his opinion this is the best Bill which the Government have introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "heir duty as far as they were able. In Lincolnshire we have some splendid houses in the rural areas, provided by landowners—some of them very large landowners—at a time before the present high taxation, when farming was really being made to pay, and they were able to receive rents from their land. These houses on the countryside have been provided by these beneficient landowners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL AUTHORITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are becoming a Conservative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "considerable sympathy with the hon. Gentleman the Member for Grimsby (Mr. Womersley) when he said that he thought it would not be a national disaster if this House closed down rather longer than is anticipated and thereby cut down the output of legislation. I think that instead of suffering from a lack of legislation we are suffering from too much of it. I speak after some thought upon the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Foreigners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "to put pressure on the Government. As as result of that pressure, we have brought in the Bill which is now before us. What security have we that we may not be faced in the near future with further Bills borrowing further sums of public money for these fortunate individuals? It is not as if these individuals were numerous. Their shareholders are not many in number, being only some 2,300 altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-17", "file": "debates1931-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "4582dce8342409bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR INDUSTRY (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "to the House to ask for more money for this purpose, we may receive a more sympathetic answer than we shall receive this afternoon. This large expenditure is coming out of the public purse. In an earlier Debate to-day an hon. Member on this side of the House spoke in opposition to the principle of subsidies. Once you grant a subsidy, no one can tell where the benefits will ultimately result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-17a.1016.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1079.11", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": "ailure to produce an agricultural policy or to redeem the pledges which they have made to put cereal farming upon a sound economic basis. The promises which the party at present in office made during the last election and since were very numerous, but in no instance have they been more formal or more definite and in no instance have they been more hopelessly broken than in the case of agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1079.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Government's policy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "I did not say anything of the sort. What I said was that the Minister was going to deal with the cereal position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "I did not say anything of the sort. What I said was that the Minister was going to deal with the cereal position—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Government's policy!\"] I am sorry if I have been misunderstood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1101.6", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " butter, which comes into the market at a later period of the year, has now been added to the list of butters which our canvassers are pushing in East Yorkshire and in some of the towns in Lancashire. But the point that I am seeking to make is this, that if we organised our markets properly, if we set about skilled salesmanship as we could very well do, and will do, under the Marketing Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1101.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "sion. The Government have been in existence some two years. They have not, in a world of collapsing price, been able to make cereal farming pay, but there are other forms of agriculture which do pay and are paying well. The Government by assisting the production of high-class meat, have got a better price for it in the London market. The Government have at any rate done something in land drainage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "his House a Measure designed to provide 40,000 rural workers' cottages. The Government are pushing through a Bill to improve the production and the quality of our meat by the abrogation of the scrub bull. The Government are spending money on research in fisheries. The Government have had one of their important Measures of the Session, a Bill designed to improve the marketing in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "nt Measures of the Session, a Bill designed to improve the marketing in this country—[ Interruption ]. There have have been a dozen Measures in two years, not throwing money out of the British Treasury into the pockets of landlords, but through 20 or 30 different avenues attacking the problem of inefficiency, and poverty, and inability in our agricultural areas, endeavouring to secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman admitted in his election address that it was highly desirable that a common agreement should be arrived at between all parties. He said in his speech at Taunton that he would set out to get a conference of all parties, but, in the 4½ years during which the Conservative party were in office, the Government never once attempted to get a conference of the political parties,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALLAS", "preceding_text": " from all the things that have been said about this Government, that less than five years ago that was the policy promulgated by the same hon. and right hon. Gentlemen when they were sitting on this side of the House? I say quite frankly that no industry in the history of this country has ever been so basely betrayed as the agricultural industry was by the Conservative Government of 1924–29.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "been made to put forward a bold policy. Just look at it. Here is the most comprehensive and thorough Marketing Bill that has been introduced into this House in my time. Marketing is a very difficult problem, but there is no doubt that it has been tackled with a great deal of courage, and it has been carried through by the Minister of Agriculture with very great skill and good temper and knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Young people cannot settle down there when they marry because there are no houses, and, if they can find employment somewhere in the towns, off they go. The housing problem has a good deal to do with the depopulation of the rural areas. I could give illustrations of that within my own knowledge. Even the Consumers' Council Bill has a good deal to do with the sale of the produce of our rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ey are in a fairly good condition. But listen to this: In 1924 there was a General Election, and the right hon. Gentleman who now leads the Opposition gave a pledge. He said: I regard it as vital that the great basic industry of agriculture should be not merely preserved, but restored, to a more prosperous condition, as an essential balancing element in the economic and social life of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ch. He said in effect: \"We assume that when Ministers make a promise they have some idea of how they mean to carry it out.\" When the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bewdley (Mr. S. Baldwin) said that it was part of his policy to restore agriculture to a more prosperous condition, I assumed that he had some ideas as to how he was going to carry it out. That was the pledge; that was the promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "auties—and they suddenly wake up and find that a Labour Government is in power and they start scolding that Government. Why do they not wake up their own snorers? That is not my phrase but the phrase of a distinguished Member of their own party. They move a Vote of Censure in the second Session of this Government—a Government which after all has not many agricultural Members behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "y were not very successful in the agricultural areas. But here was a party that had a great phalanx of agricultural Members and yet nothing was done during the whole of their period of office. When it comes to equity, there is no party in this House with less right to move a Vote of Censure upon the Government for neglecting agriculture than that party. I agree that this is a very serious problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tariffs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " half—not merely grain- growing land but arable land. Not only that, but in 1870 we were ahead. Taking the production per 100 acres ours was the highest in Europe at that time. We have now been outstripped by Germany, by Belgium, by Denmark, by Holland—in units, in cattle units in production per 100 acres, in the numbers employed. We have been going down and they have gone up steadily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Subsidies!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I leave Holland out. I do not want a controversy on this point with the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft). I take Denmark. Their units have increased by 75 per cent. In this country they have been stationary and if anything have gone down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "and who are doing their best, in their second year of office, with barely a score of agricultural Members behind them. They are not in a position to turn to that Government at the end of the second year and to say, \"You are not worthy of the confidence of the country\" when the Government are trying their best to carry through four great agricultural Measures. No, I wish it had been possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is willing to have the tariff, but he cannot commit anybody else. But surely we are entitled to know. If this Motion is carried, those gentlemen opposite will be out, and these gentlemen here will be in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "g of the Constitution. The Sovereign would naturally have to send for those responsible, or he would probably send for the hon. and gallant Member for Cambridge. Are we not entitled to know what the policy is? Is a tariff a part of \"the immediate steps\"? We know now why there is no leader taking part, and why they have put up a leader who can be thrown over by the responsible leaders of the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be offensive!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ". Are we not entitled to know what the policy is? Is a tariff a part of \"the immediate steps\"? We know now why there is no leader taking part, and why they have put up a leader who can be thrown over by the responsible leaders of the party. [ Interruption .] I do not want to say anything disrespectful to the Noble Lord the Member for Aldershot, but I am talking about his position in the hierarchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ar price for wheat; and if so, what? What figure? They are now getting 25s. What is the figure? The farmers are asking for 55s. Is it to be that? That is bigger than a tariff of 100 per cent. Is it to be 50s.? That is a 100 per cent. tariff. Give us a straightforward tariff instead of that. You would then know where you are, but it is worse than that. This quota is to be extended to the Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "stion. Is there going to be a guarantee of a price to the Dominions? Those who are in favour of a quota say, \"It is no use to us unless you guarantee the price.\" Do they imagine that Canada will take a different line? If they do, is that guarantee to be given whatever the world price is? If the Argentine offer us wheat—a good customer of ours; just as good a customer of ours as Canada—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1156.3", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "point, and my figures can be checked by him if he will do me that honour. There would be an increase in cost on only 1½ farthings of the 2½d. if 15 per cent. of the wheat were British. If you take the maximum price which the farmer could get—let it be 45s. or 50s. or 55s., as you like—the difference in the price of bread would be infinitesimal—less than half a farthing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Miss PICTON-TURBERVILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss PICTON-TURBERVILL", "preceding_text": "gh it claims to be a non-party body, is from my experience, to put it mildly, very conservative in outlook. Here is a union composed of the very men whose cause hon. Members opposite profess to champion, and we have their opinion of Conservative policy during the time that the Conservative party were in office. I am always surprised that anybody can vote Conservative, but quite a lot of people do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Miss PICTON TURBERVILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss PICTON TURBERVILL", "preceding_text": "o realise that there was twice as much butter brought into this country from Russia in 1927 when the Conservative party was in power than there was in 1930 under a Labour Government. I will say it again, there was twice as much butter brought into this country from Russia in 1927 when the Conserva- tives were in power than there was in 1930 under the Labour Government. I want to rub that in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Miss PICTON TURBERVILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss PICTON TURBERVILL", "preceding_text": "ter brought into this country from Russia in 1927 when the Conserva- tives were in power than there was in 1930 under the Labour Government. I want to rub that in—[ Interruption ]—because hon. Members are getting very lachrymose on the subject of butter. I will give them the exact figures. In 1937 when the Conservative party was in power we imported from Russia 350,000 cwts. of butter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Miss PICTON TURBERVILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss PICTON TURBERVILL", "preceding_text": " Over 200,000,000 less eggs have been imported under the present Government than were imported during the last Conservative Administration, and this has been due to the fact that there has been an increase of £1,500,000 in the sale of our own eggs in this country, largely due to the efforts of the Labour Government in the matter of better marketing facilities and the national marking of eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. RUSSELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why foreign wheat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. RUSSELL", "preceding_text": "e quota scheme which hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway desire. I do that for one very simple reason. It was devised more to assist their party than the industry. What would it do? It would break the miller and punish the consumer. As has been hinted before to-day, to give a guaranteed price to the home producer and to place a quota on foreign and colonial wheat, would send up the price of the loaf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. RUSSELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the quota system!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. RUSSELL", "preceding_text": "ng proposition? The answer which I submit is that all we have to do is to eat it. We do it to-day, but I suggest—and it is not an original suggestion, but one that has already been made in various forms and one which I myself made two years ago—that we let the millers know that they can scour the world for cheap wheat, but that they have to use that 10 or 12 per cent. of English wheat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. RUSSELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. RUSSELL", "preceding_text": "ing to do it? That is the importance of the Debate to-day. The outcome of this Debate should be, and I believe will be, that at last we shall get together and say what is the residual minimum that we can in common do to help agriculture. That is the point at which I, as an individual and representing no one by myself, have arrived. If you put this percentage of English wheat into your flour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "preceding_text": "Many hon. Members on these benches feel that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) was somewhat ungenerous in his gibes at the Mover and Seconder of this Vote of Censure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "preceding_text": "ers on these benches feel that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) was somewhat ungenerous in his gibes at the Mover and Seconder of this Vote of Censure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I refer to hon. Members on these benches. We who sit on the back benches on this side feel very strongly about the neglect which has been shown of the great industry of agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "n worsened or threatened. In view of those facts, how can hon. Members opposite sit silent and apathetic and suffer their Government to go on without doing a single thing to help the serious position in this country? We listened to the Lord Privy Seal this afternoon, and I confess that I was sorry for him. He was asked to make bricks without a morsel of straw, and I do not think he made very many.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "s neither he nor the Government have any case, he followed the maxim beloved of every pettifogging attorney, of abusing the other side, and we were treated to about 40 minutes of a blustering harangue which had a great deal to do with the merits and demerits of the Conservative party, but nothing to do with agriculture at all. We are not in the least ashamed of our record in regard to agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "als, inadvertent though they are, from the \"Daily Mail\" of this morning. This Bill I am happy to say—the hon. Member for Cambridge will no doubt be disappointed at the hard things said of him—was recommended to their Lordships' House earlier in the day by Lord Stanhope who I noticed faced manfully up to the element of compulsion, and it was carried by their Lordships by 39 votes to 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at the result?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "ded into the Session, that we have been idle, and I have by no means completed the recital. There is sugar beet and various other Measures which I have not even mentioned, but they are all contributions made during one Session of Parliament. We have tried to render, in this one Session, more active real service to agriculture than gentlemen opposite did in the whole of their four and a-half years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Duly and Dally!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "work. The whole development of marketing, on which I have not touched, means a prodigious amount of labour in the office. In acknowledging the debt which we owe to the staff at the office, I ought to say—and every experienced Minister in the House will agree—that it is a direct disproof of the rubbish that we see so often in the newspapers depreciating the loyalty of the civil servant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Daily Herald!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "that it is a direct disproof of the rubbish that we see so often in the newspapers depreciating the loyalty of the civil servant. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Duly and Dally!\"] I take this opportunity of saying that, because I think there is nothing more damaging to the public services than the references we see now and then in the papers, about the mandarins in Whitehall, red-tape, and rubbish of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-20", "file": "debates1931-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7b085bdd705a1f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman still has two minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-20a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I admit that I ought to have looked the other way when I was dealing with the engineering industry. It must occur to my hon. Friend that there is some justification for those who at least know the cases, who, unlike the hon. Member have conducted those cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " the greatest respect, there are others who have dealt with thousands; let us admit that. What is the real point? Take the case put by my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley (Mr. Potts). He knows perfectly well that, had he been arguing that same case, for the same miner, for the same Federation, on the basis of workmen's compensation, he would have had to reverse the arguments that he used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "rse the arguments that he used—[ Interruption ]. Everyone who is a trade unionist and has to deal with the practical side of these matters knows it. Here is a technical point on which not only hundreds, but hundreds of thousands of miners, railwaymen, cotton operatives, and people in all industries are affected by the compensation side of the case. That is the difficulty. It all turns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ence of a trade union leader and one who has negotiated and knows these difficulties. It all turns on the phrase \"availability of work.\" Everyone knows the difficulties and technicalities, and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour put it quite fairly, saying that the whole thing is under consideration and she would give consideration to it. That is as far as you are entitled to expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1293.4", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that so long as you are in the Chair, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1293.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ere is this: If it is true that there are short-time workers who earn a normal week's wages in three days and draw unemployment benefit for the other days, it is an anomaly that the trade union movement refuses to defend, and leaves it to the I.L.P. to defend it. The Minister of Labour is not here; the Parliamentary Secretary is not here. I am fortunate, perhaps, that the Attorney-General is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ked for a concrete instance, who are the people who will be concerned, the Minister said that she did not know. She knows only that it will not apply to short-time workers who are on short time owing to industrial depression. But she is going to embark upon this exploration, and perhaps the exploration will take her into the inclusion of these people who are on short time. \"What then is to happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1356.8", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "seems to us that, in equity, he ought to be entitled to benefit and that there is no reason for leaving it open. The next Amendment is merely a drafting Amendment. I thought there was a further Amendment making the period six months instead of three months but it seems to have been dropped. However this is a simple proposal and is designed to make the Sub-section fair and equitable in its working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1356.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1365.3", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "fice, are to be further penalised because they have a pension. Then there are men in industry who have met with accidents and are drawing compensation, and who are in the same category. Surely it would be a nice, gracious action on the part of the Minister to accept this Amendment, because it is all we propose to ask of her to-night. We do not propose to harass her any more on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1367.4", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If they are entitled to it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "e one simple thing that this is an economy Bill. I am one of those who are definitely hostile to all efforts that will reduce the social services as a remedy for our economic ills. It is the wrong road. The last thing that you ought to do instead of the first, if economy is to be your watchword, is to touch the pittance which any class of workers get from pensions, wages, benefit or anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1367.4", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "nomy is to be your watchword, is to touch the pittance which any class of workers get from pensions, wages, benefit or anything else. [An HON. MEMBER: \"If they are entitled to it.\"] The Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, a few weeks ago, made his announcement that there had to be a period of economy now. That was one of the reasons why I left the Government. This is part of the economy campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman wants to know what the Hell we are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1372.2", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "I have been following the discussion elsewhere. One cannot always manage to be here, but for nine years I have been giving attention to my duties here. I should have been here all the time you were talking about this matter if I had been able to be present. You must make some allowance for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1372.2", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "r forces. They are going deeper and deeper into the way of saying: \"We have to follow the lines of orthodox political propaganda. The House is faced with powerful forces with which it cannot cope. We have to try to work on the old fashioned lines.\" The once Liberal or Radical party becomes now the Labour party, and it becomes consolidated while the squeeze still proceeds on the lines of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": " will do better when they come in. They will deal more drastically with the unemployed. I hope that that will be remembered in the country. What are the tactics of the party opposite? The tactics of the Clydeside group have been plainly explained to-night. It is to throw upon this party the odium of this Bill. The right hon. Member for Central Newcastle (Sir C. Trevelyan) has explained that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": "ly explained to-night. It is to throw upon this party the odium of this Bill. The right hon. Member for Central Newcastle (Sir C. Trevelyan) has explained that point. [ Interruption .] At least they are honest. The rest of the Socialist party are saying in the industrial Divisions what they dare not say in the House, and that is that the Liberal party are responsible for this Bill. It is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": "t hon. Member for Central Newcastle (Sir C. Trevelyan) has explained that point. [ Interruption .] At least they are honest. The rest of the Socialist party are saying in the industrial Divisions what they dare not say in the House, and that is that the Liberal party are responsible for this Bill. It is not true. [ Interruption .] It is not true that the Liberal party are responsible for the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": ", parallel with that, we must find work for the people taken off the unemployment insurance scheme. That has not been done. We in this party are always accused of tactics. This is the one party that on this occasion has no tactics. We are plainly going to carry the baby from the party over there. I for one, and I speak only as a private Member, intend to go into the Lobby with the Clydeside Group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": "insurance scheme. That has not been done. We in this party are always accused of tactics. This is the one party that on this occasion has no tactics. We are plainly going to carry the baby from the party over there. I for one, and I speak only as a private Member, intend to go into the Lobby with the Clydeside Group. [ Interruption .] Why not? I have no great mass of unemployed in my own Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": " they may not be entitled. What about the great mass of people who are entitled to benefit which they will not secure under this Bill? There is an anomaly there which ought to have been put right. Under this Bill you are selling the unemployed because you are afraid of tackling unemployment, just as a week ago you betrayed the miners. I am entitled to speak my mind and I am going to speak my mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": "re which ought to have been put right. Under this Bill you are selling the unemployed because you are afraid of tackling unemployment, just as a week ago you betrayed the miners. I am entitled to speak my mind and I am going to speak my mind. [ Interruption .] Never mind about intelligence. Intelligence is not the supreme virtue. I am going into the Lobby with the Clydeside Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": "ut right. Under this Bill you are selling the unemployed because you are afraid of tackling unemployment, just as a week ago you betrayed the miners. I am entitled to speak my mind and I am going to speak my mind. [ Interruption .] Never mind about intelligence. Intelligence is not the supreme virtue. I am going into the Lobby with the Clydeside Members opposite—[ Interruption .] I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "How much do you get a year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The wages of sin!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "as to force prices up, while it is stated that the object of the present Bill is to force prices down. This council might very well be paid nothing and take their remuneration in the satisfaction they will naturally feel at having done so great a public service, whereas those who forced up the price of coal would have had so much on their conscience that they would not be entitled to remuneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ding the OFFICIAL REPORT and by rumour that we knew anything about what was going on, but it was brought to us as a general idea that the Budget was going to balance with something like £120,000 to the good. Since then supplementary Estimates to the tune of £500,000 have been presented to the House, so that the Budget is out by £400,000 before we begin to deal with this expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1405.2", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "e sum of £20,000 will be exceeded, but it would be obviously wrong for me to limit the amount and afterwards sterilise the work of the Council if some extension of it was really needed. It would be futile to have to come back to the House of Commons and discuss the whole question all over again if we wanted £500 or £1,000 more in a certain year for the necessary work of the Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "e which is going to be incurred, and obtain authority from the House to spend up to a certain amount. That is why this House laid down this financial procedure. That is why a Government is not allowed to proceed with the financial Clauses of a Bill until it has received the authority of the Committee of Ways and Means to proceed up to a certain amount. I know this is a, very silly and futile Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "House of Commons except to tie the hands of Ministers? The First Lord has said that he does not know whether the President of the Board of Trade is going to pay salaries to the seven men and women on the Council or not. Then we ought to have the President here to tell us what he is going to do. There are seven members of the Council. Why seven? Perhaps because there were seven sleepers of Ephesus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " what it is going to be spent on. First, there are a few salaries for people in the Board of Trade, but the big thing is whether you are going to pay salaries to the seven Commissioners—the Chairman and the Deputy-Chairman and the three men and the two women. It was only accidentally that we learned, while the Bill was passing through Committee, that this Council could increase and multiply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSUMERS' COUNCIL [EXPENSES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "accidentally that we learned, while the Bill was passing through Committee, that this Council could increase and multiply. [ Interruption .] I should really like a sterilization Clause in the Bill. That would raise no moral issue. People of all shades of religious and eugenic opinion might join in putting some birth control on this abortion. If I had had my way, it would never have been conceived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "I would like to point out to the Government that it is perfectly clear to us on this side of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "hat Members of this House representing English constituencies are entitled to know something of the contents of this Bill. I hope that English and Northern Irish Members will join in protest against Scottish Members carrying through the House of Commons a Measure in this way. Scottish Members have been bamboozling this House for generations. I submit that the time has come when the worm will turn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "without the slightest discussion. The House of Commons has not been created to pass through the Measures of the Scottish Standing Committee. On the contrary, it is its duty to examine into them very closely. We know quite well that Scottish Members, who are not members of the Government, are quite willing to spend the largest sums of public money in public works which may be developed in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I have not troubled the House much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "some part in this Debate. Ever since Scottish matters have been under discussion we have had an understanding that we who represent English constituencies would not interfere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "some part in this Debate. Ever since Scottish matters have been under discussion we have had an understanding that we who represent English constituencies would not interfere. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We had an understanding among ourselves. Of course, you do not keep honourable understandings. I happen to represent an English constituency with a Welsh name. I mean my own name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "objecting to what the Lords propose. They have gone very far in their desire to meet the point of view of the Commons. They have given an option, but have said that it shall not be exercised if the landlord puts the statutory small tenant in the same position as a landholder in respect of compensation. We object to the extension of the land holding tenure very strongly. The Nairne Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-21", "file": "debates1931-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "676c466d343c6f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LANDHOLDERS AND AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "I do not seek to say anything offensive when I say that the Government are discussing a matter that makes it unfortunate that this debate is taking place so late in the Parliamentary session. What has already been said would be very useful if it were widely known throughout Scotland. But speeches made at this hour of the night are not very fully reported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-21a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1515.8", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "is Vote gives us an opportunity of criticising, both in principle and in detail, the export credit policy of the Government. I propose to confine myself entirely to one set of credits, namely, the credits which His Majesty's Government are giving to the Soviet Government. From every point of view, I think it will be agreed that that is the most important part of the Government's credit operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1515.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "day compare with the credits granted to other countries, first, in the total volume or amount of the credit given, and secondly, in length of term? I understand that, starting on a six months basis, it has been gradually extended to 12 months and 18 months until, as the President of the Board of Trade said the other day, it is proposed to extend the new credits for as much as two and a-half years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "It is manufactured machinery, and I am perfectly certain that this country is in a position to supply practically all the machinery which can be supplied by the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " up by 150 per cent. I suppose we are not driven to eating rye yet, but no doubt we shall be if the present Government remain in office, and the Russian rye will come here. But the wheat, which nobody else will take, of course finds its way here. There is not a Member for an agricultural constituency who does not know what has already been the effect of Russian dumped wheat in the depression here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1522.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1535.8", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "preceding_text": "Well, I now pass on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1535.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1540.0", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "preceding_text": " a two years credit, means a charge of 20 per cent. which has to be added to the tender price of the article exported. That is a tremendous charge. I understand that under an agreement made some time ago between Russia and the German Government their charge is about 2 per cent. per annum, or 4 per cent. for two years, against our 20 per cent. The Italian Government make an even lower charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SANDEMAN ALLEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is very simple.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SANDEMAN ALLEN", "preceding_text": " other people are in the same commercial position as yourself and are dealing with the same kind of transactions, which they are not. The real truth is that Russia will not buy from us unless we give them these credits, and I do not think the other side will deny it. Italy has said, \"You will buy from us what we buy from you,\" and Italy has got a mutual, reciprocal agreement. That is common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SANDEMAN ALLEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SANDEMAN ALLEN", "preceding_text": " the Chamber of Commerce which is studying the question, and I do not want to pre-judge the issue, but, as this matter has been raised here, I am anxious to put the case as clearly and simply as I can before the Committee, because I am satisfied that the credit is not necessary for any reason whatever, except possibly the reason that you will lose all the business if you do not give these credits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about before?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OWEN", "preceding_text": " my part of the world, which is Herefordshire, sent from London Bridge the other day 600 shorthorns and Hereford bulls to replenish the Russian herds. If they were fed upon cheap Russian corn, they did an extraordinarily good deal. We have heard this afternoon that Russia has repudiated her debts. She has not repudiated a single debt into which she entered since the Communist Government took over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "t an individual industry in this country, like the herring industry, can hope to secure justice or fair-play conditions from a vast organisation like the Soviet Government without the active co-operation of the Government of the day? On this side of the House we are opposed to Government ownership of industry, or to Government direction of industry, but we have never opposed Government assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "an -which is to be followed by a second Five-Year Plan and possibly by a third —and the summoning to its aid of all the methods that capitalist employers and capitalist countries have universally found most successful in the past. There should be no doubt in this country that the Russian Five-Year Plan will continue, with better methods of securing efficiency than have prevailed in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-22", "file": "debates1931-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "999c478cf650cd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1621.3", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "nights, I will do my best to assuage their terrors. By and by, when they grow up a little, and get accustomed to the idea that Russia is not that terrible creature with a wild beard and glaring eyes which they have in their minds, but that an ordinary common or garden Russian is very much like the ordinary common or garden man we meet outside, they will get back into their more sober senses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-22a.1621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-23", "file": "debates1931-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a81e07269e242189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1661.6", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "The point I am trying to put—and I hope that I shall be able to put it in a form which is not out of order—is that since the earlier reply referred to the Prime Minister has announced that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1661.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-23", "file": "debates1931-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a81e07269e242189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "s been perfectly clear to the county council all the way through. The position now is that we have just received a letter from the clerk to the council, following the council's meeting on Tuesday, intimating to us officially the decision of the council on Charing Cross bridge, and asking whether the Government approve of the scheme and whether it will implement the promise of a 75 per cent. grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-23", "file": "debates1931-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a81e07269e242189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "e application seriously and to institute an inquiry, and to fix a limit. I am surprised that the people and the local authorities in districts where electricity prices are notoriously high have not exercised their rights in this respect. It is their duty to do it, they ought to do it, because it is not in the interests of the industry or anybody else that electricity charges should be unduly high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-23", "file": "debates1931-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a81e07269e242189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": "o mention that for this reason. They are a Christian community in the midst of this great Moslem area. That in itself is one of the best answers to the apprehensions which some feel, because there is undoubtedly in this territory a toleration of different races and religions which is found in no other part of the East. Moslems, Christians and Jews have lived together there peaceably for centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-23", "file": "debates1931-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "a81e07269e242189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": " being unsuitable. The Iraq Government has gone to considerable trouble and has granted special exemption from taxation in consideration of their developing and tilling their lands. The Acting High Commissioner reported in 1930 that the Assyrians were a little difficult. With all our love for them for various reasons, we must admit that in many instances minorities are a little difficult at times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-23a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-24", "file": "debates1931-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c40701abff11b3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1839.12", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"that this House doth disagree with the Lords in the said Amendment.\" Mr. Lloyd George—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1839.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-24", "file": "debates1931-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c40701abff11b3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1839.12", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Lloyd George?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Dr. Addison)", "preceding_text": "e House of Lords, and the discussion was, to my mind at all events, very largely apart from the main purpose of the proposal. If hon. Members will refresh their minds as to what took place there, they will see that a large part of the objection which was raised to the Clause in the House of Lords was based upon my own personal record that I was alleged to have been a very extravagant person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1839.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-24", "file": "debates1931-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c40701abff11b3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1844.3", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Part I.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "I thought I had the assent of the House to make a general statement on the Lords Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-24", "file": "debates1931-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c40701abff11b3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1849.0", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Is this Part I of the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "te so frank a confession that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) is the dictator of our Parliamentary system to-day, that the Government must work to his orders, that they are now definitely his creatures and that the right hon. Gentleman is not only the author of the Government's existence but is responsible for its miserable and humiliating continuance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-24", "file": "debates1931-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c40701abff11b3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1849.0", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Part I\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "Bill is the first attempt of the Government to carry out their pledge to cure unemployment. The Lords are willing to let them try this experiment and I think it would be a thousand pities, in the right hon. Gentleman's own interests, if by insistence on the objectionable portions of Part I he destroyed Part II of the Bill which he might otherwise get. We oppose the reinstatement of Clause 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-24", "file": "debates1931-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c40701abff11b3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the Government's Motion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Might I suggest to those responsible for leading the Opposition that they should agree to such a course, because the Motion at present is in a very sweeping form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-24", "file": "debates1931-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c40701abff11b3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": " a fact, which we had before us in the discussion only the other day, that as regards wheat farming it is impossible at present for the individual farmer, farming under present conditions, to grow wheat at a commercial profit. In these circumstances, it seems to me that there is very good reason why we should at least give an opportunity to the Government to carry out an experiment in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-24", "file": "debates1931-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c40701abff11b3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (UTILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALPASS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"You have land lords on your own side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALPASS", "preceding_text": " cannot assist the agricultural industry as we might desire as a community as long as agricultural land is privately held and controlled, for the simple reason that if anything is done to assist the industry financially, inevitably the advantage goes into the pockets of the landowners. I could give hon. Members opposite some definite and concrete cases in my own experience where that has resulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-24a.1855.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-27", "file": "debates1931-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "03b9098917c93db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-27a.1997.4", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "n of the Convention is clearly contemplated by the Government, who can do it as an administrative act. Therefore, subject to your Ruling, I think I am in order in discussing it. The difference about the Convention is this, that formerly there was a question as to the inclusion in the Convention of the possibility of the spread-over. In this particular case it has been excluded from the Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-27a.1997.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-27", "file": "debates1931-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "03b9098917c93db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-27a.2000.1", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "reat difference in coal between one pit and another in Durham yet there is an even greater difference between mining districts. In other words, if a difference between coal is to be a reason for making an amalgamation of the whole of one district then according to the premises in these speeches, that ought to be only one stage. And it is only a stage on the way to nationalisation and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-27a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-27", "file": "debates1931-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "03b9098917c93db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-27a.2071.10", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA (Mrs. WALFORD).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir GEORGE BOWYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir GEORGE BOWYER", "preceding_text": "assy in London. I have not vet been informed of the decision of the Soviet Government. That was on the 20th July, although Mr. Walford had arrived in London on the 28th May, and over a month had elapsed since I gave the right hon. Gentleman full notice of the matter. I put a supplementary question, to which the Secretary of State replied: I do not know that we are in a position to press this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-27a.2071.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-28", "file": "debates1931-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a7314f2c44fb004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2141.3", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "me. In 1920 he had a passport that took him abroad under that name. Recently, however, in obtaining a new passport, he has found inscribed upon it, I understand in accordance with the regulations laid down by the Home Office, the fact that 20 years ago he had another name. Of course it is a perfectly true statement of history, but it is not a very agreeable statement to have announced in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-28", "file": "debates1931-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a7314f2c44fb004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2211.0", "colnum": "2211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in his opening speech, when he introduced his Estimates, surpassed himself in what I should almost call impertinence to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-28", "file": "debates1931-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a7314f2c44fb004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2211.0", "colnum": "2211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "is country? Suppose, for instance, that a landowner insisted that his land should be valued. I do not suppose there are many who will do that, but suppose this landowner did; under what provision of the Act can the valuer refuse to value that piece of land? I want to know under what statutory powers the values-has the choice. So much for the Financial Secretary's opening remarks. Now I want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-28", "file": "debates1931-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a7314f2c44fb004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2211.0", "colnum": "2211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": " value that piece of land? I want to know under what statutory powers the values-has the choice. So much for the Financial Secretary's opening remarks. Now I want—[ Interruption ]—I have a perfect right to reply to the Financial Secretary. The Deputy-Chairman has not called me to order. I do not want to be interrupted by rude remarks from the other side. I want to address myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-28", "file": "debates1931-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a7314f2c44fb004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2221.1", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Scotland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "ar as Russian timber may be in some parts of the country, the people who live on the Tyneside and who find opportunity for employment in taking Russian timber out of ships and putting it on the quayside, will not be disappointed if they find that some of the furniture here is to be made from Russian timber. I have no doubt that there are certain other parts of the eastern side of the this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-28a.2221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2284.4", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLE", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell me whether, in view of recent developments, he adheres to the statement he made at Morpeth a fortnight ago that any failure in the Coal Mines Act was due to the deep-rooted, stupid, mid-Victorian, barbarian, grotesque conception of the Act by the coal-owners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2284.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2285.7", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman has no previous knowledge, has he protested against an honour being conferred upon one who has advocated the expulsion of the King Emperor from India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2285.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2290.5", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TEA (DUTY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that it is hardly possible to get any decent tea in the market?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2356.0", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS LEWIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS LEWIS", "preceding_text": "s this amazing result—a state of things which, if it is true, must make the Ministry alter the system under which it is loft to laymen to refer these cases to the regional medical officers—that of the 83,903 cases, 58.5 per cent. ceased to receive medical benefit. On examination by the regional medical officer, those persons were, presumably, declared to be found not incapable of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2388.1", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not had the great advantage of hearing the views expressed by hon. Members on both sides of the House who are intimately acquainted with this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2388.1", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not had the great advantage of hearing the views expressed by hon. Members on both sides of the House who are intimately acquainted with this question. [ Interruption .] The hon. Member displays some irritation which makes me think that he ought to be a claimant upon the fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2399.1", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": "That money is hopelessly inadequate to meet the needs of the situation, as any doctor in the House must be prepared to admit. I would even say to my right hon. Friend that I do not altogether agree with the statement in the Memorandum he sent out that a general practitioner can undertake the ante-natal work which is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2399.1", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": " my opinion, and I think I am entitled to that opinion, having regard to the reports of the British Medical Association, the Commission which considered the question of the training of midwives, and the report of the Commission set up by the right hon. Member for Edgbaston. Over and over again we see it stated that these preventable deaths are due to the fact that specialist help is not available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2399.1", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": "reply to the position in rural areas particularly, and would suggest that there are certain things which might be done administratively to prevent maternal mortality there. For one thing the first opportunity should be taken of providing a decent water supply to the rural areas. I would raise this question in connection with education, but it is much more important as regard child-bearing mothers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2412.1", "colnum": "2412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "we have been concerned to-day would not have been appreciably affected. But there is another aspect of the problem, and that is the disposable surplus of the approved societies, and the question of this legislation has a bearing, therefore, on the third valuation. It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to say we are crying over spilt milk, but they spilt the milk, and it was not their milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-29", "file": "debates1931-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c178dd1cfc950943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2413.1", "colnum": "2413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At Scarborough?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " and has been done in the interests of the medical profession as well as in the interests of the insured person, and by that we stand. I am satisfied that in the long run it will be found to be in the interests of the medical profession, and while annual conferences will have their fling and kick up their heels and pass their resolutions, I am still not satisfied that the medical profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-29a.2413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2512.3", "colnum": "2512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "he hands of hon. Members, but I hope it will be by to-morrow. That Resolution for the setting up of that committee was a Resolution supported by all parties in this House, and therefore the House of Commons has a special responsibility for dealing with the report of the committee. No Government, and especially a Government like ours, which does not command a majority in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2514.0", "colnum": "2514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "e had a series of General Elections, at which every kind of promise was made to the electors. The late Chancellor of the Exchequer suggested that it cost about £10,000,000 to implement the promises that were made at each General Election. Next we had four and a-half years of Conservative Government, and at the last Election I was told that we had had a heaven-sent Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2514.0", "colnum": "2514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "hels to the pound. Now it is six bushels to the pound. Farmers cannot go on like that. The price of wool has dropped even more. I maintain that unless we really take this question of the price of primary products into consideration there will be a default, in spite of what the Chancellor of the Exchequer may say, on our liabilities. The right hon. Gentleman who opened the Debate talked of tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2515.1", "colnum": "2515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheer up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "hankful to have taken a great part in the emancipating labours of the last 60 years. Of one thing I am and always have been convinced, that it is not by the State that man can be regenerated and the terrible woes of this dark world effectively dealt with. 5.0 p.m. That is my opinion entirely. I believe that the more the State meddles in industry and the more it spends, the worse it is for mankind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2522.3", "colnum": "2522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": " moratorium Germany was advised to look to herself. The first market on which the German nation will cast their eyes is the Free Trade market of Great Britain, the one market in the world which is open and easy of access. What are we to expect in these circumstances? We shall have coal and manufactured goods and everything of the kind poured into this country and there is no protection against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2584.1", "colnum": "2584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "es of wages would appear to have been about 17 per cent., in the case of weekly full-time rates of wages, and between 30 and 35 per cent., in the case of hourly rates of wages.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd July, 1931: col. 1438, Vol. 254.] I accept those figures, and they mean that, taking the working-class area as a whole, there has been a definite increase in real wages as compared with pre-War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2584.1", "colnum": "2584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A testimonial to the Socialist Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": " adjourns a statement of their intentions in regard to the recommendation that the September drop should be suspended. That I regard as profoundly unsatisfactory. I wish to warn the House of Commons, with great respect but with some firmness that there is in the Civil Service to-day more profound and bitter discontent than ever I have seen in it during the whole of my 20 years' connection with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2599.0", "colnum": "2599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)", "preceding_text": "At the same time, my right hon. Friend and the Government will take this report into their most careful consideration and at the earliest possible moment they will be in a position to announce their decision. There is still some considerable time before the question of the September bonus has to be decided, and the Government will come to a decision of one kind or another before that time arrives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2612.0", "colnum": "2612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "I rise with the greatest possible pleasure to support the appeal so eloquently and so persuasively made by the hon. Lady. As I do not anticipate ever being in the hands of a woman police officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2612.0", "colnum": "2612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "ned from behind and in front by these high-power motor bicycles. Remember the word \"economy,' I am not belittling at all those magnificent figures that we see at Hyde Park Corner on their horses, waving their hands to the policeman on the beat who does the work. I do not know what particular use they are, though they are very nice looking and afford a tremendous lot of fun to our oversea visitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-30", "file": "debates1931-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "fbfdcddb42bbe16f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2612.0", "colnum": "2612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "st give them a feeling of security and hope, and a career of dignity to themselves and of usefulness to the community. There is also the question of equality of uniform. I do not want the women police to be clothed like Ziegfeld Follies or chorus girls, but at the same time there is a great deal to be gained by clothing them neatly, decently, and with a certain amount of feminine attraction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-30a.2612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-31", "file": "debates1931-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a4c998fb55ebdbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2633.5", "colnum": "2633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that this agreement was signed between the late Viceroy and Mr. Gandhi, and that Mr. Gandhi himself admits that it has been broken, and will the Secretary of State take action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2633.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-31", "file": "debates1931-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a4c998fb55ebdbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2700.1", "colnum": "2700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. KNOX", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. KNOX", "preceding_text": "e. He got on his motor-cycle and went slowly down the street. One of these murderers gave a signal to a second, Shrivram Rajguru, who edged up close to Mr. Saunders and shot him with his revolver. He fell with one leg under his motor-bicycle, and, as he was lying there, Bhagat Singh, the third murderer, came up and emptied his revolver into his body. That man has been made a hero throughout India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-31", "file": "debates1931-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a4c998fb55ebdbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2719.1", "colnum": "2719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "r that could be given by any eminent man. Yet he is the gentleman with whom the Secretary of State wishes to negotiate. The British Government and the Government of India, in view of circumstances of that sort, ought to put Mr. Gandhi on trial for incitement to murder, but they do no such thing. They invite him to London, and give him the freedom of St. James's Palace. It passes all understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-31", "file": "debates1931-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a4c998fb55ebdbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2724.1", "colnum": "2724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "I dare say that you, Mr. Speaker, have noticed that when anyone addresses a question to the Government, the Government are immediately defended by the hon. and gallant Member for Hull (Lieut.-Commander Ken-worthy). I cannot help thinking that it is a great pity that with his sense of duty in that respect and his most greedy ambition for office he has not had his eminent services rewarded so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-31", "file": "debates1931-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a4c998fb55ebdbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2724.3", "colnum": "2724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " because he has left one party, which he has betrayed, and joined another party, which does not respect him. But I will not indulge in these recriminations, because I have great respect for the hon. and gallant Member's peregrinations. To come back to what is very important from the point of view of maintaining law and order in India, the Secretary of State has invited to England Mr. Gandhi—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-31", "file": "debates1931-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a4c998fb55ebdbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2724.3", "colnum": "2724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": " hon. Members of the Liberal party say \"Hear, hear.\" The leader of the Liberal party is unfortunately away. I believe that he is probably one of the greatest of living statesmen, and that he would say, and say rightly, to any Member of the Liberal party who attempted to cheer a man who has encouraged the murder of British people in India, that such a Member was a very unworthy member of his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-07-31", "file": "debates1931-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "a4c998fb55ebdbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2725.3", "colnum": "2725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRACKEN", "preceding_text": "Liberal, left Delhi, he left India peaceful. The right hon. Gentleman and the instruments who serve him have reversed the process. They have torn up the whole plant by the roots in order to discover if they can improve it, and the only hope that is left—and it is rather a doubtful hope—is that in a short tame we shall get some Ministry that will take the place of the Ministry opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-07-31a.2725.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS, AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS, AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the bankers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "Would it be in order to move that this House do not receive the first of those letters of resignation, in view of the reason for the resignation that is alleged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS, AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": "Would it be in order to move that this House do not receive the first of those letters of resignation, in view of the reason for the resignation that is alleged—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the bankers?\"]—namely, that a certain body unconnected with this House has intervened?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.7.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.8.11", "colnum": "8", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Ask the Tory Whip!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister the nature of the business to be taken during the present week. No doubt the right hon. Gentleman will also be prepared to make a statement with regard to the nature of the Motion to be submitted to-day, and also whether, as announced in the Press, the Motion to-day is to be treated by the Government as a question of confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.8.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "d call the attention of the House to the fact that the business on Thursday is to he, as I understand, a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and no doubt it will be a statement of importance, and probably an extended statement. Is it to be understood that after that statement all the Resolutions which the Government submit have to be disposed of in a single sitting in a crisis like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.9.1", "colnum": "9", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is quite mistaken. There is no variation of the procedure on Budget Resolutions. The operative Resolutions must be passed that day, as is always the case. If there is any variation at all, it will not be in that particular part of the business. I am very glad that the right hon. Gentleman admits that there is a crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I will pass over the taunt about the crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.9.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.9.3", "colnum": "9", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: On the second day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The usual way in this business is that the operative Resolutions are dealt with on the first day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.11.2", "colnum": "11", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The House will realise that we meet in rather exceptional circumstances, and we cannot, therefore, in the procedure which we adopt to meet those circumstances, act entirely according to precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.11.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.11.2", "colnum": "11", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are none.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "rcumstances, and we cannot, therefore, in the procedure which we adopt to meet those circumstances, act entirely according to precedent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \"Why not?\"] The reason is that there are no precedents. Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that we must be governed very largely by common sense. But, in coming to that conclusion, I do not mean that whatever precedents exist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.11.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "he next meeting of the House of Commons would show this revolutionary change. I propose to tell the story of the last month or two, and thereby ex- plain what has taken place; but may I say, first of all, that this is one of those extraordinary incidents which happen in politics, and which are really a test of democratic government. Every now and again, things happen which require courage to face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "en welcomed and heralded with great gladness is one of the best justifications for the action that has been taken. On Saturday, the 8th August, a statement reached me that the Bank of England—[HON. MEMBERS: \"A h!\" alarmed at the outflow of deposits and the danger to gold reserves, was considering the possibility of a serious situation having to be met, and on the Monday I returned to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "used suspicion that there was to be no end of it, and that, in face of the prospects of an increasing body of unemployed this autumn and winter, joined with the prospects of a serious deficit in the Budget, national finance would show such gaps that the whole position of this country would be so weakened that no foreign Power and no foreign lenders would feel any security. That was the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Six-and a-quarter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "s would feel any security. That was the case—[ Interruption. ]—hon. Members can object and say what they like, but they have to face the facts. Those were the two things that had to be met. This country had shown that it was wanting a loan; those who supplied the loan were the public, and not the banks. The loan that was floated in Paris the other day was only partly a bank loan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And get rid of you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "day was only partly a bank loan—[An HON. MEMBER \"Six-and a-quarter.\"] That is, quite untrue. That is the sort of information that, I am sorry to say, is blazened abroad in a certain type of newspaper which really for once ought to consider national interests rather than party interests. If this country was to get a loan it had to do two things, and not one only. It had to balance its Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "atives of the other political parties, they said to us: \"Will this scheme secure the loan? If it does, we will support it. If it does not, we shall not.\" Again, with full consent, representatives of the Bank of England were consulted as to whether in their opinion the scheme proposed would produce the loan. Remember, we were asking for it. If our terms did not give assurance, we should not get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " my colleagues before, that never in the whole process of the negotiations carried on by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and myself, with die approval of the Government, and reported to it immediately after each interview, did the banks interfere with political proposals. They simply confined themselves to giving us expert advice as to the effect of the proposals on the possible yield of the loan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": ", that is a reasonable matter for discussion and consideration. But that is not what would have happened the other day—the pound sterling would not have had its content of gold diminished to a certain extent by a careful management and in the course of carrying out a plan; it would have tumbled. One day it would have been 20s. and the next day 10s., and it would have tumbled without control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What of it\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " you some history. That happened in Berlin. What, then, would have happened? Hon. Members who are representing Labour but not more adequately than I am and than I shall be doing, have to remember what would have happened if nothing had been done to avert what was maturing over our heads. Sterling, as I say, would have gone off the gold standard without management or control. It would have tumbled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME. MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And then you will not go out l\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME. MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am going to get, according to the decrees of my late and present colleagues—for nobody will sympathise with the pay of Cabinet Ministers, and they pretend not to do so themselves—a cut of £1,000 a, year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME. MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME. MINISTER", "preceding_text": " only for a period the complicated position of credit and exchange, on which such importations depend, were to be thrown seriously out of gear. It is no use sitting complacently talking about considerations which have nothing to do with this crisis, and in spite of the fact that country after country in Europe has undergone it for precisely the same reasons as are beginning to show in our finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME. MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go to the country now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME. MINISTER", "preceding_text": "n paper which are ceasing to yield any cash. The problem is that of putting our finances, as they are to-day, on a sound foundation. The system of State finance is the keystone of the fabric of the State. Those who stand by us now are assured that they are engaged in no hopeless task, but that their efforts will restore sterling to its long reputation for reliability. I appeal to the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "in a position, which I never sought, called upon to reply to his first speech under exceptional conditions. May I say that the personal aspect of the case appeals to me very strongly. By the change that has taken place we have lost three if not four of those who have been in the very forefront of the battle, and who, especially in two cases, have been associated in the building up of the movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " Unemployment Fund. We set to work and we went through, not the May Report, but a, set of proposals submitted to us as the result, as we were told, of hours of consultation between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. When we saw that list, the first exception I took to it—I want this to be clearly understood—was that we were approaching the problem in the wrong way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. I had the honour also of being a member of a Cabinet sub-committee. I would ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the conversations in Paris?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "red to co-operate, but to cooperate without accepting any responsibility. I do not object to the Prime Minister telling us that we agreed that he and the Chancellor of the Exchequer should see the Opposition Leaders. Oh no! What we object to is the results of some of the conversations, and one of them I noticed the Prime Minister discreetly passed over, without giving any attention to it whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS:\"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "tion to it whatever. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the conversations in Paris?\"] I hear an interruption about some conversations in Paris. I have left the Foreign Office but the Foreign Office have had the good sense to give a most emphatic contradiction to any such statement, and, what is more, the Prime Minister of France himself definitely contradicted that any such conversation ever took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Sitting on the fence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ake my position clear, and in view of a statement which I hear across the Floor that I had run away, I want to say this, that even in the early stages—I notice that the hon. Member for Leith is ready to jump up, and I must be careful—even in the early stages I said this: \"I am going to reserve my decision until I see the complete picture.\" That statement, I think, cannot be challenged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Did that include the teachers' cut?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "e find? After sitting for several days, we found this, that provisionally, £56,000,000 of economies had been accepted. £56,000,000! You will notice the words in the quotation which I have given from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bewdley: If the Government are determined to make a great effort to restore financial equilibrium £56,000,000 of economies provisionally accepted!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Trades Union Congress!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "at any rate as I understood it, on the Friday night—two days before our resignation—that we would face Parliament, and as far as I was concerned, I was determined, in the meantime, to have put into operation, a statement that was made during the discussions, namely, that it would be no use going on unless we carried our own people with us. We met next morning and what was the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it necessary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I do not know how the right hon. Gentleman can say what was stated in the Cabinet. I do know this, and, Mr. Speaker, if it is necessary, I am prepared to be placed on oath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "h I have just made. But what was the remark I immediately made after the report was given on that Saturday morning—the day before we resigned, because we practically resigned on the Sunday and not on the Monday. What did I say'? I said, \"Mr. Prime Minister, I have had a growing conviction that we are being asked to handle a situation that it will be quite impossible for us to carry through.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why I\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "f them met in joint meeting, one of them being the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. I want to make that clear, because I believe that a number of hon. Members opposite are under a misapprehension. It is thought that the Trades Union Congress came to us to dictate to us. Nothing of the kind. We invited the Trades Union Congress and the National Executive of the Labour party to meet ns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.34.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "The first thing he has said honestly!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.38.6", "colnum": "38", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "onsibility, and I do not believe that what may be morally wrong is always financially right. So. I took my stand. I was quite prepared to come to the House, as I have already said, with the position as it was on the Friday night. I was not prepared, whatever happened, to be guilty, especially without going to the committees to whom we had said, \"There is to be no reduction in unemployment benefit\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.38.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.38.6", "colnum": "38", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "it included in our proposals. Now I say this in conclusion: It has been a very difficult position. I deplore the fact that I have had to reply to the Prime Minister. I have stated my part of the case. I stand by the consequences. There was some suggestion made in the concluding part of the Prime Minister's speech about the sacrifice that he and his colleagues in the present Government were making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.38.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 30 pieces of silver'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I can produce the print. I have it in my pocket, so there need be no dispute about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "he late Labour Cabinet, lifelong Free Traders, or at any rate a very large proportion, were prepared, we are told, in this crisis to adopt or approve a tariff for revenue, which, since it would have had no countervailing excise, would unquestionably be the establishment of a general protective tariff. And in what other way, I ask, can the vast sums of money which are lying idle in the banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why go to France or America for money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " any rate a very large proportion, were prepared, we are told, in this crisis to adopt or approve a tariff for revenue, which, since it would have had no countervailing excise, would unquestionably be the establishment of a general protective tariff. And in what other way, I ask, can the vast sums of money which are lying idle in the banks—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—be made available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ould have had no countervailing excise, would unquestionably be the establishment of a general protective tariff. And in what other way, I ask, can the vast sums of money which are lying idle in the banks—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—be made available—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why go to France or America for money?\"] The hon. Gentleman is forgetting that our trouble was over the exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ey still believe what the large proportion of the Labour party believed when in office—that it is possible to make the capitalist system of society work. There has come from that Front Bench to-day a great call to the nation to make sacrifices. I am ready to make sacrifices for any good purpose. I am ready, to use phraseology that has been used in the Debate to-day, to tighten my belt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ieved when in office—that it is possible to make the capitalist system of society work. There has come from that Front Bench to-day a great call to the nation to make sacrifices. I am ready to make sacrifices for any good purpose. I am ready, to use phraseology that has been used in the Debate to-day, to tighten my belt—[ Interruption. ] Yes, the consequences might be disastrous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to the Noble Lord. I know why he is here, and so does he. I was referring to the hon. Member for Streatham (Sir W. Lane Mitchell)—a fellow-countryman of my own, but a deportee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£56,000,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " with benefits. It would be a very pretty picture if it were true, but it is far from being true. All the ex-Ministers were ready for drastic cuts. We have heard to-day that they were ready to make cuts of precisely the nature that the hon. Member for Bridgeton condemned. We heard of cuts of £55,000,000. Those were agreed upon provisionally. A further figure was stated—£66,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "n them, or were there any proposals made by Ministers now sitting on that bench, for dealing with the length of time for which ordinary benefit was given? Would they deny it? Would they deny ever having made proposals even for touching the amount or the condition on which standard benefit is given? All these things which the hon. Member for Bridgeton condemns were in large measure agreed to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"Who told you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " benefits. I ask, in those conditions, what was the difference? We have had disclosures by other Ministers, including the late Minister of Agriculture. The difference between the economies required and those they were ready to approve was one of £15,000,000, a large sum in itself, but only one-fifth of the whole. They were ready to go to 16s. in the £ provisionally. What was the proviso?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "s and held a brief consultation. I believe there were seven of us, and we came to the unanimous conclusion that if the Government attempted to meet the conditions that we were told had been placed upon them by the Conservative and Liberal parties, they might get their own votes in the Division Lobby, but it was very doubtful if they would get any other votes from our party other than the lawyers'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir OSWALD MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir OSWALD MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "dopted unless things are to get worse. In face of this decrease of our industrial position it really is idle to talk about the recent crisis as a bankers' ramp, as really the frame-up of a few financiers to get rid of the Labour Government. If the Labour party had said that it was the banking policy of the last 10 years, a policy which they supported, that was responsible for this situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir OSWALD MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir OSWALD MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "anciers to get rid of the Labour Government. If the Labour party had said that it was the banking policy of the last 10 years, a policy which they supported, that was responsible for this situation—[ Interruption ]—a policy which their Chancellor of the Exchequer supported and which they supported him in supporting, then they would be getting at the root facts of the present situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir OSWALD MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir OSWALD MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "ople, the people they are pledged to defend and the people they want to defend, are faced to-day with wage reductions, with cuts in unemployment benefit, with reductions in their whole standards of life, because the Labour party would not respond to appeals to take action until the whole industrial fabric crumbled about their ears. But I do not want to be drawn into an atmosphere of recrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "nk, has always a deficit. I am not sure, but at least I looked through a long list of the most respectable and powerful countries the other day, and I find that nearly all have big deficits. There is no collapse of their exchanges, no withdrawal of foreign deposits, no efflux of gold because they have deficits. Why? Because their industrial position is strong and the investor has confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "After all, the American position is a great deal better than ours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "—and here of course I differ from hon. Gentlemen opposite—by stringent guarantees as to efficiency of industry, as to low prices, as to good wages and the whole of the scientific machinery which some of us suggest for ensuring that you will get the benefit of Protection without its evils—if a policy of protection of that kind which I might describe as scientific Protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.82.3", "colnum": "82", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": " believe that one party is more responsible than another for the deficit. I admit that all parties have come together in their wisdom and created the situation which has arisen, but I suggest that the national thought and the national outlook which have dominated all parties since 1918 have brought about the present situation. Therefore, I rejoice, in the interests of the unemployed workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.82.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.82.3", "colnum": "82", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": " rejoice, in the interests of the unemployed workers—[ Laughter ]—hon. Members opposite may smile, but I honestly believe it, and I suggest to them that their line of thought, of the outpouring of public money in large measure, has been fully tried and has been a ghastly failure, with the result that we have to-day a larger number of unemployed than any other nation in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.82.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "y surrendered the whole philosophy upon which the Labour and Socialist movement has been built up and passively accepted the demands of the bankers. If I am opposing the National Government, as I am, I hope it will be made plain that I am not opposing it because of any sympathy with the record of the late Government, because in my view the passivity and the dishonesty of the late Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "nd I will say I have more respect for the men who carried the implications of their own position to a logical conclusion—and that is true of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer—than I have for the position of many men who went nine-tenths of the way on that road and then, at the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour, retreated. Now I want to deal with the solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ver read a more disgraceful public pronouncement than the pronouncement of the late President of the Board of Trade. To what does it amount? That in a situation of tremendous crisis, from the capitalist point of view, a great public man who is not prepared to put up the alternative to capitalism hails the present situation as a miraculous escape for this side of the House and says in effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "re is difference of emphasis, but it is my purpose to suggest that no difference of emphasis will meet the situation. What I want to suggest to the House and, above all, to the trade union representatives on this side, is that British capitalism in relation to world capitalism cannot survive except at the expense of affecting enormous reductions in the standard of life of the masses of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "andard of life of the masses of the people. [ Interruption. ] I am trying to put my view as clearly as I can. Fundamentally, the fact of the situation is this—we may dodge it, but sooner or later we have to come to grips with it—that British capitalism cannot survive in the present world situation except at the cost of effecting immense reductions in the standard of life of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " masses to fight capitalism, then all the rest is humbug. You cannot fight the logical conclusion of a thing unless you are prepared to fight the thing itself. If the present situation of capitalistic economy in Britain demands these reductions in the standard of life, you cannot fight those reductions effectively unless you are prepared to fight capitalism itself and, if necessary, bring it down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.106.5", "colnum": "106", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "support Karensky. This party must make up its mind where it stands. I have a very great deal of sympathy with the position of the hon. Baronet the Member for Smethwick (Sir O. Mosley). He is absolutely right when he says that he has urged this party again and again to face the logic of events. If the Labour party can do no more than jeer at people who try to make it face the logic of events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And never did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that any foreign investor or depositor would care a fig whether we were meeting our unemployment expenditure by borrowing or by paying on the nail. The real crisis is not in the Government Budget which we are met to discuss but in the national Budget, in the figures of our foreign trade and of our industrial production. The fact is that as a nation we are not paying our way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "untry has never yet had the wisdom to take the advice that Labour has given the country consistently since the Armistice. In the first instance, we said that it was suicide to expect that you would ever clear up the mess in Europe by requiring the nations of the world who were engaged in the War to go in for repayment of reparations and War debts. That has been consistently the position of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "900,000 to France and a much larger percentage of the debt to Italy, and you have not reduced one tithe of the burden that you have forgiven in figures to your foreign debtors on the payments to be made to the rentier who holds the debt in this country. You forgive your debtors, but you pay your creditors, and the biggest part of your creditors in that respect are the rentiers in your own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ployment Insurance could have been entirely met, and there would not have been one penny of debt on the Unemployment Fund to-day.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th December, 1929; col. 2211, Vol. 233.] That was in December, 1929, yet what was the position? It was that the debt had been increased during that period of Conservative Government—wonderful, courageous people who are standing up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You retired according to plan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "he States. If you want to help, leave the person who has the least of his wants satisfied with at any rate a reasonable opportunity of satisfying them, in that way keeping the wheels of industry going. We were told that we ran away. I forget who wrote it, but I remember reading many years ago the remark that it sometimes requires courage not to acquire somebody else's courage. We did not run away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has addressed the House with his accustomed cogency and vigour. He has spoken in a tone of strong controversy, but I shall not follow him in that tone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "er for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery) to say a single word in reference to the tariff controversy, greatly as I am tempted to do so. But it must not be taken from that fact that silence is assent; nor must it be assumed that all of us agree that the best way to deal with the adverse balance of trade is by means of a general tariff, or even that a general tariff would serve to redress the balance of trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "negotiations suggested that was an imperative condition that must be fulfilled straight away by the production of their proposals. Similarly, when the right hon. Gentleman said that there were required by the representatives of the other parties economies of £25,000,000 to £30,000,000 more than had been proposed, involving a cut of 20 per cent. in the unemployment standard benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-08", "file": "debates1931-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "4dfb6ddf1085e7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "FINANCIAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you spend upon armaments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " rate of benefit. It has not yet been mentioned, and I have the permission of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to state it, that, if no economies or changes were made, apart from the premiums from the employers and employés, amounting to £28,000,000, the Estimate for the charge upon the public Exchequer for the unemployed for next year would amount to the immense sum of £115,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-08a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Stanley Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Enjoy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Stanley Baldwin)", "preceding_text": " deal with the crisis on the Irish question in 1922. At that time the whole of the private Members time and such privileges as existed were taken away for Government business. At this period of the Session Parliament, having been convened for one purpose primarily, and one purpose only, we have thought fit to follow that precedent in order that the Government may enjoy all the time there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.139.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "There are no women in it.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "He is not in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.143.4", "colnum": "143", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping said that the longer this Government lived the more unpopular they would become, and therefore he thought it was essential to have a general election before the democracy had been able fully to realise all the implications and consequences of the policy which the Government are adopting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "s a Coalition Government, or, if you wish it, a Conservative Government carrying a few Liberals and Labour Members in its train. But there is one thing that is certain, if an election is delayed, and if this Government lasts any length of time. Coalition Governments always begin amid the general approval of the Press, and in a few months, if they are allowed to last, they end in universal disgust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.144.5", "colnum": "144", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": ", and that he will speak for the private Members of the Liberal party—those who are not in the Government. I think it is very important, not only that the Labour Members of the House should have full time to develop their views, but it is most essential, in order that the country should understand the situation, that Liberal Members should have the opportunity of explaining where they stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the how and gallant Member has not followed previous Debates on these Motions for taking private Members' time, the discussions on which have always ranged over a very wide area, and have included exactly the type of subject that I am discussing, especially when a general election was in sight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I would say to the, hon. and gallant Member for Dulwich (Sir F. Hall) that I was trying to be accurate, and, whether he likes it or not, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Seaham (Mr. R. MacDonald) is the Leader of the Conservative party. It may make the hon. and gallant Member for Dulwich uneasy, but it leaves us very happy on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not repeat yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "number of days on the Committee stage and all the rest of it, but surely we should be given some general indication of what the Government have in mind as to the time. I am surprised that this information has not been given, and I hope that the House will now be given the information. If the Government are going to give a reasonable time for the Economy Bill and for the supplementary Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": ". Speaker, but, in my submission, I am justified in saying that this Government exists for the purpose of clearing up the mess that has been left to it by the last Government. It has been called into being for that purpose and that purpose only and so soon as it has devised the emergency Measures dealing with the acute crisis its function is ceasing and it ought to make way for another government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "nment exists for the purpose of clearing up the mess that has been left to it by the last Government. It has been called into being for that purpose and that purpose only and so soon as it has devised the emergency Measures dealing with the acute crisis its function is ceasing and it ought to make way for another government. [ Interruption. ] I do not believe that we do any service to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRES: \"Hear, hear!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "g with the acute crisis its function is ceasing and it ought to make way for another government. [ Interruption. ] I do not believe that we do any service to the country. [ Interruption. ] History will tell who has done the greatest disservice. I do not believe that one does any service to the country by maintaining the pretence that this Government can deal with the fundamentals of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.151.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "I do not need to deny it. The Bill was blocked, but not by me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "er blocked Measure; his supporters do it by his instructions, and, in any case, if that Measure was not blocked by the Labour Government, why did not the Chief Whip provide time for its passage? Can anything be more absurd—to use no stronger word—than for the Labour party now to have to press in the present crisis for the passage of a Bill which, for two years, they themselves blocked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "elieve that another policy should be offered. The only possible way to get out of our present difficulties is to act quickly, and it is impossible for rapid action to take place if there are Parliamentary delay and obstruction of the old-fashioned order. I would urge the Government to go a great deal further. They have before them, I believe, the report of the Committee on Parliamentary Procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "rnment are holding the Saturday so sacred that they are making sure by this Motion that they will not have to engage in any work on a Saturday? Does it mean that if things are in a serious condition we shall not be called upon to meet on a Saturday because the new Government think that Saturday is a sacred day? Apparently we are to go home on Friday at 4 o'clock until the following Monday morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on your own side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " they will not have to engage in any work on a Saturday? Does it mean that if things are in a serious condition we shall not be called upon to meet on a Saturday because the new Government think that Saturday is a sacred day? Apparently we are to go home on Friday at 4 o'clock until the following Monday morning. [ Interruption. ] I realise that there are some of the Jewish faith in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ught me strictly into order I think. What I was going to say was that all that is no excuse for taking away the fundamental rights of Parliament to control taxation. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman has yet realised that the fight waged by his Puritan ancestors, to which he is very fond of referring, with justifiable pride, is going to be fought all over again by us on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Guillotine for the last Finance Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "l rights of Parliament to control taxation. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman has yet realised that the fight waged by his Puritan ancestors, to which he is very fond of referring, with justifiable pride, is going to be fought all over again by us on these benches. [ Interruption. ] Yes, this is the first shot. This is removing the right of this House to exercise control over finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the Trades Union Congress?'", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e pride, is going to be fought all over again by us on these benches. [ Interruption. ] Yes, this is the first shot. This is removing the right of this House to exercise control over finance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Guillotine for the last Finance Bill?\"] The coming fight is to be over who is to dictate the method of taxation in this country. Is it to be this elected House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"What about the Guillotine for the last Finance Bill?\"] The coming fight is to be over who is to dictate the method of taxation in this country. Is it to be this elected House of Commons—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the Trades Union Congress?'] It is no use hon. Members shouting \"Trades Union Congress\" at me. I am not a trade union nominee. I have fought my seat as a member of two parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.184.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-09", "file": "debates1931-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "85125ddb501a112a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "u for your consideration the question whether I am not in order on a, proposal to reduce—for that is what it amounts to—the borrowing powers of the Local Loans Fund from the National Debt Commissioners to the extent of £10,000,000, in asking if necessitous areas in this country, where the bulk of the unemployed poor reside, are not entitled to feel apprehensive at these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-09a.198.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Press!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Centleman will let me know what particular items he wishes to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.293.9", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "preceding_text": "I wish to raise a point of Order. I should like to ask who is responsible for the seat which is reserved for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales being occupied at the present time by another person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.293.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL AND OTHER ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yield?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "in the standard rate of Income Tax in the middle of the financial year will, of course, make the collection of the full amount within this year much more difficult, and it is therefore inevitable that I must make some allowance for this probable lag of receipts; but, of course, what I lose this year through that will be gained next year. That disposes of the standard rate, and I now pass to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCLUSION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "agreeable. They are justified only by the regrettable necessity urged upon us by the present financial position of the nation, but I have received during the last few weeks the most amazing evidence of the willingness of the nation, men and women of all classes, to make their contribution to this effort. This morning my post was like the post on every day for a week past. Old age pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCLUSION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Lord Nelson's?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ged upon us by the present financial position of the nation, but I have received during the last few weeks the most amazing evidence of the willingness of the nation, men and women of all classes, to make their contribution to this effort. This morning my post was like the post on every day for a week past. Old age pensioners—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame\"]—have returned their pension books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCLUSION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Duke of Westminster?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "omen of all classes, to make their contribution to this effort. This morning my post was like the post on every day for a week past. Old age pensioners—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame\"]—have returned their pension books. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Lord Nelson's?\"] War pensioners have offered to forgo their pensions for the year. National War Savings Certificates have been returned cancelled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCLUSION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " post on every day for a week past. Old age pensioners—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame\"]—have returned their pension books. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Lord Nelson's?\"] War pensioners have offered to forgo their pensions for the year. National War Savings Certificates have been returned cancelled. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Duke of Westminster?\"] Postal orders, large and small, pour in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCLUSION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "lson's?\"] War pensioners have offered to forgo their pensions for the year. National War Savings Certificates have been returned cancelled. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Duke of Westminster?\"] Postal orders, large and small, pour in. [ Interruption. ] Children, even, have sent from their savings-boxes shillings and half-crowns to help the nation in its need. Factory girls have come to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCLUSION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " proposals that I have submitted give everybody the opportunity of contributing. I have tried as best I could to spread the burden of the sacrifice as fairly and as evenly as human ingenuity can devise. To balance a Budget with a deficit of £170,000,000, to spend, as we are doing this year, at the expense of the Exchequer, something like £100,000,000 for the relief of unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCLUSION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ise. To balance a Budget with a deficit of £170,000,000, to spend, as we are doing this year, at the expense of the Exchequer, something like £100,000,000 for the relief of unemployment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]—is an achievement which no country in the world has ever attempted. The House of Commons will, I believe, accept these proposals, the country will accept them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "et in this country would not only expose us to very great difficulty in our international trade, but would, in fact, defeat the very objects of the industrial change for which this movement stands. But we always made it clear, in the difficult and delicate discussions when we were called together in the early part of August, that we refused to submit to any outside pressure shading into dictation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That would be out of order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "unfolded to the House. Taking a full year, he proposes to provide for approximately £170,000,000, and the House has been informed that that includes about £70,000,000 of economies, but not a single word of explanation has been given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the nature and scope of those economies, or as to the classes of the community upon which they are designed to fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "xation has been distributed over a very wide field, but I think the House was entitled to some summary, however brief, as to the right hon. Gentleman's plans, because it was on the nature of the make up of those economies that the late Government ultimately resigned. In describing the £70,000,000, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made the statement that nine-tenths of that total was agreed to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " will try to express our views as to the position of the Sinking Fund. There are abundant reasons in existing conditions for suspending the Sinking Fund for the time being. Why do I make that suggestion? I make it because we firmly believe that even in these difficult times the Budget could be balanced without an attack upon the rates of unemployment insurance and without an attack upon education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "than £22,000,000 or £23,000,000. We shall fight on that issue when we reach the detailed discussions which are to take place. I recognise, with other Members of the House, that vast new burdens are being imposed upon the community, but the principle which the Prime Minister laid down in his public utterances since the change of Government was the principle of equality of sacrifice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who brought it about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "uer. The gravity of our present position has been described in the House, and I regret to say that in some quarters the description has been met with laughter. I must confess that the levity with which it has been received rather shocked me, when one realises how near we have been to the brink of a collapse which would have been as dramatic and as disastrous as that which overcame Germany in 1924.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Much obliged?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": ". Let me turn to the attitude which has been adopted with regard to the poor who are likely to be hit under the present Budget provisions. The really important thing that we have to consider is how to safeguard for all our people of every class the incomes which they at present possess, and the facility with which they can purchase what they need and get the fullest possible value for their money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "and the great producers. In the first place, if sterling had broken as the mark broke, and as the franc broke—and in France they are not without financial intelligence, and appreciate the safeguards which we find necessary over here—if, the franc and the mark having set the example, sterling had followed, the first people to suffer in this country would have been the consuming classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "lue of the mark in 1919, I noticed that it was then standing at 184 marks to the £—not very different from the present rate of the franc. In 12 months it had reached 258; in 1921 it had reached 771; in 1922 it was 34,000; and in 1923, just at the time when I was over there and saw these things taking place, it actually slumped to no less than 18,000,000,000,000. It absolutely collapsed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ss than 18,000,000,000,000. It absolutely collapsed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] For a very good reason. Those who were charged with guarding the mark allowed it to slip off the gold standard, or rather, it did not return to the gold standard after the War, but depended entirely upon a managed paper currency, and the pressure of outside payments was so disastrous that they could not withstand it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the use of democracy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ot see the exact parallel—[ Interruption. ] Every economic fact has everything to do with it. An accumulation of misfortunes brought it about. What, happened in Germany is one of the things which I hope hon. Members will keep in mind when they think they can manage a currency without any reference to the gold on which it is based or the terms on which foreign lenders will let you have money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ne only has to state the problem to see how simple it is. There is nothing very complicated about it. It is almost like a balance sheet. The right hon. Gentleman opposite asked the other night, Why not get over the temporary difficulty by mobilising your foreign investments? I forget whether he named the exact amount but it has been stated in some quarters that we might mobilise £400,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who wants to follow the franc?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "f you allow the pound to follow the franc, exactly the same thing will happen as happened in France, where five francs became worth only one. We had experience in this country of taking up French securities on the old basis of the exchange and finding them divided by five. If the pound follows the franc, all these people will not get their full 5 per cent. on their securities, but a fifth of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "d sterling following the franc. Everyone of those things is absolutely necessary, and therefore, there is reason for the Chancellor of the Exchequer having a revised Budget this afternoon in order to make it certain, as far as you can be humanly certain, that for the next 18 months we shall more than pay our way. These people ought also to be protected in this House. To what does the total amount?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about a variety of diet for the unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "time has came, unfortunately, when we are purchasing far more goods abroad than we can pay for in the normal way. We require the food from abroad in order to maintain life and to maintain, let me add, a variety of diet which is not excelled in any other country of the world. But that variety of diet may have to suffer if we are to get the necessaries of life and if we are to get our raw materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "than the uncertain figures which the right hon. Gentleman has used. I will not follow the right hon. Gentleman into his very interesting suggestions in regard to the prohibition of luxury imports, except to say that the best way to prevent people buying luxury imports is to increase the taxation on heavy incomes. Those luxuries are mostly bought by people whose income is above the super-tax level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the hon. Member get at that figure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "mes. Those luxuries are mostly bought by people whose income is above the super-tax level. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Certainly to a very large extent it is so. The contribution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer this afternoon towards reducing that purchasing power in respect of excess income above £2,000 a year is about 5d. in the £. That will not go very far in reducing luxury expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.332.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "in meeting the trade situation, which is the real problem which the country has to face, unless it is accompanied by what is intended, and that is a general reduction in wages. The avowed purpose of hon. Members opposite, and the economic justification, as far as it is any justification, although it is an entirely wrong and harmful justification, is to make possible a reduction of wages generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.336.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Member whether he honestly thinks that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, two men who have given their lives to the Socialist party, have as their object the reduction of the wages of the workers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer find themselves in very bad company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "ster and Chancellor of the Exchequer find themselves in very bad company. [ Interruption. ] There is no question at all as to the intention and purpose of the Government. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have told us that in all the negotiations leading up to this nefarious transaction they have been working in close touch with the Bank of England and the bankers in the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.337.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PHILIP OLIVER", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member answer the question that has been put to him? Does he allege that the intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister in introducing these measures is to depress wages in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ce. Balance your budget, carry out your own reform, and then go to the country, and the wild mob's million feet will kick you from your place.\" That was a great temptation to us. I do not think anyone can doubt that had that been the course of events, we should have gone to the country and would have gained a sweeping victory for a cause on which some of us rest all our hopes for the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your Liberal Friends!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "t of maintaining life in those unemployed who have been the victims of our selfish, callous policy of buying in the cheapest market even though our people perish. We hear hon. Gentlemen opposite producing their slogans, and talking about maintaining the standard of life of the people. Who are those who have deliberately championed the policy of the sweater and the dumper in all those years?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "have altered, and they always treat one with civility. There are hon. Gentlemen behind me who know that every time I raise this question, pointing out that it is folly for the trade unions to protect the standard of life of the workers of this country unless they are going to protect the products of labour which come into this country, hon. Members opposite always yell at me like a pack of wolves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRACHEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What with?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRACHEY", "preceding_text": " Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. They at any rate have been most consistent. They have realised that British capitalism is in a great difficulty. Their instinctive reaction has been to rush to its assistance, but at any rate that shows that they realise what is happening and that there is no alternative but to rush to the assistance of that capitalism or to be prepared to replace it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "h has landed the whole of the population of this great country into the present, mess. He sits on the Front Bench opposite in a comfortable position and groans when he hears about a cut in unemployment allowances. Let me tell him frankly that none of these cuts would have been necessitated had he and his confreres taken proper consideration of the finances of the country during the past two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIBSON", "preceding_text": "Just as in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, France, and in Italy the standard of wages is much lower than that in this country, I might as well say that there are other Protectionist country, such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and the United States, where the wages are the highest in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who gave it to him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "e. Everything that I can do outside the House or inside in order to prevent one further sacrifice by the working-class I shall do. I have sat in patience on the other side waiting for something to be done. Thank God I never sat, on those benches while this was being done. Why does not the Chancellor of the Exchequer revise the salary of Sir Ernest Gowers? He is getting £7,000 per annum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": " the working-class I shall do. I have sat in patience on the other side waiting for something to be done. Thank God I never sat, on those benches while this was being done. Why does not the Chancellor of the Exchequer revise the salary of Sir Ernest Gowers? He is getting £7,000 per annum—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Who gave it to him?\"] The Bank of England did. The Bank of England fixed it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who proposed it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member, who as a rule is rather impetuous, will wait until I deal with that. I want to emphasise that when this House voted £20 a day and expenses, seven days a week, to Sir Ernest Gowers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "at subject to-night, and I turn to make one or two observations on the general question. It is admitted that the proposals of the Government are going to be grievous to everybody affected by them, that is, every soul in the community; but they are only a stop gap, they are not a solution of the crisis. The reason for that, as other speakers have said, is that we are not paying our way as a nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" You will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "ng patiently as a member of the Labour party to see something done. It is true that something was done—the country was done. The Labour Government continued to run up expenses, and to-day we are suffering severely from the extravagance of the last two years. We all realise that everybody will have to suffer great hardship in consequence of the very severe taxation which is now being proposed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " after the Budget has been balanced, to consider the question of the future prosperity of this country and the question of a tariff, ibis Government which is in power to-day is, to my mind, totally inadequate to bring in such a tariff. When a patient is ill, a doctor may he called in to see him and to prescribe. The medicine he prescribes may he good or bad. But when three doctors prescribe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " us say, a civil servant, a single person, with an income of £3 a week, and what will be the effect upon the unemployed? The amount of increase on the Surtax payer is 6d. in the pound on the Income Tax and 10 per cent. additional burden on the Surtax. I have not by me the precise figures of what the man with £5,000 a year pays, but I am satisfied that the effect of those two taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "t will be the effect upon the unemployed? The amount of increase on the Surtax payer is 6d. in the pound on the Income Tax and 10 per cent. additional burden on the Surtax. I have not by me the precise figures of what the man with £5,000 a year pays, but I am satisfied that the effect of those two taxes—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members can get the figures and work them out for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, the figures are all wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "hat not only would the equality of sacrifice not have been carried out if there had actually been an equal proportion of cut on all classes of the community, but these new burdens which are being imposed are regressive in their effect. That is to say, the larger the income, the smaller the proportion of the cut. To the man with £5,000 a year it is between 3 and 4 per cent. of sacrifice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" The figures are wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "If I were quoting some speech incorrectly, I would willingly give way, but I am stating the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "rt of this Session there was what I might call almost a Liberal ramp against the principle of double taxation. The right hon. Gentleman opposite told us that he was quite prepared to see a single tax put on but he was not prepared to see double taxation. Under this Budget we have not merely double taxation but triple taxation placed upon the people who are certainly not most capable of bearing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ertainly not most capable of bearing it. [ Interruption. ] Everybody bears some taxation but the question is, is the proposed taxation in accordance with the principle of equality of sacrifice? It is not. I think I have shown that it is not, and we are not going to get a wholehearted nation standing together in regard to this matter, as this alleged National Government professes to expect to find.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "Members opposite object that it took no account of the amount that was borrowed for the Unemployment Fund I would remind them that even if the whole of that had been thrown on to the expenditure side of the Budget there was nevertheless a considerable margin still on the right side, so that so far as the last completed year is concerned it is not true to say that the country had an adverse Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They have not to borrow in the open market!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ause, I suppose, they do not know the facts. That is a literal statement of fact. Compare that with the position of the United States, which in the last completed year had a deficit round about £180,000,000: and I notice that in the \"Times\" of 5th September their correspondent estimated that the deficit of the United States next year ending June, 1932, would he no less than £300,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "s House, with all the authority which lies behind his position, and venturing to suggest that the financial position of this country is comparable with the position of countries in Central Europe. The reason for the collapse of the States of Central Europe in years gone by was not, of course, their unbalanced budgets. It was that their external liabilities far exceeded their external assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "erfectly true. The City of London and the Bank of England during the last month have been pursuing a policy which was generous in some of its motives, but it was a policy pursued by an imprudent banker. If hon. Members say that that is too strong an adjective to use I will say by a banker who had not the foresight to anticipate the abnormal events which have taken place in latter months in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " countries enough to meet the situation. This is not my view alone. I read only the other day in the \"Manchester Guardian\" a letter from a man who, the editor of the \"Manchester Guardian\" stated, was a leading international banker. I know privately that that is the case. He definitely says that it is by the mobilisation of our foreign securities and by that alone that this crisis will be overcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "e other day in the \"Manchester Guardian\" a letter from a man who, the editor of the \"Manchester Guardian\" stated, was a leading international banker. I know privately that that is the case. He definitely says that it is by the mobilisation of our foreign securities and by that alone that this crisis will be overcome. [ Interruption. ] I really cannot give way. I have only 10 minutes more to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-10", "file": "debates1931-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "962dff4c7bd10dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER (EXCISE DUTY AND DRAWBACK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "will enable us, in the first place, to hold the securities as a cover for trading. It will also enable us, if necessary—and this is the point that both the Home Secretary and the night hon. Gentleman the Member for St. Ives overlooked—to put those securities on the market, and thereby to end the drain of gold. I am not suggesting for a moment that we should confiscate those securities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-10a.404.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ears. There is not a soul alive who would simply, in a free and open field, with circumstances absolutely under his control, make suggestions for cuts like this. [ Interruption. ] I am glad to say that a great many of them understand. You can do this in one of two ways. You can, by invisible means, reduce the relief given to the unemployed. You can do it in various ways. You can do it by a tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": ";you can allow the value of your currency, not to go down with care and with control, but to go down without rhyme or reason, because of what is found in a super-excited public opinion. You can do it in all these ways. I and my colleagues here who preferred this straightforward way have taken so much per cent. off and are basing the so much per cent, off upon decreases in the cost of living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about rent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ol, but to go down without rhyme or reason, because of what is found in a super-excited public opinion. You can do it in all these ways. I and my colleagues here who preferred this straightforward way have taken so much per cent. off and are basing the so much per cent, off upon decreases in the cost of living—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not true!\"]—and the increase in the value of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "u can do it in all these ways. I and my colleagues here who preferred this straightforward way have taken so much per cent. off and are basing the so much per cent, off upon decreases in the cost of living—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not true!\"]—and the increase in the value of money. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about rent?\"] Do remember that when you let loose upon us, as I know you will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "t, there was a colossal change—simply a colossal change. Certain figures that were mentioned here the other day as having been considered by us, were figures that were produced at that inquiry—figures which within two minutes of their announcement were turned down by everybody and banished from their minds as being unjust and absolutely impossible. Well, we come to the year 1929—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "nation into operation and instead of feeling that they are sitting here today, 11th September, 1931, to feel that they are sitting here at the end of October, 1929, and that the state of the unemployed is as it was then. Think of that, measure it, get it into your minds, and then say that the proposal of the Government is this it is recreating that condition hut making it 1½ per cent. better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does this one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "o the Lobby on that, we would see alongside of us and in the same Lobby, a great many faces of those with whom we have always divided up to the beginning of this situation. Then there is one point regarding transition benefit, and I want to make that clear also. Regarding transition benefit there was a great deal—I do not know how much, because a Cabinet works as a whole and not in sections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ere, as a temporary attachment to the Insurance Fund. It went on extending, and at the present moment you get great bodies of men and women who ought to be insured not insured, and their neighbours getting transition benefit and they themselves having to go to the Poor Law. All these are anomalies. It was decided that the insurance benefit should be 26 weeks, and then that some test of need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "eeks, and then that some test of need—[ Interruption ]. I think that is a very trumpery remark. My hon. Friend and neighbour in Durham, if he takes that into the Division Lobby, and if opinions expressed and commitments made are to direct the way that others' feet go, will not have a united Opposition voting. But the Employment Exchanges are the bodies that remain in control of these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.431.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "The five point cut in the Civil Service wages was a settled matter according to a scale. I think it was found to be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.438.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.438.9", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "m, we offered our resignations as the price of our freedom, and now claim that we are absolutely at liberty to take in this House in meeting the challenge such steps as we think it proper to take in the public interest. Accordingly, we lament the Prime Minister's arguments of this morning in support of the cuts in education, for such cuts will only further and more seriously handicap this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.438.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ter casting humiliating terms, to which I would draw the attention of the House. This letter said, in effect, \"I am to be subject to these economies. My salary is small, and it is to be smaller. What shall I do? I must economise in turn. I shall have to discontinue the use of my motor bicycle. Secondly, I shall have to discontinue the pleasure of the sweet that I commonly have taken at my dinner.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " very interesting discussions which have gone on across the Floor of the House between various Members of the late Socialist Government now sitting on opposite sides of the House. All I can say about those discussions is that Cabinet meetings in the late Socialist Government seem to have been very like the game of \"Slippery Sam,\" consisting of endeavouring to \"pass the buck\" from one to the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "years and hoping that the electors will return them by a majority, and then everything will be well. That may be so. 1.0. p.m. I am going to say something which may not be popular, and it is that there is no limit to the follies of democracy. It is quite possible that the party opposite, as a result of the action which they have recently taken, may be returned with a majority at the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will never get in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "uggested at the Trades Union Congress and elsewhere they would eventually be faced with a situation in which there would be such a flight from the pound that it might be reduced by 50 per cent. of its present value and this might produce such a fury among the supporters of hon. Members opposite that they would find themselves faced with an even worse crisis than that with which we are now dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "at any House of Commons has been elected upon, and, under both the present Government and the late Government, we have had an amount of closured Debate that I have never seen exceeded in the 27 years that I have been in the House. We have had a closured Budget, and now we have this Measure. We are advancing rapidly towards a condition of things which was never contemplated even 15 or 20 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.444.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you want force?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "try, whom we represent in this House, are not afraid of revolutionary threats, because the hon. Member, as lie explained with wild and whirling gestures, exactly how drastic a revolution they intend to carry out, concluded by saying that that revolution would adhere strictly to Parliamentary precedents fixed to-day. That is the attitude of mind which goes for revolutionary fervour in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.467.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Depreciation, not loss.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "re told that City of London finance has utterly wasted since the War the whole of the resources that the Chancellor of the Exchequer now requires. In the year 1928 the City of London floated 284 companies, for which the public subscribed £117,000,000 of capital, and by May, 1931, the total market value of the investments was only £66,000,000, a loss of 47 per cent. of the money invested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"This Government interference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "don floated 284 companies, for which the public subscribed £117,000,000 of capital, and by May, 1931, the total market value of the investments was only £66,000,000, a loss of 47 per cent. of the money invested. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Depreciation, not loss.\"] I am coming to that. Out of the 284 companies, 70 had been wound up, and the capital of 36 others had no ascertainable value whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.475.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"In their way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "te fresh conditions of confidence, not in the Government but in the City, confidence in our banking system.\" They did not stop there. I do not wish to go into controversial matters about what we decided and what we did not decide. It is common knowledge that we agreed to balance the Budget, but those men insisted, and their political parties insisted, upon balancing the Budget in a particular way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "genheim were sent to demand a reduction of their standards by 20 per cent. The same people have control in Peru, and they dictate the Peruvian Budget. Wall Street has an officer in the Peruvian Cabinet, and, unless we are very careful, I am afraid we shall see the beginning of a system in which foreign finance will dictate to the Government of this country exactly how they shall run their affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ess. But this problem can only be properly faced by a radical, complete and fundamental reconstruction of the aims and objects of production, and a morn equitable redistribution of the goods when they have been produced. I agree with what. was said by the hon. Member for East Leyton (Mr. Brockway). For the first time, I think, in my life, I have doubts in my mind as to our ability to evolve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "r national ability to evolve gradually And with progressively less suffering into a social order wherein the appallings poverty tragedies and miseries of our time be no more; but I am certain of this, that the steps now being taken in this House will not make it easier to evolve progressively into happier times, but will make it infinitely more difficult. You are creating a class war spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And buy cigars!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "it—[ Interruption ]—which is bound to make reasonable consideration of our national difficulties almost impossible. Take the case of the unemployed single man. He is to be cut to 15s. 3d. a week. His rent, living in a lodging, will be 1s. a night. Seven shillings will come off for his rent, and he is left with 8s. 3d. He is left with 1s. 2d. a day to feed himself, clothe himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major BRAITHWAITE", "preceding_text": "What about the agricultural labourer, without any unemployment benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "idly drawing to a close, but there are one or two points which, before I sit down, I should dearly love to make. Yesterday we were told much about the widow's mite, and the old age pensioner—about the offers that were pouring in to help the State in its hour of need. Cannot we have, as they had in Australia, a voluntary appeal to the holders of internal debt to reduce their rate of interest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " of finance against the poor. We are now faced in this land with a Budget, the essential principle of which is dictated, not by the will or desire of those who bring it forward, but by the will and desire of alien influences; in 1931 we are faced with the spectacle, not of a National Government, but of a Wall Street Government. We were proud, many of us, to sing that Britons never shall be slaves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "is land with a Budget, the essential principle of which is dictated, not by the will or desire of those who bring it forward, but by the will and desire of alien influences; in 1931 we are faced with the spectacle, not of a National Government, but of a Wall Street Government. We were proud, many of us, to sing that Britons never shall be slaves. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, and believed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Civil Service?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " as to roads—not one penny change. The services, so far as soldiers and sailors are concerned—no difference from the £56,000,000. Not a penny of difference. Teachers, I have dealt with. Policemen, not one penny difference. Agriculture, no difference. Health, no difference. Empire Marketing Board, no difference. Colonial Development Fund, no difference. I have dealt now with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It all depends!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "quibble about that point. As to \"no cuts on unemployed pay\" will any of my colleagues deny that we were faced with this difficulty. Do not misunderstand me. None of them welcomed it. I am not putting that point. I am dealing with the dire necessity. I say that every one of us hated it, but do not let us run away from the fact. Is it not a cut when the 52 weeks are reduced to 26? Is not that a cut?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.485.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.487.7", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House will see that I am quoting now from the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.487.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.487.8", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Provisionally!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House will see that I am quoting now from the Leader of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Do not misunderstand me. I will quote again the Leader of the Opposition's words: We have reached the stage when £56,000,000 of proposed economy cuts were provisionally accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.487.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.487.9", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I at once say then that if the conception is that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, representing the Government of the country, are told by their colleagues to go and meet someone else, and tell them certain things provisionally, what is the decency and where is the decency of repudiating it afterwards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.487.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I leave it at that. Do not let anyone else go out saying that, as far as they were concerned, they never for one moment either considered or would have entertained any interference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "h what was considered by my colleagues as a whole, and I repeat that, as far as concerns the Economy Bill which is now being considered, and upon which this House must ultimately vote, the £56,000,000 voted by the Leader of the Opposition on education, policemen's salaries, social services, Army and Navy and roads, is there a penny difference in what I understood and my colleagues understood?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " of people who are not interested in the workers. My hon. Friend only quoted one point, and asked why we did not have a conversion like Australia. We have already had an indication on that point from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and so far as anyone speaking on that Bench is concerned, I do not think that they can do better than say that nothing but a voluntary conversion could be brought off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ed. A number of my colleagues opposite have sat on the International several times. They were in Germany and Austria when the flight took place. They know the position the trade unions there were in. The currency was in such a condition that we in this country had to pay all the expenses—it was not a question of a 10 per cent. cut; the money had practically all gone. That is the alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "efence in your own way. I give my answer in my own way. I answer by saying that the proposals which are embodied in the Economy Bill, so far as concerns the cuts in the wages of all workers, excepting none—teachers, policemen, soldiers, sailors, civil servants, all—everyone of those cuts is no different from what it would have been if a Labour Government had faced its responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "nt had faced its responsibilities. [ Interruption. ] It may be that friends will shout, but if trade union negotiations are being conducted and if an executive committee instruct a president or general secretary provisionally to go and do something, what would be said about that executive committee if the president and general secretary came back and then they ran away from it? That is the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-11", "file": "debates1931-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "e85c4e2c7f265d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Black Friday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " be that friends will shout, but if trade union negotiations are being conducted and if an executive committee instruct a president or general secretary provisionally to go and do something, what would be said about that executive committee if the president and general secretary came back and then they ran away from it? That is the answer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No answer!\"] Hitherto I have not run away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-11a.489.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.527.4", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He always is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ened, but the impression which remains indelibly printed on my mind is that during all the discussions which took place on this proposal and that proposal, the suggestions put forward were purely tentative in character; that no decision of any sort or kind was taken, and that the Prime Minister himself repeated that time and time again. Indeed, he himself was reluctant to come to decisions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.527.4", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a pity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "at the Prime Minister himself repeated that time and time again. Indeed, he himself was reluctant to come to decisions — [An HON. MEMBER: \"He always is.\"] —for reasons that we now know, because it appears that he favoured proposals far in excess of any that had ever been submitted. I illustrate that statement with one case. When the Cabinet committee of which I was not a member —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.527.4", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "d the Chancellor of the Exchequer, representing the Government of the country, are told by their colleagues to go and meet someone else, and tell them certain things provisionally, what is the decency and where is the decency of repudiating it afterwards?\" [OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th September, 1931; col. 487, Vol. 256.] The right hon. Gentleman is far more skilled in industrial negotiations than I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.529.5", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "It has been said time and time again, but we shall have to go on saying it. Nobody was expected to be hound, and I never expected any- body to be bound, by these proposals until the whole set of proposals had been collated. That is the situation as far as 14 or 15 Members of the old Cabinet are concerned. I deplore the difference of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.529.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.529.5", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "posals had been collated. That is the situation as far as 14 or 15 Members of the old Cabinet are concerned. I deplore the difference of opinion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"] Well, I do deplore a difference in the interpretations which are being put on events, but to those of us on this side of the House it is clear that we did not give any kind of final binding undertaking about any single provi- sion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.529.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.529.5", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Civil Service wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "e that employers' organisations in recent years have repeatedly pressed for a revision of the unemployment benefit, because they were unable to revise wages without it. Therefore, it follows that, in addition to this cut in what will be received by the unemployed, in addition to the cuts in wages which will be forced by the Government on servants whom they can directly or indirectly control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.529.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "There was one thing on which I was clear, and the right hon. Gentleman knows it, that never would I have agreed to the unemployed going to the Poor Law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.535.5", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A platitude.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "o a Bill which leaves all these questions unexplained. That, however, is not my fundamental objection to the Bill. My fundamental objection to it is that, as it stands now, even with the present Budget proposals, it does not achieve anything like equality of sacrifice. I do not think that if we are measuring sacrifice, we should concentrate on what is taken from people, but rather on what is left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.535.5", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " circumstances this is the price that the country has to pay to be rescued from the difficulties of the immediate crisis. But a sense of injustice is growing in the country as a consequence of this being the one method by which you must deal with the situation, and while the forces of private and vested interests, which are so clamorously behind the Government to-day, have had their victory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.537.5", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "emand for commodities, and consequently some decline in employment. But these are the consequences ultimately of the failure of the country as a whole to carry on to the same extent as hitherto its international trade. We have failed to sell our goods—our cotton goods in India, our woollen goods elsewhere, and our coal on the Continent. Our trade has shrunk, the whole nation is poorer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ome points it needs revision, but I think a tribute should be paid in this House to the work which was accomplished by that Committee, most unpalatable work as it must have been. By their investigations and their report they have rendered great service to the State. The other factor which has greatly facilitated the work of the Government is the preparatory work accomplished by their predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ternoon, and we had no communications with the Government until we returned to Downing Street in the evening at five o'clock. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were there and they received the President of the Board of Education and myself representing the Liberal party and the present Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for India representing the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": ";4,000,000. That means that £14,000,000 should be deducted from the £22,000,000, and that would leave £8,000,000 of real savings. Of that sum, £3,000,000 had already been decided upon under the Anomalies Bill passed by Parliament. The new savings on unemployment would amount only to £5,000,000 and these were to be obtained by imposing a needs test for transitional benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.548.2", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "de it may have led to some misunderstanding. There was a cut suggested for education economies estimated to yield £10,700,000 and the teachers' salaries were to be cut by 15 per cent. The figure for education included some other education economies besides the cut in the teachers' salaries, and they appear in the White Paper. There was to be savings on the Defence Services of £9,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "As statements are now being made about discussions that are taking place at Cabinet meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.548.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.548.6", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "He has not done so!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " are not majority or minority conclusions, have been communicated to certain other people. All I want to do now is to peg out my claim to be able to state what I consider took place in the Cabinet. I can understand the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel) telling us what he has told us, but he has no right to stand up and attempt to tell us what were the views of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.548.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member knows, there is a commitment there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.550.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "This was after the meeting of the Cabinet on the Friday. We consulted our political friends and colleagues, and we came very clearly to the conclusion that these proposals were not adequate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " we did not say, as we had said before, that Parliament in our view would reject them. We could not express an opinion as to whether those proposals would be sufficient to restore world confidence, and whether the purpose of them would be served or not; if it was found that it would not be served, they would have to be reconsidered; but we had no reason to think, so far as we were concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.550.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, we are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "y informed—that the Leader of the Opposition was willing to agree to a tariff revenue to provide the amount which was to be given to the Unemployment Fund to meet the situation. But we were told that some Members of the present Government would not have Tariff Reform. But what are we going to have now? We are going to have both. We are going to have the cuts; we are going to have Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "preceding_text": "to pay. I am not asking that you should increase the amount which the chief officer should pay; the principle is all wrong. I do not think a national crisis, if you accept it as a national crisis, should be an occasion for breaking down all those standards which have been won and carefully arrived at by committee after committee during the past years. There is a permanency about this policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.565.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"So it was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " three motor cars at a General Election! But futile and impotent as the Government were then, we have heard to-day from the Home Secretary that they remained so right up to the eleventh hour. We continued to live in this fools' paradise until what the Prime Minister has called the typhoon broke, and I beg hon. Members opposite not to go on talking about it as if it had been purely a bankers' ramp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under-consumption \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "avour of the Bill is that it gives us a solid foundation of rock, at any rate, on which to build in the future, but if it were to be the last word, I should really be apprehensive about the future of this country, because in itself it, intensifies the deflationary process which has gone on. The fundamental world economic problem is the problem of over-production or potential over-production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "raction and negation can never do it, I agree. We want not to destroy and smash agriculture, which is having the greatest difficulty to survive in this country; we want to rebuild it. We do not want to shut clown industry after industry, especially among the basic exporting industries; we want to reconstruct industry and to rationalise it from top to bottom. We want to raise wages in the long run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your leaders support it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "tion: Since the standard of education, elementary and secondary, that has been given to the child of pour parents is already in very many cases superior to that which the middle class parent is providing for his own child, we feel that it is time to pause in this policy of expansion. Does the Liberal party support that? Will the right hon. Gentleman who has spoken for the Liberal party support it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "The vast mass of teachers, I am sorry to say, are not my supporters; they do not assist me in an election in any great numbers. There are members of other parties who know very well that teachers have supported them in their constituencies. I am going to appeal to the Minister to make some statement to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "tandard of living all round. They may possibly reduce retail prices, and bring them more into conformity with wholesale prices, but, generally speaking, that is not going to improve the trade position of this country, and if we are not to improve the trade position of the country, I do not see that eventually we shall improve the budgetary position. With regard to these temporary expedients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have still got him there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "d, and another thing to be tumbled off the pound. Like many other Members of the House, I was in Germany in 1923, during the worst period of its inflation. What happened to the professional and working-classes there? The late Government had its warnings—at least, presumably it had; but it had a Chancellor of the Exchequer who was deaf to the pleadings of everyone but the orthodox financiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You never did, anyway!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer—then the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer—was regarded by the vast majority of those present as awful as an attack upon the Deity. If anybody ever suggested there was an alternative policy or proposed to try to free the country from its injurious effects, or to say at a party meeting that all was not well with the state of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "A recital of the names of those on whose work the foundations of this country, and, indeed, of the whole world, have been built, seems to be a matter for considerable amusement among the party which pretends to have given so much care and thought to the cause of learning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "preceding_text": "Perhaps you are not aware, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that the hon. Member for West Wolverhampton (Mr. W. J. Brown) has been incessantly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HERBERT EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Expenditure\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HERBERT EVANS", "preceding_text": "ngs of that sort. The House is highly charged with a desire to get to close grips with the immediate problem, and I am desirous of sharing in that task. The constituency which I have the honour to represent has an enormous mass of unemployed persons. The tendency, therefore, to limit resources which characterises the proposals of the present Government is very serious for the borough of Gateshead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHAN", "preceding_text": "amatic argument about the \"bankers' ramp\"—about the hidden hand of finance. Are my hon. Friends quite serious in that argument? They will remember that during the War we heard a great deal about the \"hidden hand,\" a great deal in the newspapers and a great deal in London drawing-rooms, and there was nobody so contemptuous of that rubbish as hon. Members belonging to the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHAN", "preceding_text": " education expenditure—on administration, on new buildings, and in many other ways. In many directions we are spending money without getting full value for it. But I do not think that is the case with the teachers' salaries. This is not a case out of which anyone is entitled to make party capital, because this side is responsible for the cut and the leaders on the other side had accepted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "evolts against it. Consider two issues raised in this Bill—unemployment and education. The great bulk of the Members of this House would not vote for these proposals if they were free as individuals. I challenge the Minister of Health, who is going to reply, to let us have a direct vote on the 15s. 3d. and the 8s. Even some of his Tories would rebel against him. The Liberals too would rebel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.613.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.615.4", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "er this Bill at the expense of the unemployed are rather arrogating to themselves the task of spokesmen for the interests of the unemployed. I claim to represent the unemployed in my constituency as much as hon. Members represent the unemployed in their constituencies and I think that it is a libel on the unemployed to suggest that they are not willing to contribute with the rest of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.615.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "No one is defending 15s. 3d. a week for a man to live on. I started by making it perfectly clear that if the choice before the unemployed man who in certain circumstances receives 17s., is whether he is to agree to receive 15s. 3d. in some circumstances or risk the 17s. dwindling in value—if that is the choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not give them a square deal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "s who are zealous and loyal and willing to give of their best. Hon. Members in this time of strain will not be led astray because there may be in their post bags letters with which they disagree or because there may be unfortunate observations in the Press. These do not represent the feelings of teachers as a whole. There is no more loyal body of servants of the State than the teaching profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.616.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She has done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "preceding_text": "lieve that we are in such an emergency that France, which has repudiated her debt to the extent of 80 per cent.—and the hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) said she was wise in doing it—can help us. We are told that international finance is so obsessed with the credit of France and with our own financial instability that France will lend us this money for an international loan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.618.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.624.4", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "deal about the teachers during the Debate. We have all been subject to an intense amount of lobbying on behalf of the teachers. I make no complaint or objection whatever to that, because it is a vitally important matter. Some hon. Members opposite object to anyone on this side of the House expressing sympathy with the teachers or with the unemployed or with anyone else affected by these economies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.624.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "g I want to say regarding all the statements that have been made about these proposals is that my late colleagues who sit opposite know per- fectly well that there was never unanimity in the Cabinet. They know perfectly well that because there was not that agreement every proposal was sent forward tentatively, to be finally decided at the end. About that there can be no dispute among truthful men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "end to Germany, and they borrowed as they say short and lent it long. When Germany appeared to be on the point of collapse, these people were called upon to pay up the money. Perhaps we shall now be told what the drain of gold really consisted of. I do not think that anybody on the Treasury bench will deny the simple fact that this crisis had nothing whatever to do with the Budget of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ments and gambling in stocks and shares and other things of a similar character crises have occurred every now and then, and some of them have been bigger than others. I remember one crisis when was a boy quite as big as the present crisis—I refer to the smash of Baring Brothers. Then they telegraphed for Mr. Disraeli, and he said, \"Get on with the job; it has nothing to do with me. \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "racter crises have occurred every now and then, and some of them have been bigger than others. I remember one crisis when was a boy quite as big as the present crisis—I refer to the smash of Baring Brothers. Then they telegraphed for Mr. Disraeli, and he said, \"Get on with the job; it has nothing to do with me. \"—[ Interruption. ] If I have given the name of the wrong firm, I am sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ne crisis when was a boy quite as big as the present crisis—I refer to the smash of Baring Brothers. Then they telegraphed for Mr. Disraeli, and he said, \"Get on with the job; it has nothing to do with me. \"—[ Interruption. ] If I have given the name of the wrong firm, I am sorry. [ Interruption. ] At any rate, I am perfectly certain that it was one of the crises in the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " said, \"Get on with the job; it has nothing to do with me. \"—[ Interruption. ] If I have given the name of the wrong firm, I am sorry. [ Interruption. ] At any rate, I am perfectly certain that it was one of the crises in the City of London. [ Interruption. ] It is no fairy tale; hon. Members opposite are only proving my case if they prove that there is another one that I have not mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "h the consequences. We ought to arrange matters so that their business, when it fails, shall not pull down the credit of the country. I do not deny at all that when they crash they may bring us down too, but I think that intelligent statesmen should take steps at the earliest possible moment to remove the credit system out of their hands and so organise it that these accidents do not happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ow that the bank manager will lend us some money,\" and so we borrowed £5,000 and put it into War Loan; we did nothing hut sign a piece of paper. We handed that to the bank, and I think we paid them interest on the overdraft. They wrote something in a book, and then I expect they gave some money to the Government, or passed some bits of paper to the Government, and that is how the loan worked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "0 was the belief of the Government that if necessary the people in the back streets of Poplar would pay the bond. No one can deny that. This thing that you call national credit is not something that is woven round the banker; it rests on the labour of the people who live in the back streets of this country. I have heard the right hon. Gentleman say that very same thing to audiences in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "re ought to have been no payment of commissions, no payment of interest to anyone at all; no addition to War Debt because nothing was lent beyond the credit of Poplar. Our credit remained, when the time came we found the money, and the banks never found anything. All that the bankers of this country, the so-called moneylenders who pass bits of paper, do, is to gamble with the credit of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e who stood for the unemployed. I have never been elected but, in the main, through their votes and through the votes of very poor people indeed. My constituency is one of those where there is a dead level of poverty. I believe that we should be able to transform Capitalism into Socialism. It may very well be that what is happening today will prevent us from doing it in a peaceful, ordered manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Sing it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " out. I will conclude with scone lines which the two right hon. Members opposite will remember well. The poor and the downcast of this country have had great champions in those two right hon. Gentlemen. They have sat on platforms with their colleagues here while this song of Edward Carpenter's has been sung, and they have cheered when the crowd has cheered, and sung it with them. Here it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "hat was the reason why he was selected to wind up the debate. The colleagues of the right hon. Gentleman knew that he could be relied upon not to be trammelled in any way by any decision at which they had arrived, that he could be counted upon never to come within one thousand yards of the point, and that he would do, as he so often has done before, raise as much class privilege as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " Amendment asks the House to reject the Bill on two grounds. First, on the ground of the alleged unfairness of its provisions, and, secondly, on the ground of the method of its procedure. The whole of the debate has centred round the first of these two grounds of objection, and, therefore, we may almost take it that the second objection is more a matter of form on the part of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "se two grounds of objection, and, therefore, we may almost take it that the second objection is more a matter of form on the part of the Opposition—[ Interruption ]. The procedure which has been adopted in this Bill is not without precedent. In the opening days of the great war an Act was passed authorising the making of Orders-in-Council for public safety and the defence of the realm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " is not without precedent. In the opening days of the great war an Act was passed authorising the making of Orders-in-Council for public safety and the defence of the realm—[ Interruption ]. This Bill has precisely the same purpose. The lives of His Majesty's subjects may not be in danger, but certainly their livelihood was threatened by the crisis which this Bill is designed to avert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ed in this country. Other countries in the Empire would immediately have been involved, as well as a large part of Europe and also countries on the other side of the Atlantic; in fact, the whole world would have felt the impact of the blow. There cannot possibly be any doubt about the terrible consequences which would have followed if the flight from the pound had been allowed to take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " of any foundation for the suggestion that this was a bankers' conspiracy. Really, there is something rather comic to me about the attitude of the late Lord Privy Seal on this matter. He and those who follow him seem to forget entirely that the foreign bankers were not coming to this country begging us to accept a loan from them. On the contrary, it was we who were going to them to ask for a loan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "im seem to forget entirely that the foreign bankers were not coming to this country begging us to accept a loan from them. On the contrary, it was we who were going to them to ask for a loan. [ Interruption. ] That is precisely what the late Government had to do, and it was the duty of the foreign bankers, when approached, to state under what conditions they thought it possible to raise the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "rance basis, it was quite probable that confidence would not be restored. When we found that the Government had decided to accept economies of £56,000,000 only, although the deficit was £170,000,000, and when we found that in that £56,000,000 the saving on the Unemployment Insurance Fund was only £5,000,000, can the House wonder that all of us, Liberals and Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "urance Fund was only £5,000,000, can the House wonder that all of us, Liberals and Conservatives—[ Interruption ]—considered that those savings were inadequate, and not likely to restore that confidence which had been shaken? Let the House remember that we had been invited by the Government to come and be informed of what their proposals were and to express our opinions upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.640.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "epted that invitation. We had put aside all thoughts of party interest—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—in order to try to make our contribution to what appeared to be the danger of a great national disaster. [ Interruption. ] Our task was not made easier by the fact that the official organ of the party opposite immediately tried to exploit our presence in London and to use it for party purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.640.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "regard to that one, I assure them that this was considered—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And rejected!\"] You do not consider a matter which is of such vital importance unless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "regard to that one, I assure them that this was considered—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And rejected!\"] You do not consider a matter which is of such vital importance unless—[ Interruption. ] To make these economies is as disagreeable and distasteful a task as could be undertaken by any Government. It requires more courage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-14", "file": "debates1931-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "54aae7e9b11f4aa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Swallow the tariff!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "sk as could be undertaken by any Government. It requires more courage—[ Interruption. ] A Government formed as this Government has been for a specific purpose must always be at a disadvantage. Everybody recognises that, although the measures that we have taken have for the time being averted the disaster which threatened us, in the long run they must fail unless we restore the trade balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-14a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.670.10", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that the order of the Government, of which he is part and parcel, is for equal sacrifice in the matter of cuts. Surely this is an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.670.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.670.10", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that the order of the Government, of which he is part and parcel, is for equal sacrifice in the matter of cuts. Surely this is an opportunity— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"]—where a cut would be very effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.670.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is not this an opportunity for the right hon. Gentleman to put into operation the policy of equal sacrifice? The property owners of this country have had an increase in rents through the action of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is not this an opportunity for the right hon. Gentleman to put into operation the policy of equal sacrifice? The property owners of this country have had an increase in rents through the action of Parliament—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"]. Is not this an opportunity to reduce rents by the amount of the increase?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.671.4", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.671.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.672.8", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask what the Prime Minister means by his last remark?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.672.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.675.5", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "May I make this submission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.675.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " of the House from the Opposition, \"What would you do?\" The Committee will agree that during those 2i years, world economic facts were hemming us in. We could not affect them in any way. They are even now hemming this Government in. The new Government may not last six weeks if the pressure increases. These forces were in evidence then. We had no majority in this House for any drastic change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does your leader say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "#8212;they do not put it higher than that—we must look to the adverse trade balance which may sooner or later—probably sooner—engulf all the proposals to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is now committed. I do not intend to burke that problem this afternoon. I hardly know what I shall say to my right hon. Friend opposite but it raises the whole fiscal issue of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "e ought t5 be told what the duty is going to be and how many members of the present Government are going to remain in office. That is only one side of the picture. I do not dispute that there are many people who have changed their views in the different political parties on this subject, and I am not going to maintain that this is a fundamental matter so far as the Socialist movement is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "In that way, you would create a force which would defeat the financial arrangements which have been made and the steps which have been taken to secure a better gold distribution and you would be doing this at the very time when according to every economic argument you want the maximum of freedom in the European market. In this way, other countries will do us far more harm than we can ever do them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "the guarantee for industrial reorganisation in this country and what protection is going to be afforded to the great mass of British consumers. This afternoon I have tried to trace what will be the effect of this Budget, and no one will dispute that a tariff will be absolutely ineffective unless it raises the price level in this country. A tariff has no real meaning unless it achieves that result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.681.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " great part of the right hon. Gentleman's speech was divided between reproaches of his former colleagues and of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for their lack of foresight in dealing with the approaching crisis, and a very interesting disquisition upon the root causes of our present misfortune. I am not in marked disagreement with the right hon. Gentleman in a great deal of what he has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "it, is the accepted measure of human effort, which enables the services, the exertions, and the fruits of the toil of the coolie in Japan or the coffee planter in Brazil to be exchanged against the work of a London cabman. If all things are to be measured against one another, before they can be measured they must be referred to this standard of gold. Let me take a couple of simple analogies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " coolie in Japan or the coffee planter in Brazil to be exchanged against the work of a London cabman. If all things are to be measured against one another, before they can be measured they must be referred to this standard of gold. Let me take a couple of simple analogies—[ Interruption. ]—if I may with the courtesy of hon. Gentlemen. Suppose that A great bridge were being built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "o be measured against one another, before they can be measured they must be referred to this standard of gold. Let me take a couple of simple analogies—[ Interruption. ]—if I may with the courtesy of hon. Gentlemen. Suppose that A great bridge were being built—[ Interruption. ] I am sure the hon. Member for Plaistow (Mr. Thorne) will not deny courtesy to a brother private Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e next five without interruption, and the acquisition of gold by these two countries—I am not blaming them; there is nothing malevolent in their action; it has happened simply by certain rules working out—supposing that in the next five years they acquired all the gold in the world, what would happen then? Are we really to assume that all the rest of the world would be valueless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "like to point out that a tariff which is prohibitive on luxuries in no way excludes a tariff which on other parts of the list is both protective and revenue in its effect. A large majority of the House knows, as the speech of the right hon. Gentleman clearly accepted, that such a tariff ought to be an integral part of the main proposals of any British Government to deal with the present emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "d in maintaining the Sinking Fund at the reduced figure he has done, although the fact of raising taxation to a ruinous level will itself entail a very serious evil. But I cannot feel that this argument applies to the £9,000,000 which was going to be borrowed by the Road Fund, but which the right hon. Gentleman is now going to pay out of taxes. The Road Fund has large and increasing revenues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.731.5", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JAMES SEXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JAMES SEXTON", "preceding_text": "iving. They are to be thrown upon the scrap heap or go to a poor house and end their days there as some of them have done. In the words of Thomas Noel: Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns. Surely some consideration ought to be given to these poor unfortunate creatures, and I hope that at the eleventh hour the right hon. Gentleman will take them into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.731.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much on wheat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "we use in manufacture here, and the total diminution of your imports is not as great as it seems at first glance. When you stop the importation of foodstuffs which you can grow in this country or produce in the Empire—with which your economic relations are so different that they do not affect the balance of trade to at all the same extent—there you do get a very definite net reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not vote against it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "on which is immediately confronting the country. No reason is given by him why he should have left the Government and no proposal to meet the situation as it stands at the present day. I do not believe that any Member on this side likes the economy proposals. I thoroughly dislike the economy proposal dealing with education, and what I regard as the harsh treatment of the cut in teachers' salaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under Free Trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "ployment Benefit and the money spent in agricultural wages. Take a case in my own Division of a farm labourer with a wife and three children. If he has left the farm to work upon the roads, he can draw in Unemployment Benefit 33s. a week in cash. If he works a full week as an agricultural labourer, he is entitled under the Agricultural Wages Board to 31s. a week, 15s. of which may be paid in kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is capitalism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "e raw material it is producing. We have reached a situation in the world economy where we are producing far more food, rubber, tin, and all the raw materials than we can consume in manufactured goods. No one outside Bedlam would suggest that that is a satisfactory world economy. If somebody looked from another planet upon a world that got into that state, he would say that it was a lunatic asylum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "something to keep their own minds from the realities of the situation. We have never had from that side any plea for the man who is really going to be affected—the working man out of work. We have had references to the people who, even with the cuts that are coming, will still have what they require to live upon, but we have heard nothing about those who will be below the standard of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.779.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Propaganda.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I cannot give way. They were a matter of common knowledge. I seldom wish to quote to the House anything that I myself have written, but knowing those facts I did write these words more than a year ago: If matters are allowed to drift, and confidence is not restored, a flight from the pound is just as possible as was the flight from the mark or the franc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"You will get him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "econd point on which the hon. Member based his attack brings me to the speech of the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon), whose con- version to the belief in the necessity of the tariff some of us welcome most unfeignedly, being exceedingly glad to have in support of it so powerful an advocate and controversialist. I only wish we could have the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.781.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " of his five Budgets would have been judged by the standards of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer to have been unbalanced. But on none of those occasions were we told that there was a flight from the pound, nor in either of those foreign countries which I have mentioned, neither in the United States nor in France, are we told that there is a flight from the dollar or a flight from the franc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "eveloped, the weakness of the mark communicated itself also to sterling. Finally, and most important of all among these causes, I place the poisonous and unpatriotic propaganda which has been conducted for some time past by British newspapers hostile to the Labour party, which have told foreigners, who have no easy means of checking their statements, that we were marching towards bankruptcy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ritable institution for the benefit of the workers of this country, and it succeeded in producing a report which advertised all these false statements regarding the basis of British finance. I have no doubt at all that the May Report, with its distorted and sensational picture of the facts, following upon the persistent propaganda of our political opponents, did in the end produce the panic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "this discussion, which have attributed the panic which has taken place to the publication of the May Report? There is no truth in that. I told the House about it in February, and as a matter of fact, the Bank of England credits had been arranged, owing to the necessity for such credits, before the May report was made. Our budgetary position is in the main due to the excessive cost of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "r he had seen the cat jump. The right hon. Gentleman suggested the suspension of the Sinking Fund this afternoon, but he was not so drastic in his suggestion as some of his colleagues. He would not touch contractual obligations. He is not yet quite such a Bolshevik as the hon. Member who is sitting beside him, who advocates the emulation of the Russian Bolsheviks in the repudiation of their debts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are not fighting!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " the taxes I am proposing to impose. I have not time to deal with his argument, but I can assure the hon. Member that I shall not leave the question untouched. I am quite prepared to deal with that matter at the next opportunity provided by the proceedings of the House. The hon. Member concluded his speech with a challenge. He wants a General Election. He does not want it more earnestly than I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-15", "file": "debates1931-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9ff94fa0929eb25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.802.10", "colnum": "802", "heading": "AFFORESTATION SCHEME, SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "rs have made to afforest that part of the country. I believe—and my right hon. Friend will bear me out when I say this—that there are thousands of trees there which are absolutely valueless, but it is proposed, as it was in the case I have mentioned, to capture the outrun of the grazing of this individual holder, who lives, I should say, about four miles from the neighbouring township.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-15a.802.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.821.7", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Seeing that the Prime Minister has made a definite statement that the unemployed are not going to be affected by this reconsideration, has he now come to the conclusion definitely that 15s. 3d., or 23s. 3d. for two persons, is not an undue hardship?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.821.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "Has it been necessary for discontent in the Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.822.5", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the county of Carmarthen teachers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The question of the Glasgow teachers, and also the Perthshire teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.822.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.824.6", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Does not the requisite machinery for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.824.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.824.10", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.824.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.825.4", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "May I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.825.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.825.7", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HALL", "preceding_text": "I ask leave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.825.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "t would be well to take something out of this wealthy concern. But it is not coming out of the wealthy concern. Already those forces which are so strongly entrenched behind the temperance leader who is Chancellor of the Exchequer—those liquor forces whose names are familiar to us—say, \"Let us grab all we can, and at the same time throttle the very customers who patronise our business.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "epared practically to bludgeon the suffering poor of the country. When it is a question of the Navy, it is said that that is a question of home defence, and quite another matter; that that is where there is danger to the financial interests; that it is insurance; that these men must be steadied, that they must be kept contented. Probably we shall see the police supported in the same fashion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "preceding_text": "Before we part with this subject. I wish to refer to the effect of this tax upon the poorest paid class of workers in this country—the agricultural labourers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "arettes. I should like to know whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer had any kind of understanding and, if so, whether there was any understanding about the size, length or quality of the cigarettes. My second question is this. Have any representations been made in regard to the price of pipe tobacco, the duty on which, it will be agreed, will particularly hit the poorest of the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "s and Means to decide how the deficits in this year's and next year's Budgets were to be raised. The only reason why we were brought back here this autumn to sit in Committee of Ways and Means was the shortage of revenue which had to be made up. {HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Hon. Members may deny that statement, but at any rate they will not deny that that is the reason for the presentation of this Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "hews his \"quid\" in addition, he mulcted through these taxes. That, again, is true of the teachers. According to the Government's original plan the teachers are to bear a heavy share of this attempt to economise at the expense of the salaries and wages of the country. But the teachers do not escape with that burden. Through these indirect taxes they will he called upon to bear an additional burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " in the industry that the imposition of a tax was inadequate for the purpose. Thereupon submissions were made to the right hon. Gentleman, which no doubt he will recall, calling for, among other things, a direct subsidy amounting to something like £150,000 annually, which might, in the opinion of those who supported the proposal, have met the diffi- culty confronting the industry at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " the ordinary sense of the term. In any event, there are many of us on this side of the House who, although we do not regard Tariff Reform, Protection, or Preferences as advantageous to British industry, certainly do not regard unlimited and unfettered Free Trade as desirable. Some thing in the nature of regulation of imports is required. These proposals were submitted to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.931.6", "colnum": "931", "heading": "NATIONAL DEBT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "dvocated and have come down on the side which we advocated in 1921 and 1922. I hope that to-night the Labour Members in this House will, if I take this to a Division, follow me into the Lobby, as some of them did upon another occasion, about eight years ago, when on an Amendment that I moved and divided the House upon I tried to get a reduction in the rate of interest. This is no new idea with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.931.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "NATIONAL DEBT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "raised. At that time the Victory Loan was got through, by an appeal to patriotism, made with great success. To-day the circumstances are not dissimilar. The hon. Member for Stirling and Clackmannan (Mr. Johnston) has more than once, during the last fortnight, appealed to the Government to do that sort of thing now instead of suggesting exemptions from taxation and other inducements for conversion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "NATIONAL DEBT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonal Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonal Sir A. LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": "an bearing a lower rate of interest, so as to relieve the finances of this country. Of course it is perfectly possible to default on this loan—to refuse to pay any interest at all; but that is not the way in which this country has handled its finances, and I am not at all sure whether it would be to the advantage of this country to conduct its financial business on those lines in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "ROAD FUND [ADVANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": " an enabling power, I do not think we can very well divide against the Motion. It does not in any way prejudice the rights of the Opposition to discuss the matter fully and to divide on the Schedule of the Economy Bill where this matter arises. If the Opposition now divides on a Resolution enabling Parliament to spend money on roads beyond the Road Fund, we should be voting in a foolish direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "ROAD FUND [ADVANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "erstanding on what principle the Minister of Transport is proceeding in regard to the works which the late Minister of Transport had put on order. What is happening to those proposals? How many are to be dropped, and how many are to be proceeded with? Has the Minister of Transport made any arrangements in regard to these matters with the local authority or has he in any way broken faith with them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "ROAD FUND [ADVANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": " better, therefore, to devote this money to the Dartford Tunnel, where a large number of men can be employed, where a great deal of steelwork would be used. Rather than use it for the making of useless by-passes, let it be used for the building of bridges, where steel would be used and a large amount of indirect labour would be employed. No doubt the hon. Gentleman has thought of all these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "ROAD FUND [ADVANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VAUGHAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VAUGHAN", "preceding_text": "mire; but the black hand of the Treasury had cast its shadow upon my right hon. Friend even before he left that office. In our county we were suffering under the shadow which it was casting. Recently an alderman of the county with which I am connected stated in public that the last Minister of Transport was as obstinate as a mule. I would not say that; I have no desire to insult that noble animal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "ROAD FUND [ADVANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "I regret very much that the new Minister of Transport has been placed in the position in which he finds himself. It is in the highest degree disadvantageous to a new Minister, taking on a new job, that he should be saddled with the responsibility of a Motion like this, without having been given the necessary information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "ROAD FUND [ADVANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member has not dorm himself the credit of reading the White Paper with intelligence. What, arrangements does the Minister propose to make when this money is withdrawn, for dealing midi the men who have been proceeding from distressed areas to the areas where schemes have been carried out on a consecutive basis for a long period of years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.979.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-16", "file": "debates1931-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "b8b2803cb19fb97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.990.3", "colnum": "990", "heading": "ROAD FUND [ADVANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is your intelligence\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "leman who has just spoken was in keeping with the action of his colleagues when the last speaker was on his feet. If he did not mean it in the sense in which I have taken it, I am sorry that I mentioned his name al all. I was led to believe that his interruption and his action were a deliberate slur upon the men and women whom I represent in the House of Commons. I am sorry if I misunderstood him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-16a.990.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-17", "file": "debates1931-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a48120528ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-17a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "ies 50 per cent.? I know there are some people mean enough to steal candies from a baby. One million pounds out of an £800;000,000 Budget! A national emergency has taken us to the very edge of the precipice, and we are going to prevent ourselves from toppling over into the abyss by taking 50 per cent. from the kiddies of the poorest of the poor. Some people ought to hang their heads in shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-17a.1094.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-17", "file": "debates1931-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a48120528ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-17a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORLEY", "preceding_text": "will come upon him on 1st October, and two-thirds of the additional impost will fall upon him in January. As a result of the cut and of the increase in income Tax he will lose out of his income of £600 the sum of £111 12s. 6d. On the other hand, take a single man receiving £4,000 a year. With the proposed increase in Income Tax his income will be reduced by £111 12s. 6d.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-17a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-17", "file": "debates1931-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c3a48120528ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-17a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are the middle class complaining?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORLEY", "preceding_text": "a year or thereabouts. That class is the middle class, of which hon. Members opposite have always been, in their own estimation at all events, the most inveterate champions. That is the class from which they have drawn the greatest and most constant volume of electoral support, and as a vote of thanks for that support I hope they will follow us into the Lobby to-night in support of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-17a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Loud cheers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ined by those reductions comes back into the Exchequer. With regard to that, I should like to say that if those gentlemen, the doctors and the chemists, have made this agreement with the Government, of course we offer no objection to that side of the proposal, and I think that we, like the right hon. Gentleman, should tender to those gentlemen our thanks for being willing to make those sacrifices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": " in the pay of teachers or civil servants affects the question of the cost of living figures and so forth. The cut proposed in the case of doctors is equivalent to a little over 11 per cent. of their remuneration. But when the undertaking to accept that was made by the representatives of the insurance practitioners it was not realised that at the same time there would be an increase in income tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1183.4", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "We have taken those figures from our predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1183.5", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "f the maintenance of the home, but now this additional demand will be made upon them for 26s. a week, because those homes are not being carried on on a basis of so much saving by the father and the mother, but have been carried on on a very hare limit of subsistence, and each of those three members of the family will be called upon to provide about 9s. a week extra for the maintenance of the home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1183.5", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ember for Central Cardiff (Sir E. Bennett) interrupts me to say that my friends above the Gangway agreed with it. I do not care whether they agreed with it or not, but certainly, when I was in opposition in my own party to the administration of the late Government, I never got any assistance from the hon. and gallant Member for Central Cardiff in dealing with the representatives of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1183.5", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "roved of the regulations that had been made by the Sinister with regard to the working of that Act. There was a great deal of discussion as to how much the saving would be. Originally the Royal Commission suggested savings of £5,500,000. I notice now that the Act is going to cost the unemployed £3,000,000, I wonder if the Minister will tell me if that was the estimate of his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1202.2", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "In the Committee there is very strong disagreement and even stronger feeling about the proposals now before us, and about the policy which they are intended to carry out. May I say that we all respect the hon. Members opposite, with whom I have long been associated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1202.2", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "e made to him as to the ill-choice, as I thought, of certain persons to carry out these duties. But it would be very unjust to attribute to this class of public servants deficiencies which can only be traced to particular members of the class, and I think the Committee ought to recognise that these chairmen of referees are doing very heavy, responsible, and burdensome work at a small remuneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "I know my hon. Friend has followed this question very closely, and so have I. I merely repeat—I am expressing my own view—that to ask trained lawyers to sit for several hours, investigating 30 cases—I am talking about the London area, where chairmen have reported these circumstances to me—and to pay them 2½ guineas for that, responsible work, is not excessive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "view of the arrangements for carrying out unemployment insurance, to see whether economies cannot he effected, and especially there should be a review of the chairmen of referees, so that we may be satisfied that they do not go to their work with a bias which renders them unfit for their office. I come back to my main point. Some of my hon. Friends opposite are not exactly fair in this discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ate is in present circumstances impracticable. That is a change of heart. The Chancellor of the Exchequer explained on one occasion that it was impossible, in the present state of the national finances and of industry, to increase taxation, because any increase in taxation would increase unemployment; and I regret to say that members of my own party at that moment subscribed to that point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "and that I am not going to base my opposition upon the policy that we have been pursuing for the last two years, because that would be quite impracticable. That, of course, is the purely Parliamentary position, and I am very glad to see that, outside, people take very little notice of the controversial difficulties into which we get in the House of Commons; and when the election takes place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"8s. for the wife.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "ed man with a wife and three children. Let me assume that one of the children is a boy of 17, another a girl of 16 and the other a child under 16. Under the new benefit proposed by the Government, the benefit to which that man would be entitled in the first instance when he falls out of employment in an insured trade is 15s. 3d. for himself, 13s. 6d. for the wife, 2s. for the youngest child—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1222.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your figures are wrong.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "I am not counting his benefit but the benefit that the insured worker would receive on falling out of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1229.3", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "t in 1927 the Government took steps to get rid of the borrowing but they did not dare to carry out the implications of that Act. Now they are using the present situation to take something like £6,000,000 a year off the benefits, to reduce the period of benefit, and, after 26 weeks, to place people upon a direct and distinct pauper basis. We are proud of the fact that we represent the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-18", "file": "debates1931-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "329b1d9435bc8641", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1240.4", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n as possible. I must make this comment on his speech apart from the final stages referred to. He has passed strictures upon the late Government's handling of the Unemployment Insurance question. Those strictures should be addressed to the Prime Minister, to his own Chancellor of the Exchequer, his own Dominions Secretary, his own Lord Chancellor, his own Air Minister and his own Attorney-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-18a.1240.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e withdrawals, but within a couple of weeks these resources were practically exhausted. At that stage the National Government came into being, and the plans which we announced for balancing the Budget had the immediate effect of restoring confidence. For some days the stream of withdrawals fell sharply, and we hoped that it might dry up. Unfortunately, however, we could not present a united front.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1291.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Bank of England. In fact, we have taken every possible opportunity to promote co-operation between central banks with a view to finding a remedy. So far as we are concerned, we would willingly have called a conference for this purpose. But it was made abundantly clear to us that any proposal of this kind would be unwelcome to other Powers, and therefore a conference would be foredoomed to failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "o doubt be serious, but I believe they will be temporary and that those who have confidence in sterling will not find their confidence misplaced. At the same time, I think we are entitled to look for some recognition on the part. of other creditor countries of their responsibility for the present situation. Firstly, the world must learn that the existing economic system cannot be maintained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Austrian!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "s, I am inclined to think that all the blame will not rest on one side of the House. The speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer clearly shows that the action now proposed by the Government is due to the drain of gold and the withdrawal of credit. That, I think, can become common ground. This is no new position. The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought that it began with the German crisis in May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ent is due to the drain of gold and the withdrawal of credit. That, I think, can become common ground. This is no new position. The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought that it began with the German crisis in May. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Austrian!\"] The German-Austrian crisis—the failure of the Credit Anstelt Bank. I think it began before that. This situation has been growing up for very many months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The pottery trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ill purchase a larger amount of pounds and therefore the profits of the export trade will be higher if the prices are kept the same. If, on the other hand, the export trade drop their prices, they will be better able to compete with other countries in the neutral markets of the world. There will be more production here, and yet the export trade will he able to make some sort of profit on the deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And higher wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ome sort of profit on the deal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The pottery trade.\"] There is not very much raw material employed in the manufacture of crockery. The whole benefit will go to the pottery trade which will be able to supply better and cheaper goods to the rest of the world, or if prices were kept up it should be able to pay the overdraft at the bank which is strangling the trade at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"3.30 dollars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ot the tragedy which it has been painted, not only by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite but by the entire Press of the country during the last fortnight. They tried to make it clear to us that the end of the world would come if we got off gold. We have been off gold before. I remember when we unpegged the exchange in 1919 and the pound dropped to 3.57 dollars—lower than it has gone yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "ture from this House to-day, so that the whole world might see that we are facing our difficulties and our dangers as a united House of Commons, would have a greater effect than any hon. Member opposite can possibly appreciate. I know something about the nervousness of the exchange markets, and I appeal to hon. Members opposite not to rise any more in their places, but to let this Bill go through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "situation would not have come about at all. We are paying the price for the runaway tactics of the Opposition, for the lack of leadership which has been shown by the Leader of the Opposition, for the divisions which have occurred and for the inability of the Leaders of the Opposition to control their more irresponsible elements and, therefore, to engender the kind of confidence which is essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "e consequences which would follow to this country if ever we went off the Gold Standard; he portrayed in harrowing terms the condition of affairs in Germany when Germany went off the Gold Standard; and now the right hon. Gentleman is sitting opposite me smiling cynically, and the country is trembling on the edge of just that catastrophe which he portrayed the other night in such harrowing accents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "f his speech, if I recall his words correctly, told us that, as a consequence of the refusal of His Majesty's Opposition to participate in a National Government, and as a consequence of speeches made by Front Bench Opposition Leaders and by other speakers in this House—and indeed, as one hon. Member told us, as a consequence, not only of their speeches, but of their uncouth deportment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "assurances that the unemployed, the old age pensioners, and the working classes, are to have their money incomes raised? You cannot have a recovery of commerce and trade if the real purchasing power of your people is brought down. You cannot have it both ways. The same charge will be levelled against your Measure as has been levelled with very great effect against the economy proposals themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1350.4", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "li. There was a great divergence between their views in regard to the difference between the rich and the poor. Disraeli took the view that it could be settled by peaceful methods, but Karl Marx took the view that it could only be dealt with by the inevitable clash of class war. We on this side adopt the philosophy of Disraeli, while the hon. Lady and her friends adopt the philosophy of Karl Marx.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members will realise that if I were to deal with what you might call sharp practice by nationals of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1355.0", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "In vain in the sight of the bird does the fowler spread his net.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1355.2", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "y catastrophic changes which may bring hardship to many sections of the community. May I point out to hon. Members that one of the great fixed charges to which they themselves have drawn attention as that bearing most immediately on working people and the unemployed is already limited by Statute, and there is no chance of that being raised under the provisions of this Bill? I refer to house rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "arge which cannot be increased on the poorer people, and, therefore, there will be no variation in this basis charge to which the people of this country are subject. In the case of the prime necessities of life we must observe the moves. There is no reason to expect any wide or immediate rise in the prime necessities of life, and if there is any such rise it will be kept closely under observation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1356.3", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I have already given the assurance that any alteration in the price level would be most closely watched by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1373.0", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "s to prevent this Bill that the present Government was formed, and my first intention was to support the Bill, because I thought that as honourable men the Government would then get out. But now that we have the Bill itself we see from the text of it that there is no urgency whatever. It would not matter if we did not pass this Bill until next week, because there is absolutely no urgency about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1373.0", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "unnecessary luxuries. But you must at the same time be prepared to prevent either panic rises of price or, as I believe is provided in the Bill, panic flights from the pound. You can do both. You can give an example to the country of courage, the great thing that this Government needs next to energy, and confidence, and stop running down your own country, your own people, and your own working men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1373.0", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " thing that this Government needs next to energy, and confidence, and stop running down your own country, your own people, and your own working men. [ Interruption. ] An hon. Member speaks of running away, but the Prime Minister, by his own resignation, which only a very high authority prevented him from carrying out, ran as fast as anyone. May I, with great humility, give one last word of advice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRACHEY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRACHEY", "preceding_text": "m and to build up a new system from the very bottom. I know this may seem fantastic. It is fantastic to suppose that hon. Members on the Front Opposition Bench could ever do such a thing. I realise that to the full. But the point I am making is that, unless you are prepared to go all that way, there is no possible basis of opposition either to this Bill or to the other proposals of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the doctors!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": " a basis of letting the working man know that I5s. 3d. is 15s. 3d., just as the Prime Minister was to know that £4,000 was £4,000. To-night the working man who is going to have his unemployment benefit cut, has no such guarantee. Amid resounding Ministerial cheers to-day, it was announced that the Government had run away from the teachers, the police and from anybody who could bite them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1381.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1383.4", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "GOLD STANDARD (AMENDMENT) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "hom peace makes small. If after being released from the toils of war, you neglect the arts of peace, if your peace and your liberty be a state of warfare, if war he your only virtue, the summit of your praise, you will, believe me, soon find peace the most adverse to your interests. Your peace will be only a more distressing war; and that which you imagined liberty will prove the worst of slavery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": " complaint, during the last year or two, that the estimates were too small. It is very interesting, after only a fortnight of the National Government, to find that a Socialist Member complains that the figure is estimated on too high a mark. Hon. Members opposite should be the last to talk about that. When they came into office there were only 1,100,000 unemployed. Now, there are nearly 2,800,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "t to talk about that. When they came into office there were only 1,100,000 unemployed. Now, there are nearly 2,800,000. [ Interruption. ] The Government would have been following the sloppy estimates of their predecessors if they had failed to warn the House and the country, and if in making their estimate for dealing with this vast problem of unemployment, they had not adopted an adequate margin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "S: \"Speak up!\"] It is about time some of us on this side spoke up. Hon. Members opposite have been doing all the speaking to-day. Now, they can be quiet and listen. So far from reproaching the Government for having estimated an unemployment figure of 3,000,000, the Government would have been more cautious had they estimated 3,500,000, after 2¼ years of Socialist mess, muddle and make-believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "hat is their attitude on the Gold Standard? First, they complained about the Gold Standard and to-day they make protests about the abandonment of the Gold Standard. To-morrow they will turn a third somersault, and then they will pretend that they have been right all the time. They will not be allowed to get away with that in the country. The country will not forget that they have been responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "y have been responsible. [ Interruption. ] I am dealing with the issue raised by the hon. Member for Camlachie. There are nearly 2,800,000 unemployed, due to the fact that hon. Members opposite, when they go electioneering, think of nothing but doling out other people's gold. We have reached a situation where the right hon. Member for Central Edinburgh (Mr. W. Graham) goes down to Edinburgh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "by the hon. Member for Camlachie. There are nearly 2,800,000 unemployed, due to the fact that hon. Members opposite, when they go electioneering, think of nothing but doling out other people's gold. We have reached a situation where the right hon. Member for Central Edinburgh (Mr. W. Graham) goes down to Edinburgh—[ Interruption ]—and is treated by the left wing with cries of \"Traitor\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1417.3", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "So it means that it is not only those who arc now on transitional benefit but actually the men on poor relief—some of them men of 64, 63 or 60—who are to be subject to this means test?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "dividual act of policy, cut the wages of policemen and civil servants and sailors and others, and get away with it. They can, as an individual act of policy, cut the pay of unemployed men and women, and get away with it. But when they do those two things together they are making the gravest mistake, from their own point of view, that capitalism has yet made in this country. Lenin once said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The Bar.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "opposite have been terrified for some time past about the angle of approach which the Government are assuming. The more intelligent elements opposite do not like wages attacks being made as the first item in the attempt of capitalism to re-stabilise itself. They would prefer to get what they want by tariffs or by revaluation of the pound. I have heard them in places where they speak frankly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ections, under pressure. Hon. Members opposite should ask themselves what will be the effect of that news on the unemployed. They will see it as the Civil Service will see it. I know something about the psychology of the Civil Service and there never was such a move in favour of direct action in Whitehall as there is to-day. There was joy in Whitehall when they heard of the rebellion in the Fleet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not all on your side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ho are right up against it, of reading in the Press to-morrow that, under pressure from the very element upon which you rely to support the fabric of your social system, you have retreated. They will derive the lesson, and they will be justified in deriving the lesson, that the only argument to which this Government will listen is force. Very well! All the force of this country is not on one side,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "logical conclusion. The solemn advice of our Friends opposite is that the only way out is to rationalise industry, to produce more and more, and to consume less and less. If ever there were a policy fit for Bedlam, that is the policy. Mr. Bernard Shaw once said that he believed this planet was the lunatic asylum for the other planets, and, after having a good look at you opposite, I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "far rather see him on the Front Bench. We are writing history rather rapidly. Either the bankers are going to rule or we are going to rule—either \"bankocracy\" or democracy. The common people are going to insist that the people who left us in this sorry mess have failed disastrously. If it is true that we are at the edge of the abyss, then the people who brought us there are as much to blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1432.0", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Your own Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": " on the Front Bench. We are writing history rather rapidly. Either the bankers are going to rule or we are going to rule—either \"bankocracy\" or democracy. The common people are going to insist that the people who left us in this sorry mess have failed disastrously. If it is true that we are at the edge of the abyss, then the people who brought us there are as much to blame. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-21", "file": "debates1931-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "11ad1ab9267f62b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "NATIONAL ECONOMY [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Trades Union Congress?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "Government for assistance. They are the people who made the mistakes and are responsible for this disaster. If we are wise, we shall say to them, \"Never again; you have abused your power.\" And we shall decide that in the future we shall control those indispensable ingredients for our national life. If there is anything in the history of the past few weeks, it is that the bankers cannot be trusted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-21a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I cannot speak for the Government. I can speak only for my own Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1476.4", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill, National Economy Bill, and Supply and Ways and Means (Allocation of Time).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rtax. We have to remember that the Income Tax machine, which is working ceaselessly all the year round, will by this Act be suddenly thrown, as it were, into another gear. A great deal of the work they have done will have to be scrapped. An immense amount of new work will have to be done, and done in a very short time. The demand notes, as those who are fortunate enough to receive them know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill, National Economy Bill, and Supply and Ways and Means (Allocation of Time).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not fled!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "shed through its remaining stages in three days. It is quite fresh in our memories that we spent something like three months in discussing this year's Budget, and the right hon. Member for Bewdley and his friends frequently protested that we were hurrying it too much. That is not the strangest feature of this Motion. We are not to be allowed to discuss in detail, now that the pound has fled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "s, or does it include other terms of remuneration? Has it anything to do with kit upkeep allowance and so forth? No doubt the right hon. Gentleman will give us a very clear statement with regard to that. One other point is this: There should be some word said with regard to the position of the officers, although of course the proposal does not bear nearly so hardly on them as on the men concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1509.0", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "preceding_text": "me reference to these cuts as they affect the Service to which I belong. I cannot possibly support the Amendment. Everybody in the House of Commons and in the country realises the necessity for these economies and the necessity for spreading them as evenly as possibly over the community, and it is well understood that the necessity arises to a large extent from extravagance of the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1509.0", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander SOUTHBY", "preceding_text": " I do not think that anybody in the Service would contend that there might not be necessity for alteration in the rates of pay, and I think, perhaps, that the unpleasantness which took place recently in the Atlantic Fleet, and to which I have no desire to refer further, was due to the fact that the men did not understand what the new rates were going to be, or what their incidence was going to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1517.0", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "l on them with increased severity; and on top of that the men and officers of the Forces and those who may think of going into the Forces—because this is a matter that affects recruiting, which is not too good in the Army—must remember the propaganda which is going on in the country for tariffs, which will undoubtedly, if they are to be of any use at all, raise the cost of living here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1525.3", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the unemployed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " the light of the general financial proposals submitted by the present Government. The Board of Admiralty always took the position, and I think quite soundly, when advising upon the general situation of efficiency and discipline in the Fleet that they could only be expected to have loyalty and efficiency if any cuts that were operative were contemporary with general cuts right through the Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "preceding_text": "be full and complete. I say quite deliberately that neither in honour nor in fair play am I bound in any way to any proposal that was submitted to the Cabinet. I stand here as a representative in the last Government of the Defence Forces, and say quite deliberately that my consent to any cut, or any breach of contract, was conditional upon every section of the community bearing its responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "preceding_text": "section of the community bearing its responsibility. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The unemployed?\"] The right hon. Gentleman will remember my calling attention to the fact that a certain number of people had had promises kept to them to the extent of more than 100 per cent., and that those people should be one of the contributing parties. Are they? I ask the right hon. Gentleman, are they a contributing party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "preceding_text": "nt., and that those people should be one of the contributing parties. Are they? I ask the right hon. Gentleman, are they a contributing party? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"] Everyone knows. There is only one set of people to whom promises made during the War have been kept. Promises to men may be broken, but promises to money will never be broken so long as we have our present Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1530.0", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Say that again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " to understand why I was a little mystified and still want the truth. It is very difficult for some of us, in all quarters of the House, and I am certain that hon. Gentlemen behind the Front Bench opposite are just as mystified as some of us here, but I think it is important to know, because nobody with any sense of loyalty to their country would ever want to make a political question of the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did they mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "of the Navy has had on the country during the last few days, and I want to say that there was a complete misunderstanding on the part of the rest of the world as to what the men meant. If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite think that it was a political move on the part of the British Navy, they will be grievously disappointed. It was nothing of the kind. They did not mean it in that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " They did not mind about the widows, the pensioners, the Navy, the Army or the teachers; they agreed as regards everything except the unemployed. When hon. Members talk about equality of sacrifice, I would like to remind them that there is no equality anywhere, even on their own Front Bench. I often hear the phrase, \"We want equality of sacrifice\"; I wish to Heaven we had equality of intelligence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ut in the country they will have great difficulty in getting away from their responsibility, which they shirk, and out of which they are now trying to make party capital, even as regards the Services. All that the people in the country have to do is to read their speeches, and they will know that, if they had remained in office, they would have cut down still more. I do not want, to be rude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "uld have cut down still more. I do not want, to be rude—[ Interruption ]—but, after the right hon. Gentleman's speech to-day, it, will be seen why I said that we wanted the truth. The truth is that the right hon. Gentleman agreed with everything that this Government has done, but when the time came to fight he ran away. I ask the House—and this is really what I rose to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " sorrow. I myself will stick by the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Dominions Secretary. We know that right hon. Gentlemen opposite agreed to all these things, but had not the courage to do what was unpopular, even for the sake of their country; and I am sorry to say that there was not a woman on the other side of the House who had the courage to do these unpopular things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "o what was unpopular, even for the sake of their country; and I am sorry to say that there was not a woman on the other side of the House who had the courage to do these unpopular things. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for East Islington (Mrs. Manning) who has been busier than anyone on behalf of the teachers, knows perfectly well that they agreed to a cut of 15 per cent. in teachers' salaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman will not go round the country saying that, although he agreed to the cuts in the Navy, he did not agree with them in detail. That is not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ing that, although he agreed to the cuts in the Navy, he did not agree with them in detail. That is not good enough. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite can go to their constituencies and into the country as much as they like, hut they sit in this House of Commons condemned as men and women who have not the courage of their convictions. They expect us to take their word against the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1533.4", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "rate and distinct wage cuts since 1921. In 1921 the cost-of-living bonus was being paid on a figure of 165. To-day it is being paid on a figure of 50, a difference of 115 points. To put it differently, there have been 23 five-point drops since 1921. I might state it still differently by saying there has been a drop in the wages bill of the Civil Service of £8,000,000 per annum in that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1533.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A threat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " to the effect that he could see no useful purpose in doing so. In other words, we can get negotiations neither before nor after the cuts in our wages are made. Let me say this to the right hon. Gentleman in conclusion. If that sort of thing goes on I venture to predict that you will get in the coming 12 months the same sort of situation in the Civil Service that you have already seen in the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your men!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "negotiations neither before nor after the cuts in our wages are made. Let me say this to the right hon. Gentleman in conclusion. If that sort of thing goes on I venture to predict that you will get in the coming 12 months the same sort of situation in the Civil Service that you have already seen in the Navy. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A threat!\"] You can treat it exactly as you like, but my men are fed up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ng goes on I venture to predict that you will get in the coming 12 months the same sort of situation in the Civil Service that you have already seen in the Navy. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A threat!\"] You can treat it exactly as you like, but my men are fed up. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Your men!\"] Believe me, these men have a much greater sense of personal loyalty to me than they have to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": " to make both ends meet. In my childhood I was the eldest in a family of eight; my father was a painter, engaged in a fluctuating trade and I know the conditions in a working-class home. I am not prepared to support the hon. Member opposite who delivered such a lawyer-like speech on this matter. He said that we ought to accept all the economies in the Bill and as many more as we could think about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ur rose in his place and said that my right hon. Friend the late Minister of Labour had agreed to this proposal. On that point the late Minister of Labour and I stand exactly on the same footing. Neither of us was present at the discussions referred to, and on the question put by the right hon. Member for Derby (Mr. J. H. Thomas) the late Minister of Labour did not altogether understand the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "That is a question which should be addressed to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1589.8", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "sistance committees. If hon. Members say that a cruel wrong is being done by the proposals of the Government in asking people who are out of benefit to go to public assistance committees, if they say that something detrimental is being inflicted upon them, then I say that they are condemning a large number of people of this country, and they have no right or justification for taking that attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1589.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1594.4", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " of the question but not under Poor Law auspices, for remember what this means.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th September, 1931; col. 534, Vol. 256.] I suppose what that really means is that the right hon. Gentleman is committed to an investigation of means and therefore the only matter left at issue between the late Minister of Health and the present Government is the exact machinery to be adopted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1594.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-22", "file": "debates1931-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "b40a0e2f3208c7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1596.9", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "action of most people in this country, then they must come to the conclusion that they must support the Government in this proposal. If they come to the conclusion that people who go to the public assistance committees are wrongfully affected, and, if there is any attempt to counsel them from doing it, they are condemning many thousands of their fellow-citizens to unnecessary trouble and hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-22a.1596.9"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1639.6", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nonsense!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "I cannot give that undertaking, and I am not aware whether the figures quoted lay the hon. Member are correct or not; but I think it is very undesirable to attempt to enforce the employment of European labour in the Red Sea during the summer months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1639.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1640.7", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "It is an insult to British seamen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1640.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1655.4", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "second instalment. That brings me to criticise what I might call the oscillatory character of the finance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Last February he gave a grave warning to the country. In April he increased taxation but little, taking an optimistic view of the situation. In September he reverses the wheels, throwing the passengers into difficulties and injuring the mechanism of the car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1655.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1658.2", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "n the Economy Bill, and I want to ask what justification there is for singling out the employés of the State, teachers, civil servants, the police, members of His Majesty's Forces and also the unemployed for this special treatment? It is grossly unfair to place on these people special burdens of this kind simply because you have the whip-hand over them owing to their being your employés.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "e stuck to his guns and won his point, because he considered it to be of importance. The issue to-day is a far greater matter than a few million pounds. It is nothing less than to find a stable basis for the whole commerce of the world, and whether you keep the capitalist system, in which hon. Members opposite believe, or whether you adopt the Socialist system, which we on this side believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1664.0", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Leicester West (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1664.2", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " opportunity. When the Budget Resolutions were proposed, when this Finance Bill was introduced, we were on the Gold Standard, and it is quite true to say that one of the main arguments advanced with authority and in high quarters for the steps we were invited to take was precisely because by such means it was hoped to keep on the Gold Standard. It is therefore very tempting to irresponsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1664.2", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ion was easy to prove, that whatever may be the importance of balancing the Budget when your currency is on a Gold Standard a balanced Budget is even more necessary when the value of the sterling may fluctuate freely, not being tied to gold. To put it in another way, you may say that it is more important to sit a boat when you are in a rapid tideway than when the vessel is attached to terra firma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1664.2", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ent thinking for yourself, I should find it quite impossible to accept the view that the removal of the Gold Standard provided all that is needed. Some people think it might be provided—and others fear it will have to be provided—by the intelligent and discriminating restriction of imports. Again, the writing down of the value of the pound knows nothing whatever of Imperial Preference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1676.0", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"According to ability to pay!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": " financial system that those who, by their votes at elections, decide on the limits of expenditure shall bear no substantial share in the expenditure which their votes indirectly cause. That is a very grave danger in a democratic system. But, apart from that, what is this principle of equality of sacrifice of which we hear so much? OIL what basis are you going to measure the equality of sacrifice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ve to satisfy, and even gratify, creditors, and from that there is no escape. It is not a thing imposed by a majority in this House who are Conservatives, let us say, nor by one class upon another. It arises inherently out of the economic system which exists in this country. You cannot escape from it as long as you maintain the sanctity of private property and what is called the capitalist system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1683.0", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about doctors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "roperty, but that the income that they enjoy comes out of the current services of people who render useful services in society. That is the fundamental principle upon which we stand, it is the basis of our Socialistic ideas and our Socialistic philosophy. Property is the result of past use of labour, of past purchase of labour and past exploitation of labour. Property is not the result of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "ch he put to the House. If that were the question which had to be put to the world it would be entirely unanswerable, but, fortunately, that is not the question. I entirely deny the premises upon which the hon. Gentleman based that observation. In my view, there is no such thing as over-production. How can there be over-production in a world in which there are millions under-fed and under-clothed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": " consume them. Hon. Members opposite may say that all this shows the failure of the capitalist system, but, unfortunately, for them it is not so. Even if it were, it would be no argument that Socialism would have been a success. The Socialist system, like the capitalist system, has been very often tried, and, unlike the capitalist system, the Socialist system has always been found to be a failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many times does he get it back?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "d-holders to the State, nor much after 1918. It is wrong for the present Prime Minister—he has said this in the City— and hon. Gentlemen opposite, to state that the average National Debt bond-holder is getting back on an average a better pound than that which he lent. He is getting back about the value that he lent, while for some years he was heavily penalised—from 1919 to 1922.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "eans—the reward of reserved labour. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Whitehaven and the hon. Gentleman the Member for West. Islington (Mr. Montague) said that Capitalism has failed. Capitalism has not failed. Capitalism has been a great success. What has failed is the Socialism which has tried to wreck Capitalism. Hon. Gentlemen must. remember that the original state of mankind was poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What did he say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "he country by his warning memorandum. He was the first to arouse us to our danger. He produced that document with the acquiescence and probably at the desire of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I remember the Chancellor of the Exchequer being asked about it and although he did not say that he approved of it, he certainly knew that it was coming forward. That document has helped to put us on guard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "al consideration, right hon. Members opposite were driven from the course which their good sense suggested they should take, we shall have gone one step further towards proving that the present Government have a clear right to claim the suffrages of the people of the country. Many years ago Mr. Asquith made a quotation on a famous occasion in this House. He said: Roma locuta est; causa finita est.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "a quotation on a famous occasion in this House. He said: Roma locuta est; causa finita est. [ Interruption. ] I see that hon. Members opposite apparently both appreciate and understand the quotation and its application. But for those who do not let me give them a free translation of it. It is this—\"The executive of the Trades Union Congress has spoken, there is no need for further argument.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1725.0", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do they not do it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ey shall do so, and that they shall have a fair chance against the foreigner in our own markets, which they have not got now. If you place a tariff against the foreigner, you give our manufacturers a fair chance. They will increase their production, and in that way they will be able to reduce their overhead charges and not increase the price but reduce the price at which they turn out their goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1740.4", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Who is going to resurrect the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": ",\" on the ordeal of death and resurrection. It describes a certain tribe in the Congo who, whenever an epidemic attacks them, appoint a certain number of initiates who retire behind a stockade and go through the process of death and resurrection, coming out again after about a fortnight; and it is strange that, when they come out, they have entirely forgotten what has happened within the stockade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1740.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1740.4", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "ued that, now that we are off the Gold Standard, the bulk of the economies are no longer necessary. I take exactly the opposite view. I think the economies and the balancing of the Budget are 10 times as important as they were a week ago because, unless the Budget is balanced, there is nothing whatever to stand between us and an absolute collapse of our currency. I was in Germany in October, 1923.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1740.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1743.3", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "House and said that, in a state of emergency, a scientific form of tariffs was necessary, even covering foodstuffs, in order that we might redress the balance of trade and grow at home a large part of that £200,000,000 or £300,000,000 worth that we now import, they would certainly get my support, and I believe that of the whole Liberal party. In this crisis, we have to get a crisis mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK OWEN", "preceding_text": " in the Conservative party here believe that it is necessary to maintain the national unity, or even the illusion of national unity, that they are clamorously insistent that at the earliest possible moment we should divide the country into two, three, four, or as many more parties as they like. I suggest that they are anxious, at the earliest possible moment, to divide the country upon this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "s than those which it ought to touch; but that, in fact, has been, and is, the programme of the right hon. Gentleman whose name heads this Amendment. The right hon. Gentleman's policy is specifically the regrading of the Income Tax, and not regrading it on the higher ranges. His specific statement, given as advice to the Labour party, is, \"Regrading the Income Tax to reach lower ranges of income.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, we do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": " put on. They are put on because of that emergency which has brought us here, which still continues, and which at this moment stands at the door to know whether the House of Commons is going to face up to its financial responsibilities or not. No part of the House quarrels—the Opposition does not quarrel—with the proportion that has been maintained between direct and indirect taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.1", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "tances of the hon. Member. I shall be very pleased, indeed, to go into those figures with the hon. Member at a later time. I was dealing with the general block of figures applicable to those cases which have been brought forward as hard cases, namely, the married couple with children and those in the lower ranges of Income Tax. Then let me take the accusation that the rich have been let off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.1", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "at also to the Budget which was so wholeheartedly supported by the late Home Secretary and commended to the House by his then Financial Secretary the right hon. Member for Central Edinburgh (Mr. W. Graham). In the higher ranges of income the taxes are not merely higher to-day, but thousands of pounds higher than in 1924–25. You take Income Tax, Super-tax and the annual value of Death Duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.1", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "dinburgh (Mr. W. Graham). In the higher ranges of income the taxes are not merely higher to-day, but thousands of pounds higher than in 1924–25. You take Income Tax, Super-tax and the annual value of Death Duties. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Everybody knows that these are the three items under which direct taxation is collected, and you have no right to leave out the annual value of Death Duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "House. Take an income which would be called an enormous amount—an income of £25,000 a year. In the Budget of 1924 the sum taken out of that income by taxation was £16,315. What is it in this Budget which is described by our opponents as so generous to the rich, and as leaving out of account the burdens which ought to be piled on to the rich? The total burden to-day is £21,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "er the 1924–25 Budget, which was enthusiastically supported by the whole Labour party, was £16,315. The burden on that income today under the proposal brought forward for which we on this side are going to vote whole-heartedly to-night, is over £21,000. The amount left to that man in 1924–25 was £8,600, and to-day out of £25,000 the amount left is under £4,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1774.4", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I am asked for the figures for an income of £50,000. In the year 1924—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1774.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1774.4", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ns which he was asking the community to carry, and I am asking the House to bear with me while I demonstrate by irrefutable arithmetic that this is being done. In regard to an investment income of £50,000, in the year 1924 the burden upon that income was £37,987. What is the burden in the present year? The burden in the present year is so great that it does not only absorb all the income", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1774.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1775.2", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "es again because I do not wish this to be misunderstood. These figures are not the moonshine of my imagination but were printed in the OFFICIAL REPORT on a previous occasion and will be in the OFFICIAL REPORT again. They will be open to the inspection of the hon. Member, or to any accountant in any part of the country. The burden of Income Tax, Super-tax and the annual value of Death Duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ng, yes; but what? The hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) said that he was speaking As a Member of the House of Commons and not as a Scottish Member, but he will recollect that the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood) in his illustrations has quoted only figures applying to the city of Glasgow. Obviously it is not my business to make any appeal to the factors in the city of Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-23", "file": "debates1931-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "bc77623e4a803dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "in his illustrations has quoted only figures applying to the city of Glasgow. Obviously it is not my business to make any appeal to the factors in the city of Glasgow. [ Interruption. ] I certainly can in my private capacity as a citizen make an appeal to landlords in Birmingham but why should one stop at landlords of one par- ticular kind. Why should not one make an appeal to all landlords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-23a.1785.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1803.6", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that great public interest is being taken in the matter dealt with in the Macmillan report, and could not the experiment be tried of issuing a cheap edition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1803.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman, in the course of his investigations, came across any evidence that a deputation of the unemployed were thrown out by violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1810.0", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GARDNER", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say why this matter is left to public authorities, while in the case of the teachers there is an ultimatum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1809.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1837.7", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "preceding_text": "ht from the hon. and reverend seignior who represents the Ashford Division (Mr. Kedward). He is quite enthusiastic about the destitution test as something to which everyone ought to aspire. I want to ask the reverend seignior—I am sorry that he is not in his place—as he has paid lip-service to the lowly Nazarene, if he would stick closer to spiritual things and less to material things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1837.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1837.7", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKINLAY", "preceding_text": "ck closer to spiritual things and less to material things. [ Interruption. ] Some of us have been nurtured in Scripture, and I, for one, object to anyone using his public position for the purpose of creating the impression that the destitution test is a thing that we should enthusiastically embrace. I will tighten my belt and go under the destitution test, provided those opposite also go under it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1837.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1845.4", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The Poor Law taint!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "That is the question which the hon. Lady put before and with which I propose to deal. I say at once that they will do, with regard to these people who come to them from the Ministry of Labour, as they do now —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "lise hundreds of these men waiting to be interrogated and humiliated in that way. Such a matter as this cannot be decided even after this Bill becomes law, and there will be no issue so virile and bitter at the next election as the issue which we are discussing this afternoon. Had the Prime Minister been present I would have asked him to allow us to have a free vote of the Committee on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1869.2", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "ith a vast army of 2,800,000 unemployed, to come to the House of Commons and insult the workers and say the only proposition you can put up is that they are to go to the guardians to have their case decided. There is to be a means test, and Bumbledom is to inquire into the character and into the income and, what is more, to communicate with every firm in which any member of the family is employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1871.0", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "hich has been thought fit, without question or complaint from the benches opposite, for the street trader, for the business man who has fallen upon evil days, for the widow who for some reason has not received the widow's pension, for the aged spinster who is not yet entitled to an old age pension and has never qualified for the widow's pension, a procedure which hon. Members do not contest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1871.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1876.2", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "it is to walk the hard road of capitalism and of poverty, and what it is to have to go before public assistance committees are in a fortunate position. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Penrith and Cocker-mouth said that Income Tax payers had to answer certain questions. Have Income Tax payers to go before a public assistance committee? Do they have to disclose the contents of the family cupboard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1876.2", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "nal Confederation of Employers' Organisations. They contain the orders that were issued some months ago to the late Government. They tell us in this report that they are the employers of fully 7,000,000 workpeople normally. They tell us quite blatantly and without any shame, without even disguising it. They let pussy right out of the bag, and pussy is miaowing. These are the words ipsissima verba.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1876.2", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "ry can afford, and so on, are the factors in the rigidity of wages that are keeping wages up. They take the view that if we can only harry and torture the unemployed, the trade union leaders will be unable to bargain with the employers, down will come wages and then, I suppose, we shall be the workshop of the world again, our export trade will go up, and the numbers of the unemployed will go down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1876.2", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": " is not true. The document from which I have been quoting, goes on to say: Having regard to the high rates of benefit and the laxity of qualifying conditions\"— that is, 26 weeks— it is only natural that the trade unions, anxious to maintain their wage levels and knowing that their unemployed members can count upon unemployment benefit more or less permanently at those high rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "-phrased speech yesterday, told us that the only hope was to get the wage level down, so that we could compete in the markets of the world. I am afraid that there is no way out in the way he suggested. I repeat that the Government's proposal is a drive upon wage standards. If you take away the defence that the workers now have, because of unemployment insurance, you weaken their defence generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1881.4", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "That is exactly my point. I appeal to hon. and right hon. Members opposite to let us know, to let the country know, to what kind of a means test they agreed. The country is really a little muddled about it, and the unemployed are muddled too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1881.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1883.1", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1883.8", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " Home Secretary to tell us what the Opposition Front Bench means by a means test. We want to know. So far we have had nothing from them as to what their means test was. They have quibbled and quibbled, one after the other. We want to know, and we demand an answer, as to what means test the late Government proposed to impose. I am certain that hon. Members on the back benches opposite want to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1883.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I will, but you must remember, Captain Bourne, that we have to sit here and listen to hon. Members opposite making tub-thumping speeches which have very little to do with the question, and which are only made with the idea of catching the eye of the gallery. One last word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1884.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Find work\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We must continue to press the Government on this matter until they declare how they can show local authorities to get over their difficulties and how these industrial towns can survive these troubles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1906.1", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "f certain buildings started between certain dates. I ask the right hon. Gentleman if there is to be economy that we should not let it run wild, for the only result will be that the whole business of educational reorganisation will be ruined under a false plea that somehow or other the State is thereby being helped. The third interest I want to put before the Committee is the interest of the child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1912.0", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Sir Donald Maclean)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Sir Donald Maclean)", "preceding_text": " scarcely any calling connected with the State in which those who are at present leaving college have less reason to fear unemployment. It may come; I cannot say; but I would refer my hon. Friend to what the circular itself says in paragraphs 10, 11, and 13. Paragraph 10 says: The Board contemplate that existing facilities, including the number of teachers employed, should be generally maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1919.5", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "nditure. The main saving is to be on the children, on the rising generation, on the hope of the world, on the regenerating force of the world. To many of us this is not a mistaken policy; it is a monstrous wrong. A lot of old politicians and old bankers, over 60 years of age, are prepared to throttle the chances of the rising generation, because they have not the will or the pluck to tax the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1919.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1919.5", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "e innumerable builders, masons, plasterers and joiners out of work. All those projects which would produce 200 schools in a few months will now break down. That is the Government's policy. That is going to improve the trade of the country! Take smaller things, but not too small to consider when we have the children in mind. This afternoon I went to see an exhibition of mechanical aids to learning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1919.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "hree leaders moving away from Labour ideals and policies, and their present performance surprises me not in its nature but in its extreme character. If I may say so, I understand the attitude adopted by my colleagues on this side of the House who left the late Government. They were prepared to consider cuts in the various services, including education, on condition that the party approved of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1926.1", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "In other words, the right hon. Gentleman would not have taken action either way, cutting down or improving salaries, and therefore, when he says with a flourish of trumpets that if he had stayed in office he would have been no party to a cut, he means that he would have acquiesced in a cut if settled by the Burnham Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1926.1", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " the Burnham Committee was a necessity. The right hon. Gentleman did nothing, and his successor, the hon. Member for Caerphilly did nothing. The right hon. Gentleman says there would have been no cut of 10 per cent. in salaries. Well, notice had been given, for the local authorities had demanded a, reduction in teachers' salaries. Everyone knows they were demanding a reduction of 12½per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1935.4", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": "ation facilities in the year 1932. I mainly want to point to the loss of 50 per cent. on building grant. That was a grant offered by the late Labour Government to the local education authorities, in order to help those authorities to realise the ideals of the Noble Lord. I agree with the Hadow Report, as the Noble Lord very well knows, which is an entirely different thing from the central schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1935.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "I said nothing about the National Union of Teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. MANNING", "preceding_text": "Whether it was the Labour party or the National Union of Teachers does not vitiate my argument to the Noble Lord, which is that the central schools, opposed both by the National Union of Teachers and by the Labour party, were a totally different thing from the ideals outlined in the Hadow Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-24", "file": "debates1931-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "fabb26d3cb46dad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": " be prepared to meet the Noble Lady the Member for Perthshire (Duchess of Atholl) or anyone else and defend the charges which I have made. I will not proceed any further with that argument, because I wish to give the Secretary of State for Scotland time to reply to the Debate. I know that the county council of Fifeshire has adopted a policy in regard to education as niggardly almost as Perthshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-24a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1973.5", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "nomy Committee's recommendations. In the case of the teachers the May Committee recommended a reduction of 20 per cent. The Government suggested a reduction in their case of 15 per cent., and now they have agreed to 10 per cent. The same thing happened in the case of the police, but in regard to National Health Insurance the Government is, I repeat, going beyond what the May Committee recommended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1973.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1975.1", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "e said, I am a little astonished at what is being done. While I agree that this may not be termed barefaced robbery, I am sure it could easily fall into the category of receiving stolen property. The doctors and the Ministry of Health have arranged among themselves to hand over to the Treasury approximately £1,000,000 which does not belong to them at all, but belongs to the scheme as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1978.3", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "so without offence to him, has not understood exactly what this means. May I, as an administrator of a society put this to him? I may be mistaken, but I feel sure that it is he who is mistaken. He has told the doctors and the chemists to hand to the Treasury about £1,000,000 per annum, in round figures. That £1,000,000 comes from the funds of the societies. That is understood, I am sure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1978.5", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "With the exception of the Exchequer grant, which is about one-seventh of the total administration ex- penses, every penny of the £1,000,000 comes in the first place from the approved societies. If you reduce the doctors' fees by £1,000,000, and hand that sum over to the Treasury, surely that £1,000,000 comes from the funds of the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is exactly what he said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I thought that was what the hon. Member intended to convey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You took dictation from the Trades Union Congress!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "t at the expense of the unemployed not only because of the injustice, the wrong and the hardship which it inflicts upon the poor, not only because it is socially unnecessary, but because we believe—I believe—that the decision and judgment of the Commons of this country should not be delivered at the dictation of any great financial interest whether it be home, foreign or international.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "gh to cut the unemployment benefit by 10 per cent., it is bad enough ultimately to cut the Poor Law rates by 10 per cent., but I would point out that this is to be done at a time when the cost of living for the poorest of the poor is going up—by any figure you like, by 25 per cent. or by 33⅓ per cent.—at a time when the cost of living is going up by the action of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " cost of living is going up by the action of this Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I do not want to be side-tracked, but I take it it is common ground that the cost of living is going up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not by the action of this Government.\") I would like to answer any relevant questions, but I trust that questions which are obviously irrelevant to the point will be kept for some other occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " it is common ground that the cost of living is going up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not by the action of this Government.\") I would like to answer any relevant questions, but I trust that questions which are obviously irrelevant to the point will be kept for some other occasion. [ Interruption. ] What is wrong with the statement that the cost of living is going to rise through the action of this Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Get your facts right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "I am informed that the prices at the exhibition have been increased by 12½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " your facts right.\"] My facts are right, and I believe that the cost of living is rising. Not only do I believe that it is rising, but it will rise very much more. I would like to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Tamworth (Sir A. Steel-Maitland) if he is prepared to make a statement that, after what the Government has proposed, the cost of living will not rise within the next fortnight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "only do I believe that it is rising, but it will rise very much more. I would like to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Tamworth (Sir A. Steel-Maitland) if he is prepared to make a statement that, after what the Government has proposed, the cost of living will not rise within the next fortnight? [ Interruption. ] Who has ordered this change to be made? Who is responsible for this infamy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "never suggested any 10 per cent. cut; and I would ask, in justice to the French Government, will any statement be made publicly as to whether M. Flandin ever at any time, as representing France, insisted upon any cut in unemployment benefits in this country? For my part I do not believe it. Who, then, was responsible? Was it high finance in the City? Was it the men who have landed us in this mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Tell them to go to Hell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "be cut 10 per cent. I asked an hon. Friend of mine—a Conservative Member of this House—privately the other day, what would he say, what would he do, what would be his reaction, if a group of foreign financiers said to him and his party. \"You must cut the Navy 10 per cent., or 25 per cent., as a condition precedent to your financial system, being allowed to continue\"? What would he say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2012.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "threatened with an increase in the cost of living through tariffs, I say that the situation has become almost intolerable. I ask the Government, is it true? We are entitled to know. We came here prepared to take all the risks of unpopularity in order to see this thing through, but if the Government is not really united and is not really a national Government—it never has been entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2026.6", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "economies, while at the same time he says that we must provide for a payment of £32,500,000 into the Sinking Fund, or £10,000,000 more than we are saving by these economies. I am not going to deal in detail with the May Committee's Report, I do not wish to take up too much time, but that Report has been described by one of the best-known economists in this country as nothing but rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2026.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2026.6", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keynes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": ";32,500,000 into the Sinking Fund, or £10,000,000 more than we are saving by these economies. I am not going to deal in detail with the May Committee's Report, I do not wish to take up too much time, but that Report has been described by one of the best-known economists in this country as nothing but rubbish. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"] One of the best known economists in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2026.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2032.1", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": " child will receive £1 5s. 3d., and a man and wife without children will get £1 3s. 3d. This circular has been issued by the Conservative Parliamentary Agricultural Committee for the benefit of those Members who are endeavouring to justify a reduction of 10 per cent., in unemployment benefit. We know that the whole policy of the Conservative party has been to attack unemployment benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2032.1", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "ee months, while serving the public of this country they attempted to undo all the good work which they had done. I would appeal to them to remember some of the things which they did, and which they taught us to do in the early days of this movement. But the freedom of the City of London is not given for nothing, and we have seen a change taking place from the very day that that freedom was given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2035.4", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ding assertion, because, whether when the cost of living does or does not go up, it is not forced up by the Government, and the right hon. Gentleman knows that just as well as everybody else. Of course, redistributed over a thousand Socialist platforms, and embroidered, as undoubtedly it will be, at street corners, the blame for every rise will be put directly upon the shoulders of the Government,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2035.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2035.4", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ons, when they have to modify as circumstances allow, apparently do touch that form of benefit. I put it to the Committee that the case which my hon. and learned Friend put up is our case, that the national circumstances prevent us doing anything less than what we have to do. Hon. Gentlemen opposite in the rehearsals of their election speeches, seem to think that we enjoy doing this kind of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2035.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2035.4", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lie.\" Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "me come back to the preposterous claim always being made by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite that they and they alone represent the workers. It is the most preposterous claim ever put forward. I have only to instance my own constituency. In the two years of maladministration by a Labour Government the number of the unemployed went up to more than 21 times what it was when they first came in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2035.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2035.4", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "y alone represent the workers. It is the most preposterous claim ever put forward. I have only to instance my own constituency. In the two years of maladministration by a Labour Government the number of the unemployed went up to more than 21 times what it was when they first came in. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Lie.\" Interruption. ] I really do not know why the ex-First Lord of the Admiralty should deny it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2035.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2040.1", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "wo hon. Members on the other side have been revelling in the prospect of getting at the unemployed, making the most hideous manifestations. [ Interruption. ] I can only say that is the conclusion I have come to while sitting on this side of the Committee and watching, for instance, the hon. and gallant Member for Uxbridge (Major Llewellin) while the late Lord Privy Seal was moving his Amend- ment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2043.1", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "eding with this particular cut. I do not believe that there is a right hon. or hon. Member of the House who would be prepared to stake his political reputation on the fact that the cost of living will not have gone up fairly substantially within the next six weeks or two months. That is one of the prices that, as I think we all recognise, we shall have to pay for the alteration that has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "preceding_text": " (Captain Crookshank) complained rather bitterly that Members on this side were making their election speeches. That may be true, but he, too, gave some indication of what line of policy he is going to adopt when he goes to his election meetings. He is going to tell his people that the tremendous increase of unemployment since the Labour Government came into office is due to the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "preceding_text": "man was £240 per family they would think he was qualifying for some mental institution. We are told that we must have these cuts because the rich have made tremendous sacrifices. We were told the other day that a man with an income of £50,000 a year would have to pay in taxation and insurance £53,000 every, year, that he was £3,000 a year out of pocket. If that were true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "preceding_text": " mental institution. We are told that we must have these cuts because the rich have made tremendous sacrifices. We were told the other day that a man with an income of £50,000 a year would have to pay in taxation and insurance £53,000 every, year, that he was £3,000 a year out of pocket. If that were true—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is! \"] Hon. Members know that that is not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prove it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "preceding_text": "xation and insurance £53,000 every, year, that he was £3,000 a year out of pocket. If that were true—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is! \"] Hon. Members know that that is not true—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"] If it were true, it would mean that the rich people of this country are year by year becoming poorer. You have only to state the proposition to see the futility and stupidity of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2051.0", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Do not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "preceding_text": ". We were told that the Empire would go if the gold standard went. I say sincerely that if the Gold standard went and the Empire too, before I would vote for this reduction I would see the Government in hell ten times over. I am sorry to be warm, but that is what I feel. If there are mean persons in the world they are Members on the benches opposite, who privately probably are decent peopleߞ", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2052.0", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the compliment which the hon. Member for North Kensington (Mr. West) has paid me in suggesting that there was a probability that I might be a decent individual and that I do not like the particular task which falls to me at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2053.1", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have got it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "At the moment he is taking a slight rest from a tremendous strain. We may agree—I do not think it has been resisted from the other side—that the great political change that has taken place in this House did not arise from any unholy political pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2053.1", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, the richest of the rich!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "ant for a moment to enter a caveat against that statement. It is so readily assumed that the unemployed person is the poorest of the poor, but it is not true. The Minister of Labour pointed out yesterday that something like half of the insured population of this country had made no claim for unemployment benefit, but the other half has, and the unemployed man to-day is not the poorest of the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2053.1", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "0 who have drawn between 51 and 100 days' benefit and 352,000 who have drawn between 101 and 160 days' benefit. Taking that total out of a register of 1,946,000 on insurance benefit you find a total of 1,240,000. Over two-thirds of this unemployed army are not people who are living purely and simply on unemployment benefit; they are living on their other resources. Some have got investments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2053.1", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "y and simply on unemployment benefit; they are living on their other resources. Some have got investments—[ Interruption ] If the hon. Member is suggesting to me that the insured workers of this country who are represented by these people have got no investments at all, then I would refer him to the provident societies, the co-operative societies, the friendly societies and the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2055.2", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": " because at least nobody can charge me with not having clearly considered the claims of the insured workers. I am asking hon. Members opposite, and I think we are entitled to a clear answer from the representatives of Labour, is it their claim that there should be a certain section of the working-class population put in a privileged position as against another part of the working-class population?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-25", "file": "debates1931-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a65721e8036554c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2055.2", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He ought to have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "ives of Labour, is it their claim that there should be a certain section of the working-class population put in a privileged position as against another part of the working-class population? [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members mistake the privilege. I represent in the main, the agricultural labourer. I have spoken before on that point. My agricultural labourer, when he gets out of work, has no 15s. 3d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-25a.2055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is the Department?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "It would be better if that question were put to the Department concerned. I understand that cases of the nature indicated by my hon. Friend in his question have occurred, and they are being dealt with. If my hon. Friend has specific cases which have not come to the notice of the Department, would he be good enough to send them to the Department?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "y we did not increase them, and no one can better furnish the answer than he as representing the Liberal party. Grudgingly, reluctantly, with reservations and qualifications, the Liberal party gave their consent to certain modified reforms, not so much because they liked them, but because they liked facing the electors less. It does not lie in the mouths of Liberal Members, therefore, to taunt us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.46.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "cost-of-living affecting that attitude and outlook. In the cost-of-living to the average unemployed man, the chief ingredient is rent. In some cases rents are very low, but in the case of unemployed families residing in council houses, doing their best to rise above slum life, for which they deserve credit and not blame, the average rents, taking the country as a whole, are round about 8s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.46.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "t will do so speedily, and in the course of the next six months, according to certain experts, by 500,000. What is the obvious conclusion? If it is true that the imposition of tariffs will reduce unemployment—there will not be the steady drain on the fund that was contemplated. A reduction of 500,000 alone will save you your £12,500,000. Therefore, there is no justification for the cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.46.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "e replied to the right hon. Member by advising him —[Horn. MEMBERS: \"You are running away.\"] There is no question of running away from the right hon. Gentleman. I have replied to the right hon. Gentleman by informing him that, to begin with, the decision as to the precise trades which have to be drawn into the field of unemployment insurance will he determined by the Labour party as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " with, the decision as to the precise trades which have to be drawn into the field of unemployment insurance will he determined by the Labour party as a whole. [ interruption. ] I am not dealing with the precise details of an unemployment insurance scheme; I am stating a general principle which the Labour party supports and has advocated. There must be an extension of the field of insurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLVILLE", "preceding_text": "to blame for wage reductions which are wholly.out of their control, and that was one of them. The hon. Member, at the conclusion of his speech, said that all this sacrifice was for nothing, because the pound had become rocky already. Therefore, apparently, it did not matter how rocky it was allowed to become now. Surely that way lies madness. I was in Germany at the time when the mark depreciated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where's the lady?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend the Prime Minister of the National Government that if we are to make cuts it is far more honest to make them openly and fairly rather than to do it by imposing tariffs or by depreciated currency; but this is the three-card trick, as far as I can understand it. The currency is depreciating, there is to be a tariff which will increase prices, and on top of it the 10 per cent. cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "That association is as much non-political as the Trades Union Congress or the Co-operative Societies. I have made speeches to the unemployed in Bristol, but most of my speeches were treated with derision, and I drew the conclusion that the hon. Member for Central Bristol was much more welcome among them than I was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "eople who are employed. In these circumstances, to talk about reducing the purchasing power of the people is beside the point. The late Secretary for Mines at the commencement of his speech spoke of the complete failure of the Conservative Government during 4½ years to deal with the unemployment problem, and he twitted that Government with failure, forgetting the effect of the General Strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "t any protest from hon. Members opposite, so far as I know—none of the howls of abuse that have gone up from the other side were raised in this House until a, Conservative Member mentioned that a prominent trade union was reducing its benefits—is it wrong that we in this Committee should consider whether it is not necessary for us also to effect economies, to tighten the purse-strings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "f the Socialist party who stuck to their guns and carried out their duty. I have known nothing so mean or contemptible in political history as the way in which those responsible leaders, who have done more than anyone else to build up the strength and power of the Socialist party, are now turned upon and called the villains of the piece by hon. Members opposite who are not fit to lick their boots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a loan !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CULVERWELL", "preceding_text": "y, that we are determined to put our house in order, or as to how we are to satisfy the men of the Navy, for instance, who, it was considered, would accept the cut in their pay provided that that cut was also extended to unemployment benefit. We have heard nothing from hon. Members opposite as to what else we could have done which would have had the same effect in gaining us foreign support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Principles!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "atly. Therefore, the Conservative party loyally supported the formation of the National Government. But we realised that, we should have to take up a lot of very unpleasant duties, and this is one of the most unpleasant of all. We know that we are bound to vote for the Government to-night, as otherwise the Government would be beaten and the catastrophe would be immense. One has to sacrifice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "We know that we are bound to vote for the Government to-night, as otherwise the Government would be beaten and the catastrophe would be immense. One has to sacrifice—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Principles!\"]—not principles, but one has to consider the well-being of the men whose affairs we are discussing. Nothing could hit the unemployed man harder to-day than the defeat of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " principles, but one has to consider the well-being of the men whose affairs we are discussing. Nothing could hit the unemployed man harder to-day than the defeat of the present Government. [ Laughter. ] Hon Members opposite may laugh, but at the bottom of their hearts they know that if the Government were defeated on this issue, the defeat would discredit this country abroad and damage our trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "hile a large number of hon. Members opposite are beginning now to realise that something must be done to check the import of foreign goods into this country. We are putting forward from these benches and we shall put forward in the country not a mere cry of \"See what is being taken away from you,\" but a constructive policy. When the Conservative party or the National party go to the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "Call that a National party? It is a national disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.6", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Take your medicine!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.6", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS \"Take your medicine!\"] I will take all the medicine that is given, but the right hon. Gentleman must not make what I know to be a misrepresentation, complete and deliberate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.7", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "ome sections of iron and steel, there has been a reduction of 20 per cent. since 1924; in the wool textiles there has been a reduction of from 9 to 20 per cent., and in the building trades there has been a reduction of something like S per cent. There are many groups of trades in this country, such as some engineers' labourers, where the wages which are paid are considerably less than 40s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.7", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "o 20 per cent., and in the building trades there has been a reduction of something like S per cent. There are many groups of trades in this country, such as some engineers' labourers, where the wages which are paid are considerably less than 40s. a week. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"] The hon. Gentleman says it is a shame, and that is an eloquent comment on the fiscal system under which we are living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.7", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": " much short-time work of a kind which does not entitle the workers to benefit, and that has resulted in these cases in a reduction in wages. You have therefore two converging lines. You have the line of wages converging where it meets the line of benefit, and you arrive at a point where in far too many cases it is a matter of financial indifference to a man whether he works or whether he does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.102.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.103.3", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "You stand at that Box and insult them !", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.103.8", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member would have a little patience, I was going to answer. It has been said that there is at this moment an increase in the cost of living. My information is that at the present time there has been no increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.103.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEATTIERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "of the Road Fund. Those authorities which did not fall in with the persuasive activities of the late Minister of Transport were threatened by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Central Edinburgh in a speech which he made during the London County Council elections that, if they did not agree to what the Minister of Transport put before them, legislation would be passed to compel them to agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": " Minister, the right hon. Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) a statement with regard to the crisis over the cuts. Speaking during the week-end, he said: Every one of the cuts that the Government have proposed now, except in regard to unemployment benefit, was agreed to tentatively, as they say, by the late Government, and every cut is less than the cuts provisionally agreed upon by the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the whole point !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "th regard to the crisis over the cuts. Speaking during the week-end, he said: Every one of the cuts that the Government have proposed now, except in regard to unemployment benefit, was agreed to tentatively, as they say, by the late Government, and every cut is less than the cuts provisionally agreed upon by the late Government. [ Interruption. ] Do not let us quarrel about the word \"tentatively.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-28", "file": "debates1931-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "6b87b9523d514972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Services in respect of which Orders in Council may be made under this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Not a bit of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "d to unemployment benefit, was agreed to tentatively, as they say, by the late Government, and every cut is less than the cuts provisionally agreed upon by the late Government. [ Interruption. ] Do not let us quarrel about the word \"tentatively.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the whole point !\"] It means that they agreed to these cuts, provided that the 10 per cent. was not cut off unemployment benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-28a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.178.5", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "What other interpretation can the House and the country place on the answer given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.182.6", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman explain this: When we borrow pounds sterling and have to repay when there is a deterioration in the pound, how can there be no loss?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.182.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "That is a very hypothetical case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.188.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.199.7", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.199.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.200.7", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (BASEMENT DWELLINGS, LONDON).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that many of these families are living in one room?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.200.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (BASEMENT DWELLINGS, LONDON).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAY", "preceding_text": "Is not that the fact; does not the report say so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "How. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "e credence in those denunciations, it shows how extremely ready some people are to believe what they wish to believe. Do hon. Members opposite believe in denunciations such as that which we have heard so often from right hon. Gentlemen—as an excuse and an explanation for having given their assent in principle to these economies—namely, that the situation was all due to a bankers' ramp?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "Norway and Denmark are facing it at this moment, but that it confronts even Holland and that it will be confronting nearly every country in the world. And it is not a phase; it is not just a difficulty which can be surmounted and leave the world much as it was before. These difficulties, with all their troubles and hardships, really are the pains that go before the birth of a new state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "se the opportunity so eagerly sought by their capitalist supporters, to rush through these unjust cuts before the country wakes up to the significance of what has been done. To put it colloquially, in terms which may be understood by hon. and right hon. Members opposite, they want to get as far as they can in depressing the standard of living of the workers in this country while the going is good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not heard it yet !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "unjust cuts before the country wakes up to the significance of what has been done. To put it colloquially, in terms which may be understood by hon. and right hon. Members opposite, they want to get as far as they can in depressing the standard of living of the workers in this country while the going is good. [ Interruption .] Several hon. Members opposite may get restless when they hear the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " !\"] Let me remind the House of the words which were used by the Prime Minister on 8th September, when the whole world was waiting with great anxiety to hear his statement as to the financial con- dition of this country, and its power to stand up against any further drain of gold. He used these words: One day it would have been 20s. and the next day 10s., and it would have tumbled without control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the War?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "e to be passed saying that, there shall be a tax on incomes deductible at source and it were left to the Government and Ministers, without consultation with or control of this House, to settle the amount and the incidence of that taxation. It was over three hundred years ago that such a course was declared by the Petition of Right to be unconstitutional, and it has so remained up to this very day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And without running away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "so deftly cast round these proposals by the Government, and to examine the possible reasons which may exist in the present financial circumstances for the passing of this Bill. The fact that a monetary crisis exists in the world and in this country does not necessarily call for panic legislation. This country has met crises before in its history and has dealt with them coolly and constitutionally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "phrases manufactured to disguise the true issues before the country by a Tory party which has always insolently abrogated to itself the sole claim to patriotic motive. There seem to me to be three possible reasons which hon. Gentlemen opposite might advance for the passage of this Bill. I propose to deal with each one shortly, and to attempt to show that each reason is unsatisfactory and baseless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "udget, and the methods of arriving at that balance deserve the most careful and detailed consideration of this House and of the country; but now that the one object of rushing these Budget proposals and economies through has disappeared, there remains no valid argument whatsoever for the procedure laid down in this Bill. The Budget deficit for the current year is of comparatively small dimensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "isation of their true significance. In this way the bulwarks which the Labour party had built up against a lowering of the standard of life might be swept away in a frenzy of flag-wagging. The fact that the real trouble was an adverse balance of trade arising almost entirely from the policy which the capitalists had pursued, was to be kept in the background, as the Government had no remedy for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "I can quite understand the gratification of hon. Members opposite at having at last discovered someone who can put up some sort of a show from the Front Bench opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "pport this Bill as a disagreeable necessity to meet a temporary emergency, which has increased during the last three weeks. I think the cuts which are proposed in this Bill ought to be regarded as flexible, and therefore I welcome the method by which they are to be applied. Sooner or later we all know that the whole problem of how to handle the unemployment question has to be tackled at its roots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ey are to be applied. Sooner or later we all know that the whole problem of how to handle the unemployment question has to be tackled at its roots. [ Interruption .] Is it contended by hon. Members opposite that the taxation of land values will solve the unemployment problem? I think if the views of hon. Members opposite were taken on that subject a majority would be found against such a proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEN TURNER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEN TURNER", "preceding_text": " House of Commons and to declare most frankly that it is a costly Economy Bill. There is no economy about it. It is costly in flesh and blood and tears and want. It was conceived in misfortune, and it ought to be buried as quickly as possible. I wish to appeal to the Prime Minister who used to be, and perhaps may be again at some time, a most friendly co-operator with us on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member who has just sat down speaks after long service to the cause for which he has pleaded. He has not addressed us from some Fabian essay, but from his great experience of these matters. Let me say, as an old friend and comrade, that I believe he is thoroughly sincere in his attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "ort it. The Bill is merely a specific treatment of an urgent situation and it ought to be supplemented—I shall certainly do all that I can to get it supplemented and I hope the people of the country and hon. Members opposite will help in getting it supplemented—by appropriate measures which will contribute to an improvement of the national situation. I have never changed my view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"you vote against armaments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "ite will help in getting it supplemented—by appropriate measures which will contribute to an improvement of the national situation. I have never changed my view—[ Interruption ]—t hat in a matter of economy the first direction in which the Government should move is in regard to war debts and armaments, and such opportunities as I enjoy in this House I intend to apply to that end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "ause it must be common knowledge that the circumstances which brought this Government into existence were directed to two purposes, (1) to maintaining the Gold Standard, and (2) to balancing the Budget. To that end the hon. and learned Gentleman's associates in the late Government put forward proposals and accepted proposals which represent nine-tenths of the proposals embodied in this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "be full maintenance. It was never intended to be anything of the sort. Unemployment Insurance, originally, was payment to cover a risk to which the beneficiary had himself contributed. It was subsequently supplemented, owing to urgent necessities, by the provision for transitional benefit. In the upshot, it has resulted in the enormous deficit to which I have alluded. That was the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLFORD KNIGHT", "preceding_text": ", however, like to emphasise the point that in the administration of these reduced allowances the greatest possible care should be taken to effect every possible economy. The situation is going to be eased by the operation of the Anomalies Act. There is not one hon. Member opposite who does not know that in every street in this Kingdom you will find wicked abuses of the Unemployment Insurance Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "I think that interruption can fittingly be disregarded. When hon. Members opposite go to face their constituents, they will learn it to be the truth that in every street in this Kingdom in which there are employed or unemployed workers, there are notorious cases of abuse of the Unemployment Insurance Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "arn it to be the truth that in every street in this Kingdom in which there are employed or unemployed workers, there are notorious cases of abuse of the Unemployment Insurance Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"] Yes. Hon. Members opposite may look forward to the election, in which they will range all the spongers to be found in the back streets—[ nterruption1 ]—but against that mob—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.245.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.245.9", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "As regards the re- mark of the hon. and learned Member it is not one I should have made myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.245.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "n with the plea, which I address again to the Government, that I hope by the administration of the Unemployment Fund and the operation of the Anomalies Act, which is designed to deal with notorious abuses, the fund will be so lightened that it will be possible, as speedily as possible, particularly if the cost of living rises, for the Government to diminish the calls upon these unfortunate people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "ll be so lightened that it will be possible, as speedily as possible, particularly if the cost of living rises, for the Government to diminish the calls upon these unfortunate people. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members opposite ought to believe it of their fellow Members that no cut in the benefit of unemployed men and women would be supported except in the sincere belief that it was a dire necessity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "diminish the calls upon these unfortunate people. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members opposite ought to believe it of their fellow Members that no cut in the benefit of unemployed men and women would be supported except in the sincere belief that it was a dire necessity. [ Interruption .] One can only make that declaration, as I do; and I make it as one who has had personal experience in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Certainly not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": " be taken at its face value. But as the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) pointed out there is something more than the face value of the Bill to be considered. We have to ask if the authors of this Bill regard it, not so much as desirable or necessary in itself, but as a means to an end. And is that end the lowering of the standard of life of the vast majority of the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the hon. Member aware of what was said by a right hon. Friend and colleague of his I\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SHIELS", "preceding_text": "on people. I agree with my hon. and learned Friend that undoubtedly an opportunity was seen in this crisis, and it was seized. The Labour Government was left only two alternatives—either to go out or to consent to proposals which were antagonistic to the whole history and ideals of the Labour movement. The country was said to be on the brink of ruin, but now we know that this was never true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "egard to education. Everybody ought to acknowledge that this country and all parties have made great efforts by good will and by financial expenditure to improve the educational system of this country. Mr. H. G. Wells, who does not seem to be very good at figures, said that, when we had increased our expenditure from £31,000,000 to £88,000,000, that was a meagre expenditure on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.265.5", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "ssors. Though we on this side of the House are all supporting the Bill and intend to vote for the Third Reading, we know that many of these cuts are serious cuts, and we wish that the nation had never got into the financial position which has rendered these cuts necessary. When the hon. and learned Gentleman the late Solicitor-General in the speech which he made, or rather read to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "nt.\" The late Solicitor-General has moved up a hit since he was in the Government, and he spoke of \"the Labour movement.\" There was not one word in the speech of the Leader of the Opposition which has any reference whatever to the grave peril of the nation as a whole. It was \"the Labour movement\" first and all the time, and the nation only came in when he was in office. What happened in Australia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "hequer, and the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. We support them because they are trying to see the country through its difficulties and because they have not run away. They are not sufficiently agile. If they bad only run away, they might have been in \"the movement.\" I am sorry to see that three members of the Liberal party also seem to be in \"the movement.\" We in the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "It is very refreshing to find the right hon. and gallant Member let himself go. I have known him for many years as Minister for Pensions when he was hampered by departmental limitations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "It is very refreshing to find the right hon. and gallant Member let himself go. I have known him for many years as Minister for Pensions when he was hampered by departmental limitations—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I only want to refer to one observation of the right hon. Gentleman's, and I am sure that he does not mind my replying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": ". When this so-called crisis occurred, what did the Prime Minister do? He ran away if that is a correct description. It was stated by the Minister of Health in the country that the Prime Minister went to His Majesty and handed in his resignation. I do not want to go into details, but we know that influences were brought to bear; otherwise the Prime Minister would not be leading the Government now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS; \"Divide!\"] Running through these Debates has been the accusation that the unemployed are spongers and cadgers. The unemployed can be divided into three sections. There are those who have been deprived of work through rationalisation. That is a natural process; it has happened in every industrial country, and it is certainly not their fault. Another section is unemployed through deflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ECONOMY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " of restricting credit, and men have been thrown out of work. The third section are seasonal, casual and part-time workers. None of these are spongers or cadgers. But I would remind hon. Members of the words of a great Russian philosopher, Chekov: We are all cadgers on God. The trouble is that we misuse and waste God's plentiful bounty and allow people to go short in the midst of abundance—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "I am sure bringing in such an Estimate as this can be a pleasure to no man, and the fact that there are none but official supporters of the Government, that is either a. Minister or a Parliamentary Private Secretary, present on the other side shows that there it; no very violent enthusiasm among Government supporters for this Estimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three hours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "It is somewhere about £2 5s. for two hours' work or 22s. 6d. an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": " about the regulations. We are being asked to give power to the Minister at a moment when we are actually blindfold so far as knowing anything of what is going to happen. Who is going to issue the regulations? Not even the Minister himself seems to know what those regulations are, and certainly no Member of this Committee has the haziest notion about it. If this House were to rise this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McSHANE", "preceding_text": "er these regulations towards single men or single women who are on transitional benefit? Notwithstanding that the Minister of Health a year last January sent out a circular warning public assistance committees—warning them—that single men and single women qua single men and single women ought not to debarred from public assistance, in fact that is being done by a number of authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": " reply as clearly and explicitly as possible to a number of points and requests for information that have been made. With regard to the remarks of the hon. Member for Walsall (Mr. McShane), I should like to point out at once that there is not the slightest intention what- ever of applying any of those conditions associated with the Poor Law which relate to test work or similar things of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "points and requests for information that have been made. With regard to the remarks of the hon. Member for Walsall (Mr. McShane), I should like to point out at once that there is not the slightest intention what- ever of applying any of those conditions associated with the Poor Law which relate to test work or similar things of that kind. [ Interruption .] I make that perfectly explicit statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": " .] Nothing in the nature of either test work, payment in kind, or anything of that sort is contemplated in connection with the provisions of the Bill. May I remind the Committee and hon. Members opposite, without raising any controversial point, that they themselves as a party, if not entirely committed, were prepared to give very full and careful consideration to the question of some means test?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-29", "file": "debates1931-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "1dea77db181bf197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAY", "preceding_text": "gards disputes between the last Government and the present one, and I would ask the Committee to have a little patience. The point is this: When you are paying transitional benefit, or payments which, as is admitted by everyone, are not based on contributions that warrant those payments on any insurance basis, are you going to make those payments for any continued length of time without any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-29a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.359.6", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \"DAILY WORKER\" NEWSPAPER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. May I submit that what is sub judice —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.359.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.359.10", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \"DAILY WORKER\" NEWSPAPER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "With very great respect, I understand that what is sub judice, at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.359.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 2, line 14, to leave out \"£6 14s.,\" and to insert instead thereof \"£5 18s. 6d.\" In effect this means that the extra Beer Duty as suggested is halved, and instead of an extra penny a pint, it will be an extra halfpenny a pint. I have no wish to disturb the equilibrium of the Budget, but we have all been talking about equality of sacrifice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When he gets it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASLAM", "preceding_text": "th a view of charging each person according to his means, yet when we come to the taxation of the working class, no attempt at grading whatever has been made. The agricultural worker with a wage, say, of 28s. or 30s. a week, even if he limits his consumption of beer to one pint a day, is a far more heavily taxed man than the worker in the town who, perhaps, has £3, £4, or £5 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.384.4", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " the Exchequer must realise that there would be a great decrease in the consumption of beer as a direct result of their proposals, and in that way you are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. The goose will kill itself—the goose being the brewer—if it tries to raise the price of beer too much. That is going to be the trouble. Let us look at this from another point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.384.4", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e in the consumption of beer as a direct result of their proposals, and in that way you are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. The goose will kill itself—the goose being the brewer—if it tries to raise the price of beer too much. That is going to be the trouble. Let us look at this from another point of view. [ Interruption. ] I am not saying this because I am a fanatic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.384.4", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ce of beer too much. That is going to be the trouble. Let us look at this from another point of view. [ Interruption. ] I am not saying this because I am a fanatic. [ Interruption. ] Sir Dennis, that has always been one of my difficulties. When anybody tackles this question of drink, the whole of the drink trade, which does not get its propaganda from one side of the House only, I might say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "teetotaller because he does not like drink. Thousands of working men do not take drink because they cannot afford it. They are making their sacrifice for their children and their homes. I am glad the Chancellor of the Exchequer has faced up to the question of drink, and am profoundly disappointed that hon. Members opposite should oppose this tax on drink and have been willing to tax tea and sugar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "es. I am glad the Chancellor of the Exchequer has faced up to the question of drink, and am profoundly disappointed that hon. Members opposite should oppose this tax on drink and have been willing to tax tea and sugar. [ Interruption. ] I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer said in his Budget. speech that there was a question of putting a tax on tea and sugar. However, he will answer that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "his Budget. speech that there was a question of putting a tax on tea and sugar. However, he will answer that point. [ Interruption. ] I am no fanatic. I said at one of the largest temperance meetings in the country that if mine were the last vote needed to make England a total prohibition country I would not give it, because I realise that England is not ready for it. I personally am ready for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "irits and tobacco they would very soon be able to bring down this heavy taxation. There is an Amendment down to leave out Clause 1, and it is understood that the general discussion on this question should be taken on the Amendment now moved by the hon. Member for Canterbury (Sir W. Wayland). I hope those hon. Members and their friends will vote for their own Amendment, which I will do in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "If you increase the tax on beer you also increase the tax on workmen's clubs. I think it is a great advantage for working men to belong to these clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": " of course, absolute nonsense. The drinking of beer, I am pleased to say, goes through every class. I join with my hon. Friends who are responsible for this Amendment in regretting that it was found to be necessary to put this tax on beer, and I regret that it was not put on tea, because I believe that if there were more beer and less tea drunk in this country, the country would be a better place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "I want to combat that statement by telling the Noble Lady that the amount of alcohol consumed in clubs is very much below that consumed in public houses. May I inform her that in my own county the average expenditure per week per man is something between 2s. and 2s. 6d.? They have had to pay 6d. for a pint of beer in the past, and it will be 7d. in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " have no hope that anything that we may say will dissuade him from the attitude that he takes, but I do not see why any party should be tied to his particular and peculiar view upon this issue. All parties are in disagreement on it. The way we troop into the Lobby for things that we heartily disapprove of because someone on the Front Bench tells us is an abominable disgrace to an elected assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Major Elliot)", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to the Committee. We are working under a limitation of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.398.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": " that tobacco will be retailed at from 10d. to 1s. an ounce. If you take it at 10d., I make it out that something like 17/20ths of the retail price of tobacco is duty. That is to say, when these new duties become operative, out of every 20 puffs of tobacco the working man blows, three are for his own enjoyment and 17 for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. How can a heavy duty like that be justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "forward at any time in our Debates on the subject of Income Tax to meet this point, which was put by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in so many words when he was a Member of the late Government—that the Income Tax is a tax on the material which is required for refuelling industry. If the Government take the fuel and burn it, often for no economic end, there is so much less fuel for industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"De-rating!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "-West Hull for bringing out an aspect of the situation which otherwise might not have been presented to us, and that is that the demands which have to be made upon the resources of this country to meet this situation began in the first Budget which the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced. As everybody knows, it was one of the accusations against the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.470.2", "colnum": "470", "heading": "CLAUSE 8.—(Amendments of enactments relating to Income Tax reliefs.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The 1st January.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "leman? Are we to understand, if that be so, that the assessment of what is a hard case is to be left to the collector, and that he is to decide whether Mr. A or Mr. B is a hard case? Exactly what guidance is to be given to the collector as to the way in which these cases are to be dealt with? The right hon. Gentleman has quite rightly made an appeal to all taxpayers to pay by the 31st March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "CLAUSE 10.—(Income Tax in connection with conversion of Government securities.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "preceding_text": "is ramshackle Clause really does mean. Is this some further jiggery-pokery on behalf of the Stock Exchange and financial interests in the city? It may be a ramp. I am sure that some hon. Members opposite will get the cramp within the next three weeks if they appeal to the country. Is this a prescription which has been given by the doctor on behalf of the city? Is this part of the doctor's mandate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "CLAUSE 10.—(Income Tax in connection with conversion of Government securities.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask one question. Can this be made the subject of an Order in Council? If not, why not? The Financial Secretary has failed to explain the reason for this Clause, and I think he ought to call in the Law Officers of the Crown. Why should it be left to an ordinary layman to try to explain intricate matters like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "BRITISH TREASURY CREDITS (BANK OF ENGLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ith the cognisance of the Government it was acting as expert financial manager on behalf of the State. It it was acting without cognisance of the Government, then it was certainly acting entirely outside its power. Let me take that issue and let me reassure the House, and the country through the House, that there was no question whatever of the Bank acting without the cognisance of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "BRITISH TREASURY CREDITS (BANK OF ENGLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not the transaction appear?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "rst point raised by him—was it or was it not a transaction of which the Government was fully cognisant and responsible from beginning to end? It was a transaction of which both the previous Government and the present Government have been fully cognisant from beginning to end, and therefore the responsibility is a State responsibility. His second point was that this was a foolish transaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "BRITISH TREASURY CREDITS (BANK OF ENGLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Answer the question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member suggest that the raising of this money, the purchase of these bills, the issue of this loan, was not perfectly well known, not merely in every technical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "BRITISH TREASURY CREDITS (BANK OF ENGLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "hase of these bills, the issue of this loan, was not perfectly well known, not merely in every technical—[An HON. MEMBER \"Answer the question!\"]—I am answering the question, and I say that the gross transactions were not merely known in every technical and financial centre, but were matters of common knowledge in every newspaper and in every circle, public and private, in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "BRITISH TREASURY CREDITS (BANK OF ENGLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are Great Britain?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "s thinks a lender is being most unreasonable. The borrower says, \"I have exhausted all my money; give me more.\" The lender says, \"How do I know you will be able to pay it?\" \"What an unreasonable man you are,\" says the borrower. The hon. Member for East Leicester says, \"What a scandal that we had to pay a sum considerably in excess of the rates which were running in New York and Paris at the time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "BRITISH TREASURY CREDITS (BANK OF ENGLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: They held us up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "any rate of interest on their money. But that they had that money under lock and key in their vaults, and for that reason they were not very willing to lend it at a low rate of security if they thought that that security was in jeopardy. His statement is the statement of one who is looking at events through rose-coloured spectacles, and who has never gone into the facts of the financial situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-09-30", "file": "debates1931-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "79eef44a63f4cd2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "BRITISH TREASURY CREDITS (BANK OF ENGLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The gold in the Bank of England, the assets of the country, are the security. We have a perfectly good security to meet these debts. It is a security which is, in fact, appreciating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-09-30a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.511.7", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman any information showing that men who are on the dole have started purchasing their houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.511.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.520.7", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "In circulating the figures will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.520.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Is it comparative?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.522.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.530.8", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "As the names have been published in the Votes of this House, is there any reason why an answer should not be given to my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.530.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.537.3", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Is it intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.537.3", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Is it intended—[ Interruption. ] May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.551.8", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nominal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "ties. It is a loan of £2,000,000,000, and it bears 5 per cent. interest. We all know that as the price of stocks goes up and approaches par, or goes above par, the actual yield on such stocks becomes less, but there is a great psychological effect on investors at home and abroad when the biggest loan in the list of Government securities bears at least a nominal rate of interest of 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.551.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.551.8", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By way of tariffs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "ance, and nothing went in and nothing came out, the French people would still be able to live, and to live fairly well. They would have plenty of beef, mutton, bread and butter, and a good glass of wine with which to wash it down. If, however, we do anything to hurt the credit of this country or to devaluate the pound, and so to diminish our purchasing power, and, further, if we do anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.551.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.551.8", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not go and live in France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "s a continuance of Socialist propaganda; if there is a continuance of the strong opposition—I believe it exists only in this House—to the proposals of the Chancellor; if this country does not present a more united front to the whole world, then we shall be doing more than anything else to hurt the credit of the country, to tend to devaluate the pound and to make our difficulties worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.551.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "how important the credit of this country is to every one of our people. I am glad to see the hon. Member for East Leicester (Mr. Wise) in his place. Great harm is done to the efforts of the Chancellor to maintain and strengthen the credit of this country by the attitude that the hon. Member is continually taking up and by the kind of questions he asked on the Motion for the Adjournment last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "g up and by the kind of questions he asked on the Motion for the Adjournment last night. [ Interruption. ] I am not going to give way. The kind of matter he raises, as if it were possible or thinkable that the Treasury or the Bank of England would do anything dishonourable, is doing enormous harm to our credit. I have no doubt that those questions are prompted by his Russian friends who are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.564.5", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "case as it is stated; the hon. Member can challenge it in a moment. The result of the calculation is to show that in this typical case—the case of a man with £10,000 a year derived from War Loan—the reduction of taxation and the increase in the purchasing power of money have practically doubled the real income in eight years. That is an authoritative statement of the facts.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.564.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "oan, what are you going to do about foreign holders? It is difficult to say how much but certainly a large proportion of 5 per cent. War Loan, and a larger proportion of 4 per cent. Funding Loan, is held by foreign holders to whom you gave a special pledge in the prospectus that it would be free of British taxation and would bear a certain rate of interest. Are you going to exempt foreign holders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You only want to rob him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e result has been, with the restriction of credit and the fall in wholesale prices to inflict great suffering on the mass of the wage earners, farmers, manufacturers and other producers. The producers have suffered in order that the drones should get more honey. I do not say they are all dishonest. I am not criticising the man who puts his money into War Loan or mortgages or anything of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " who, if they are called upon to pay 8s. in the pound Super-tax, will really get only 1¼ per cent. If so low an interest as that was considered to be an unreasonable burden and attacked, no one would ever save and no one would ever again lend money either to the State, in order to allow the State to fight for its life and honour, or to the factory to enable it to put down plant and machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN POWER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN POWER", "preceding_text": "I have listened very carefully to the whole of this Debate, but I have absolutely failed to discover what the Opposition is trying to advocate. Not a single constructive idea has come from them. The hon. Member for East Leicester (Mr. Wise) made some hints at repudiation. I do not know whether he wishes to adopt the method of Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. POWER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. POWER", "preceding_text": "ike to know whether the speeches on the gravity of the crisis in which the country finds itself have been justified or not. If the late Cabinet were not justified, why did they propose cuts which we have put into operation of £56,000,000? It is perfectly true that their hand faltered and that they ran away. I hope that the country will soon have an opportunity of expressing its opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.586.2", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "to use this argument again, I would take the liberty of warning him that it is of a two-edged character. We have been told again and again that the burden of taxation is always found by the Super-tax and Income Tax payers and by the wealthy members of the community. We now find, on the confession which has just been made, that those people get back again all that they have paid by way of interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of taxation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "olicies of both parties and to the harm which he thinks would result. He says: Either way headlong depreciation might result. But he also used the other words which I have read. I do not want to misquote or misrepresent him in any way. I wish to answer another point raised by the hon. Member for East Leicester and I think by other speakers, who suggested repudiation or partial repudiation of debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody said that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "t they will be affected by whatever is done in this respect. Let us consider the various methods suggested. It seems to me that broadly speaking there are three ways in which we may approach this question and I suggest that, in the way in which some hon. Members opposite have dealt with it, they are doing a disservice to the country. They approach it by suggesting that there should be repudiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. PETO", "preceding_text": " Report and in it there is a definite recommendation that all borrowing should stop for the Road Fund, and that only matters of absolute necessity should be undertaken in the present financial state of the country. What was the origin of the May Report I The resolution appointing the committee on National Expenditure was proposed by the Liberal party, and it was unanimously accepted by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-01", "file": "debates1931-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "d6ac22c9665bf6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONS", "preceding_text": "ut during that time of crisis the young manhood of this country responded to the call of the country in her hour of need. Will the country let down these young men in their hour of need? You have your crisis in the Government and in the nation, but in the homes of these men, who have suffered untold hells and agonies because of what they did for their country, there is suffering and poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-01a.677.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.697.5", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTURBANCES, SALFORD AND GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that during the previous week there was a demonstration of similar numbers in Glasgow without complaint, peacefully carried through, and is it; not the ease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTURBANCES, SALFORD AND GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE HARDIE", "preceding_text": "In some of the newspapers this morning an observer describes what took place. The demonstration was passing down Salt Market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.698.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTURBANCES, SALFORD AND GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "h the Secretary of State said that there was no organised attempt by the police against the demonstrators, I want to ask the right hon. Gentleman if he has not had this information, that there were 12 mounted police ready to charge the demonstrators, and that, failing that, there was a special contingent, of police who had been organised, because we have now a new Chief Constable in Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.698.6", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTURBANCES, SALFORD AND GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "uthority in Glasgow towards these poor people, who are right up against it and who are driven by starvation to do things which they would not otherwise do. If something is not done, we will all go down to Glasgow and defy law and order, and you will get a chance of putting every one of us into gaol. If we are, we shall not be satisfied because you will have to take our lives or we will take yours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.698.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the shopkeepers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "y hampered people who have a very moderate standard of life but he has left ample room still for luxury on the part of the rich. Of course, figures are given to show how terribly the rich will suffer. I have no doubt some of them will have to go without a certain amount but we have had that cry year after year in this country and it does not seem to affect the prosperity of the West End of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " a good many times in the last two years, when I found myself in the opposite Lobby. I am certain that no one deplores the introduction of this Budget more than the Chancellor himself, and, if I: consulted my own views, I should undoubtedly vote against it. It is a kind of nauseous draught necessitated by previous extravagant living—extravagant Government expenditure on almost every subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "I agree with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I may have stated it a little wrongly, but, at any rate, he will agree with me that though the Budget was introduced to balance the revenue and expenditure, if that revenue and expenditure had not been balanced, the pound sterling would probably have dropped to a far greater extent than it has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does the City of London do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "rcy of these external circumstances. These men want to get a living, and they are prevented by some external circumstances. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said in his Budget speech that one-third of the national income is consumed in rates and taxes. Those who receive this large sum of money consume food and clothing, but what do they do to produce commodities for export in order to pay for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Equality of opportunity!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ised in rates and taxes and paid away to people who are not doing a single hand's turn to export commodities, we are bound to have trouble. I do not think that the trouble is over. I look forward to next winter with the greatest apprehension. I am afraid that it will be a black year for many people. We are not nearly through our troubles yet. Hon. Members opposite talk about equality of sacrifice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "case of the agriculturists. They have been suffering all the time—suffering terribly. There is the case of the wheat producer. There has been no equality of sacrifice there. The constituents of hon. Members opposite have had the advantage of the farmers' misfortunes, and I,. for one, do hope that in the future we shall look more after the producing classes rather than those who are inactive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRACH EY", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRACH EY", "preceding_text": "lance the Budget after the sacrifice of convertibility than before. The sacrifices which British capitalism calls upon the workers to undergo will be far more ruthless and severe after convertibility has gone than before. We may find agreement upon that, but it completely destroys the argument we have heard from the Front Opposition Bench that it is no longer necessary to balance the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He need not tighten his belt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "preceding_text": "a word of warning to hon. Members opposite as to the result of their policy. I do not want to talk from the point of view of the individual. Hon. Members opposite say that individual taxpayers still seem pretty well off and still walk about the West End of London and seem to be happy. That is true. It is true that even if you do tax the rich man heavily, he, still has a, certain amount left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "preceding_text": "say that the poor would not mind doing it if there were no rich, but that is not my experience. There is another argument that I would like to advance. It seems to me undesirable to do it, from the Government point of view, for this reason. Suppose that you redistribute wealth, as you all wish to do, and supposing you tax a man who has£50,000 a year and you give£1 each, to 50,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "e were looking for a fresh basis of taxation. When the Labour party came into power I had my doubts and my appre- hensions because when I looked at the Labour Front Bench, like the boy who saw the fly in a piece of amber, I wondered how in the name of God they got there. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer, if I may say so quite openly, was the only man for whom I had any intellectual respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "e an argument which I know, and which the hon. Member must know, to be fallacious. Such arguments, when they are addressed to the House in this way, get outside and do immense damage. Let us look at what the difficulties of the Chancellor of the Exchequer must have been before he came over to this side if he was faced with hon. Members of his own party talking like the hon. Member for Southampton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "le, are not enough to pay for our imports and that was reflected in our sterling exchange when we went off gold. There is now the point which is made by hon. Members opposite about reducing our consumptive power by stopping certain expenditure. He complains of the consumption being reduced. That consumptive power is spent for the most part in imported food, clothes, other imports, and so on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Without the existence of wealthy people you can never have ally of the softnesses of civilisation. For instance, you would never have had Wagner's music if he had not been taken care of by a King of Bavaria, a rentier in ercelsis .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": ", assailed that right and pleaded for common ownership and common control of goods. Through the middle ages the great schoolmen right down to the Reformation, and some of them beyond, condemned investment and interest on which private property is founded, declaring that it enabled people to live without work and that it was contrary to Nature, contrary to Aristotle, and contrary to the Scriptures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "untry is that passage of Earl Chatham's about the poor man's castle, in which he said that the poorest man might in his cottage defy all the forces of the Crown and that even the King of England dare not cross the threshold of the cottager's ruined tenement. Now, you are making it the law of Britain that the Poor Law officer may cross the threshold of the ruined tenement, even if the King may not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I wish it had been more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "ent for Income Tax made up to the 30th April, 1930. We find that 97,696 persons had an income of over£2,000 a year, and that their total income was£541,319,350. We find also that there were 130 persons with an income of over£100,000 per annum, and that their income amounted to£24,885,634. Turning to Estate Duty we find that in 1929–30 fifteen persons left£32,703,675.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that he has my most profound indulgence and sympathy. I cannot pass without observation the fact that he has spoken from the Opposition Front Bench during the discussion of this important Measure without the support of a single one of the leaders of his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e Front Bench. The absence of the so-called leaders of the party has been a marked feature of all the discussions during the last few weeks. The Leader of the party has led the party from sonic recess behind the Speaker's Chair. His example has been followed by the subordinate leaders of the party. There has not been on that Front Bench to-day a single Member of the Cabinet of the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.770.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You taught us.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "tion before the House of Commons, but I addressed a special meeting of the Labour party, and in what I expected would be the secrecy of that meeting—secrecy which was afterwards betrayed—I spoke much more frankly than I had spoken to the House of Commons. What support did I get there? I got none. The only thing they did was to talk the usual clap-trap about going to the Super-taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.770.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.4", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "So you ought.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "That Committee was set up. The hon. Member repeated today what had been said by other speakers in the course of the Debate. He said that I ought to have done something in the Budget of last April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.5", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Rather than cut unemployment benefit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " of a whole-hog policy, including the taxation of food and of raw materials. The right hon. Gentleman the Member of Burnley (Mr. A. Henderson) in order to meet what was necessary for the balancing of the Budget, was prepared to put on, I will not say a 20 per cent. tariff but a 10 per cent. tariff. He told the Trades Union Congress that he would have been prepared to impose s, 10 per cent. tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.5", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And by you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "rd for their own interests, than to keep£2,000,000,000 in their coffers earning nothing. As a matter of fact, we could not have borrowed any more for unemployment benefit. What else did the hon. Member suggest? A public loan. A public loan from whom? Did he mean that you should go to the wicked bankers and the avaricious investors who have been denounced hour by hour from those benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-02", "file": "debates1931-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "e4bd0615cb6fa7cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.5", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Patriotism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "them to come to your assistance and provide funds by borrowing for the maintenance of the unemployed? The fact of the matter is that I do not think that you could have borrowed and, suppose that you had tried to issue a loan for borrowing for the unemployment benefit, do you think there would have been any public response to that? If you had tried to issue a dole loan, there would have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-02a.772.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Quite a number, including the co-operative societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More about the Gold Standard!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Their action was not confined to resolutions of that kind but they took immediate action on the first day to ensure that there should be no panic buying and no rise in price. It was enormously important to ensure that result on the first day after coining off the Gold Standard because as everybody knows this is a question which must be handled at the wholesale end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Therefore I say that the public has had something more than a square deal in the fact that a very large amount of transactions were conducted on the old sterling basis. When you are dealing with a country like this, where we are dependent on overseas supplies for four-fifths of our wheat, butter and cheese, for half our meat, the bulk of our bacon, and nearly all our sugar, it is inevitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The powers are wide enough, but, if the Government wanted to engage in purchase, a Vote of the House would be required. I do not, however, contemplate anything of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "hat the trade was carried on by people who were. That is a far more drastic, but a far more effective, power than any amount of Government control or Government purchase. 4.0 p.m. The last thing in the world that I want to do, and the last thing in the world that, in a case like this, the House would be well advised to do, would be to interrupt the normal flow of trade through the normal channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "What does he mean by an inquiry? An inquiry of long duration, or some subtle inquiry which he wants to snake the basis of an indictment against a particular firm or association? That is the whole question. It is obvious to me, from the very way the answer was given, that this Bill is just a frame-up, a piece of bluff, and is not going to be used at all. It is simply a piece of election propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over to this side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "I do not. associate myself with those who throw bricks at the Prime Minister. My view is, that our leaders ought to have the confidence of the House and ought to be given credit for good intentions. I say: \"Mac, with all thy faults, we love thee still.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "he nation as a whole and on the active co-operation of all that we shall eventually, by means of this Measure and other Measures to be brought in, get through our troubles. The wholesalers and the retailers at the outset have played a very important part. Had they not given their co-operation I have no doubt that prices would have risen already. Therefore the country owes them a debt of gratitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOFFMAN", "preceding_text": "chaos, and anything may happen, and in order to be on the safe side, we would like the House to arm us with powers to deal with the whole of the food situation, both in regard to bulk purchase and bulk exchange, and even in regard to rationing.\" I feel sure that those steps will eventually have to be taken. I am not saying this from any pessimistic point of view. Temperamentally, I am an optimist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "on and to be in a position to say \"We are not friends of the exploiter; look at the Bill we have passed.\" When somebody interrupted from this side to ask whether the Prime Minister approved of this Bill, the right hon. Gentleman said that it had been submitted to him, and that he had approved of it. I believe it. I can imagine nothing more characteristic of the late Prime Minister's methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " it had been submitted to him, and that he had approved of it. I believe it. I can imagine nothing more characteristic of the late Prime Minister's methods—[ Interruption. ] I beg your pardon, the present Prime Minister or the late Socialist Prime Minister, in inverted commas. I can imagine nothing more characteristic of his combination of sitting on the fence behind a facade of words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "ird, pillory, forfeiture of all offender's goods and cattle, and imprisonment during the King's pleasure. If the right hon. Gentleman is going to deal with the people who can turn the present situation to their advantage, as for instance the meat trade which possesses a practical monopoly, something will be wanted far more drastic than a miserable three months' imprisonment or a fine of £100.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOODSTUFFS (PREVENTION OF EXPLOITATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He would be very glad to do so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "preceding_text": "ontrol imports of food\"? Get down to the policy on which you are going to fight in the country—the control of imports. But this will not prevent exploitation by each and every person arguing that they have only charged a reasonable increase. Why should not the home producer do the same? Why should not the producer of wheat ask that he should be allowed to charge the same reasonable increase?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.891.5", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": "ssed, would have regularised the position. Were that Bill to have been withdrawn, and were a situation to arise, with the present situation having been declared illegal, in which there was before Parliament no sign of a legislative attempt to alter the position, it would, I believe, have been impossible for local authorities any longer to withhold their duty to enforce the law as it stands to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.906.5", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "The learned Attorney-General is senior to me in the profession, and I cannot think that anyone occupying the position of Law Officer of the Crown, as he does, with high regard among my legal brethren, would act other than in the public welfare. I am not criticising him upon that ground, but he ought to have been here to listen, and I ask the Patronage Secretary whether he has asked him to come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.906.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.906.5", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "whether something of the vindictiveness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer had found its way into the hearts and minds of the Home Secretary and of the learned Attorney-General. We should like to be assured upon those points, and I am only sorry that the enforced absence of my right hon. and learned Friend has caused me to stand longer at this Box than I originally intended. As a final word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.906.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "House must make up its mind upon one of two things, either that the law should be changed or that it should be enforced. Why is it impossible to enforce the law to-day? The Under-Secretary said to-night that unless this Bill were passed there would be only one alternative, and that was to enforce the law. It amazes me that the Under-Secretary should regret that that should be the only alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "he first Clause. Whether it, is due to bad drafting in this great emergency Bill, I do not know. Take cases within the London County Council area where certain cine- mas are open and certain cinemas are closed. They are not licensed lawfully, but they purport to be licensed. We are told that in this Bill only those cinemas which have hitherto been open are to be lawfully opened in the coming year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.915.5", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "g to church?\" but I think it is just as well that the nation should have an opportunity to ask whither it is going, and at no time was that question more necessary than it is to-day. That is what Sunday stands for in English life, as an economic factor. Has anyone asked himself why Scotsmen have been more successful economically and commercially than most of the other nations in the British Isles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.915.5", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "sperity? It is said to-day that we should save as much money as we can in this country; we are told by this Government that we should refrain as far as possible from buying foreign goods, and should encourage home production; and yet here is a Bill, introduced by the National Government almost at the last moment of its life, to enable £4,000,000 to go out of the country to American interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUGGERIDGE", "preceding_text": "etting emancipated by degrees because of our contact with the Continental Sunday, but unfortunately, many, like my hon. Friend who comes from Cardigan are not fully emancipated yet. He has not shaken off that influence which still holds him and still clouds his outlook upon life and makes him think that in order to be righteous Sunday should be devoid of joy. Personally, I think he is wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask Beaverbrook!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "the way, these films are not shown in Birmingham on Sunday. The hon. Member's argument was not against showing films upon Sundays, but against showing them on any day of the week. There are wrong films, just as there are wrong books and wrong Sunday newspapers. I wonder how many pornographic details we get in Sunday newspapers, and how much they are responsible for the circulation of those papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "s. Make no mistake about it. You may say, \"Well, they are opening now\" but you are going by a deliberate act to make this thing legal and by throwing a garment around what is illegal now you will make it attractive to a far larger crowd and give the public authorities throughout the country, at any rate, the sanction of the Government and of Parliament to do what has been done in just a few cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I cannot pretend to claim the same familiarity with the wishes and purposes of the Almighty as the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": " see that everybody gets one day's rest in seven, but that is not an argument against the Bill. It is an argument for proper legislation defining the hours of labour but no argument whatever against the Bill. The only argument against the Bill is the so-called religious argument. The argument that if we open cinemas on Sunday the people will cease to go to church to listen to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "o my hon. Friend—[HON. MEMBERS \"Order!\"]—and his like. I say that if the churches cannot keep their own end up against the cinema on their merits, so much the worse for the churches. They are not entitled to come to me and other Members of this House and ask us to act as recruiting sergeants to provide them with congregations. The whole argument as to what God wants is bunk and humbug.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-05", "file": "debates1931-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "73bc37dfe81b5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY PERFORMANCES (TEMPORARY REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I very heartily support that point of Order, and when my hon. Friend acts as if he were in the special confidences of God in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-05a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-06", "file": "debates1931-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "1be1b2635de1de8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "derlying principle in the Bill, knows that it would be exceedingly wasteful to lose all the time and expense which have been incurred in the course of the proceedings on this Bill. However, I am bound to say, and I am sure the Prime Minister will not mind my saying it, that I think it is a very great pity that this is the only Bill which his Government has seen fit to carry over into next Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-06", "file": "debates1931-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "1be1b2635de1de8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "e only Bill which his Government has seen fit to carry over into next Session. [ Interruption. ] I was coming to one or two instances. The Bills which have already passed through this House and have been held up in another place are Bills which have progressed so far, and in respect of which so much time and energy has been expended, that it would certainly be justifiable to carry them over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-10-06", "file": "debates1931-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "1be1b2635de1de8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "It is contemptible humbug to use a phrase like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-06", "file": "debates1931-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "1be1b2635de1de8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ext Parliament will be in a position to amend, alter, modify and, I hope, improve the Bill. I see looking at me with admiration my right hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. He, too, was a considerable critic of this Bill—an even more severe critic that I was. I am not quite sure that he did not vote against the Second Reading. I did not go so far as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-10-06", "file": "debates1931-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "1be1b2635de1de8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1056.6", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "DISTURBANCES, GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who organised it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "andard of life. Therefore, no one can say that demonstrations were not likely to occur. The unemployed set about to organise themselves in the best possible way to demonstrate their grievances. A demonstration took place on the evening of Thursday week attended by about 50,000 people. It was an orderly demonstration, no disturbance took place, and there was nothing even of a semi-seditious nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-10-06a.1056.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-03", "file": "debates1931-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cda5442caefc96ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-03a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Preamble", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "with which I am associated, it gives me very great pleasure to second this Motion which has been so ably moved by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Rye (Sir G. Courthope). I should like, in the first place, to express the hope that Mr. Speaker-Elect will have the best of good health and strength to preside over this Parliament, which I guess will last for the next four or five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-03a.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "m the number of seats that we have here to-day is out of all proportion to the number of electors whom we represent. But I am not a Liberal, and, therefore, I do not want to whine or cry about the political machine. I am going to read a statement that has been made, not by a blatant Socialist, but by a very respectable newspaper in the North of England. This is what the \"Manchester Guardian\" says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t depths. There is another thing. We are told that the late Chancellor of the Exchequer is going to his appointed place in the gilded Chamber, where I suppose he will have as his chief companion the greatest reactionary of my time, anyhow, Lord Banbury. The late Chancellor of the Exchequer out-Heroded even the right hon. Gentleman. He talked of the policy of the Labour party as Bolshevism run mad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "vism run mad. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am very glad to get that cheer, because he himself, the auther and the writer of the policy of the Labour party, is now a leader of the National party. Whatever of Bolshevism there is in \"Labour and the Nation\" or in the Labour party's manifesto, the right hon. Gentleman is as much responsible for as any man in the country. As for Philip Snowden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then run away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ernment—to put our proposals before the House for dealing with this crisis, and we shall try to do so in such a manner that the nation, or whoever reads the reports of the House will be able to judge between what we actually propose and the grotesque distortions and misrepresentations put before them by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite. We shall do that at the earliest possible moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " possible moment. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Then run away.\"] It really does not matter about the gibe that we ran away. Anyhow, we ran away from salaries that most of us would have been very glad to have main- tained. We ran away from a position that most of us cared to occupy, and it is never an easy matter for any man to give up a position. Anyhow, a large number of our men have now to go and seek work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e Secretary of State for India to give us one of those statements that were made periodically by his predecessor, Mr. Wedgwood Benn, when Secretary of State, as to the condition of affairs in India at the present time, and also whether there is any statement which he can make in regard to the Round Table Conference. Finally, I wish to say that I have been, I know, controversial and probably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "n India at the present time, and also whether there is any statement which he can make in regard to the Round Table Conference. Finally, I wish to say that I have been, I know, controversial and probably—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"] Yes, I intended to be. I make no apology at all for that. I have said what I think, and I meant every word of it, and I should repeat it if I had the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What manifesto?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "fect is good in certain directions, there are other directions where counter-balancing effects have to be taken into account. Supposing the sum total was good, we shall make a profound mistake if we assume that it is going to be a permanent effect. Among the various means taken to secure that end, there is the question of tariffs. So far as the Government are concerned they stick to the manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "hat manifesto?\"] The manifesto asking for power to consider the question, asking for power to investigate, asking for power to act. One of the great points made at the election was that we were committed to the taxation of food. We are not. Every consideration is to be taken into account. I am surprised at the Opposition, who themselves at the present moment are engaged in an inquiry into tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a joke!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "One of the greatest jokes at the Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " 10 years' work wasted. 5.0 p.m. If it is true, as the Prime Minister suggested to-day, that this keeping of lumps of gold is no use at all, let us remember that our financial policy, the policy that was pursued by successive Governments on the advice of their experts at the Treasury and at the Bank of England, was to get as much gold as possible into this country and to relate our currency to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "dictators have had to do, and say to the captains of industry, to the masters of money, to the chieftains of commerce \"Look here, we cannot allow you to run your show to suit yourselves. You have to run it as the nation directs, and for the general national welfare.\" That is what this Government will have to do, among other things, if it is going to deal with the situation. Is it going to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "re are 3,000,000 workers who you cannot employ. But you say to the employed people \"You have to work longer.\" I was shocked to discover that now, when the nation is under the leadership of the Prime Minister, a factory in my constituency puts cotton operatives back to the early morning start at 6 o'clock and a working week of nearly 60 hours. That is since the National Government came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "s statesmanship. Will your Conservatives and Liberals and Simon Liberals and Samuel Liberals stand by the Socialist or ex-Socialist Prime Minister in establishing, for the first time in the history of this nation, an opportunity for the mass of the common people to live with some sense of security with some comfort for more than a week on end? Will they stand by that? Not a sound from one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "omplete negative. That is the question of rents. We urge that, having regard to reductions which have taken place in prices and costs generally, now is the time to carry through a great reduction in Tents. All the reasons for giving house owners the right to the increase of 40 per cent. have now gone completely. The arguments of rising costs, expensive labour, expensive repairs, have all vanished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.91.4", "colnum": "91", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Yes, one of the ways. We are going to isolate a population of 160,000,000 from trading with us because we do not like their ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.91.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is very little.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "of fact, you are grumbling about giving them credits. The Noble Lady wants us to stop giving credits. Why do we give them credits? For the purpose of promoting trade. If we give them credits and they buy from us, why should it be said they do not buy from us? They have bought from us, and they are buying from us now. Some of our largest trading concerns are engaged in. trade relations with Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Supposed to be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "people are going about cap in hand begging, \"Please, Sir, will you buy British.\" As a matter of fact, you do not care whether they buy British or buy Russian, so long as you get a profit. You do not trouble your heads about where you get the money, so long as you get the profit and the interest. Now we hear this sort of stuff talked in the House of Commons, where we are supposed to be intelligent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-10", "file": "debates1931-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "422e573e2728c279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " in your ideas and relationships, national and international, and you will have a better chance of doing what you want to do.\" We have had delivered to us this afternoon the result of the doctor's mandate. We have the medicine which is to be given to us. We are only a small number of patients, and so the doctor will not be very busy. I do not think his panel will pay him during the next few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-10a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANS BURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: The Motion says, \"no Bills.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANS BURY", "preceding_text": "I think the point which the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) desires to put is that a Member now may just hand in his Bill, without a Motion under the Ten Minutes Rule at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " I had some acrimonious correspondence with the Prime Minister upon the subject. Lastly, there was the Home Secretary, who, when he was quite sure that the Conservative voters in Darwen were going to play the game, sent, on the eve of the poll, a message urging that my opponent should be elected and that I should be excluded from this House. I am not making much of this because I have got through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ut the whole of our troubles on to the sequestration of gold. There may be other matters, but here is a perfectly definite point to make for, and I trust and hope that the Government will take international action by means of a conference and use the whole influence that we possess to induce the countries which have hoarded gold to make it again serviceable for its function as a standard of value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "andidate or the National candidate. They themselves had had to give 5s. each. They went to the men asking them to subscribe. The opponent of the Tory candidate there was a representative from the Miners' Federation. We have a political fund to back up the miners' representatives, and the men who had contributed to that political fund were asked by the management to subscribe to the Tory candidate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. MASON", "preceding_text": "wish to emphasise the supreme importance of adopting, as soon as practicable, the policy of His Majesty's Government with regard to the restoration of the pound. The Minister of Health delivered a speech the other day in which, in very vague language, he seemed to be quite of a different opinion. In fact it looks as if His Majesty's Government have no very definite ideas with regard to the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "us, finding ourselves in the desperate position we were in before we came off gold, might well have held up our hands for tariffs. J. M. Keynes was one of them. He was almost with the Protectionists before we came off gold. He was in favour of a 10 per cent. tariff. It is true that he earmarked the proceeds of that tariff for a bonus to the export trade, so that the export trade should not suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The banks' depositors first.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "say what the Bank Rate is to be, you will have all the trouble we have gone through over again. At the present time sterling is being propped up by the Government and the industries of this country are suffering. The interests of the people who use money, those who have to have overdrafts at the bank and who are being strangled by the high Bank Rate, must be considered just as much as the bankers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "slowly adjusted to a level where not only will the burden of debt be lighter than it is now, but where industry and those who produce the raw materials of the world and who are profiting by cheap markets will have a fair reward for their labour. The bankers, who have such power in this country and in the world generally, oppose this. They have been working for a long time for a reduction of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "o their detriment the conditions of nearly 3,000,000 British subjects. These subjects have lost benefit as a result of the dictation of bankers in New York. For example, in Nottinghamshire there was a man who fought very courageously in the War and won the Victoria Cross for valour. Three or four weeks ago 1s. 9d. was taken from his unemployment benefit at the dictation of some banker in New York.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "hey intended to take advantage of the national crisis to put forward their whole programme and accept no modification whatsoever. No doubt that is a view which receives a certain amount of sympathy in this House, but I hope that that statement is not true. If it is true to any extent, it means that the country has been to a large extent deceived as to the appeal being a really national one —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": " hon. Member would have said had similar speeches been made six or eight months ago. Another branch of the Liberal party I am afraid are not prisoners but are just deserters. They have gone over—the whole regiment of them—to the other side. I heard a previous speaker refer to the Liberals as Simonites and Samuelites. The Samuelites apparently are prisoners, the Simonites are deserters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "hat are you?\"] I came back here on precisely the same programme as that which I have advocated in my constituency during the 35 years I have lived there. In regard to the methods used in the Election may I say, in passing, that I doubt very much whether, if the Election had been fought on a clear issue of tariffs versus Free Trade, there would have been a majority in this House at all for tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "t I doubt very much whether, if the Election had been fought on a clear issue of tariffs versus Free Trade, there would have been a majority in this House at all for tariffs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I expected that interruption and I got it but I say that the majority in this House was obtained by the present National Government by fraud, such as never was practised in any Election in my experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "ee Trade, there would have been a majority in this House at all for tariffs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I expected that interruption and I got it but I say that the majority in this House was obtained by the present National Government by fraud, such as never was practised in any Election in my experience. [HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"] By those responsible for the National Government—by Mr. Snowden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are lucky!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "of pay dockets issued in London by one of the largest firm of builders in the country, in which is inserted a loose slip notifying their workmen that if the Socialist Government was returned, the pound which they got in their wages would only purchase about 12s. 6d. worth or even 10s. worth of goods. That also you know to be a lie. I have also in my possession a free ticket for a football \"sweep.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "untry to-day which is deliberately fraudulent and is certified to be fraudulent by the members of the Macmillan Committee. I refer to the practice of transferring balances from one bank to another on different days in the week so that the same money may be shown to the public as if it was possessed by each of those banks. It is a deliberately false balance sheet, and everybody knows that it is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Foreign doors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": " in fact—that if they could see the costs that could be saved by mass pro- duction in house building, it would amaze them. I am telling the House now that I have in my possession—I do not say here, but they can be produced— definite tenders for everything that goes into the making of a house, showing a reduction of 15 per cent. on the last prices issued by the Ministry of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "e figures that will satisfy anybody —they have been produced to the officials of the Ministry of Health—that you can get reductions by organisation in the building industry that will employ probably a couple of hundred thousand men, and it can be done within a year. I think we have a right to ask the National Government what they are going to do in regard to the housing question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Colorado beetle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " by way of protective duties, must be considered in relation to the possibility of retaliatory measures by the States that may be affected. That is all that I propose to say on the matter. I would invite hon. Members to keep clearly in mind the fact that this whole problem of Protection, dumping, and all the rest of it, raises other issues concerning action which may be taken by foreign countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " Government. An hon. Friend of mine was approached by an old lady some four days before the Election, and she said to him, \"Mr. So-and-so, I have £4 10s. in the Savings Bank. Do you, think I ought to take it out before next Tuesday or not?\" That instance was indicative and typical of thousands of cases up and down the country of persons who have been frightened almost out of their wits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "oor were being appropriated by the Socialists. I wish, in proof of my proposition, to read to the House a gem of political propaganda. I do not see the hon. and gallant Gentleman in his place to-night, but it makes no difference. I dare say that there have been imitators up and down the country. This was circulated in North St. Pancras: Socialist policy threatens the value of all national savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne) were Chancellors of the Exchequer, £8,750,000 were lent from the Post Office Savings Bank. During the time that the right hon. Member for Epping was at the Treasury, a period of four years, £23,000,000 were lent. Up to the end of last year £43,000,000 were lent, and up to August this year there was a substantial jump to £100,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "this year there was a substantial jump to £100,000,000. [ Interruption. ] The question of principle is the same. The question is, was it right or was it wrong to lend money from the Post Office Savings Bank for Government purposes? If it was right for the right hon. Member for West Birmingham, for the right hon. Member for Bewdley and for the right hon. Member for Epping, it was right for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From the Trade Union Congress !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for Epping. I now turn to another aspect of the arguments advanced against us; and here I should like to exonerate most hon. Members who may have been led into using this argument on the assurance given by ex-Leaders of the Labour party. They were told that the Members of the late Cabinet did something which was unworthy by running away. I hold in my hand at this moment a document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "rds he repudiated, and which he said some few weeks ago was Bolshevism run mad. Here it is. On the assurance that the statement made by Mr. Philip Snowden was an honest and truthful statement hon. Members opposite repeated it here and elsewhere. I do not complain of their action, but I say that the mandate accepted and obtained on this assurance was a mandate obtained by a distortion of the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "The document was published long ago, and if the hon. Member would read the documents published by the Labour party he would have seen it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How could he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "d and are here produced to show that the allegations were entirely untrue. I turn from that to the third point that I wish to make. A mandate of a sort has been received by the present Government. In the whole of the discussion to-day, so far as I can recall, not a single Member on any side of the House has offered unqualified approval of the King's Speech. Not the most ardent Protectionist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have had too many Bills!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "—[An HON. MEMBER: \"How could he?\"] How could he, asks an hon. Member. Of course he could not. And not the most fervent Free Trader. There is not a soul in the place who can conscientiously say that he knows precisely what this Government stands for. There is not a single Bill promised in the King's Speech, except an entirely non-controversial Measure dealing with the Statutes of Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-11", "file": "debates1931-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "71a83a0b1daf76f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "gry. We gave him bread. He was once politically thirsty. We gave him drink. He roamed like Ishmael up and down the land, and there was no place where he could lay his head. We gave him shelter. We made him what he is to-day, and now when those miners and steel workers who have made him what he is are hungry, they are to take less bread; when their children cry for drink they are to take less milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-11a.237.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "id not leave merely to prepare her dinner? In view of the facts which I have stated definitely—and my word is at least as good as that of the manager of the Exchange— will he kindly make further inquiries as to the truth of the statements contained in my question; and will he, before he makes statements about people going home to prepare their dinner, see that such statements are true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.277.4", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "somewhat reactionary allies to travel along that path with him. We believe that it is essential for this country to take the initiative in bringing about the summoning of an international conference to deal with all international economic difficulties. Thanks to the conduct of foreign affairs during the past 2½ years by Arthur Henderson, this country has regained its international leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the depositors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "banks will, we believe, enable the Government to provide the necessary finance for the reconstruction of industry, and if the Government are going to direct those moneys into the channels which they believe to be right, they are hound to take the responsibility for it and they are bound to offer security to the shareholders of the banks for their money, which will be used in the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not trust their money with you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "olders of the banks for their money, which will be used in the national interest. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the depositors?\"] The depositors' money and the shareholders' money too. They will just as much have to make themselves responsible for the depositors' money as for anybody else's money that the Government have, whether in the form of National Savings Certificates or of Post Office money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Land Taxes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "as to be made in marketing and transport facilities. All these matters, however, entail expenditure, and we do not believe that it is right for the country to enter upon the expenses of organisation if the money which it expends is to go into the pockets of the landlords. We there-tore believe that the only basis of a national reconstruction of agriculture is the nationalisation of the land first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "The question as to how-it is administered is a completely different proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " present the Minister of Health was not a member of the Cabinet. It was a speech which, coming from a financial expert, among Conservatives, at any rate, in this House, although not comparable to the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, carried some weight in the country, and it was reported at considerable length in \"The Times\" as being no doubt a statement of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.294.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read the quotation.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I am not accusing right hon. Gentlemen of not having seen the speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "eed have no squirms about it. At least I am going to say this, that it does not rest with him, above everybody else, to sneer either at Philip Snowden or the Prime Minister. I can understand old colleagues in the movement making references to Philip Snowden, I can understand their strong feelings, but it does not rest with those who did not know the movement until a few months ago to sneer at him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Completely!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e a full statement of the reductions already effected by the United Kingdom and state that any further reductions by us must be only by an international agreement, and also that the possibility of our keeping our armaments at their present low level may have to be reconsidered unless there are comparable reductions by other Powers? Is that different from what Lord Londonderry said on Monday night?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e the House to judge the comparison. What did Mr. Alexander say? On the 6th April this year, speaking as the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Alexander said the people of this country must not hide from themselves the fact that no nation in the world had made a relatively larger contribution to disarmament than this country had already made, and that we had reached the limit. May I quote Tom Shaw?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "o long as this country and the people will benefit.\" That is his attitude, as he knows as well as I know. Therefore, the hon. and learned Gentleman need not have made so much play with the Prime Minister's difficulty in balancing opinion. If he had been in the party as long as I he would have known that that has been the Prime Minister's difficulty, not for the past few months, but for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e two complaints. He said, \"I complain first about the wisdom of the election; and I complain, further, about the character of the election.\" He said the election was not necessary, that it was uncalled for, that the Government could have done just what they liked without the General Election; and that when the election took place it was the dirtiest, wickedest, most unfair and meanest ever known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "that the nation was not behind it? That statement was a clear challenge, and it was repeated day after day, and when Mr. Clynes followed on the Friday he emphasised it. He said that not only did he believe that the Government did not represent the country, not only did he believe that the country was not behind it, but, pointing to me, he said. \"And here I refer to the temporary Member for Derby.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ve now that they believed it themselves. Therefore, it was necessary right away to challenge that contention. Then my right hon. Friend said that it was a dirty election. Who gave the key to that? What was the commencement of this dirty election, and what form did it take? Immediately the election was announced Mr. Graham said at Scarborough, \"We now enter upon the most savage fight we ever knew.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ng to that definition, there are a lot of blacklegs in this country. In my judgment, the result of the last election was achieved because the people got it clearly into their minds that there was a crisis, and that was admitted even by the leaders of the Labour party. They admitted that there was a real difficulty, and when it came to facing it they ran away. That is at least what I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e to facing it they ran away. That is at least what I believe—[ Interruption. ] Even in my own language I cannot find a word strong enough to express my view. As far as this Amendment is concerned, the remarkable thing is that it is a Vote of Censure on the Government because they did not include in the King's Speech the very thing that the people of this country said that they did not want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the whole story\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "n those questions during the crisis. The hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) knows perfectly well that a majority of his colleagues in the late Government were prepared to consider even a tariff. If hon. Members opposite were prepared to consider tariffs on any grounds before the Election, it cannot be pretended now that Free Trade has become a fundamental principle with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"I said the whole story!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ast Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) knows perfectly well that a majority of his colleagues in the late Government were prepared to consider even a tariff. If hon. Members opposite were prepared to consider tariffs on any grounds before the Election, it cannot be pretended now that Free Trade has become a fundamental principle with them. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the whole story\"] I will tell the whole story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It should be\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "bjection is that time must tell, and I have stated quite definitely what I believe to be the interpretation of the mandate of the nation. I put it even higher than that, because I believe that that is the spirit in which it will be interpreted by the Governments concerned. The real work that faces this nation and faces the world now is not work that can be conducted across the Floor of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the dictator?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "er of the late Labour Government knows perfectly well that what I have just said is true, because they all know that these problems are too difficult, and too delicate and intricate to be debated across the Floor of the House of Commons. I believe that the people of this country want real business done and not talk, and that is the spirit in which the mandate will be interpreted by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e of them will dispute that one of the most magnificent things during this election was that teachers, soldiers, sailors, policemen and unemployed, who were all affected by the cuts, were prepared to sink their own personal interests in what they believed to be the interests of the nation. That, I am sure, in their heart of hearts, will be admitted by all Members on the opposite side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "m me. Everyone does so in his own peculiar and particular fashion. And what do we find after this hurricane, this typhoon as the Prime Minister described it, which struck this nation in the General Election? The people were hurled completely off their balance. There were posters put out by the Tory party showing a picture of a cross-roads and one road was marked \"The Road to Socialism—Ruin.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Labour, the Minister who was at the Board of Trade, and also your Minister of Health. I want to know, having come back after the election, what do they know about it now? The people are asking me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "outh gets his way—and it is evident from the Prime Minister's statement to-day that he will get his way—I suggest this to him: Why is there all this cry about Protection being able to save this country when it has not saved the other countries of Europe? Is no country except this country facing difficulties to-day? We are told that Germany is again face to face with a financial crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "the agricultural workers in any arrangements that were made. But neither the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth nor any of the other hon. Members who have spoken in favour of tariffs have said what is to become of the workers of this country if tariffs are imposed. Is it the desire of the Tariff Reformers to bring the British working man down to the standard of life of the Continental worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "good old Free Trade England. Therefore I assume that hon. Members who have come here, with the votes of what they claim to be the bulk of the working class of the country and who are determined to force through this House in any form that can be devised a policy of tariffs and Protection, are prepared to do so regardless of the consequences to the workers in their wages and their standard of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " is prosperous? If they could point to any single country where high tariffs have been applied and can satisfy us that that country is enjoying unbounded prosperity, there would be no doubt that, from the point of view of those who claim to represent the workers, we should have to look at the situation. What are the facts? In America there are anywhere between 10,000,000 and 14,000,000 unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-12", "file": "debates1931-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e557709f3562461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "many and see what has happened there. The output of steel in 1929 was 16,250,000 tons; in 1930 it was 11,500,000 tons, or a reduction of 4,750,000 tons. The application of the tariff has not brought prosperity to Germany and has not prevented depression there. Will the application of a tariff produce better wages or at least the same wages as are paid to-day? Take any comparable country in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-12a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-13", "file": "debates1931-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "414a0498940d1055", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.399.5", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": ".Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "ot to diddle the House and to diddle the country than we have in the Cabinet to-day. They are led by a Prime Minister who is equal to any of them. He has never finished anything—you all know that, and those of you who have been in the House before have said it—and he does not intend to finish anything in this Parliament. You have the idea in the King's Speech, and you know where he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.399.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-13", "file": "debates1931-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "414a0498940d1055", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We leave the fishy backbones to you !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "There is nothing wrong with the herring, but you have not the backbone of a herring to drive the Government or you would have moved an Amendment to the King's Speech in favour of tariffs to show to the country that you intended to see that they were put into practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-13", "file": "debates1931-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "414a0498940d1055", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "entleman the Member for West Birmingham (Sir A. Chamberlain) in which he appealed very benevolently and kindly to the party in Opposition. There are one or two words I should like to say in reply. He said that we should have to bear the odium of our own action. I do not know that the Labour party have ever refused to bear the odium of their own actions or have run away from their responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-13", "file": "debates1931-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "414a0498940d1055", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "do with the. Anomalies Bill; it has to do with the transitional benefit of people going to the Public Assistance Committees. My right hon. Friend made it perfectly clear then that the only means test that he or any of us would support was that if a person on transitional benefit was found to be possessed of his own means of living we were not going to vote for the continuance of public assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-13", "file": "debates1931-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "414a0498940d1055", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "He commanded a company of His Majesty's Guards from the Tower in a great engagement in Sidney Street and then he allowed one of the men to get away. That is his only brilliant achievement. I should not have said these things except that I think it is time that people outside understood ……", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-13", "file": "debates1931-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "414a0498940d1055", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "directors. That being the case, it seems to me that the argument that is always put up against getting a thing publicly owned or controlled falls to the ground. Another point is that this bank, which has increased its turnover from about £600,000 a year to £7,000,000, proves conclusively that this business of banking is not such a difficult and devious business if only you want to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-13", "file": "debates1931-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "414a0498940d1055", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "eman, knew the terrible suffering and misery which this cut and the cuts that have been made in Poor Law relief to aged, infirm and sick people, and the terrible burden of suffering that is being imposed on men, women and children to-day, they would continue in this policy. It may be a matter of mere hilarity to people to know of the sufferings that have been inflicted by the policy of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-13a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.492.4", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAST EROSION, WINCHELSEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a scheme was submitted to his Department as long ago as the middle of August, and that it was referred back in October for further consideration? Is he aware also that tide and time wait for no man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.492.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Stop them!", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The valuers are going about valuing land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.515.4", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "store, we seem to have heard of one Maclean, who expressed himself as opposed to Imperial Preference.\" No doubt the Secretary of State will reply, \"Never mind him, he is undergoing education.\" Then they say, \"There is a still more influential gentleman, in the Home Office, who declared that the party which he leads, and which is still closely associated with him, is entirely opposed to food taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "man was trying to cover up the indiscretions of the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs by saying that he fell into error because he could not explain himself clearly owing to his Celtic temperament. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas) cannot be regarded as a Welshman. He cannot speak that language, and I do not know that he can speak any other language very much better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "be warranted in saying that every ounce of coal used for export to foreign countries may be regarded in those countries as sweated goods. When the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sparkbrook talks about preventing certain goods from another country coming into this country, he must remember that we are exporting very much more of those goods into foreign countries than they are exporting to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman the Member for Sparkbrook seems to forget that all the time, Great Britain, with all its power, wealth and production, cannot do what it likes in the teeth of other nations. I will come a little nearer home and deal with the workman's attitude towards Protection. What will tariffs bring to the working classes? Will the working classes be better off under tariffs than under Free Trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have done!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "orget that all the time, Great Britain, with all its power, wealth and production, cannot do what it likes in the teeth of other nations. I will come a little nearer home and deal with the workman's attitude towards Protection. What will tariffs bring to the working classes? Will the working classes be better off under tariffs than under Free Trade?[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] Let me put it to the test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ard of Trade some correspondence of mine relating to the fur industry, and, if he and other Members of the House who are interested in the subject of dumping will follow me for a few moments, I will put to them a specific case in which I personally was interested, and they will see at once from the details the fallacy of the argument against dumping. I happen to be a member of a trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Rabbits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " —with successive Presidents, by the way, of all political colours. This is what happened. The newspaper Press of London would have it that the Russians were dumping furs into this country in thousands of tons, and destroying the fur business here. The facts were these. Russia produces 50 per cent. of the whole of the furs of the world. We cannot produce any fur in this country at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "t next year will not be less but greater. I beg, therefore, that hon. Members in this House will be fair to Ministers who find that they must begin cutting down the grants which they wish to distribute from their Departments. I have been at the head of several Departments myself, and I know what a pleasure it is to dispense national money for the benefit of the interests with which one is charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is a confessional!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "untry have been the sufferers for the payments that have been made to us. I need only remind the House of what happened in regard to German shipping. The transfer of German ships to the British flag—-I think some 350 of them—was practically the first blow struck at British shipping. There were errors made then for which, unfortunately, we are having to pay now-after a very long period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"I say, that that is a confessional!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": " House of what happened in regard to German shipping. The transfer of German ships to the British flag—-I think some 350 of them—was practically the first blow struck at British shipping. There were errors made then for which, unfortunately, we are having to pay now-after a very long period. [An HON. MEMBER: \"This is a confessional!\"] The hon. Gentleman said something about confession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": ", to lead the Liberal party away from Free Trade into full-blown Protection. I would like the right hon. Gentleman, or whoever is going to reply, to tell me whether for any tariff that is put on there will be a consequential increase of employment? Not a great knowledge of theory is needed to make one doubt whether tariffs will help in this direction. All the evidence is in the opposite direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is only temporary!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "If they have been imported, they are unemployed. France and America have unemployment problems, and if tariffs can cure unemployment, I want to ask why they have this gigantic problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " the workers were receiving cuts in wages, the American Federation of Labour were no longer able to support Protection in that country. Wherever we turn, where Protection has been in existence, there has been a movement for Free Trade. If we look at Australia—well, only in the \"Times\" Engineering Supplement last week there was a report of a strong movement in that country towards Free Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ing now? The President of the Board of Trade this afternoon very significantly mentioned that he was concerned about foreign investments of a capital nature. This is a problem that cannot be solved under tariffs or Free Trade. Capital has been exported abroad, and that very capital has destroyed our home trade to a certain degree, and is certainly making a very damaging attack on the export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ut of that miserable unemployment allowance? Come to my constituency, and go up the valleys which the Prime Minister has travelled time after time. You will see there men and women getting warmth abed from newspapers. They have no money to buy a frying-pan; there are collective frying-pans in use from house to house. There are children without stockings and without boots in this inclement weather.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "e children without stockings and without boots in this inclement weather. [ Interruption. ] This is not sentiment. The right hon. Gentleman knows nothing about it. What does he know about the tragedy of the terrible unemployment existing there? We are not providing even a physical standard of life, let alone a chance for the cultivation of the mind. You have robbed these men of their independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is why he lost!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "preceding_text": "of tariffs and free trade which is being discussed today, I wish to make this comment. Quite a number of Members have commented upon the mandate which they received at the election. We are all entitled to make comments on that subject. As far as my constituency is concerned the-, national candidate in that Division pushed tariffs into the background and said that they were not the immediate issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BROWN", "preceding_text": "n my own mind, and I say this frankly, that the results of the election are, in the main, a mandate for at least an experiment with tariffs These violent swings of opinion as they have been reflected in some of the recent elections seem to me to mark the growing impatience of millions of people with the slow working of our present political machinery and with parties who fail to deliver the goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Miss RATH BONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATH BONE", "preceding_text": " different quarter. Let us be perfectly honest. It is all the more sure that it will be so because, with our electoral system as it now is, in the great majority of constituencies the great mass of the voters belong to the working-class, and is it likely that the working-class will be satisfied for long to be represented so predominantly by men and women so utterly different from themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Miss RATH BONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATH BONE", "preceding_text": "t will be so because, with our electoral system as it now is, in the great majority of constituencies the great mass of the voters belong to the working-class, and is it likely that the working-class will be satisfied for long to be represented so predominantly by men and women so utterly different from themselves—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"]—so different in habits of speech and language?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the date of that speech?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKIN MORRIS", "preceding_text": " Not opposition, not criticism, not dissent, but no hesitation will be tolerated. The members of the Unionist party are to go to the next Parliament not as honest gentlemen, free to use their minds and intelligence. They are to go as the pledged, tied-up delegates of a caucus forced to swallow without hesitation details of a tariff. That is what he said when he was President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "position, the workers of this country are not going to find any benefit from the imposition of tariffs here. 10.0 p.m. Hon. Members who come to this House claiming to be pledged to tariffs have to justify to the workers of this country that tariffs are going to find employment in a period when every day sees more rapid changes in the improvement of machinery and of the methods of producing wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "am not here to tell you what Free Trade has done for us. Why should I? Ask the Liberals. The Liberals and Tories, for the past century, have been juggling the electors of this country between them on the two policies of Free Trade and Tariff Reform. Both have been in power for different periods, and both have left the workers worse off when they went out of office than they were when they went in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "I Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " electors of this country between them on the two policies of Free Trade and Tariff Reform. Both have been in power for different periods, and both have left the workers worse off when they went out of office than they were when they went in. [ Interruption. ] What did we do? We did everything we possibly could until the Tories crabbed us, until the American bankers and the European bankers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "d yet stood at that Box and told you that all was well with the country. He misled you just as you misled us, yet you still keep him in your ranks; you are probably transferring him to another Chamber as the Lord Privy Seal. I want to ask a question of members of the Tory party. After all, you are all in the Tory party. I do not call you a National party; I do not believe you are a National party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "rty. I do not call you a National party; I do not believe you are a National party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] You ought to know; you have been in the wilderness long enough. The Government that was elected at the last Election was not elected on any party programme or on any national programme. There is not a Member of this House who can stand up and tell me that he stood on a National programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "t the last Election was not elected on any party programme or on any national programme. There is not a Member of this House who can stand up and tell me that he stood on a National programme. [ Interruption. ] I invite any of you to produce your election addresses. In those election addresses, for the most part, will be found a statement that you are in favour of tariffs as the only remedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "get all manner of statistics quoted, but the main figure that is in the minds of every employer of labour who advocates tariffs is not the amount of duty that can be placed upon the article that comes into this country, but a reduction of the wage of the worker. That is the dominating idea of the employers to-day. I have here a document issued by the National Federation of Employers Organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "My party voted to set up a committee.—not the May Committee. The Prime Minister set up the May Committee—this party did not—and it was upon a Liberal Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ding or engineering firm is paying to an engineer, the engineering employer says, \"I am not going to increase the wage of the skilled engineer to the level of the employ6 of the local authority, but I am going to demand that the wages paid by the local authorities to their employés shall be brought down to the level of the wage I give to my employés so that I can give lower wages still.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "announced to-day by the President of the Board of Trade. I compliment the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft) upon his persistence and consistency. Right through all the years I have known him in this House he has tried to impose his will upon different Prime Ministers, and he has now succeeded in doing so upon a Prime Minister upon whom we found we could never impress our will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " ramp, one thing ought to be borne in mind. No party at the election even asked for a mandate for Free Trade with the exception, perhaps, of that small and familiar band of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), and response which he received was so enthusiastic that I understand he is now about to sojourn elsewhere in order to recover from its consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-16", "file": "debates1931-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5764d33f8fd0f438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "tisfactory. May I without wishing to be over-critical suggest one or two considerations for my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade when he comes to consider what is dumping. Do not let him be be misled by mere comparative figures of imports at one period and another. Those may be very misleading and the instance which I would bring to his special notice is that of the lace trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-16a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "May I point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.658.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is it not a fact that we have been considering this Bill for a quarter of a century?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the Bill could not be made available immediately after the Financial Resolution has been passed to-night?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.682.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "l to the right hon. Gentleman who has moved the Amendment to withdraw it, if only for the benefit of his own party. I do not know if he likes the thought of the Labour party acquiring the description of the champion of the tax escapers. I remember that in 1929 and 1930 we were engaged, as supporters of the Government, in devising methods by which people should not be able to escape taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "This is a procedure devised to prevent these goods from coming in without paying tax, on the assumption that the House will ultimately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "s pay tax, or, rather, to prevent goods from being imported without paying the tax that we all want them to pay. The right hon. Gentleman observed that this was to be permanent taxation, but, of course, these Resolutions have nothing to do with permanent taxation. They are very carefully confined to a limited period, and, if the taxes are not made permanent, then the whole of this procedure drops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "t have existed from the time of Cromwell and Hampden. Where is the hon. Gentleman who always tells us about Cromwell and Hampden, and our glorious liberties that our ancestors won? And the principal apologist for this was, a month ago, a Labour Member. Now Liberals, Tories and Labour Members say, \"Never mind the House of Commons; we have got to stop the dumpers; we have got to stop dumping\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " our ancestors won? And the principal apologist for this was, a month ago, a Labour Member. Now Liberals, Tories and Labour Members say, \"Never mind the House of Commons; we have got to stop the dumpers; we have got to stop dumping\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] That is the measure of great enthusiasm and no intelligence. I, for one, will give my most hearty support to this Resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "month ago, a Labour Member. Now Liberals, Tories and Labour Members say, \"Never mind the House of Commons; we have got to stop the dumpers; we have got to stop dumping\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] That is the measure of great enthusiasm and no intelligence. I, for one, will give my most hearty support to this Resolution—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—or, rather, Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ndividual Minister the light to supersede the rights of the House of Commons. There is no Minister on that Front Bench who ever made such a declaration during the whole course of the election. You are not legislating for the immediate present. You are laying down a precedent for the future. The whirligig of time brings its revenges. You are in a big majority. We may be in a big majority to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "go through quickly. Every tyrant in history has always excused his actions on the ground that they were necessary at the time, and so it is with the tyrants in this case. They are in a majority. They are in a position to impose their will. They intend to impose their will, but they know that in imposing their will they are doing something which is not right, and they are compelled to make excuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.710.4", "colnum": "710", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "I was led into a mistake, perhaps, by following speakers who had referred to those things and whom you did not pull up. Therefore, I thought that I might follow them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is there really an emergency at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "l and ex-Labour members of the Government. I do not altogether approve of the Safeguarding machinery, but there was at least some sort of a suggestion of inquiry. That is all being swept away in a moment. The real reason, of course, for this procedure, as everybody knows, is not in the least the wonderful emergency; it is because the Government are afraid of a discussion on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ore coming here to glance at this week's \"Punch,\" in which there was an interesting cartoon. It showed Mr. Punch and the Prime Minister in conversation at the docks, which were crowded with enormous packing cases, and Mr. Punch asked the Prime Minister: \"Who are the supporters of the National Government who are doing all this importing?\" There are none of these importers in the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "ning has left us a little confused. Just before he sat down he was talking of the definition of a scientific tariff, and said there was only one definition, that it meant lobbying and corruption. At this early stage it is a little ungracious of the hon. Member to repudiate so emphatically Mr. Arthur Henderson, who, I thought, was still regarded as one of the leaders of the once great Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "er asked, \"What is this emergency?\" I did not think that, so soon after the facts had become so well known to the country, any hon. Gentleman sitting on the Opposition Front Bench would ask what caused the emergency. I thought we all know that we are still suffering from the grave peril caused by the complete failure of the then Government, now His Majesty's Opposition, to deal with the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "the reasons why an emergency had arisen was that foreign countries had suddenly decided to take action. They recognised the mandate which the nation gave to the Government. No one in the House, I think, likes to see this speeding up of our legislative machinery, in ordinary circumstances we should all agree that it was unfortunate, but at the present time we cannot wait. It is a question of hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why mention it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "cessive importation? In any case such importation is not confined to people of one political belief. Human nature being what it is, unless the State intervenes we cannot expect to see universal action. After all, one has heard of ships going into Avonmouth laden with Russian wheat, and I have been told that that wheat was destined for co-operative mills. I do not know whether that is right or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "rtnight, or even when the House is in Recess. I should have liked to see him reserve powers for that purpose. I suppose every one, even those who sit for industrial constituencies, must realise that the position of agriculture to-day is even more tragic than the position of the cotton, woollen, iron and steel and mining industries. There is a crisis in the cereal areas such as we have never known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": "ng with the President of the Incorporated Association of Retail Distributors, the largest association of retail distributors in this country, and he assured me that the retail distributors of this country are extremely anxious to co-operate with the Government in securing that, when this Measure is passed, there shall be no increase in the prices of goods to the body of the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Instead of the Trades Union Congress!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman proposes in the Bill that we should provide him with a large number of bottles of poison which he can dispense at leisure while President of the Board of Trade. I submit that it is far better, if the political machinery of this country is to be exposed to business pressure and if we are to be lobbied at all, that the elected representatives of the people should be subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir. BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "s recently been brought to my notice. Only 10 years ago in my own constituency, in the little town of Bideford, we had three thriving factories manufacturing collars. There is now one factory at work employing only 120 hands at about half time. Ten years ago over 1,000 women and girls were employed in the three factories. I had a sample sent me the other day of quite a decent looking collar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ies. That is commonly called forestalling. Apparently, intelligent importers of foreign goods are better informed than Members of this House. We do not know what goods will be taxed. We are in the dark and everything is shrouded in mystery. I understood that before the election, the proposed duties were largely to be limited to so-called luxuries. What are luxuries? How are luxuries to be defined?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "e West of England, which is comparatively prosperous and has very little unemployment is to have duties, obviously those in my constituency are equally entitled to have them. But those things do not come into the category of normal importations. The hon. and gallant Gentleman is perfectly right. Apparently in the Board of Trade figures there is no specially abnormal importation of furniture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "ves on a very low basis. Germany has had to send to the outside world, in excess of her normal export trade, over £200,000,000 worth of goods this year. Where has she to send them? We have to decide whether Germany is to continue to pay us reparations and send us goods, and if we say that she is to continue to pay us reparations, you must scrap this Bill and allow Germany to send goods to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": " a fair cost level. I represent the great mining industry in which over 800,000 people are still employed, and we expect to export this year 40,000,000 or 50,000,000 tons of coal. I say in all seriousness that every single pound of coal sent abroad from this country is sold at a price below a fair level of cost of production. Every single pound of coal sent from this country is sweated coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "abroad from this country is sold at a price below a fair level of cost of production. Every single pound of coal sent from this country is sweated coal—[ Interruption\". ] I have done 23 years of the sweating, and I know something more about it than the hon. Gentleman. There is complaint in every country in the world about dumping. Who are the chief dumpers in the world to-day? Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "of these Orders operates, the House shall be told what the facts are about the goods that are to be prohibited from importation into this country. We are just as much elected Members of this House as the Members of the Government, and we want the right to examine the list and to put our views against theirs in the light of day and in the public eye. I believe that when the list is examined —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "an HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Trades Union Congress\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": " which gives a Minister the power of imposing taxation on a number of articles without the consent of this House. I come to the House with a great respect for the liberties and privileges which it has enjoyed for many centuries, liberties which were won at a great sacrifice, and I do not intend quietly to hand over those liberties and privileges either to the President of the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The President of the Board of Trade has not answered our criticisms at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nt of the Council, who moved this Motion and then left the House. No one has thought it worth while to take up the constititutional question; of all the constitutionalists in the House, none has troubled to stand up to night and defend this position, because each knows that it is an indefensible position. To-night you are acting as if the country was at war, and something had to be done instantly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ower of veto resting with the House after the Order has been made. As the Leader of the Opposition has said, it may be five, six, seven or eight weeks before the House of Commons could meet again to veto the right hon. Gentleman's conduct. I think that that is a wrong procedure, but it was the procedure adopted by the party of the present Leader of the Opposition in the case of the Anomalies Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-17", "file": "debates1931-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "556ad3e5dc2c1f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.821.6", "colnum": "821", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "intment of these committees. I do not mind if the House says that we are not to have Members on any of these committees. If that is the agreement between the Labour party and the Government, I do not mind. But this Privileges Committee is one of the most important of the committees, and, may I add, so far as I know we are about the only Members who would be likely ever to have to appear before it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-17a.821.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "The difficulty is, a fairly long statement was made at that time, and I do not wish to trouble the House with it. I have a copy of the answer here and can read it if the House so desires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " abnormality. All I can say is that it leaves people who are interested in this matter in a very perplexed condition. They simply do not know where they stand in the matter. In order to show that my case is quite fair and sound, although I admit the telegram is against my point of view, I will read it. A telegram was received this morning to this effect: The National Union of Manufacturers\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "n the matter. In order to show that my case is quite fair and sound, although I admit the telegram is against my point of view, I will read it. A telegram was received this morning to this effect: The National Union of Manufacturers\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"] What is wrong with it? Are hon. Members ashamed of it? Very good; I must use it for my own purpose. Has the hon. Member got a copy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "position of tariffs, of a general Protectionist system, in this country, would involve trouble in the Lobbies of this House, but, under this proposal, it is not those Lobbies that are going to be crowded; it is the doorstep of the Board of Trade. It is the right hon. Gentleman himself who will sit in state to receive all these deputations. It is he who is going to be the person to determine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "trouble in the Lobbies of this House, but, under this proposal, it is not those Lobbies that are going to be crowded; it is the doorstep of the Board of Trade. It is the right hon. Gentleman himself who will sit in state to receive all these deputations. It is he who is going to be the person to determine—[ Interruption. ] Is it? Who, after all, is any person, however gifted he may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ubject, I confess that I and a good many of my hon. Friends would have a great many more words to say about it. That, however, is not the position at all, and this Bill is, if I may so put it, in the nature of a coffer-dam, a temporary structure being built to keep out water while the ground is being prepared and the foundations are being excavated for the permanent structures which are to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about economy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "l Conference in July will in fact put the coping stone on it. I might add, in regard to Imperial Preference, that if the Chancellor of the Exchequer could see his way, at some reasonably early date, to give, in regard to one commodity at all events, namely, sugar, some hope to the Empire sugar producers, he would be doing a great deal to save that industry in British Guiana and in the West Indies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "e asked for Protection for agriculture, for the iron and steel industry, and, in fact, for every other trade one could think of. Are the Free Trade Liberals prepared to accept that policy? The success which the Conservatives have already had is a guarantee that this is not the end of this process and that in a few months we shall have Protection for agriculture and for the iron and steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "t was true that in Belgium the steel-worker has not got as good a wage as the steelworker here and that his conditions are not so good. He did not tell us that the same thing applies to Germany and France. Are we to assume that the real desire in the minds of those hon. Members who stand for tariffs is to bring the British worker down to the same level and standard as the Continental worker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "n told us, when introducing this Measure, that it was put forward owing to a desire on the part of the Government to support the pound and our currency, and he told us that we must do everything possible to meet this great emergency. What is the emergency I A great deal has been said about the adverse balance of trade, but what does that mean? There is no such thing as an adverse balance of trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.954.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "f you take that into account and also invisible exports— which it is true have been reduced as well, for shipping is not what it was; there has been depression in the shipping industry and in shipbuilding—even after allowing for that, I ask hon. Members do they really believe that to-day there is an adverse payment against this country of between £80,000,000 and £100,000,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would have been beaten, anyhow‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": " by an interruption which is quite irrelevant to the point I was making. I have no objection to replying to the interruption, though it has nothing to do with my argument. The circumstances of my return to this House may be of interest to the hon. Member and others, and I have no hesitation in replying briefly. I gave way in the Western Division so that the Conservative might defeat the Socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "e parity of your pound your paper should be contracted accordingly. I think it will be admitted that one of the principal reasons for going off the pound was largely the profligate finance, and the waste and inefficiency of the late Socialist Government. It follows, therefore, that this Measure which is proposed with the object of curtailing imports will,, in the nature of things, curtail exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "hed the farce being played in the last few days in this House and we certainly realise very fully that this is merely the first step in a full Protection programme which the Conservative Members of this House are going to force upon the country in spite of their election pledges. The Noble Lord has explained to us why it is those election pledges are of so little account to the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "the speeches that have been made, that this is some terrible state of affairs that has been discovered since Monday last for the first time by the President of the Board of Trade. Statistics, ever since 1900, could be used and have been used, in order to show that this country is suffering from dumped goods from foreign countries. We do not question the crisis. We never have questioned the crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.964.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What does he say now?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "attending to his job, would be dancing attendance on the Board of Trade, filling up forms, interviewing inspectors, chasing after consuls, and wheedling Members of Parliament and officials for permission to get on with his business. I believe every man of affairs thinks as I do, that we have bad enough of this foolery. Those were Lord Inchcape's words as regards the anti-dumping proposals in 1919.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.968.2", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the land taxes‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "s not a taxing Bill, that it is merely imposing a fine or a compensation. All breaches of constitutional practice have always been excused on the claim of urgency. No doubt James II, when he had the fight as regards the constitutional practice of this House controlling the supply of money, remarked to his Ministers that his want was very urgent. Every tyrant always bases his tyranny on. necessity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.968.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "preceding_text": "d the case put of industries which at the present time are suffering from great depression, and the case of the employés in these industries has been voiced most eloquently from many quarters. I have had inquiries made of me personally from my Noble Friend the Member for Aldershot (Viscount Wolmer), who at one time had charge of our Post Office organisation, as to the position of agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ll. The time has arrived when we cannot allow the movements of even the last few weeks to pass without notice. We have been, asked whether we have any reasons to justify a departure from the views which we held, which I held, in June and July of this year. My views as expressed in the months of June and July were quite correct—for June and July. But many things have altered since then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ntry. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary pointed out earlier in this discussion that although in some instances values have gone down that was very largely due to the worldwide fall in prices. In point of fact, the quantities imported have gone up. In Class III articles, which we are about to deal with, importations have increased. If we take 100 as being the unit of 1924 quantities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-18", "file": "debates1931-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "d40171256b37ce7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For your purpose ‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": " this discussion that although in some instances values have gone down that was very largely due to the worldwide fall in prices. In point of fact, the quantities imported have gone up. In Class III articles, which we are about to deal with, importations have increased. If we take 100 as being the unit of 1924 quantities—[ Interruption. ] I take 1924 because it happens to be a suitable year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-18a.977.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-19", "file": "debates1931-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "472294bc472f4092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-19a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power of Board of Trade to apply Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "I do not mind whether it is a maiden speech or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-19a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-19", "file": "debates1931-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "472294bc472f4092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-19a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Charge of Customs duties on articles to which this Act applies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "lorem equivalent we should have to make a fresh calculation and work on a fresh principle on nearly every category of goods and indeed on very large varieties in each category which in itself would be an impracticable way of assessing duty. There is one group of duties where it is obvious it would be quite unworkable—the case of spirits where the existing duty obviously is in excess already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-19a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-19", "file": "debates1931-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "472294bc472f4092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-19a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Short title, construction and extent.)", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "n jeopardy of being lowered, but I would remind him of the cases of those industries which have already received a measure of Protection. In their case there has been increased employment, of which I am sure the hon. Member approves, whilst the imports have been lessened and the exports increased. It has not decreased exports. In addition, it has increased the wages of the people who are employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-19a.1162.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-20", "file": "debates1931-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "173bcf125157b801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-20a.1229.3", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "You are going to give them leave to do it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "in an Amendment at the request of Canada. I merely explained why the Canadian request is put in. No, as far as the Government and the Irish Free State are concerned we do not believe that any amendment or any legal document that you could draw up would be so important and so binding as a treaty entered into by two persons, and that treaty could not be altered except by the consent of both persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-20a.1229.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-20", "file": "debates1931-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "173bcf125157b801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-20a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "preceding_text": "signed in 1921, so far as minorities are concerned. They have appointed to the High Court more than half of the judges from members of the minority, whilst Northern Ireland has not appointed a single member of the minority. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you mean by the minority?\"]. In Southern Ireland it is 9 per cent, of the population and in Northern Ireland it consists of 33 per cent. Nationalists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-20a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-20", "file": "debates1931-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "173bcf125157b801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-20a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ion of Ireland. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping truly said that the Treaty is the title deed of the existence of the Irish Free State. I agree with him. There can be no suggestion of the possibility of a repeal of that treaty. I agree with him. As far as I know, there is nobody in a responsible position, either in this country or in Ireland, to-day who intends to repeal that Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-20a.1248.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-20", "file": "debates1931-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "173bcf125157b801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-20a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "In view of the statement made by the right hon. Gentleman, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-20a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-23", "file": "debates1931-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd0589075b7ad645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.67.5", "colnum": "67", "heading": "SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Enactments continued.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " to do. There is another answer to that question. Deputations waited upon Mr. Clynes when he was Home Secretary, and his reply was very clear. He said that there had been no amending legislation of the Factory Acts for 25 years, that it was time to bring the factory laws up to date and that he intended to deal with this special provision in the new Factories Bill that was to come before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.67.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-23", "file": "debates1931-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd0589075b7ad645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Enactments continued.)", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "I take it that when the hon. Member says that a further 2s. is being demanded, he means 2s. off the arrears and not 2s. added to the rent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "ed by the service of blue notices, not necessarily summons, but notices on blue paper which, to the uninitiated, would have a harassing effect. These papers gave the people notice to terminate the occupancy of their houses. Of course, the landlord did not fail to call for his rent as usual in the following week, and he said that a condition of staying on was that another 2s. a week should be paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-23", "file": "debates1931-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd0589075b7ad645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Enactments continued.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ection of the working class. I can remember well when these Acts were instituted. I can remember what brought them about. I can remember when we stopped work on the Clyde, when the War was on, when the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) and company discovered that he could not fight the Germans and fight us, and he had to yield because we stopped work on the Clyde in 1915.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-23", "file": "debates1931-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd0589075b7ad645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Enactments continued.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ncy they put up great bills: \"Socialist lie nailed to the masthead; no increase in rents.\" That was in 1918. In 1919 the first increase was put on. They broke faith with the working-class. Then they got another 25 per cent. What was that for? The case was made out on behalf of the landlord—not the little twopenny-halfpenny landlord who owns the cottage next door; we are not dealing with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-23", "file": "debates1931-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd0589075b7ad645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Enactments continued.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " they have met it. That is something they have to pay. They can scrimp themselves, they can starve their little children, but here is a charge they have to meet, and they have attempted to meet it. They have been doing it all these years, and they are just coming to breaking point. This housing question is the weakest link in the chain of capitalism to-day, because we have got the whip hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-23", "file": "debates1931-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd0589075b7ad645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Enactments continued.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "ouses. Therefore, it would be safe to assume that the normal rent of the property existing before the War was an economic rent, fixed at the discretion and liberty of the landlord, which gave a good return for his investment and allowed provision for reasonable repairs. The Amendment calls attention to the fact that the increases were allowed under special circumstances which have now passed away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-23", "file": "debates1931-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd0589075b7ad645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY (DISCHARGES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. EYRES MONSELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. EYRES MONSELL", "preceding_text": "We find it out in the end. It is not regarded in the Navy as punishment. There were a lot of fantastic stories current about these men having their badges and medals torn off them—all absolutely untrue. They were discharged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-23a.180.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman inform the House of the nature of the exhibition of advertised articles of British manufacture held recently in London; whether that exhibition was organised by the retail advertisers themselves, and whether they invited the manufacturers to attend?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "The Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, does already require the addition of an indication of origin to any specific advertisement of goods which have themselves to bear such an indication under Order-in-Council, and it is open to the manufacturers of any particular class or description of goods to take advantage of this provision by making application for an Order-in-Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.197.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.202.6", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "proper thing that this and other countries should be in the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARJORIBANKS", "preceding_text": "committee of experts. It makes me feel miserable and ashamed to think that this moment should have been chosen by the Government for the discussion of this Statute. It ought to have been sent to a joint committee of Lords and Commons, as was suggested by the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill). Such a committee would have been able to thrash it out month by month and perhaps year by year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "This is the best that we have been able to do, and we put before you the suggestion that you shall in some way seek uniformity within the Commonwealth of Nations.\" I understood that my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Moss Side expressed the opinion of those associated with him best, when he said that it was very unsatisfactory to have seven different systems of law prevailing in the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM STEWART", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM STEWART", "preceding_text": "hose carry us a very long way. Take the question of divorce, which has been referred to by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Altrincham (Mr. Atkinson). If I go to the Free State, as I very often do—I have considerable business there, and I like the Free State, and I like Dublin—it might be that if this Statute is passed, the Free State might call me an Irish Free State subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially.)", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "tizens may not work more than five hours a day; so that it would be a crime in England, according to Canadian law, and the hon. Gentleman supposes that a man would be prosecuted in Canada for the crime he had committed by working in England more than five hours a day. All I can say is that that is a case which it does little credit to the Canadian Government or people to suggest is a possible one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "CLAUSE 10.—(Certain sections of Acts not to apply to Australia, New Zealand, or Newfoundland unless adopted.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. MORRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Parliaments!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "rook (Mr. Amery) that this provides a new constitution for the Dominions. I agree. The only thing I regret is that it is being embodied in what I regard as a piece of very bad legislation. The right hon. Gentleman says, \"Here are the Dominions; they are demanding this Bill.\" He was careful to say that the Governments of the Dominions were demanding the Bill when correcting an hon. Member opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": " language, and they have said that they consider and believe it is outside the purview of the Statute of Westminster. The Irish Free State have taken no steps whatever in the matter. It appears to many of us that this question of what is the position of the Irish Free State under the new Statute is very vital. We cannot look on the Free State as if we were regarding the case of a distant Dominion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Who is yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "a more mischievous speech than that of the right hon. Gentleman. He concluded his speech with an attack on his Leader. Since this new National Parliament was elected, the right hon. Gentleman has made many interventions into our Debates. I would like to ask him what precisely is his position in the public life of England; whom does he represent; what principles does he hold; and who is his Leader?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "We shall see. The right hon. Gentleman insults Ireland by this suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.332.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "; No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "o carry out the will not of Ireland but the will of the Imperial council, not only constituted of representatives of Australia and Canada and Africa and the Free State but of this country as well—although that Imperial Conference on which Ireland was represented agreed to this provision that was to be made a Statute of this House, we will put a special Clause in to say, \"All except Ireland.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.333.4", "colnum": "333", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "That is what you want to put into it. That is my reading of the proposed Clause that has been discussed here to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.333.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.334.4", "colnum": "334", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "o put indignities on the nation which is keeping its word. That is the purpose of this Amendment and no other, and it is because I feel, as an Irishman, that that;is the main and only purpose of the Amendment that I am here to oppose it. I know that my speech to-night will probably prevent many of the Conservative party from voting with the Government who would do so if I did not make this speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.334.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.334.4", "colnum": "334", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " asked you to interfere. They do not ask you to come here to be their defenders. They are quite satisfied to accept these proposals without any amendment whatever. Why should they be mentioned at all. There is another minority, and they are the minority for whom I speak. And since you have introduced minorities' and have made this House to-night the platform for the degradation of Ireland- —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.334.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ation as a guarantee that the minority would have fair representation. That proportional representation was abolished. One would not mind it being abolished, but what did they proceed to do? They proceeded so to jerrymander the constituencies that I am returned in the Northern Parliament with 60,000 votes and one of my Unionist colleagues in an adjoining constituency is returned with 20,000 votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ced. I can see the hypocrisy of the whole transaction. This question might have been raised constantly since I came into the House, but I have remained silent and preferred to be one of the bondage minority to remain silent rather than to embarrass this country or to raise controversies that would embitter feelings and passions over the Irish question. But they have created this opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "Lord H. Cecil), one of the most acute intellects in this House. Frankly, though I have tried my best to follow the advantages that they see in inserting these words, I cannot do it. My right hon. Friend, the Member for Oxford University, seems to think that it would make a great deal of difference, supposing there were what, in fact, would be a rebellion in Ireland, if that rebellion were illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ouse on this subject for very many years. I have heard the Noble Lard the Member for Oxford University (Lord H. Cecil) many times on the Irish question, and he has always been wrong. He conscientiously believes what he says, but he conscientiously believes the wrong thing. He does not believe in trusting other people. He does not believe that self-government should ever have been given to Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "fore to-night, by a side wind, they want in some way to treat Ireland in a derogatory fashion. We maintain that if you are to have a British commonwealth of nations every partner in that commonwealth must be treated as an equal partner. Because of that and for no other reason we are going into the Lobby in support of the Bill, not at all because we like going in with the National Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir WILLIAM ALLEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir WILLIAM ALLEN", "preceding_text": "rred several times since Friday to the sacrifices of those who procured the Treaty, but never a sentence, never a word about the sacrifices of those who laid down their lives or were compelled to lay down their lives in the protection of the rights of the loyalists of Ireland in that horrible time. Never a word did the right hon. Gentleman say of what was done, those outrages, those murders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "tee will be well advised to follow the statesmanlike lead given by the Lord President of the Council. His words are words of warning. They are also words of wisdom which ought to be taken in particularly by the new Members who have come here to support the National Government. You are the custodians of everything that goes to make for the welfare of the nation. I do not intend to waste time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-24", "file": "debates1931-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "87be8ad5fe51f4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Saving with respect to Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "mbers who have come here to support the National Government. You are the custodians of everything that goes to make for the welfare of the nation. I do not intend to waste time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I ask hon. Members to observe that I was referring to my time and not to theirs. I am very much impressed by the sagacity which the Lord President of the Council has shown in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-24a.351.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-25", "file": "debates1931-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8e71b5ae145bb2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-25a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that thousands of ex-service men in London are being sent to penal colonies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-25a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-25", "file": "debates1931-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8e71b5ae145bb2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-25a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN PAY (TEMPORARY ABATEMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " the ground that it is necessary for balancing the Indian Budget. The sum involved is only £300,000, and the Government could have raised it in a much better fashion than by attacking what are in many cases meagre wage standards. We range ourselves with these people, not because we defend every or any action that they take, but because the Bill attacks a certain class of working people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-25a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-25", "file": "debates1931-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8e71b5ae145bb2f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-25a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN PAY (TEMPORARY ABATEMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "or Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) was twitted with the statement that purchasing power can be attacked by taxation as well as by direct reduction, and that is true, but there are limits within which a person can live. Even a rich person cannot eat two breakfasts, or wear three suits of clothes at one time, and anyone who has enough to buy himself three suits to wear is keeping two suits from someone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-25a.441.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas NEWTON", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the very important statement which has just been made by the Minister of Agriculture, I desire respectfully to ask him if he will possibly be able to make a further announcement in respect of sugar-beet? Farmers, agriculturists, and workers alike will be particularly gratified if the National Government will be prepared to make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.515.3", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WAYLAND", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman, considering that Christmas is so near, and that the revenue is gaining less this year than it did last year from the Beer Duty, if he will think of those millions of beer drinkers and allow them to purchase their Christmas beer at the same price as they did last year, and, if necessary, apply to this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.523.5", "colnum": "523", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "In view of the departure in constitutional procedure that has taken place, in that legislation is now being initiated by deputations to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.523.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.580.3", "colnum": "580", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": " which I am entitled to put to the House and to him is: \"If they are not to do it, what authority is to do it?\" The only authority, excepting the public assistance committees, that can carry out these duties, is the Ministry of Labour. Speaking for myself, and I am sure for every Member of the Government, I should oppose, to the utmost of my power, that duty being passed to the Ministry of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did not know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "lly from their own benches, that if they had been present they would have been converted to the opinion that it was necessary to annul these Regulations. Before the late Government dissolved, the Ministers were asked what they meant by the Regulations they were about to issue. I distinctly asked the Ministers before we broke up for the Recess what they meant, and I could not get a definite answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "o say. We were told an hour ago that there is no power vested in a Minister of the Crown to vary the Regulations. A few minutes later, we found the late Solicitor-General handing over a law book which points out the matter quite definitely. The Solicitor-General was fetched and the book was handed to him, He disappeared behind the Speaker's chair with the book in his hand, and he has not returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "There is one thing that I most strongly resent, and I regret very much that hon. Members opposite insist so much upon it. They will keep on inferring that there is some humiliation involved in applying for public assistance, or in coming before public assistance committees. If that is so, hon. Members opposite are condemning to humiliation hundreds of thousands of aged and sick people, and widows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "t there is some humiliation involved in applying for public assistance, or in coming before public assistance committees. If that is so, hon. Members opposite are condemning to humiliation hundreds of thousands of aged and sick people, and widows. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not!\"] Excuse me, but if you keep on insisting that it is humiliating to go before these bodies you are doing what I say you are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "t I say you are. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I say you are doing a great hardship to those people by adding, I was going to say, to the amount of insult to them. A late Member of this House said, in another place, that the unemployed are being treated like criminals, because they have to appear before a public assistance committee. If that is so, those other people are also being treated like criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "y, to the amount of insult to them. A late Member of this House said, in another place, that the unemployed are being treated like criminals, because they have to appear before a public assistance committee. If that is so, those other people are also being treated like criminals. [ Interruption. ] Hon Members opposite may have had some experience, but I have also had a good many years' experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.621.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.632.7", "colnum": "632", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stick to your own past!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I did not make allowance for the sensitiveness of hon. Members opposite, but I do not want to direct attention to the skeletons in their cupboards. I dare say that their pasts and their families' pasts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.632.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member was so long in making up his mind that I am not quite certain he has made up his mind yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I do not want to interfere with the very able speech that the hon. Member is making, but I think, Mr. Speaker, you will agree that it is a little unfair that we should have the whole of this business right at the end of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.652.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "lf—I think he and the House have not fully realised the difficulties involved by that course. For every anomaly cured by such an instruction two other, and probably greater anomalies, would be created. If public assistance committees are to be instructed to disregard the first 20s. of a pension it is quite clear that, by implication, they are to take the whole of the rest of it into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.659.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-26", "file": "debates1931-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ec9051a88d0b7a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He was not there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "s the reward you are giving him for his services. The children of the ex-service man are being treated as paupers by you, the patriotic party in the country. You cannot get away from that. You have made that fact abundantly clear. What is our position? What is the background, as the hon. Member said, of all this? We fought the De-rating Bill, and, if he will tax his memory, he will remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-26a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-27", "file": "debates1931-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9abe82dead4f361e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-27a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " a man who has some standing in a social capacity. The poor type of woman who is in greatest need usually marries a man of her own social standing who irks no influence. The well-to-do woman has influence, and she sets to work to use her influence in order to get 15 weeks' work, which she succeeds in getting because, perhaps, she is related, say, to a magistrate or to a member of the town council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-27a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-27", "file": "debates1931-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "9abe82dead4f361e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-27a.689.6", "colnum": "689", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 3) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "ouse with an exact account of all the arguments that hon. Gentlemen have used. I come back again to the point on which the hon. Member insisted, and which excited my intervention. He put forward a wrong view of the Insurance Fund, depending upon an entirely inaccurate view of what insurance means. He continually used the phrase in his admirable speech \"insurance basis.\" What is an insurance basis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-27a.689.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.767.8", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SWEEPSTAKES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHYTE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that through the agency of legalised sweepstakes all the hospitals in the Irish Free State are in a better position to engage in research and to give their patients an efficient service while in our country we are in the lamentable position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.767.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "s that the last election was the most fraudulent election in the history of this country. I shall be able to show that the leaders of all political parties gave definite promises to the electorate that the most they would do on this particular matter would be to examine all the needs of the case for the purpose of securing a favourable balance of trade and safeguarding the finances of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A free hand was asked for!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "s whether the Prime Minister has changed his mind or not? Does he not agree that these statements had some effect on the mind of the electorate in October this year? Surely they understood from the words of the Prime Minister that there would be no taxation of any kind on food, and yet within three or four weeks we find the Government, a little bit at a time, making a start in the wrong direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ducing taxation he has in mind something beyond cuts in expenditure. What the Conservative party are after is the reduction of direct taxation and a big transfer to the domestic budgets of the workers by means of the tariff and food tax policy. That is what the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby said in October, 1931, and now, in November, 1931, apparently, he is supporting taxes upon food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "sham has a lot to learn about the miners, and what he has learned I am sure that he can well afford to forget, and be none the worse. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bewdley, and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Seaham Harbour (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) have led thousands of people to believe that there would be no taxation upon food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "It has always been a matter of regret to me that the agricultural industry could not be concentrated, as the coalmining industry is. Then we should get much more attention. The hon. Member has been really rather severe. Of course, the coal industry is perfectly prosperous. Everything is well with the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Agriculture has adopted the wrong method altogether. Personally—I say this in the presence of the Leader of the Opposition—I have no objection in principle to a scientific regulation of imports into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ns against British farmers. We have heard to-day the usual accusations which come from urban Members and urban parties, such as the party opposite pretends to be, about lack of organisation and all the rest of it. I do not believe that there is any industry in this or any other country better organised than the growers industry, in reference to the production of fruit and vegetables from the soil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruptian.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ly exclude these goods, there would then be a chance to establish an honest, self-supporting peasantry in this country, prosperous, building up an A 1 nation. What a lovely picture! How is it to take place? Will you let them use the land, even if they want to use it? The first demand of the National Government was that that iniquitous Measure, the taxation of land values, should be done away with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "t is called the \"cherry maggot Order.\" Those who know the trade better than I do, and better, perhaps, than most hon. Members, say that if a duty is imposed upon cherries there will be such a reduction in the quantity coming into this country that, in view of the fact that our own cherries are only produced in the south of England, the people of the north of England will never see a cherry at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the wages abroad?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "d that the competition of produce from abroad will always tell against them until they learn to pack and grade as well as the foreigner does. I understand that the Empire Marketing Board have done a great deal in training our growers in the better packing and grading of their produce. It is therefore the duty of our own producers to come up to the standards of the foreigner in packing and grading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.841.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "our own crops we must keep those commodities out and the foreigner must not be allowed to import them early in order that our own producers may have a better chance later. The argument of the merchants, however, who deal in these commodities is that cherries and grapes come from foreign countries about a month earlier than we can produce them, and that that whets the appetite of our own consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " agriculture. The right hon. Gentleman is aware, I am sure, so far as he has had any opportunity to look into the question at all, which seems rather doubtful—he has been so busy with other things—that in all these articles which are dealt with in the Resolution the catastrophic fall in price which occurs from time to time is entirely caused by internal and not by external competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ived of the opportunity of discussing the particular taxes? Why is it that this extraordinary power, a power admittedly which has never been given to any Government except this, must be taken by the right hon. Gentleman on this occasion? The hon. Member for South-West Bethnall Green made some protest about it, but I think he was a little late. He has already supported the method of doing it twice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the whole point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " country to a large extent. I think that, perhaps, he has not considered that point yet. If he will do so, he will find, I think, that I am accurate in what I have said. After all, many of these crops come from places where climatically they can be grown at times of the year when we do not grow them here. Does the right hon. Gentleman suggest that we grow any tomatoes here in January and February?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ake the trees six to 12 years to grow before they produce any crop. 10.30 p.m. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will not consider seriously dealing with the industry of market gardening. Of course, this Resolution does not touch agriculture as agriculture is ordinarily understood. There are no farmers, substantially, who grow any of these crops, as crops, not even the new potato crop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "rned with a free hand to deal with these problems. But is it not quite true to say that all of us gave an undertaking—I did—that we would examine with care nut only the scheme in which we personally believed, schemes belonging to our section of the Government, but that we would take into consideration the views of those colleagues who form part of the Cabinet of this Government?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "work for this particular industry, and the only criticism I should like to offer, and that in all friendship, is that we are all of us in every part of the House concerned with the one great question, how are we going to correct the adverse balance of trade? It must be admitted that, so far, none of the Measures, excellent as they are, are are really touching more than the fringe of that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.898.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-11-30", "file": "debates1931-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "4491fe4edf6a4b01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "TABLE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "with him. His argument was that if the Minister wanted to influence the pound he ought to bring in a large measure of Protection. That was his real argument. Does anyone outside Bedlam suggest, whatever the merits of Protection or Free Trade, that a large measure of Protection would have any influence on the pound?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-11-30a.900.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.931.5", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH MIGRANTS, AUSTRALIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "The unemployed in this country left these islands in large numbers. Some went to America and some to Australia. Now we are told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.931.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.931.6", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH MIGRANTS, AUSTRALIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "The unemployed in this country left these islands in large numbers. Some went to America and some to Australia. Now we are told—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"]—that those who are coming back from America and who took up citizenship there are not allowed here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.931.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH MIGRANTS, AUSTRALIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It is to be raised on the Adjournment.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course they are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "their prices raised in order that they may meet our products on a fair competitive level The list is really surprising. Nothing has been said as to whether Empire products are to be subject to these duties. I may be slow in picking up the points made in Debate, but no one has yet told me whether, say, South African grapes or apples are to be exempted from the duty because they are Empire products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.975.3", "colnum": "975", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "Then I shall not quarrel very much with the right hon. Gentleman. Those who can pay 4s. or 5s. a 1b. for grapes can easily pay a tax of 50 per cent. additional, and I have no tears to shed for them. In going through the list item by item I have spoken of tomatoes and apples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will get wages to pay for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "o me this morning by one of my constituents who works at the docks. I want you to realise that after all there are more ways of killing a pig than by sticking it. Here is the position. What guarantee have we that when you have got all this so-called Protection that the workers of the country are going to be any better off, except in' this respect, that they will have to pay more for what they get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " I have already heard about the farmers who are doing so badly. I happen to be a trade union official who travels the country fairly extensively. The poor old farmers used to run round with the pony chaise, and now they have motor cars. Down and out? Their daughters go to college to be trained as teachers and their sons go round the countryside enjoying themselves at golf and other entertainments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "nion official who travels the country fairly extensively. The poor old farmers used to run round with the pony chaise, and now they have motor cars. Down and out? Their daughters go to college to be trained as teachers and their sons go round the countryside enjoying themselves at golf and other entertainments. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is that?\"] In every part of the country; in every market place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " same extent. They are better off now than they were formerly, while the workers are worse off than they have been for the lust 25 years. You are asking us to agree to increasing the price of commodities which the ordinary worker has to use. Does anybody suggest that the items in this Schedule are going to be the only basis for Protection? Raspberries and strawberries. You will get the gooseberry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"You got it at the last election!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "an they have been for the lust 25 years. You are asking us to agree to increasing the price of commodities which the ordinary worker has to use. Does anybody suggest that the items in this Schedule are going to be the only basis for Protection? Raspberries and strawberries. You will get the gooseberry. [ Interruption. ] Yes, we give the gooseberry down in Canning Town to people who talk like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " not interested in strawberries. We see them only at a certain period of the year. We are interested in potatoes, and the ordinary vegetables which the ordinary working man has to consume. We know that you are not going to stop at strawberries; we know that you on the opposite side of the House and all around us are going to ask for Protection for every kind of commodity which the farmers produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That will follow automatically!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "that you on the opposite side of the House and all around us are going to ask for Protection for every kind of commodity which the farmers produce. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am very glad to hear it. I suggest that, if we do not get protection for the worker in regard to wages and conditions, you are simply asking for privilege at the expense of the great masses of the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "If the Noble Lord will read and try to assimilate some of the information produced by experts of the Ministry of Agriculture, he will discover that there never has been a problem for the potato grower in this country except in years of exceptional surplus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "I was giving it only as an illustration. Black Rod was shut out, but the man who shut him out closed himself in. It is exactly the same as far as imports and exports in international trade are concerned. By a policy of Protection we shut the importers out and close ourselves in. I will say this, however, that if you nationalise all the means of production, distribution and exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.1003.5", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They use the foreign stuff at a higher price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "r proportion from other countries, are marketed again in this case before the bulk of the home crop becomes available. This is no doubt a raw material for canning and jam-making, but if you allow these imports of the foreign fruit to come in, you invite the jam-makers in this country to use it, so that, when our home crop is produced—and good fruit it is—it cannot find a market at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.1003.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-01", "file": "debates1931-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "60bfa258d8008dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about motor cars?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " price of the commodity raised, but it is the intention of the people who impose the tariff to increase prices. That is already understood. I said last night that I saw the late Lord Melchett cross the Floor of the House of commons from the Liberal party to the Tory party and heard him say that he was disgusted with his colleagues in the Tory party when they said that tariffs did not raise prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-01a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-12-02", "file": "debates1931-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "85e21d5164b971c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that this matter has already been considered by two committees on one of which I sat myself; that he gave evidence before a committee on this subject; that a committee has already decided in favour of an alteration, and does he not think that something definite should be done? The Prime Minister is altering the procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1084.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-02", "file": "debates1931-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "85e21d5164b971c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " separate parties were not bound by the decisions of the others, but they were bound to do their best to co-operate, and whenever it was possible to speak with the same voice, that that form of address should be adopted. Again, I must report to this new House that none of us who then represented the Government of the day have had any reason to regret our decision or to quarrel with our part in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-02", "file": "debates1931-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "85e21d5164b971c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ing of their negotiations with Indian representatives, never meant to carry out their pledges and promises, and never meant business. So far as I am concerned, I am not going to be party to a position such as that, especially when, as a matter of fact, you have got a system, however imperfect, working at the present day. You have set up a system in India which provides for communal representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-02", "file": "debates1931-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "85e21d5164b971c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " starting election to legislatures by indirect election. By all means see that the local panchayats or local boards are elected, but do not make them the basis of election for the provincial councils or far the Legislative Assembly. Do see that the people who are going to be ruled have some chance of governing themselves. I know perfectly well that the views of Mahatma Gandhi are the same as mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-02", "file": "debates1931-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "85e21d5164b971c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. CRADDOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. CRADDOCK", "preceding_text": "so much promise should be worked up by cunning people into that state of exaltation and emotion in which they became murderers. I know that the Press has been responsible for that. How do I know it? I know it from the lips of the anarchists themselves. One after another these boys in the Andamans have said to me, \"What put us astray were these papers.\" They mentioned the names of the papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-02", "file": "debates1931-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "85e21d5164b971c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "preceding_text": "cy than the man in the moon. Secondly, there is his point about commercial discrimination. I have said quite clearly that we insist, as one of the safeguards that must be made, that there shall be no unfair discrimina- tion against the British trader. Perhaps to-morrow he will let us into his confidence and tell us whether there is more in his mind than that. Thirdly—what is the third point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-02a.1207.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1226.7", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that public assistance committees, such as Sheffield and others, are finding very great difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1226.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1390.2", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact, more truly human\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1390.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t I am terrified at the thought of any attempt on the part of the home Government or the Indian Government to suppress the Congress. I cannot without dire distress agree with the position that this Parliament must accept the present coercion or an extension of the powers of repression. We are sending out Sir John Anderson as Governor of Bengal. I know that he is looked upon in India with suspicion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ublic opinion in the world will not permit either the British Government or Mr. Gandhi to stagger humanity. There is a grave and terrible responsibilty on both sides because of consequences too terrible for any of us to contemplate. Some more excellent way must be discovered. Therefore, I appeal to the Prime Minister once more to approach Mr. Gandhi, not through the Secretary of State but himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "appeal to the Prime Minister once more to approach Mr. Gandhi, not through the Secretary of State but himself. [ Laughter. ] I am sure the right hon. Gentleman will understand that I do not mean that in any offensive way. It has been stated publicly that Mr. Gandhi is very fond of the right hon. Gentleman. If the Prime Minister would himself invite Mr. Gandhi to meet him it might have some effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "rt on the road to the federation of the world. We are torn and distracted in Europe because of our economic difficulties. We may chide and jibe at Indians, but We have not yet discovered the real way of life. We are only struggling towards the dawn. Asia, after centuries, is awakening. Millions of people are awakening to new visions of what life should be. The new wine is bursting the old bottles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ir country, their motherland, which they love as we love Britain. I believe that those who are young will work this transformation. Whatever the result may be it is not worth while this great country of ours embarking on a policy to hold India which may mean bloodshed and slaughter, or even economic stagnation and ruin. It will be better that we should take up our belongings and leave the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "unity, the true ideal of universal love, without which all other greatness profiteth nothing. Are we just beginning to learn that the true walls, which alone can preserve our nation and Empire from destruction and decay, which do insure its stability, are not walls of brick or stone, or armies, or dreadnoughts, aeroplanes or submarines, but the great moral and spiritual qualities, high aspirations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "—an ideal of unity, which views the whole world as one, faced by one common enemy, and sees that, with the nation as with the individual, true greatness consists in humility and willingness to serve. The writer concludes: Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "f the old Members would dare to get up to express himself. I want to put this to the newly-joined Members of the House. You are dealing to-night with a great constitutional issue. My right hon. Friend the Member for West Birmingham (Sir A. Chamberlain) said that it was no use crying over spilt milk, or \"jobbing back,\" but to-night we are not crying about. spilt milk, we are spilling milk to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-03", "file": "debates1931-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21b08ec949b8d809", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of Westminster was hurled at our heads the other day, and this matter is hurled at our heads now. If this is to continue, this National Government can exist for but a short time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-03a.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID GRENFELL", "preceding_text": ". He said, \"I am not concerned with world trade; this is our trade.\" That was a contradiction in terms. Trade implies a relation between two separate bodies of people, but the hon. Gentleman said, \"This is our trade, not world trade.\" If you cut down your imports by £2,000,000 a month, in world conditions of trade, you must restrict your exports by an equal if not by a greater quantity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1432.0", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "h this long list of lines. But the situation has changed. The first thing is the difficulty of finding a long list of luxuries. It is so easy to talk about luxuries, but when it comes to defining a luxury one is on a very slippery path. The right hon. Gentleman said the other day that we all knew a luxury when we saw it, but do we? We know that lipsticks are luxuries, and such things as asparagus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1432.0", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Poison!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "—and this may shock my right hon. Friend—as not only to have an import duty but an excise duty on luxuries. I notice that the hon. Member for Moseley (Mr. Hannon) has just taken his seat, and he may be interested to know that I would even suggest that champagne might be prohibited, though I would go as far as to exclude Empire champagne, in order to meet the requirements of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1444.0", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the last Government do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " face the fact that nine-tenths, if not 99 per cent., of the effective markets for goods in the world depends upon the purchasing capacity of the common people. That is the only effective market for goods. That market or that phase of the market is not being tackled in a constructive way. That market, by the attitude of the employers and the attitude of the present Government, is being endangered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " for a few moments take himself out of his interests, out of his connection with some industry or firm, and endeavour to visualise this problem as it applies internationally, I think he would at once confess that it is sheer madness to impose these Orders. The world is glutted with goods and every speech that we hear from the Government benches is concerned with how we are to dispose of the goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ters from Chambers of Commerce, and we see the resolutions that have been passed. We can see that they are trying to placate this person or that person or that party. Our answer is, that you cannot hope to dispose of your goods against the lower wage levels in other countries unless you bring down wages here. You dare not declare that as a matter of policy in this House, and yet it is your policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ssels between the heads of industries and high State officials. I could also mention the case of America and Holland and Italy. The Paris correspondent of the \"Economist\" on the 28th November, 1931, said: The new British fiscal measure imposing Customs duties of an additional 50 per cent. on foreign imports has been received with consternation by the French industrial and commercial world.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All foreigners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nister for Commerce, M. Louis Rollin, declares that, in the case of many peculiarly French products, such as silk stockings and similar goods, which already have to bear a British import tax of 35 per cent., the new duties will raise the total impost payable to 85 per cent, ad valorem, which the Minister insists is a prohibitive rate. 1.0 p.m. Let me take the foreign correspondent of the \"Statist\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1472.5", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ing attention to the international aspect of our present policy. There has been a suggestion made from the other side of the House more than once that we are contributing something to international friction by this legislation. All I can say, in reply to that argument, is that I have seen no signs of it yet. The hon. Member for Ogmore (Mr. E. Williams) in an eloquent speech just after lunch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-04", "file": "debates1931-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef814050fce6888b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1472.5", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS (CUSTOMS DUTIES) ACT, 1931.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "now that he is generally well-informed on these subjects. I have refreshed my memory about the French discriminatory duty, and I find that that decree was published on Saturday, 14th November, and I am informed that it had received official sanction before the 14th November. The earliest date on which this Government announced their policy in connection with these tariffs was on the 16th November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-04a.1472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1554.2", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "If my hon. and gallant Friend really understood a little more of the practical side of agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1556.3", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"English?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "If more are tied up, where will the exports be to pay for our food supplies? The hon. and gallant Member who moved the rejection of the Bill referred to reprisals. I am not afraid of reprisals. We must be masters in our own house. Whatever foreign countries may do we must do what is best for the English people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1556.3", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not British?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": ", where will the exports be to pay for our food supplies? The hon. and gallant Member who moved the rejection of the Bill referred to reprisals. I am not afraid of reprisals. We must be masters in our own house. Whatever foreign countries may do we must do what is best for the English people. [An HON. MEMBER: \"English?\"] It is much easier to say \"English\" than to say \"English, Scottish and Welsh.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "preceding_text": "n British ships,\" will probably be followed by \"British born and bred politicians in a British House of Commons.\" May I be permitted to compliment the Conservative party on being able to compel the Prime Minister to do what he refused to do when he was a member of this party. We failed, but the Conservatives have been able to compel him to accomplish more in 48 hours than we could do in two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHRISTIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHRISTIE", "preceding_text": "o make a profit, and it does seem an appalling thing that these unfortunate farmers should have to wait until next year before anything can be done to help them. We have been told that it is impossible at this time to bring in any further Measures dealing with agriculture because the subject requires so much consideration. How long would it have taken to do away that iniquitous extra duty on beer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " practice. Yesterday in Manchester we came across one of the first results of the recent imposition of tariffs in this country. A presentation was to be made to a Jewish boy for his success in the scholastic world, and the present was sent by air all the way from Palestine. It was stopped by our Customs officials and did not arrive in time, because of the new tariff duties which have been applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALES", "preceding_text": "ys; that this country must tackle the problem of unemployment with no uncertain hand; that we were faced with a position of affairs which in a word was appalling. In my meetings I was asked the question: \"Will you, if elected, restore the cut in the dole.\" It was a question which was asked at every meeting, every day, in the street and in the cottage; it was the one thing upon which they insisted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1609.0", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERVASE RENTOUL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERVASE RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "te. It is just as well to recall that fact as no bon Member opposite who has since spoken has remembered it. We have heard very little indeed about the Amendment. Equally, I am justified in observing that the interest taken by hon. Members opposite in a matter which they say is of vital importance, marking as it does the first introduction of food taxation in this country, has not been very great.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. RENTOUL", "preceding_text": "of food throughout the last 50 years, and that it has been imposed or maintained by every successive Government that has held office. This cry of \"Dear Food\" has been the bogy and the stock-in-trade of the Free Trader for the last 30 years, but at all events the last election proved one thing clearly, and that is that the great majority of our people are no longer to be panic-driven by such a cry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1621.3", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e tinplate industry. Why is it essential that this produce which is coming in should be taxed, seeing that people will have to pay a higher price for home-grown products, while we are sending tinplate from Llanelly, Pontypridd and other places in South Wales out to America to be used in canning tomatoes which are afterwards sent back here? Why not can the tomatoes here? Why prevent them coming in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I have to presume that it cannot be done. Why are these things imported? Who imports them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": " farmer whose perishable produce is wasting away while he cannot find a market for it, and for the farmer whose stock is being kept and fattened in the hope that prices will rise, but for whom the only price that has risen at the moment is the price of his feeding stuffs. It is a hard situation, and I very much regret that this Bill touches such a very small part of the whole agricultural problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": " sometimes forgotten in this House that that Schedule is a list from which the Minister can draw and issue Orders at his will and discretion. I would ask, with regard to potatoes, that there should be a latch on the open door. I am aware that there has been a somewhat patchy potato year throughout this country, but at the present time the importation of potatoes is growing alarmingly week by week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1642.0", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " wishes to save the funds of this country or merely to create as much confusion as he can for our import and export trade. The imports for January of 1930 were, from Algeria, first quality, 7¾. per lb., second quality 3¼. The right hon. Gentleman proposes to prohibit the import of those new potatoes because of their very heavy price, and hon. Members intend to support him in that policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-07", "file": "debates1931-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "1d4d9142140fd967", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS (EMERGENCY CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "on I wish to touch upon, and that is the Dominions. I am glad that under these Measures, small and unimportant though they are, the Minister has said that the Dominions will not be affected and that food from the Dominions will come in free of tax. That is the statement of principle which was enunciated in the Abnormal Importations Bill, and I welcome it. It is the first step in Empire Free Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-07a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1673.4", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "preceding_text": "Always decry British manufactures! My word, we have got some people in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1673.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1690.8", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH MIGRANTS, AUSTRALIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I hold in my hand a cablegram sent to me this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1690.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1715.3", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power of Minister to apply Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And coal\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": " rate of wages paid to men in this class of labour, it will be found that approximately one-third of the value of the product is paid in wages. Taking 18,000 people at a wage of £100 a year each, the figure is 35 per cent. of the total. It is a small proportion of the value of this class of production that goes in wages at the present time. Then there are the rents and the ground rents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1741.3", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power of Minister to apply Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "rming community can get to work to produce the necessary crops, and so that the supply should be available. I understand that currant bushes have to be planted—well, I am, not sure whether it is not too late to plant them now. The Noble Lord, who is an expert in agriculture, will tell us whether it is too late. In the small garden plot which I have we put in our currant bushes in the autumn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1765.5", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " to that kind of plum, but so far as I can see no political plums are left at the moment for any Liberal or Tory back-bencher to receive. The home crop of plums in 1929 was 1,215,500 cwts. and the importation 505,000 cwts. I am particularly interested in this subject because I am connected with a trade union which has among its members the jam makers employed by the Co-operative Wholesale Society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1765.5", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "arly interested in this subject because I am connected with a trade union which has among its members the jam makers employed by the Co-operative Wholesale Society. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members opposite do not know about the Cooperative Wholesale Society, let me tell them that it is the largest importer of wheat in this country. I do not know whether it is the largest importer of fresh fruit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1765.5", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What about raspberries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " I met a piano dealer who is very keen on preventing all manner of musical instruments from coming into this country, but in his own home the only piano that he owns is a German grand piano. Tariffs for everybody else, but not for him. He wants to prohibit foreign goods for everybody else, but not for himself. That is usually the attitude of tariffists. They break the rules whenever it suits them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1795.0", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "y prohibitive to the great mass of the people to whom I am referring and on whose behalf I am speaking. I have made some special inquiries with regard to the street markets in the areas in South London to which I have referred. There are three or four markets, and I have had inquiries made at 248 street stalls, all of which sell tomatoes. Not one of the stallholders ever handled an English tomato.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1799.0", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "mazed at the figures which have been given by the right hon. Gentleman. He says that £4,500,000 worth of tomatoes come into this country. That is proof positive that those tomatoes are the food not of the few but of the many. This is the worst case we have had so far of a genuine tax upon the food of the people. £4,500,000 worth of tomatoes is consumed by the poor people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1829.4", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "LAND VALUE TAX (VALUATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "nt. What we are charging the Government with is a complete defiance of the will of Parliament. Hon. Members may regard this matter lightly, but every hon. Member, whether he is a Tory, a Liberal, a National Liberal or a Member of the Socialist party, is the custodian of the privileges of this House, and no Government ought to be tolerated because they have succumbed to forces outside this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1829.4", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "LAND VALUE TAX (VALUATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "itically repugnant to them. I would also call the right hon. Gentleman's attention to the fact that the House has already voted money for this purpose. The right hon. Gentleman may have been returned as a Member of a National Government. He may have behind him a majority of 400 or 500 but he is not yet, in himself, the House of Commons, and the Tory party in itself is not yet the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-08", "file": "debates1931-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "e91870c0bb56579a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "LAND VALUE TAX (VALUATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "s not caring whether he had reason or justification for so unconstitutional an act; he cared only for the fact that the vested interests in the country were behind him. A right hon. Member opposite spoke with delight of what he termed the inevitable repeal of these Land Taxes. He said there was a majority in this House for their repeal. I question whether there is a majority in the country for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-08a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1885.3", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ove that Protection is futile for this country, but, whatever the reason for it, it is calculated in the present circumstances, we believe, to bring upon this country many more troubles, and not to any extent that is appreciable to cure our trade balance or our balance of payments. The Conservative Members, we understand, are equally cross with the Government for the policy that they are pursuing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1885.3", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": ", whatever the reason for it, it is calculated in the present circumstances, we believe, to bring upon this country many more troubles, and not to any extent that is appreciable to cure our trade balance or our balance of payments. The Conservative Members, we understand, are equally cross with the Government for the policy that they are pursuing. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"] The hon. Member says \"Oh.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1885.3", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What branch is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "de balance or our balance of payments. The Conservative Members, we understand, are equally cross with the Government for the policy that they are pursuing. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"] The hon. Member says \"Oh.\" [HON.MEMBERS \"No!\"] I beg the hon. Member's pardon; he says \"No.\" Perhaps he does not belong to that great branch of the Conservative party which has its headquarters in Committee Room No. 14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " responsible for the unemployment cuts. The right hon. Gentleman sees the position. Is he still trying to shelter the Government behind what might or might not have happened last September? Is he still unwilling to accept responsibility for what are the hard facts of the present moment, however they may have occurred? We do not propose, and we do not desire, to enter into any historical arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "to-day in Kennington. A house which before the War was let at £1 per week rent, is now occupied by 77 inhabitants who pay in the aggregate a week rent. One family of eight persons occupies two rooms, paying 27s. per week. rent. How on earth are people to live and pay these rents at the same time? Let me give another illustration. These cases are not picked out because they are very bad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1896.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1902.1", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The rates no doubt have also increased by a considerable amount.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACHAEL BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "How much have the rates gone up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1903.1", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ased. If any right hon. or Member will go into the areas in his own constituency, if it is an urban constituency, and will inquire what are the rents that are now being charged for houses and tenements and compare them with pre-War rents, he cannot fail to agree with the proposition that there has been from 50 to 100 per cent. increase at least in the case of houses which have become decontrolled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1903.5", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "that the Government should show that they are determined to take control of the financial position and exercise that control in a wise monetary policy. We believe that the action which they have taken has done nothing except to aggravate the position. These abnormal greengrocery Bills merely aggravate the position between us and other countries without bringing any benefit of a substantial nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1905.3", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "this—that to declare here and now the permanent value of sterling, with the conditions which play upon sterling, to declare it without any settlement of those international situations which control the exchange value of sterling—for this Government to declare under these unknown and uncertain conditions what sterling value is to he, is madness, is folly, and gives no sense of security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1906.1", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "he opportunity which it gives the Government of declaring the position in which it is, up to now, at the end of the first five weeks of its office. I understand that a number of Members wish to have a discussion on iron and steel, and that part of the time available will be devoted to such a discussion. That discussion will be replied to by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1907.0", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "and while I welcome those wide terms, I want to ask your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, as to whether, on a Motion of Censure drawn in such wide terms as these, it is in order to have a discussion, at any period while this Motion is before the House, on the state of a particular industry and to allot a part of the time of the House devoted to this Motion to one particular issue which is a small issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1910.2", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "No, the \"Daily Herald\" would be much too inaccurate for me to quote. As I appealed for a mandate of that kind from the country on the platform, I appeal to-day to this House and to the country to sustain the Government in carrying out that mandate in the letter and the spirit. I know that occasionally one hears expressions of opinion that the Government are not swift enough in their action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1910.2", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "oblems which created this National Government, must consider its plans and think them over, taking consequences, actions, and reactions into account, and you must not deny this Government the right to do that. But when that period has elapsed, then we shall be ready to tell you what policy we propose, and that will be done when we come back after the Recess. I have really very little to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1910.2", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " shall be ready to tell you what policy we propose, and that will be done when we come back after the Recess. I have really very little to say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—I have very little to say on the terms of the Resolution, and the speech which has just been delivered leaves me nothing of any importance to which to reply. We have dealt with the currency question in various ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1912.1", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "t and then make an announcement with regard to rents. Let us face the very simple fact, which must be in everybody's mind in criticising expenditure on unemployment, that whatever Government was responsible for the administration of this country had to reduce unemployment pay. Any Government, every Government, a Government of pure party or an inter-party Government, had to reduce unemployment pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1933.0", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With tariffs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": " business men among the employers and the men's representatives with sufficient brain capacity to arrive at a common policy as far as this trade is concerned. I do not expect the Government to put our scheme into operation, but our scheme still holds the field. We have suggested the national planning of the industry, the reorganisation of the industry on the recommendation of the Sankey Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1944.0", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "use, congratulate the hon. Mem- ber for Wednesbury (Viscount Ednam). I am sure the House will wait to hear him the next time he joins in the Debate, because he is evidently another enemy in the camp as far as the Government are concerned, and he is not afraid to put before the House his point of view. I might say, personally, that it is about the best maiden speech I have heard a Tory yet deliver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1959.1", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "ication that those hon. Members and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook are in agreement with the Government as to the mandate? The Prime Minister does not know why he came in. All that he knows is that he is there, and there he is going to stick as long as you will have him sticking there. You want a policy, and so do we. We require to see if we can bring better things. Let us get down to facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1976.0", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": " can only restrict imports either by tariffs or prohibition, and in the opinion of myself and my friends you can only increase exports by going right ahead with the policy of Empire economic union, and seeing to it that our traders have preferential opportunities in the markets of the Empire. No one blames His Majesty's Government for having no policy at the election. Obviously, there was no time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1985.1", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "I am not complaining. We certainly know where the hon. and gallant Member stands, which is more than we can say of some hon. Members. He is not going to be satisfied with iron and steel and agriculture; he wants a general tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1985.1", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "hon. and gallant Member stands, which is more than we can say of some hon. Members. He is not going to be satisfied with iron and steel and agriculture; he wants a general tariff. [ interruption. ] I do not know what the Prime Minister will say to that, and I am not sure what the President of the Board of Trade is going to say about it. I have no doubt as to what the Home Secretary will say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1985.1", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Socialist Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "ouse, not only those who have tabled the Motion but the House as a whole, regrets the failure a the Government to take no effective steps to deal with the problems which are responsible for the condition of the masses of the people. There is more anxiety now in the homes of working people than at any time during the last generation. In hundreds and thousands of homes the breadwinner is unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "d steel. and marshalled impressive statistics and arguments\"— No one could do that better than the right hon. Gentleman. for not taking a hurried decision in a matter of such vital importance. He indicated that the figures in the possession of the Board of Trade have been most carefully examined and without undue delay, and that he has a perfectly open mind in connection with this question.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quota!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "trade of this country is confronted. Let it be said that no industry in this country has benefited more during the last six years as a result of what has been done for it by previous Governments —subsidy in 1925, extension of the working day in 1926, law wages in 1927, de-rating in 1928, and 1929—and yet to-day the condition of the mining industry is worse than it has ever been before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "ages, have brought about greater despair than I have seen during the whole of my lifetime. The right hon. Gentleman and his Government have a mandate. The right hon. Gentleman said to the working people of this country—and he did get hundreds of thousands of their votes—\"Trust me, and we will endeavour to get things done.\" Well, the Government have been in office for five or six weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "ment have a mandate. The right hon. Gentleman said to the working people of this country—and he did get hundreds of thousands of their votes—\"Trust me, and we will endeavour to get things done.\" Well, the Government have been in office for five or six weeks. [ Laughter. ] Well, the late Labour Government were in office only three weeks or a month when there was a Vote of Censure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "me-made goods. When we come to sheet bars a much smaller proportion is held by British goods, because sheet bars have been imported very freely from countries which have been able to sell at prices below those prevailing in this country. In this case the figure is 62 per cent. Oddly enough, tinplate bars which have played a large part in these controversies are nearly all produced in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said, \"Let us sit for two or three days more and dispose of this subject.\" If we were to attempt to deal with this vast congeries of problems in two or three days, we should do far more harm than ever we should do good. I must tell the House that, open as my mind is, it is closed firmly against the taking of great gambling risks in this as in other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-09", "file": "debates1931-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1d99e599abfd903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.2001.3", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let them in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "I know one has to take these things comparatively, but do not let us forget that some business men might deem them of very great importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-09a.2001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2150.0", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": " deal with the problem, that they had no central purpose, and no drive—then along came the right hon. Gentleman and said: \"I will provide the required machine.\" He said: \"I will give the Lord Privy Seal and two other Ministers the duty of providing the correct strategy for dealing with the situation.\" And everybody sat back and said, \"At last a man has been found.\" We are still sitting back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2150.0", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman knew that they could agree upon nothing, and he appointed them in order that he might be able to point to their disagreement as a reason for doing nothing. That is precisely how the National Government has been formed. The Prime Minister knows what the country wants, and he gives it the right gesture, but never gives it the reality. He gives the shadow, but never the substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2179.0", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "g element in the present Government. As I see their position, they are getting led up precisely the same street up which the Labour party was led during the last Labour Government, and, if it should be that four or five years hence the Conservative Govern- ment find themselves in a negligible minority on these benches with a great mastery of Labourists sitting behind the same Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2180.11", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not likely!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "d no mandate to apply tariffs at all, but only a, mandate to examine. If, after examination of all the possible ways of guarding national trade, it was proved that tariffs were the way of doing it, then it seemed to me, after the right hon. Gentleman's emphasised statement, that it, would be absolutely necessary for the National Government to go to the country for a fresh mandate to apply tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2180.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2181.3", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I will go on, but I do not want the Prime Minister to go away from that definite sentence: The election will not give instructions to apply.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2181.3", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "are to have the Town and Country Planning Bill, the Children Bill, something about the Load Line, and one Private Members' day. Where is your big policy there? Every one of these things is good enough in its way, but they have no application to the crisis that is supposed to confront us. Every Member in every party can get up and speak at large on every one of these subjects with a complete—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2181.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2199.6", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "remember well that we were told what it would do. The result of the Act from 1925 to 1930 was that 250,000 men had to leave the industry. That was before the quota came into operation. I ask those who have been influenced by Press propaganda in this matter to remember that before one man lost his job through the quota, there were 250,000 shut out of the industry as a result of the Eight Hours Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2199.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "feeling of independence. Then came the conveyor along the coal face. We had to throw the coal on to the conveyor. Next came the coal cutter; and then the heavy machinery. And, mark, what has hap- pened now! They are abolishing some of the men who fill coal. They are actually getting what they call a scooper to scoop the coal into the tubs, and one man is working now where four were working before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " that the workers get benefit from this in the form of leisure as well as a higher standard of life. In some quarters of this House there is a reliance upon tariffs. Those who are relying on tariffs must remember that the worker in industry cannot be ignored nowadays. If we get tariffs the worker is going to have his share; he is going to be called into consultation; he is going to claim his part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2202.0", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "preceding_text": "of his give him a claim to higher relief than others who have not such a disability. It goes in stages. It takes into account that the needs of the disability pensioner are above, the needs of those of the ordinary man, and grants an additional relief in respect of additional needs. The really practical consequence is that the disabled man gets additional relief in respect of his disability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2202.0", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "preceding_text": "elief than others who have not such a disability. It goes in stages. It takes into account that the needs of the disability pensioner are above, the needs of those of the ordinary man, and grants an additional relief in respect of additional needs. The really practical consequence is that the disabled man gets additional relief in respect of his disability—[ Interruption ]. That is the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2202.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1931-12-10", "file": "debates1931-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce76316e68075feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2212.0", "colnum": "2212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They are no use.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "of the housing legislation to be introduced next Session. The Prime Minister told us it was to be legislation to enforce the general recommendations of the majority of the Departmental Committee, representing the three parties, which recently sat upon the ques- tion of housing policy. The House will not expect me to give any details of the proposals, because these will be introduced in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-10a.2209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2263.0", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " care to consult people to see if any Motion would be put, and one of the most active Members of the Opposition gave no indication in his speech that such a Motion was to be put down. When we come down here and one of our members is standing in his place in order to move the Amendment and is not called it is not giving us that courtesy which ought to be observed either by you, Sir, or anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2265.4", "colnum": "2265", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " we are concerned we were not consulted by anyone on this matter. I would also like to say that on the first occasion that I spoke as Leader of the small group which sits here, I said that I would safeguard the rights of the Opposition in this House; and the rights of the Opposition in this House are that they take precedence on an occasion of this kind, as Mr. Speaker has already laid down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2267.10", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit and do nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "rt us in our proposal for au alteration of the date of re-assembling. I would say that it does not carry any support of our Vote of Censure which we carried to the Division Lobby last night. As a matter of fact, this afternoon we are really helping them to make their protest effective, because the Government will stand any number of speeches. I know that from the couple of years' experience I had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2267.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2274.0", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KNIGHT", "preceding_text": "e in this House. As a back bencher, I resent the suggestion that the Government have failed in their duty, or that the House has failed in the attention which it has given to the duties that the Government have placed upon them. When we recollect the quarter from which those suggestions come, allowances will be made. I agree with one thing which the hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. McGovern) says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "n it, he used to work early-morning shift, day shift and night shift at asking the Prime Minister, \"Where are your plans and when will you produce them?\" and used to shake his head when they were not forthcoming. They are not forthcoming now. He knows it. If we could get him on the quiet he would say now, \"I know he is producing nothing\"—not even rabbits. He would say that in private to you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "If we could get him on the quiet he would say now, \"I know he is producing nothing\"—not even rabbits. He would say that in private to you. [ Interruption .] Well, well, I will not pursue that point any further. 1.0 p.m. My point is that the Prime Minister is producing no plans, and the Conservatives know it. A meeting of a very important Conservative Committee decided to back this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "abbits. He would say that in private to you. [ Interruption .] Well, well, I will not pursue that point any further. 1.0 p.m. My point is that the Prime Minister is producing no plans, and the Conservatives know it. A meeting of a very important Conservative Committee decided to back this Amendment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"] Well, they decided to do so if they could get 100 Members to support them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Holford Knight!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ion. We will make strong speeches, but we won't divide. We will march our men half-way up the hill and then march them down again.\" There is a third group who said, \"We are discontented, too, but, by God, we can't let those Socialists come back to power! We must support the Government, bad as they are. Don't kick them downstairs; give them a chance.\" No section of the House is with the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "General taken by Montrose. Why should we not come to this House and say the things that are in our hearts? Why should we play at mockery and foolery, and not say the things that are in our hearts—knowing that nobody is with the Government on this Motion, nobody We know the great mass of Members feel that the House ought to meet earlier. Everyone feels that there is business to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"There is no crisis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "say the things that are in our hearts? Why should we play at mockery and foolery, and not say the things that are in our hearts—knowing that nobody is with the Government on this Motion, nobody We know the great mass of Members feel that the House ought to meet earlier. Everyone feels that there is business to be done—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—that there is important work to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2288.0", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "resent doing important business. Proof can be produced by some Cabinet Minister at least being present on the Front Bench. My contention is that it is a game of bluff. I am convinced that right through the piece the national crisis has been a game of bluff, and that the going away on holidays is part and parcel of the customary annual procedure in the clown and pantaloon business at Christmastime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2289.1", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "t to take two months salary from this House, and do nothing for it? Is there any responsible Minister who thinks that he is justified, in a time of national emergency, with the great poverty that must come, even in normal times and especially in these times in our great industrial and congested areas, in going away in this critical period for a long holiday? I have visited many asylums in my days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2290.0", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I and my hon. friends are anxious should be available. I am not prepared to go as far as the hon. Member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool (Mr. Logan). I am a moderate man. I am not prepared to say, as he does, that the Government are already away on holiday. I think they have been engaged in a Cabinet meeting this morning, although probably I expect they had had lunch for the last half hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2290.0", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not allowed in the House\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "te man. I am not prepared to say, as he does, that the Government are already away on holiday. I think they have been engaged in a Cabinet meeting this morning, although probably I expect they had had lunch for the last half hour. [ Interruption .] At any rate, there has been a Cabinet meeting, but I am prepared to bet my hon. Friend below me, the Member for Balham and Tooting (Sir A. Butt)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Everybody knows that the conception of a Cabinet which wants us out of the road so that they can get down to business for the next seven weeks is a myth. But that is what young Tory Members believe is going to happen. In their childish simplicity, which endears them to all our they believe that the Government want to get us away, we are mere talkers, not workers,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "f the 615 men and women who are sent here by confiding constituencies to decide yes or no. I say to hon. Members, your constituents when you got their votes did not know anything about Parliamentary good form, did not know about what is done and what is not done, did not know that a Whip was more important than your conscience. They believed that they had got in you men of out- standing integrity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " to their duty to the nation, and above all that they were men who were going to apply their own judgments to the problem presented to them, and that they were going to make their decisions on these problems fearlessly and honestly, and to act on them fearlessly and honestly. I say also to hon. Members, there is not one of you who believes in this long adjournment proposed by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, a free hand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "is on his feet again, or one round, which he can get at Richmond or Mid-Surrey get it quickly and be in London again if necessary. Is it this idea of working out plans? Is that the excuse they are giving you chaps? If it is working out plans, then the Government were elected on a fraud it was a fraudulent election, because they were returned, as against us, because they had everything ready—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After inquiry\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " quickly and be in London again if necessary. Is it this idea of working out plans? Is that the excuse they are giving you chaps? If it is working out plans, then the Government were elected on a fraud it was a fraudulent election, because they were returned, as against us, because they had everything ready—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, a free hand.\"]. Yes, a free hand to do whatever they liktd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ns? Is that the excuse they are giving you chaps? If it is working out plans, then the Government were elected on a fraud it was a fraudulent election, because they were returned, as against us, because they had everything ready—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, a free hand.\"]. Yes, a free hand to do whatever they liktd—[HON. MEMBERS: \"After inquiry\"]. And they knew what they were going to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2296.5", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " If the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton has that type of conscience and intelligence, I am quite sure—if I may say this without profanity—that when he appears before the Old Gentleman, it will not be accepted as a valid excuse for his conduct on various occasions if he says that the Whips told him. I know that the group that sits with me on these benches is not popular in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2300.1", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEM- BERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "We only proposed to move this Amendment formally and to divide upon it, but the speech of the Postmaster-General compels me to reply, because he wiped the Amendment off with two or three airy sentences. Boiled down to its essence what he said was, \"You can trust the Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2301.0", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "is being nullified by this Government. First they got away with Orders-in-Council with a free hand, and we are standing here trying to stem this tide of reaction that is setting in to the political life of this country. In other words, it is tantamount to a dictatorship. I would again draw attention to the fact that there is just one Member of the Government, the one and only himself, now present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2301.0", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "e shipping interests better than the President of the Board of Trade, and he should respond to the request of Members in every quarter who are standing by me to do something to make it known that the Cunarder has to go on. It does not mean simply men being out of work in Clydebank. It means men walking the streets all over the country. I make an appeal to the Government on behalf of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1931-12-11", "file": "debates1931-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "53c40a9ee9857bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2309.1", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "BROADCASTING (POLITICAL ADDRESSES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "An [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "make is a very serious matter. That is what has been known as the last word which came over the broadcast on the very eve of the poll. The very last words were: On your action or failure to act may depend your own and your children's future and the security and prosperity of your country. I quite agree that no one could take exception to that, but the point is that the words were used as a slogan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1931-12-11a.2309.1"}