{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-20", "file": "debates1953-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f20abde01c9744b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-20a.3.9", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that many of us are wondering if it is the intention of the Government to make these increases as high as possible so that people cannot take up their ration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-20a.3.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-20", "file": "debates1953-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f20abde01c9744b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-20a.7.6", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "roved exceedingly obstinate in granting increased widows' pensions for the widows of ex-Service—Regular Service—people, and is still continuing obstinate in relation to increasing retired pay for Service officers and a whole variety of questions on which the Treasury have been approached, not to mention the one which is being put at this moment, will my right hon. Friend behave like a human being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-20a.7.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-20", "file": "debates1953-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f20abde01c9744b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-20a.31.4", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in 1948 we saw the largest number of houses built under a Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-20a.31.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-20", "file": "debates1953-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "f20abde01c9744b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-20a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHITE FISH AND HERRING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Duthie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And make a profit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Duthie", "preceding_text": "e Scottish Committee doing something worth while. I believe that there is a flaw in the white fish subsidy, necessary though that subsidy is. People have asked why there should be subsidies for the fishing industry. The reason why we have got to subsidise the fishing industry today is that the public of this country will not pay the cost of landing fish on our shores and passing it to the markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-20a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.181.5", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that one radio licence covers all one's equipment in a house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.181.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.211.4", "colnum": "211", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "hey are separate Motions, they all deal with furniture, and if it is the will of the House, but not otherwise, I am prepared to allow the debate on the Motion about to be moved to range over the three Motions, on the understanding that at the end, if it is desired to take Divisions on the Prayers, they will be moved formally. If that is the will of the House. I am prepared to agree to that course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "luded in the bed settee. Bookshelves open at the back, front and sides, of good modern design, are not included in code F1 and have to pay the full tax. A firm makes a woven type of nursery chair but containing a musical instrument in the seat which used to be classed as Utility by the Board of Trade; it is now classed by the Customs and Excise as a musical instrument and pays 66⅔ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "anufacturers to lower their quality. A retailer said to a friend of mine, \"What are all these screws for? Nails were good enough before the war.\" During the debate on the Finance Bill it seemed to us that the Government accepted the view that no change should take place without some new new guarantee of quality being introduced. On the Report stage the Financial Secretary referred to the D Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "roducts. It has expanded its activities over a number of years and built up its reputation in the technical field. It has little experience at all in the field of consumer goods. The Report of the Committee on the Organisation and Constitution of the British Standards Institution, in 1950, said that its experience of specifications for consumer goods was limited. In fact, it is only now beginning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "There is nothing further I can say on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Much of it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "furniture manufactured. That is an unreasonable supposition. I am quite open to conviction that there is a danger of standards being debased, and I think that we should take all practical steps in our power to prevent it, but I do ask the House to have a sense of proportion. It is not at all true to say that, between the wars and before the last war, all the furniture produced was shoddy rubbish —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Many of them were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " debased, and I think that we should take all practical steps in our power to prevent it, but I do ask the House to have a sense of proportion. It is not at all true to say that, between the wars and before the last war, all the furniture produced was shoddy rubbish —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Much of it was.\"] —any more than it is true to say that most of the houses produced before the war were jerry-built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "it is true to say that most of the houses produced before the war were jerry-built. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Many of them were.\"] I have been seeking from people with a great deal of knowledge of the furniture industry some estimate of the extent to which shoddy furniture was manufactured before the war, and the estimate of those with great authority in this industry is something between 5 and 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "be a great debasement of standards, and I will give my reasons. First, the average man who makes something does not like making a rotten job of it. He takes a pride in making a good article. There is no satisfaction to him in making something which he knows is poor, and the real reason we had what shoddy manufacture there was before the war was intensity of competition, due to economic depression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "FURNITURE (D SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " side of our trade, and I am very hopeful indeed that, as a result of this new Measure, we shall get a revival of the manufacture of the sort of furniture we can successfully sell overseas. What I think is important, and no hon. Member opposite has mentioned this point, is that we are in an age when design is becoming more and more important and when people are more design-minded than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-21", "file": "debates1953-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c22c7230cddc5e62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "APPLES AND PEARS MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. J. M. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. J. M. Alport", "preceding_text": "ularise some of those varieties of apples which are little known to the general public, mainly because of their local origin, but which are nevertheless of the most exquisite flavour. Perhaps I may say, on behalf of the local product of my area, that the Darcy Spice apple is far better from the point of view of flavour, if not perhaps from that of presentation, than any other apple in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-21a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-22", "file": "debates1953-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bad679ef0e2f23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-22a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I should like to verify that point, but I do not think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-22a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-22", "file": "debates1953-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "bad679ef0e2f23cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-22a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But permission.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "great call today for greater production from the land. We are still importing 50 per cent. of our food. There is one aspect of the problem which I have not heard discussed in this debate. In my constituency there is a healthy and very vigorous gardens and allotments association. Speaking at Dolgelly last week—where the Home Secretary will be speaking next week, but certainly without my assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-22a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-23", "file": "debates1953-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "54adfcbe4203a701", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-23a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (CONDUCT OF BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "ent business; why should they have to make long journeys in order to be here for a Division, with the chance that there may not, after all, be a Division and that their journey will have been unnecessary? Hon. Members may hold up their hands in horror at some of these suggestions, but I will dare another one which may not find universal acceptance. Why should we not have a time limit for speeches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-23a.539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-23", "file": "debates1953-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "54adfcbe4203a701", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-23a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (CONDUCT OF BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An organised campaign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I was referring to the immediate ones. If the hon. Member wants to refer to the one late sitting with which I was concerned on 8th March, 1951, let us have the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-23a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-23", "file": "debates1953-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "54adfcbe4203a701", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-23a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (CONDUCT OF BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "e. He was barracked throughout his speech. I was to speak for 10 minutes. It took me an hour to conclude my speech because of ceaseless obstruction. So it is no use referring to that incident, because the long delay then was entirely due to hon. Members opposite. Now we come to the recent debates on the Public Works Loan Bill and the Army Annual Bill. Those prolonged debates were pure obstruction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-23a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-23", "file": "debates1953-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "54adfcbe4203a701", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-23a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (CONDUCT OF BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "meone here does not speak. To make this into a place of purely professional politicians would bring us into contempt with the public. They would say we knew nothing about it and had no effective contact with the world outside. The hon. Member for Accrington (Mr. H. Hynd) said that we ought to visit factories. On Monday I was in a factory at South Wales of which I am a director, refreshing my mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-23a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman considered the problem of a corporation like Oldham bearing this expense of reconditioning 10,000 houses, most of which cannot be re-conditioned, anyhow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Gentleman considered the problem of a corporation like Oldham bearing this expense of reconditioning 10,000 houses, most of which cannot be re-conditioned, anyhow? [ Laughter. ] I am very much obliged for that intervention. What I said was: Has the Minister considered the case of Oldham in attempting to recondition something like 10,000 houses, most of which could not be efficiently reconditioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "What is this Chief Inspector doing as a result of the 6,000 deaths that took place in the Greater London area in December as a result of the fog? Is the Minister aware that his complacency in dealing with this problem is creating a lot of dismay, and is he further aware that the increasing use of modern domestic fires, which burn all night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "as a result of the 6,000 deaths that took place in the Greater London area in December as a result of the fog? Is the Minister aware that his complacency in dealing with this problem is creating a lot of dismay, and is he further aware that the increasing use of modern domestic fires, which burn all night—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] —using such smoky fuels as nutty slack, is adding to the number of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the statement which was published in the Yorkshire Press is in direct contradiction of the statement the Minister has now made from the Despatch Box, may I quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the statement which was published in the Yorkshire Press is in direct contradiction of the statement the Minister has now made from the Despatch Box, may I quote—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] —for the information of the Minister and to substantiate what I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.837.7", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He drops them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Works neither makes nor sells bricks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.837.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "ROYAL PREROGATIVE (DISALLOWED MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " of which I had submitted documentary points to him. That question was whether it was possible, by Question and answer, to raise questions of the Royal Prerogative. You will remember that, until 1916 or so, it was almost a commonplace to raise questions of the Royal Prerogative, and, historically speaking, this power was taken away from the House because we were executing so many decent Irishmen —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "ROYAL PREROGATIVE (DISALLOWED MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " to this matter. It is within the recollection of any Member of this House who has been here during the past five years that we had a considerable discussion on capital punishment during the proceedings on the Criminal Justice Bill, and this House carried a new Clause which I think was moved by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) calling for the abolition of capital punishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "ROYAL PREROGATIVE (DISALLOWED MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "e. If it be in the power of a Speaker to say, \"This Motion is not scurrilous, not sordid or not intrinsically wicked, but in my judgment it ought to be removed from the Order Paper,\" then he is taking a responsibility which is an invasion of our privileges and taking up a position which makes it possible for us to suggest that he is protecting a Minister or a Government, and I respectfully submit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "ROYAL PREROGATIVE (DISALLOWED MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ide these matters in accordance with the Rules of the House. I have no power to alter them, and, indeed, I should be false to my trust to the House were I to play fast and loose with the recognised practices and Rules of the House. My Ruling last night by no means prevents the House from taking cognisance of this matter. A Motion can be put down on this subject when the sentence has been executed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "ROYAL PREROGATIVE (DISALLOWED MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Before we leave this matter, the last statement made by you, Mr. Speaker, is an extremely serious one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "ROYAL PREROGATIVE (DISALLOWED MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Before we leave this matter, the last statement made by you, Mr. Speaker, is an extremely serious one. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I ask hon. Members to listen to what I have to say. I have been responsible for a good many Bills in this House; do I understand your Ruling to be that a Minister can make representations to the Chair and have removed from the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "ROYAL PREROGATIVE (DISALLOWED MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is most improper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " from the Order Paper—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Please listen, because anybody can make representations to the Chair if he is a Member of the House. Do you, Mr. Speaker, say that if a notice, which has been put down tonight, is out of order it will be ruled out of order tomorrow? Does the Chair, then, take the responsibility of standing between an hon. Member who wishes to move it and the Order Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.861.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "ROYAL PREROGATIVE (DISALLOWED MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, they did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Further to that, with very great respect I say that no one suggested, or hinted, or meant to hint or conveyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.865.13", "colnum": "865", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " this Agreement also we take a certain amount of Argentine lamb but not Argentine mutton. The price, of course, is higher than under the last Agreement. So also is the price we have had to pay to other suppliers. It is always difficult in a negotiation of this sort to say more or to form a clear view as to whether the price is the best, from whichever party's point of view, that could be obtained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.865.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.891.4", "colnum": "891", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rather a death bed repentance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I should be out of order to pursue that, but my answer is, yes. We live in a difficult economic. world, and the need for this Supplementary Estimate and the sacrifices it involves in tax can only be understood by our people if we are all frank with them and tell them the facts we know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.891.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member should have listened.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I hope that we shall receive some enlightenment when the winding-up speech is made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-27", "file": "debates1953-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "71ab22c23630fbda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53; ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "no company in the British Army would send out instructions of that sort without having had some authority from Whitehall. In other words, I presume that the Secretary of State for War is responsible for this permission having been given. I wish to ask the Secretary of State whose cars they are to repair. Is it to be only the officers' cars, or will it be the cars of the privates and the corporals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-27a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.978.5", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was done yesterday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman thought of suggesting to the Minister of Supply that at some time some public tribute should be paid to the services of my right hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Mr. G. R. Strauss), the previous Minister of Supply, in the work that he did in producing both military and civil aircraft?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "an Defence Community, is the right hon. Gentleman not now aware of the position taken up by the French Government in a statement recently made by M. Rene Mayer on this subject? Is it not becoming increasingly obvious that the French Government have no intention of associating themselves directly with E.D.C. until the United Kingdom decides to associate itself with E.D.C., and in view of the delay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1032.5", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman made some play, and that was the request by the Conservative Party in opposition, during the passage of his Measure in 1949, that the then Government should postpone the bringing into operation of the Act until after the General Election. I ask hon. Members opposite to recognise fairly, as I am sure they will, that the circumstances then were totally different from what they are today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1032.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1032.5", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "tive Party in opposition, during the passage of his Measure in 1949, that the then Government should postpone the bringing into operation of the Act until after the General Election. I ask hon. Members opposite to recognise fairly, as I am sure they will, that the circumstances then were totally different from what they are today. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] We were then at the fag end of a Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1032.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "In the spirit of good will and amity in which I propose to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "ion was that the distribution of steel was undertaken by the Government, the price of steel was fixed by the Government, and the present Government had already declared its intention of getting rid of the Council by annulling the 1949 Act. The Government and their party supporters never tire of telling us that their aim is to pull down the restriction of a planned economy and to create a free one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "During the Christmas Recess I took an opportunity of meeting most of the Sheffield steel interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "oard. The sort of men I have in mind are the younger brilliant men such as we have in our industry. It would be wrong to give any names on the Floor of this Committee, but I assure the Minister that there are on the managerial staffs of some of our modern companies some extremely brilliant young men. They have been upgraded as a result of nationalisation. Some were upgraded before nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": " is used in the Rent Restrictions Acts. It has given rise to a certain amount of difficulty, but nevertheless it has been, broadly, an expression which the courts have found no excessive difficulty in interpreting. At any rate, we adopted it and it implies a clear conception of what we have in mind. When we came to the question of the part-time member, we adopted a different and more lenient test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-28", "file": "debates1953-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fd9d1172db7027", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1153.7", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Follick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Follick", "preceding_text": "4, one of 13, three children of 15—one the child of a Minister who used to sit on those benches which was sent to a cramming institution in order to bring it up to the standard required to be able to pass the examination. That is not gaining knowledge; it is just cramming and stuffing the pupil with a certain amount of knowledge to pass an examination. I am going to give the names of two children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-28a.1153.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1172.6", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Johnson", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister agree with me that the longer her party stays in power the bigger the size of classes will become?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is right that I should give information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I think I treated the House and the hon. Lady with the greatest courtesy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1188.7", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1188.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": " where an iron foundry in connection with an engineering firm has ever experienced any difficulties. After putting this on record, I shall take no further part. There is and remains profound indignation in the engineering trade, despite what the Minister told us of a certain conference. I have not had a report of that conference, but I am told by certain people that those present were blackmailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that if his party get back to power and the question of re-nationalisation of the industry arises, the foundries will be included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Fienburgh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Fienburgh", "preceding_text": "rsee; to superintend.\" They are vague words. To me, the word \"superintend\" mainly brings to mind a Sunday school outing with recalcitrant children and a harassed person trying to organise them, which is, perhaps, a proper analogy as far as the controlling powers of the Bill are concerned. But the word \"control,\" in my dictionary, means \"to exercise power over; to govern; to restrain; to regulate.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1224.2", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "I think we are now playing with words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1230.5", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " a question, because he seemed quite obviously to be disregarding everything I said. In what I said I took fully into account the consideration that he had in mind. I had in mind the social considerations, defence considerations and so on but I put this point which he has not mentioned, namely, that these other considerations, social and defence, should be left within the province of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " erudite discussion about the meaning of the English language. It was he who said that he had found in his dictionary that one of the meanings of \"supervision\" was \"control.\" He therefore sought to assure us that there should be no difficulty in our accepting the Amendment. The hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) quoted from a Conservative document, with which I am not familiar —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-29", "file": "debates1953-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "d3c1f965432e62fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or snooper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller)", "preceding_text": "rectors' meetings and as to the internal affairs of the company to which he was appointed director. If that is the case —and it seems to me that that must be the purpose because he cannot be intended to be there just to fulfil the normal functions of a director—then, to use plain language, the director so appointed to the Board of a public company would be acting no more and no less than as a spy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-29a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "unty cricket is particularly profitable, but one should differentiate between sports and not lump them together. There is a big difference between, say, greyhound racing and county cricket, but both are commercialised sports. If the Bishop thinks that any particular commercialised sport is wrongly or badly run in the country, then it is wrongly and badly organised on Saturday as well as on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "That is just the point. If a thing is wrong, it is as wrong on Saturday as on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "ticularly wrong with a sport being commercialised, providing it is well and decently run. A particular sport may be badly run. I do not think. that county cricket is badly run, and I do not see why that commercial sport should not be run on Sundays as well as Saturdays. A different point of view might be taken about greyhound racing, but if it is wrong it is equally wrong on Saturday as on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1355.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "elieve, with the strong organisation of labour we have in this country, that if a group of people do not want to work on a Sunday they will be made to do so. The answer is that they will just not do it. A certain hon. Member of this House who is an official of one of the large trade union organisations has assured me that no man would he penalised if he had conscientious objections to Sunday work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1355.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "his country, that if a group of people do not want to work on a Sunday they will be made to do so. The answer is that they will just not do it. A certain hon. Member of this House who is an official of one of the large trade union organisations has assured me that no man would he penalised if he had conscientious objections to Sunday work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] No, I am quite certain that anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1357.4", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "I was under the impression, perhaps wrongly, that for Wales the position regarding the law is entirely different from that in Northern Ireland, and the hon. Member for Dagenham and I were of the impression that Welsh and English law on this matter could be brought together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1357.4", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "t from that in Northern Ireland, and the hon. Member for Dagenham and I were of the impression that Welsh and English law on this matter could be brought together. [Interruption.] I cannot at this stage argue the case for a Welsh Parliament. To sum up, I am quite certain—and I think the last few years have shown it—that if there are no organised amusements on Sundays, there will be organised vice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1383.3", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": " I live and think and read the more certain I am that it contains the truth. The one reason why there is a kind of iron curtain today between the members of the Churches and the rest of the community is the feeling on the part of the rest of the community that in many respects the Churches, when they cannot get their way by persuasion, do all they can to obstruct others in going the way they want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Jeger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member quoted the letter that we have all received from a number of well-known actors and actresses. Is he not aware that there are thousands of actors and actresses who are out of work today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Jeger", "preceding_text": "Opponents of the Bill appear to be under the illusion that Sunday is regarded by the vast majority of people in this country as a day of rest and relaxation. It is not. If they were to keep their eyes open in the big cities and small towns they would see outside the cinemas which are permitted by local option to open queues forming early on Sundays of people anxious to go into those cinemas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "nstance, the performers cannot make up, they cannot wear any kind of costume, they cannot make any gesture, they cannot indulge in dancing. Strangely enough there can be one comedian telling stories but not two comedians indulging in cross-talk. Yet, as the Under-Secretary explained to us, by some strange whim there can be debates. Apparently cross-talk and debates are divided into two categories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "on Sunday, why should we deny them that same right in regard to other innocent—sometimes more innocent—forms of entertainment in exactly the same way and with exactly the same safeguards? The Bill proposes to set the people free—to use a phrase that has been used extensively in other connections; freedom to do as they like so long as they are not causing hurt or offence to other reasonable people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "sely what we propose to do in this Bill, and we do not suggest that the man in Whitehall knows best. We are suggesting that the men and women in their localities know best. No one would be forced to go to any form of entertainment on a Sunday if he preferred to go to the Sunday meetings that are addressed regularly by those who are opposing this Bill but who take part in Sunday political meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They are left free to decide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Thompson", "preceding_text": "Apart from the difference between the two parties in the House on the question of political meetings, is the hon. Member not aware that there are members of his own party, which by long practice holds meetings on Sundays, who for reasons of deep conviction will not take part in Sunday meetings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "preceding_text": "I was reluctant to speak today and I feel obliged to do so only because so many of the speeches that have been made today by hon. Members who are members of various Christian denominations have seemed to me to contain, if I may say so with all respect to my colleagues, elements of confusion and elements of unconscious humbug.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-01-30", "file": "debates1953-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1924567013eeed4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY OBSERVANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is recorded.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "I think that point adequately answers the objection. One of the signatories of this letter himself is advertised as taking part in entertainment broadcasts from Radio Luxembourg every Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-01-30a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1468.2", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST STATES (BRITISH AIRCRAFT EXPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "So far as the situation in Egypt is concerned, there has been a change of situation in that General Neguib has come to power. That is a changed situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1480.6", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "were mainly concerned met this morning and further arrangements were made for the constant co-operation of all Departments, local authorities and other organisations. It is not yet possible to measure the magnitude of the loss either in life or in material, but it is clear that the catastrophe is one which will require to be treated upon a national basis and, broadly, as a national responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1487.4", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "FORMOSA (UNITED STATES' DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. The position of the Prime Minister today—it is one with which I do not wholly agree—is that he declines to make any statement because the Foreign Secretary will make one tomorrow. If any question of the Adjournment should arise—it is for Mr. Speaker to decide—I should have thought that it would be better if it were to arise when we knew the full statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1487.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " a difficulty, because the matter which I wish to raise concerns the Home Office and the Home Office Vote and no part of the Home Office Vote is included in the Bill. I will take the opportunity to ask you in what circumstances there would be an early opportunity for doing what I am sure the vast majority of people in this country wish to do, namely, to ask the Home Secretary for an ex- planation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1495.2", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "man had an opportunity to deploy that argument recently, but he did not do so. It cannot be deployed because it is apart from the fact. We now get apologies and explanations from the benches opposite. On the subject of our immediate consideration, the Tory Party say in the next paragraph: We shall maintain our system\"— note \"our system\"— of guaranteed prices and assured markets for farm products\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "preceding_text": " new 1956 programme, and the mere fact that we have had such a large increase in production and such a response already, indicates that confidence has returned. I do not complain about the questions put to me by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Greenock and I shall do my best to answer them. It is quite true that there has been some apprehension in the minds of farmers regarding the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1519.0", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "This is most important. This is the nearest we have got yet to any statement of policy. For 1953 the farmers will be paid at the prices to be fixed at the Price Review —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1519.4", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "With great respect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1519.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "of course, had to go round to Bedford Square to apologise and explain. Indeed, after the speech of the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, he has plenty to apologise for and to explain, because that indeed was a speech, if ever one was made, to alarm every farmer in the country. Ever since the return of this Government. there has been in the countryside a malaise in the farming community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Grass.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Of course, there is an element of estimating, but previously when the price for beef has been fixed it has been fixed upon the basis of a controlled price for the feedingstuffs which were going to be the beef.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "tolerable to the rest of the community. What invariably happens is that the industrial interests—and remember that when it comes to the pinch the industrial interests control the party opposite—win. When there is a showdown between agriculture and industry, industry wins every time. That is why every single time there has been a Conservative Government in peace-time, agriculture has been betrayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "nstead of giving these subsidies, would give credit—what the farmer requires—over and above what the bank will give, so that he can go on with his production. As a Labour Government, we were criticised for the money which we spent abroad. It was often said from these benches when hon. Members opposite occupied them that the money which was spent in Africa and elsewhere should have been spent here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1554.3", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "We have accepted it. Conservatives are rather different from other politicians. Once we have accepted, we have accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1554.3", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not know yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "ons I am sure it would be much appreciated. This is more of a political debate than a serious debate on the condition of agriculture. At the time of the last General Election the cry of the Socialists was, \"If you send the Conservative Party back to power; if you have the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) as Prime Minister, we shall be involved in war.\" That one has gone by the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgusting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ueen of Scots, and when I die they will find, \"marginal acres\" engraved on my heart. I would like to hear less about opencast mining, marginal acres, land taken for schools, cheap loans and taxation relief, and more about acreage yields. This is the solution to our problem. If the National Farmers' Union, with its huge income and magnificent propaganda machine, the best this country has ever seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1569.3", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "arm workers. The way to secure them is to see that they are paid as highly as are any industrial workers, that they are given good cottages reasonably close to a transport system and with the amenities which their wives would expect to find in a town. We must have that, and we could get that if we were allowed to leave more of our capital on the job than we are permitted to do at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1577.2", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "of confidence in the industry, which is manifested in the fact that many of the best farm workers are leaving the industry because of lack of opportunity and lack of confidence in the way the right hon. Gentleman is conducting his stewardship, as has been pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Wednesbury. This Motion on the Order Paper is something which in no sense expresses party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member said it was the only policy we could have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1589.2", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is no use saying, \"Hear, hear,\" with all respect to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance, whose contribution we have missed so much today. We have not the responsibility at the moment, whereas the Tory Party have, and so it is the Tory Party's record that matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1589.2", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hat matters—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh,\"] Oh, yes. One does not suspect the people who cannot do any harm because they have not the power. The people who have the power today are the ones to suspect. They are the ones whose record matters. Therefore, it is the record of the Tory Party which matters. They did these things, whatever encouragement they got from other sources, and that is really what matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "culture must deal with certain things. There must be a food production plan, and there must be some targets and priorities within it. There must be price guarantees, provision for credit facilities and for adequate capital investment in the industry. There must be some arrangement either to enable private enterprise to do it, or, as I think even better, for the State to step into that partnership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " and priorities within it. There must be price guarantees, provision for credit facilities and for adequate capital investment in the industry. There must be some arrangement either to enable private enterprise to do it, or, as I think even better, for the State to step into that partnership. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalisation.\"] No, not nationalisation. Why run off on those sloppy, silly, slogans?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nd doing nothing. But there was one patch of 600 acres which one courageous tenant farmer has cultivated off his own bat, relying on the guarantees and security given under the 1947 Act. But the other thousands of acres are not being cultivated, and will not be cultivated. Why should not the State see that help is given to bring those acres under cultivation? There is much more that one could say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1601.2", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Does that mean that no extra currency is going to be required? Does the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1601.2", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Does that mean that no extra currency is going to be required? Does the Minister— [Interruption.] The Prime Minister was not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1601.2", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Does that mean that no extra currency is going to be required? Does the Minister— [Interruption.] The Prime Minister was not here. [Interruption.] The Prime Minister has not chosen to listen to the debate and he should keep quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1601.7", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should look at paragraph 5, as it deals with the matter. I cannot answer all the points made by the right hon. Gentleman, but I will go on to the next point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1601.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I could say a very great deal about the 1947 programme, but I would only say that the House should note what Her Majesty's Government have done to put new life into the agricultural industry during this year. When we took over in the autumn of 1951 the industry was in a depressed condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1607.3", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ONE-WAY STREET, VICTORIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not go into partnership?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "hat was happening. I have discussed the matter with taxi drivers and bus drivers, and every person with whom I have discussed it is, with the exception of one man, against the proposal. The exception is a barrow boy who stations his barrow in the street because under existing circumstances he is not chivvied about by the police, and he has the most perfect site anywhere in the City of Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-02", "file": "debates1953-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e270f21df96961d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1607.3", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ONE-WAY STREET, VICTORIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "e effective consultation with the people who use the street concerned. I am certain that that has not taken place. This is only a minor matter by itself, and I do not wish to detain the House. I am quite certain that the one-way street has been made the wrong way round. That does not surprise me because we had a debate about six months ago about another one-way street which is the wrong way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-02a.1607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1647.5", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Is it not rather belated of the hon. and learned Gentleman to be taking this interest in a problem which his own Government during their term of office did nothing whatever to cure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1647.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "nal officers at Caxton House, the town clerk was given approval to go ahead with requisitioning, and that it was not until 3.30 that a telephone call was received from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government to state that a meeting had been held at the highest level and a decision taken that none of these empty houses had to be requisitioned for people who were homeless because of the floods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "m problem is after the people have been given temporary accommodation in furnished homes, and in some cases in schools which are furnished but which may not always be comfortable—but we hope that there will be furnished homes for them—to assess the housing need on a permanent basis. When that is done, my right hon. Friend will not exclude requisitioning and many other items from his consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1660.2", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Surely, in view of what has been said by my two hon. Friends, the Parliamentary Secretary will look into this matter again very urgently. Is it not clear that a mistake has been made somewhere and that homeless people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1660.2", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Surely, in view of what has been said by my two hon. Friends, the Parliamentary Secretary will look into this matter again very urgently. Is it not clear that a mistake has been made somewhere and that homeless people—[HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am asking a question, Mr. Speaker. Is it not clear that a mistake has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He made it himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "There are two points. First, my right hon. Friend has denied that there was a cancellation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " are two points. First, my right hon. Friend has denied that there was a cancellation. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He made it himself.\"] The second is that he has written to the hon. Gentleman explaining that there was no cancellation of these requisitioning notices, and I think that the hon. Gentleman has a letter to that effect. In any case, the requisitioning of property is not the answer to the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "es it come about that the hon. Gentleman denies that the requisitioning has been cancelled? He cannot have it both ways. Either the requisitioning has been cancelled in the meantime in order to carry out the principle which the Parliamentary Secretary has announced, or the requisitioning is still alive and, therefore, the houses are available immediately. Will the hon. Gentleman tell us the truth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1661.3", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Quite apart from the question as to the nature of the instructions given, surely the important thing is that the people should be dealt with at the earliest possible moment. Surely in that the Minister has stated that requisitioning of empty property is by no means excluded from the ultimate step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "This is a serious matter because it affects a very large number of people and there are very many empty properties in various parts of the country. May I ask if there is any real difficulty in finding furniture and everything for these houses? In that Department we had plenty of experience of floods before and we found no difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " empty properties in various parts of the country. May I ask if there is any real difficulty in finding furniture and everything for these houses? In that Department we had plenty of experience of floods before and we found no difficulty. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the question?\"] Will the hon. Gentleman assure the House that, despite the fact that it might put an additional charge on the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1663.2", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Again I will read the first sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1668.6", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary may be assured that the whole country will be very much behind him in his resistance to any attempt on the part of anybody to turn this tragedy into a political issue. I want to ask a specific question regarding requisitioning. I know for a fact that certain areas have already been given permission to requisition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1668.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "esistance to any attempt on the part of anybody to turn this tragedy into a political issue. I want to ask a specific question regarding requisitioning. I know for a fact that certain areas have already been given permission to requisition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am only asking for the assurance that where permission has been given in a specific area, that permission is not going to be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1668.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1669.6", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. With great respect, you have thought fit to admonish the whole House for making this great national disaster a matter of party controversy. We accept that. Will you also indicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "In this particular case, which is one I had notice of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "n.] The right hon. Gentleman must remember that since this emergency started, my right hon. Friend has been out in the flooded areas, and so have I, and it has not been easy to find out what has been happening in every area. In the particular case of which I was given private notice, that is, Erith, the information we have is that permission was not given and therefore no cancellation took place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1673.2", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "FORMOSA (UNITED STATES' DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "There were continuing discussions on the same topic. I think the last representations were made in Washington and not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1673.3", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "FORMOSA (UNITED STATES' DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I asked that question, not because I was alleging anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1673.4", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "FORMOSA (UNITED STATES' DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "No. I am sorry, I cannot give an absolute assurance that they were given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1674.3", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "FORMOSA (UNITED STATES' DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. The Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "May I be allowed to add one word?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1719.3", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The present Chancellor of the Exchequer said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": "wages of the coal miners up as hard as he possibly can, in proportion to production. The United States must import in order to export, whereas we have to export in order to earn the essentials of life. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are terribly defeatist about our position sometimes. I have often heard them say in this House that the position has been deteriorating over the last 50 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1722.1", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was the House of Lords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": " it did anything in this respect, it would quite certainly be the wrong thing, and I should have thought that the Chancellor would be very wise—he has not been unfamiliar with this attitude, at any rate—to bear in mind the old and perhaps hackneyed words of W. S. Gilbert in describing a Whig Administration of the last century as a Government which \"Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "Because it has been closely connected with that from the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "That was not exactly the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-03", "file": "debates1953-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "28bb415eac2e3e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "That was not exactly the issue. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes it was.\"] What the right hon. Gentleman was telling us, and I am within the recollection of the House, was that owing to the fact that we were what he called a social democracy nobody amongst the great capitalists would want to invest here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-03a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1829.8", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "But in any case it is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1829.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1852.2", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "has asked me to reply. As my right hon. Friend has informed the hon. Member, he does not agree that there was any cancellation. Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is really very misleading merely to say there was no cancellation? Would not it have been better to have admitted that permission to requisition had been refused and that therefore the question of cancellation did not arise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1856.3", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT MOTIONS (STANDING ORDER No. 9)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": " been dealing with something other than the Consolidated Fund Bill, you could have said that we would have been on the Adjournment at ten o'clock. I suggest, with great respect, that in future no Ruling of that kind should be given in these circumstances, because you could not know that the Adjournment debate would be reached. I say, with great respect, that the Government were saved by a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT MOTIONS (STANDING ORDER No. 9)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "as, for example the Irish Nationalist Party or the I.L.P. did, any hon. Friends of mine, if they had been so minded, could clearly have disobeyed the arrangements reached between the Government and the Opposition Front Benches and could have talked about the Consolidated Fund Bill ad libitum or, in the case of an ordinary Bill, until 10 o'clock, whatever the arrangements between the Front Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1866.0", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. These imputations should not be made. The hon. Member should not impute to the right hon. Member the Leader of the House the motive of leaving the House because he knew a question was going to be raised. That was going rather too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1865.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1867.1", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not rising to a point of order, but raising my voice in appeal to the Minister. He is fully aware of the feeling which exists about this Measure. The business of the House was arranged long before the unexpected disaster, questions on which have occupied the time of the House. May I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman to extend the time for discussions upon the Report stage of the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "times some reason for the Government's subsidising a particular part of the country that is distressed, but there can be no logical ground whatever for any part of the country subsidising London transport. This huge city, with so many people, with a very high rate of turnover, a high rate of passenger miles, ought to be able to provide the cheapest and most efficient transport system in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": " the country that is distressed, but there can be no logical ground whatever for any part of the country subsidising London transport. This huge city, with so many people, with a very high rate of turnover, a high rate of passenger miles, ought to be able to provide the cheapest and most efficient transport system in the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"] Why, then, cannot it stand on its own feet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1875.1", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "go: Our great anxiety is to make sure that in the political struggle which is going on over this matter the nation should not suffer.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd December, 1952; Vol. 508, c. 1604.] I am sure that this thought guided him through all the far too few years he spent in this House. I thought it right to take this first opportunity of making these comments about a very respected hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1878.6", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "longer a matter of a little man with a lorry, but that if industry and trade are to be served efficiently it must be organised much on the lines that the 1947 Act envisaged, as is being done by British Road Services. It is precisely because this evidence is accumulating that we dislike and detest the proposals in this Bill and will continue to fight it here and in another place when it gets there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1878.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not 40,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ld be so. First, there will be no forced sale within a period of nine months. The Minister indicated that he expected to get the whole operation through in that period of time. Everybody who thinks about this subject knows that if 40,000 vehicles are shovelled on the market, and if it is expected that they will be got rid of between Easter and next Christmas, there is bound to be a buyers' market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1889.0", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aubrey Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aubrey Jones", "preceding_text": "ble capital loss, he should retain to himself a right to waive the operation of the levy Clauses. In short, I suggest to him that the levy Clauses, instead of being compulsory as they now are, should be made discretionary. This, in substance, is the case for the Amendment standing in the name of my hon. Friend and myself. Having made the case for it, probably I have a duty to put the case against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1901.0", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "t the end of his speech I assumed that he was in favour of the Amendments. If he is in favour of the Amendments, I hope that that, together with the attitude of his hon. Friend the Member for Hall Green (Mr. Aubrey Jones), will have its effect upon the Minister. I do not say this in any way offensively, but the noble Lord rather twitted the Opposition for having put down this series of Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1902.1", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "amations took place, and we had larger companies formed? The noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South suggested that the trade union movement was not wholeheartedly behind this Bill. He can make what little capital he likes in a speech in this House. I should be the last to complain, because perhaps I am as guilty as any other of saying harsh things, and perhaps even exaggerating on some occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-04", "file": "debates1953-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "47587732363b2dc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "t, he will find that it is completely unworkable. It is all very well to talk about disposing of road haulage vehicles and parcelling them out to other people, to convey the traffic; but is the traffic likely to be there to convey? It will be found that, as a result of disorganising the road haulage system as it now exists, a large and increasing number of private traders will take out C licences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-04a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2040.3", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS (MEMBERS' INTERESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is clear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In order that your Ruling may be absolutely clear, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2054.1", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ", to report to the House of Commons on his visit. I still ask him to be the good Parliamentarian which we believe he is at heart. In all these circumstances, and in view of all the possibilities, we think that the United Kingdom Government should have been consulted before the American action was announced and before it was finally concluded. Indeed, we think there is a case, and there was a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2054.1", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Canada.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " their business. It was not essential, however, that it should be announced or decided at that point, and we think there could have been and should have been consultation. The United Kingdom is not, after all, only the United Kingdom. We are part of a great Commonwealth, a Commonwealth which includes Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan and Ceylon, apart from our important Colonial Territories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2057.1", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "he fact that the new people were not Ministers, I do not see what better, or indeed what other, channel was open to us in any event. The results of my right hon. Friend's conversations were reported to us, to the Foreign Office, to me. They were all private and confidential, with people who then had no official position so that I cannot think that the House will wish me to give an account of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2057.1", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "eported to us, to the Foreign Office, to me. They were all private and confidential, with people who then had no official position so that I cannot think that the House will wish me to give an account of them. [Interruption.] It would be quite impossible—I ask hon. Gentlemen to look at this matter again—for us to make public what were private discussions with people who had not yet assumed office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2057.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2060.5", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2060.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2061.2", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "them quixotic that their navy should be used in this way. However, the decision taken by the President of the United States does not mean that grave events will necessarily follow. We ought not to exaggerate its significance, but we should try to understand how the Americans feel. The right hon. Gentleman said that the Americans are emotional. I wonder whether that applies to them more than to us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2061.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2064.3", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "It has for some time been conceivably possible that we could reach an armistice whilst leaving our prisoners of war in Communist hands. That is completely unacceptable to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2085.1", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "t he was thus given no opportunity of putting to the House the other side of the case, because, of course, there is another side to it. There is a great deal to be said for the American point of view. I rise for the purpose of expressing the opinion that the House and the country are by no means as alarmed as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) seems to think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2087.1", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "e was warmly applauded from this side of the House and was received in stony silence by his supporters. We all noticed the difference; and I have no doubt that the speech which the hon. Member for Farnham (Mr. Nicholson) has just delivered would be a true picture of what the majority of the Tory Party believe—ardent for America's action, ardent for extending the war, ardent for taking extra risks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2088.1", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "nt not to contain the war in Korea, ardent not to accept the limitation of the war which had been imposed by President Truman, ardent to have those limitations removed so as to extend the area of hostilities. The hon. Member had better remember what he said. He asked whether it would not be sensible to draw off troops from Malaya by actions further south. That can only be called extending the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2090.3", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The interest, as defined by the American Administration, is the overthrow of Chinese Communism. That is the aim of the present Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2090.3", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The interest, as defined by the American Administration, is the overthrow of Chinese Communism. That is the aim of the present Administration. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members opposite should read the works of Mr. Dulles. They should read his speeches and the speeches of President Eisenhower. They believe that the world will not be at peace until Chiang Kai-shek is substituted for Mao Tse-tung.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2092.0", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "He said it would draw the armies down from the north.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ould do. Nobody else has told us, least of all the Foreign Secretary. I should not send in the Navy as my first weapon. We still have consuls in Formosa, although we recognise the Government of Communist China. The Americans have taken unilateral action encouraging Chiang Kai-shek to go on to the mainland. I should respond with the unilateral action of withdrawing the British consuls from Formosa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2099.0", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "Well, if the hon. Member is unable to infer from what I have been saying my support of the Foreign Secretary, I do not know that it will help him very much if I declare categorically that, of course, I support him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2099.0", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "effort will have to be made. I should like just to say one word more. I think both sides of the House have a great deal to overcome—a great many barriers to overcome—in their thinking about world problems today. On the one hand, hon. Members opposite, disillusioned as they are by Russia, the workers' paradise, must feel a tendency to, so to speak, take their revenge on this great capitalist giant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2133.2", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EASTERN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Siam.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "agree.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd February, 1953; Vol. 510, c. 1796.] That is what he has done in this case, but he has not made a protest about it. There is an aspect of this matter which I do not think we should disregard, and that is the interests of our French allies, which are not very far away from our own. It is frequently said that if Indo-China falls then it will be difficult to hold Malaya.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2167.2", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION (COMMERCIAL STATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ample, is it not a fact that the reason why the B.B.C. cannot give complete coverage for the Coronation is that equipment which B.B.C. require is being saved up so as to be available for commercial television? Is it not also a fact that a number of technicians and artists on the B.B.C. Television Service have already been approached by commercial concerns who are hoping to get television licences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2174.5", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION (COMMERCIAL STATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammons", "preceding_text": "not mean in any way that the B.B.C. are to be interfered with. They will continue to be the sole organisation to draw revenue from licences. I gather that the attitude of the Opposition is that, without waiting to see what safeguards are to be imposed on competitive television or on what conditions sponsored television is to be allowed, they are determined to oppose it. They oppose the whole idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-05", "file": "debates1953-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c617a9e6a59a949d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2177.5", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION (COMMERCIAL STATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the statement be has made confirms the view of all responsible people that there should be an immediate, independent public inquiry into his handling of commercial television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-05a.2177.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-06", "file": "debates1953-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "39f88b629128540c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-06a.2182.0", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": " long as is necessary to meet the need. In view of the distress suffered by our friends in Holland, the Women's Voluntary Services believe that it would be the wish of the donors that we should share a part of these gifts of clothing with those who have suffered from the same disaster. An initial consignment of clothing is, therefore, being sent to Holland on behalf of the people of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-06a.2179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF MATERIALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. and learned Gentleman is considering this matter will he also consider the question of the constant infiltration of the Arabs from Jordan into Israel and of their depredations? Will he read the article of Glubb Pasha in \"The Times\" today, in which this is openly admitted, and in which he talks about some of these infiltrees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.29.6", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That does not matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.29.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "he President of the Chamber of Deputies, Italy. The President of the Norwegian Storting, Oslo. The President of the National Assembly, Portugal. The Chairman of the Chamber of Representatives, Belgium. The Speaker of the Knesset, Israel. The President of the Greek Parliament. Athens. I am sure that the House would wish me to express the thanks of all hon. Members to the senders of these telegrams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.33.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EAST COAST FLOOD DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "hanks of all hon. Members to the senders of these telegrams. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] This I have done. I also desire to inform the House that I have sent a telegram to the Voorzitter of the Second Chamber of the Netherlands States-General, expressing the deep sympathy of all Members of this House with the Dutch people in their sorrow caused by the recent disastrous floods in the Netherlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "In that case, I have no time in which to give way. The Minister has misquoted me once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": " third place; that if someone came along and said he required transport, required new services to be provided, and someone came along and said, \"I am able to provide them for you,\" that would have prior consideration over the other considerations of the public interest to which I have referred. Further, these changes provide that charges shall be taken into account, and it is quite clear that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ton, South-West (Mr. Powell) has, with his usual clarity, put the essential issue. As he pointed out, the wording specifies the interests of the public generally as being the first consideration, including primarily those of persons requiring transport, and, secondly, those of persons providing transport. 6.30 p.m. My right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General, whose absence we all regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.106.2", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "d be caused to road transport and the persons providing it. It would deprive the licensing authorities, and on appeal from them the tribunal, of all powers to use ordinary common sense in these matters. If the licensing authority and the tribunal cannot be trusted to exercise discretion left to them under the Bill, surely the logical conclusion must be that the licensing system must be swept away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "I do not like the levy anyway. but, if there is to be a levy, it seems to me that there is a principle upon which we can base it. That is the principle of providing for compensation, the principle of making up for the extreme difficulties in which the Government find themselves in selling so much so quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coward.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "preceding_text": "I want mildly to join the merry band of variegated optimists who hope that the Minister will have another look at this matter. But, much as I hate to disappoint the hon. Member for Accrington (Mr. H. Hynd), if the Minister does not like my optimism I shall not go into the Lobbies against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And schools?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "y the levy. But local authorities are great trading communities. They do not make a profit—I will refer to the profit motive in a moment—but they are great trading communities. If, as a result of de-nationalisation of transport, there is a more rapid conveyance of goods; if, as a result of alterations in the transport service of the country, houses go up faster than before and hospitals are built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "d rather seemed to make a second Second Reading speech, drew attention mainly to the economies which have been effected. The trouble is that very often in these large mergers which leave no competition against them the economies are transitory. Economies in technical working may be offset by very large increases in administration. It will be no part of what I have to say tonight to go into detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Amendment does not deal with that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is very quick to make a point, but I should have thought that it was perfectly obvious that what I am talking about is competition between road and rail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The undoubted eloquence and persuasiveness with which the hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. P. Morris) opened this debate may have had the effect of distracting the attention of the House from what is the real question for decision. He fell, and subsequent speakers have fallen, into a simple logical fallacy. If I may give it its technical name, it is the fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "during the years since 1947 there have been steady and in some ways striking improvements in the working efficiency of the railways and in the methods which they have employed. Since 1947 there has been a Railway Executive. Therefore, said he, it is because of the Railway Executive that we have seen these improvements in railway efficiency. That was the argument, and that precisely is the fallacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members will cast their minds back they will recollect that on the railways in the 1930s the great developments of electrification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend took a course which made them available to the Opposition and to the supporters of the Government. The best method is to place them in the Library. The hon. Gentleman would have been better employed in finding that out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I do not think that Members are expected to go snooping around —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend suggests that any decent Minister would have done SO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-09", "file": "debates1953-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "95ac1d4c592a252d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The approach of the hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Ernest Davies) is somewhat different from that of his hon. Friends, all of whom were former railwaymen, who spoke before him. The former railwaymen worked themselves into a state of indignation because there was to be any change at all in the set-up of the nationalised transport industry. They are indeed the diehards of modern political life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-09a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid it will not be possible to make it retrospective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.221.9", "colnum": "221", "heading": "STORM DAMAGE, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "preceding_text": "f the sad loss yesterday of the Fraserburgh lifeboat with the loss of six men. This is yet another chapter in the sad tale of disaster which has distressed us all so grievously in the course of the last few days. The whole House will, I know, wish to join with me in expressing our sincere sympathy with the relatives of those who have given their lives in the performance of their dangerous calling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.221.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.221.9", "colnum": "221", "heading": "STORM DAMAGE, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "preceding_text": "ticularly to the House a remarkable and very gallant feat of seamanship which saved the crew of the \"Coronia,\" of Lossiemouth, the boat which was lost in the Moray Firth. Skipper William Imlach, of the trawler \"Loch Awe,\" of Aberdeen, received her messages of distress, and in the height of the gale and with a visibility of 50 yards found his way to her by dead reckoning in time to rescue the crew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.221.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.236.5", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not contract carriages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "The London Transport Executive have a monopoly of all services inside the London area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "xpress services, an outside 'bus—using the phrase in the sense of a 'bus which is not part of the London Transport Executive's property—can pick up a passenger outside London and drop him within London or pick up a passenger inside London and drop him outside London, but it cannot pick up and drop a passenger within the London area, with its extension. In that field there is an undoubted monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.240.6", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The noble Lord said there was a monopoly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ht it as well to get this clear at the start in regard to the field where the monopoly operates. While I do not doubt that they will do so, I do not want anybody to interrupt what I am going to say by suggesting that the London Transport Executive have not got a monopoly. I concede straight away that the London Transport Executive have not got a monopoly in the field of contract carriage services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Transport.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), who is not very good mannered when someone seeks to intervene who, according to him, has listened merely to his speech and not the speeches of other people, made a statement that the two bodies were in exactly the same position. I happen to be concerned with the area run by the London Passenger Executive—I think that is what they call themselves now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Competition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " be able to inform the House that the British Transport Commission have now formally given an assurance to the Chamber of Shipping that in the formulation of any future charges schemes for merchandise traffic they will be glad to consult with the representatives of coastal shipping in the same way as in the past, and to give them a reasonable opportunity of considering the effect of the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "preceding_text": " of tribunals at the behest of someone else and again revocation or variation of the previous Orders, in order to try to find a balance which is not a competitive balance. The tribunals are prevented from being competitive by this very procedure. 6.15 p.m. What is the position in regard to coastwise shipping? Is it competitive or is it not? Can it compete with the railways or with motor transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a subsidy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "preceding_text": "those services. Most hon. Members who know anything about coastwise shipping are aware of the tremendous advantages of the potato boats from London to Dundee and vice versa. They were able to carry those goods at very much lower rates than were the railways or the inland road services because they had cheaper facilities and there was no need for speed. They did very well with that kind of traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "That is because Clauses 18 to 23 deal with freeing the Commission from the charges restrictions. It is because of the anxiety caused by those in coastal shipping circles that this Amendment is necessary. We are not dealing here with road and rail charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.314.6", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ion to judge what should be the numerical strength of the Commission when we know what is to be the reorganisation scheme. That will be the time to make a definite decision. None the less, we do feel that there is much to be said for securing sufficient elbow room to allow for the appointment of a fairly substantial number of part-time members. It may be that 12 will prove to be a suitable number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.314.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.330.4", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I make is that if we were to do what the Amendment asks in this field of using the plant and machinery of the Commission for purposes other than for their own use, it would place the Minister in the position of having to decide at what point the public interest would make it desirable for him to put this machinery into operation and that the Commission should undertake work of any particular kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 29.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO COASTAL SHIPPING ADVISORY COMMITTEE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "oblem so much lately. I thought that the hon. Gentleman also knew, though of course he could not possibly have known, that we propose to recommend in another place the temporary holding up of this provision. I hope that it will not be long before it is possible to see all the sections of the transport industry sitting down together harmoniously and effectively trying to secure ordered competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RATES OF TRANSPORT LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "sion which he said he intends to obtain in another place had already gone out of the Bill, whereas it was staring him in the face in the Bill, which just shows into what a muddle this preposterous Guillotine is getting us. Now we are going to discuss the levy in nine minutes. Our proposal is that the application of the levy should be extended from vehicles up to one ton to vehicles up to two tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RATES OF TRANSPORT LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "vides that there is an exemption for vehicles of not more than one ton unladen weight. That will only exclude from the levy very very light vehicles and, whilst there is a fair number of them, nevertheless that number is bound to be limited. It appears to us from the discussions we have had that there was and remains a case for the exclusion of vehicles engaged in the retail distribution of goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.365.5", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RATES OF TRANSPORT LEVY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " concession in another place, which is probably the only stage at which he can do it now. Another argument has been put forward with regard to local authority vehicles. Retail vehicles really do not come into this business of damaging or not damaging the railways. They operate within a limited radius, and I do not see why they should pay any levy. I really do not see also why a sanitary authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.365.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-10", "file": "debates1953-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "f9a448d01372688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION FACILITIES, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An advertisement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "as an advertisement in the \"Daily Telegraph\" today, in the \"Daily Mirror\" on Monday, and in the \"Evening News\" last Friday, as follows: If you want a television set in time for the Coronation now's the time to get one.… Why the hurry? … there will be neither enough sets to go round nor enough time to install the ones that are available. That shows that the television industry itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-10a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is not the real answer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.407.7", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If she can buy it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "It depends, of course, on what side the hon. Member happens to be as to whether it is a good joke or not. Apart altogether from the question of street parties, the position of the housewife today is so much better as she is better able to entertain. She gets her 1 lb. of sugar, extra margarine and cooked ham in plentiful supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.407.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "That is a very characteristic mis-statement by the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.408.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "t he in any way stated to be characteristic of his usual replies. and could I ask him where local authorities can get an ox? Is he aware that local authorities have informed me that they have not got an ox, that they have not even got a mutton chop, and if it is the case that certain local authorities have got an ox is that not rather unfair to all the other local authorities who have not got one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.409.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "SHIPPING, FAR EAST (PROTECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The First Lord of the Admiralty is present and the thing could be settled in a minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "PEERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr, R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": " peers an option and a privilege which they have not got now. I think that is a mistaken view. The option to become a peer of Parliament by presenting himself there and taking the oath is an option which is granted by the existing law. It is not affected by this Bill. If we want to get away from that special privilege which comes to people for hereditary reasons, we can abolish the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Not because of nationalisation, but because of the prospect of freedom again as a great incentive to rising output. What will undoubtedly happen in the course of the next few months is that not only shall we have a relatively free market in iron and steel products, but the supply of many grades of iron and steel may be in excess of demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": " I cannot think that the Committee would want to accept that purpose. I cannot think that my hon. and learned Friend will want to pursue his Amendment or really intends that, or, if he intends that, he does not intend the natural consequences of that. We certainly here do not intend that the Board should have a duty to create competition by hoping to create competitors for the sake of competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In war-time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Yes, if necessary. I know that the direction of labour was not objected to even by those who did the labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-11", "file": "debates1953-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e376fc639fa7d6b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "mmerce degree, which I took, spent the bulk of their days in offices under apprenticeship. It has never been thought by any Government that that sort of boy could be regarded as a full-time student. Hon. Members may say that it is absurd, but the difficulty is that if one was to make special provision for professional students one would have to make an equivalent provision for industrial students.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-11a.563.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "SUDAN (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "If I understood the right hon. Gentleman, he said that if there was a failure by the two Governments to agree, alternatives were to be nominated by the Sudan legislature, one of them to be a British subject, the other Egyptian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "Under its general responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.631.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.653.4", "colnum": "653", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "I think we had better leave that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.653.6", "colnum": "653", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member had heard the sentence I was just beginning, he would know that I began by saying, \"Although the hon. Member said\" and that I am not intending to misquote him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.653.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes, there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I should not like to try to define exactly how it should be phrased. I am sure that there is no difference between us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Expansion of steel works.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "What has the right hon. Gentleman in mind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "What has the right hon. Gentleman in mind? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Expansion of steel works.\"] Yes, but an expansion of works generally leads to increased employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt the Board will, in general, have these matters in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about others?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "dy said, the worst that could happen as a result of not inserting these words—and there are, in my opinion, objections to putting them in which have been made very plain by my hon. Friend—is that the Board would not veto some development scheme. It is very hard to see how extensive local unemployment could be caused by a new works which was, perhaps, not necessary being built in a particular area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ent,\" we want mass unemployment in this country. That is not the case. Our objection—and this is the reason upon which I stand—to including these words is not that we are against full employment—I do not think we need argue that—our objection is, that by inserting these words we are saying to the Board, \"These are the factors and considerations which should decide you to veto a particular scheme.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "We are talking now about the location of industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " Board will be fixing the maximum prices. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman's Amendment is accepted, what it amounts to is that the House of Commons will be saying, \"If you do not do what the Board tell you to do, you will be guilty of a criminal offence and subject to a heavy penalty.\" We will, in fact, be saying that it will be for the Board to lay down what constitutes a criminal offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-12", "file": "debates1953-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "7f982388574b0052", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not have both?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "sufficiently optimistic to think that I have satisfied him on all of them, but I trust that I have at least satisfied him that it is because we regard the injunction procedure as likely to be speedy and effective, followed by adequate sanctions if the injunction is disobeyed, that we have adopted that procedure rather than the criminal procedure for the enforcement of these provisions in the Bill,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-12a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.754.5", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Eric Bullus", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Eric Bullus", "preceding_text": "nd time.\" I subscribe to the sentiments that you, Mr. Speaker, and the hon. Member for Rossendale (Mr. Anthony Greenwood) have expressed. For my part, I shall endeavour to set the pace by restricting my remarks, if possible, to about 20 minutes. It will not have escaped the notice of hon. and right hon. Members that today is Friday, the 13th. Traditionally, we are told that this is an unlucky day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.754.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.757.2", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "preceding_text": "n at Wisbeach up to the eighth stroke, when the punishment was stopped by the surgeon in attendance?\" In reply the Home Secretary, Sir George Grey (Norfolk), said inter alia that he … was afraid he could not give any explanation with regard to these cases. There is no suggestion that under this Bill we should go back to anything of that type—and that is considerably less than 100 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not concentrate on that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the intervention and it does not affect the validity of the sentence which I have quoted. I was advancing the view of Dr. Hadfield that there is a moral quality about a punishment which is deserved. Just punishment does not necesarily mean revenge. Unquestionably the lowering of moral and religious standards generally has much to do with the increase of crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "al note before I proceed any further. This morning I feel very lonely, because an hon. Friend of mine who would have seconded this Amendment is lying in bed with influenza and bronchitis, and another hon. Friend of mine who would have supported me has passed from us while proceeding on a Parliamentary delegation, doing his duty to the very last. I thought it well to mention that before proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "s harnessed voluntary associations of our citizens, men and women of good will, who are gathering experience which will increase in value as they gather more. I hope that the Supervisory Probation Services at Liverpool and other centres will be given encouragement by this debate. Every Home Secretary for the past 50 years is responsible for a serious and scandalous state of affairs in our prisons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the victims?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Craddock", "preceding_text": "ly to obstruct his return to any honest course of life. In 1927 a Departmental Commission on the treatment of young offenders submitted a Report on the various methods then available for dealing with juvenile delinquents. It said: We deprecate strongly any indiscriminate use of whipping. To the young person who is nervously unstable, or mentally unbalanced, the whipping may do more harm than good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "oved this Amendment, spoke shortly about the effect of two world wars on the young people of this country. This is a matter on which I may make one or two further remarks, and with the permission of the House I should like to give a few statistics, because they are so very important. I will be as brief as I possibly can, because I know there are many other Members who wish to speak in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whipping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " have welcomed what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has said today. I believe that his analysis of this Bill is perfectly sound. Let us face the fact that we are not voting on this Bill today. If we were voting on this Bill the right hon. and learned Gentleman has killed it as dead as mutton in this speech which he has made. What we are voting on is the issue whether we believe that flogging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On both sides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "prisons were unfit to send young thugs to. The argument is, of course, that we must flog young thugs and not send them to prison. What I want to know is this, When have these people who have decided that our prisons are unfit for young thugs to be sent to ever lifted up a finger to improve our prisons? We find that the people who work for prison improvement are lined up to a man against this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "preceding_text": "ar, and those now between eight and 14 years old. These are sad facts, but there they are. No one who has examined the position can deny that. The first block were responsible for about 64 per cent. of indictable crimes by males in 1936, and the proportion is high now. The group between eight and 14 years of age, boys and girls together, is now responsible for one-fifth of the indictable offences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "member how surprised they were when I recounted to Continental lawyers the experience I had had when at school—a typical English public school—first of being beaten and then later as a prefect having to do my share of beating. It did not seem a terrible thing to me, but it did to those Continentals to whom I was speaking. They said to me, \"Were you not degraded by it?\" To them it seemed monstrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "In many parts of Croydon, as in other parts of the country, people are extremely nervous, particularly when they are alone in their houses, to open their front doors in the evening. They fear that they might be set upon and coshed by some violent criminal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "It is within the recollection of the House that the hon. Gentleman said it. There was far too little talk, he said, from those who are opposed to flogging about the condition of the victims of violent crimes, and too much consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-13", "file": "debates1953-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "55be1e8837606288", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " for Accrington, who put down an Amendment to our Motion of 29th October, 1952, attached a lot of importance to it because he omitted all reference to High Court Judges giving a decision, and replaced it with the Magistrates Associations' findings. Indeed, Viscount Templewood, who for so long has led the movement against corporal punishment, speaking in the House of Lords on 22nd October last said", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-13a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " of publicly-owned transport greater freedom in charging and in other matters than would be available under conditions of monopoly. That has been made possible by providing for competition. This greater freedom, in its turn, has made it possible to drop the second part of the levy. This is one of the major changes that the pressure of Parliamentary opinion and feeling outside has made in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"That is the honey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "oney as much as we dislike the vinegar, and hardened trade unionists on this side of the House will not be caught by either. The way in which the Minister justified the use of the Guillotine led me to feel that he must have a singularly guilty conscience about its use. By the time he had finished he had nearly convinced me that the Guillotine was desirable and that it should be used on every Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "I am glad that some of the hon. Gentlemen opposite have not wasted their time, because there were certainly other and equally distinguished Members who loudly complained that they were addressing 50 or even fewer, in centres not, perhaps, as large as Manchester, but equally important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "21 disappeared from the Bill on Report stage, we shall at last have real competition in the rail services of this country. If the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East complains so often that we do not talk enough about the road problem but too much about the rail problem, that is because the changes we have introduced into the transport system by this Bill are really revolutionary on the rail side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about I.C.I.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "e and more, we are finding that a concentration of management produces losses in efficiency and in-human relationships which, in many cases, outweigh the advantages. I suggest that the whole trend of the latest developments in industrial structure, the whole trend of the findings of research into management, is now on the side of moving back from the process of centralisation which went on before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "the nationalised industry was so much better than in private industry, as some hon. Members would have us believe, the pressure to get into the wonderful nationalised service would be terrific. People are driving one million lorries in this country and if the conditions of service of those driving 40,000 of them were so much better, the queue to get into the nationalised service would be enormous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "f his people: Never in the whole of my long industrial experience have I seen evidence of such bitterness amongst the men on the job. The hon. Member for Kidderminster is noted in this House for exaggeration on almost every subject and I would rather take the General Secretary's word than his. The men on the job do feel unhappy about this Bill. When the Bill was first formulated the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "preceding_text": "may be true, but this high-lights the necessity for reorganisation, for something being done about it soon, and for the abolition of a lot of illogical nonsense which has crept in since the 1947 Act was passed, such as the Hotels Executive which controls not only hotels but dining-cars and refreshment-rooms so that people who operate the trains have no control over the dining-cars on those trains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "etually pressing the needs of Scotland, and the differences and the peculiarity of the conditions there, and of how it was quite impossible to impose a 25-mile limit and have satisfactory road services in Scotland. No attention whatsoever was paid to our representations. The right hon. Member for East Stirling (Mr. Woodburn) said there had been no statement of the case from this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "rland other than the railway.\" The people there would have been walking on foot to the railhead at Lairg but for the right hon. Member for Greenock (Mr. McNeil), who realised how wrong was this situation and how impotent he was to compel the rail monopoly to fulfil its public responsibility. He went to a great landlord the Duke of Westminster and persuaded him to take over and operate the service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.971.7", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "ing everything else that they can in that direction, it makes me wonder whether they are going to carry out this threat to victimise the people who came along and served us under nationalisation. The statement was made that we failed in the Committee stage to nationalise the C licence holders. We never proposed to nationalise the C licence holders. It was never in the Bill and never our intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.971.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.971.7", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": " their increased issue in the future. We never proposed to nationalise them, but to restrict their operation. One Department of the State which ought to be looking into the question of C licences is the Treasury. I believe that many of these road transport fleets have been built up to avoid the payment of Income Tax. I believe that many industries have a resource there which is free from taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.971.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.981.5", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "lt of what I believe to be the machinations of the Railway Executive. The Inland Waterways Executive should be strengthened in future and given the necessary powers to secure such bulk traffic, which I believe can be carried most economically by that means. This will probably be nearly the Bill's valedictory speech from a Private Member on this side of the House before it departs to another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.981.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "so discover, and has it not even occurred to him, that the reason for those large-scale desertions from British Road Services was that those who were taken over were counted as being members of the staff at the moment of being taken over, and that a large number of them were sent away within a week, a month, three months or six months of being taken over? That number was a considerable proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Lewisham, South will be the first to remember this, that 35 Clauses, almost exactly the length of the present Bill, went on that occasion entirely undiscussed. It is interesting to notice that the bewailing of the Opposition about the Guillotine procedure on this occasion exceeds in verbal output nearly three times the whole of the Old Testament Book of Lamentations. We had an interesting example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"To smash the industry up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ew adequate opportunity for discussing all the main issues laid out in this Bill. We have had good debates, we have covered the points raised in Committee and on Report and today again we have had the main issues considered and debated. The Bill emerges from all its stages and after all these debates and all the divisions and controversies with the main object of the Government fulfilled; that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-16", "file": "debates1953-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca129b4632b937ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " have had the main issues considered and debated. The Bill emerges from all its stages and after all these debates and all the divisions and controversies with the main object of the Government fulfilled; that is—[An HON. MEMBER; \"To smash the industry up.\"]—to restore long-distance road haulage to private enterprise without, at the same time, imposing any unfair burden whatever upon the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-16a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-17", "file": "debates1953-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "811dbb8fb0d3c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "About £l0 to £12 each.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-17", "file": "debates1953-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "811dbb8fb0d3c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST STATES (SUPPLY OF JET AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: ' More unemployed.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "sale to any N.A.T.O. country. The House will recollect what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said on 4th December last year, when dealing with the consequences upon the defence programme of certain alterations: Some curtailment \"— he was dealing with defence production— must therefore now be made. This will to some extent involve the cancellation or modification of contracts already placed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-17", "file": "debates1953-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "811dbb8fb0d3c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST STATES (SUPPLY OF JET AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "preceding_text": "d not Israel feel more secure if nobody had these aircraft than if she received them and other nations, potential or actual enemies, each had them in equal number? I am not swayed by the economic arguments. On the other hand, I must admit that I am very greatly influenced by the argument used that if we stop this sale we would be breaking our treaty and contractual agreements. That we must not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-17", "file": "debates1953-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "811dbb8fb0d3c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST STATES (SUPPLY OF JET AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": " at once. Let me answer the right hon. and gallant Gentleman first. Israel itself has enough to do at the present moment to try to stop aggression from without. It has to spend a very considerable amount—it is common knowledge—of its very slender resources to provide forces which will prevent the marauders from coming in—marauders who come in quite frequently over the border, who kill, who thieve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-17", "file": "debates1953-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "811dbb8fb0d3c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST STATES (SUPPLY OF JET AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If I am wrong I shall be very glad to be corrected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-17", "file": "debates1953-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "811dbb8fb0d3c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST STATES (SUPPLY OF JET AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is asking me to disclose confidential discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-17a.1139.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister give an honest answer to the Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister give an honest answer to the Question? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] Will the Minister give a straight answer to it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1219.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1239.5", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "May I ask for your guidance, Mr. Speaker? If an hon. Member really believes the statement he is putting down, is not that sufficient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " before—the important thing is to ensure efficient production, and to protect the consumer from excessive prices. The Board will be able to ask the Federation for any information it wishes about what money the Federation raise and what money they spend, and how they spend it. It will be for the Federation to decide, in regard to these internal matters, what information they will give to the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1289.4", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. P. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. P. Stevens", "preceding_text": " they did very much more than that. They ensured that the public was given very much better service than that given in the days of the old tally sticks. For those two reasons, it seems to me that these bodies should be rewarded. This Amendment would encourage them, and, at the same time, the public would be protected. It is perfectly true that this is an application of the \"closed shop\" principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1289.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1329.2", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Sir Gordon Touche)", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for the Committee, but I think it would be convenient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a different Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " to score cheap debating points against either the Financial Secretary to the Treasury or the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, for both of whom I have respect, when I say that it does not always follow that even the Treasury and the Ministry of Supply will see eye to eye on problems of this kind. I have served in these Departments, and one knows the sort of thing that can happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did he say that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "s to me to be a sensible way to deal with it. There has got to be some body, on the other hand, which is charged with selling the industry. The hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. Jack Jones), with his usual robust and democratic good sense, recognised that on this matter the electorate had pronounced its decision and that according to the mandate, the industry should be returned to private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "ng the industry. The hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. Jack Jones), with his usual robust and democratic good sense, recognised that on this matter the electorate had pronounced its decision and that according to the mandate, the industry should be returned to private enterprise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When did he say that?\"] All I can say is that that was the point of view of the hon. Member for Rotherham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "That seems to me to be putting merely in other words just what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "That seems to me to be putting merely in other words just what I said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] At any rate, there it is. The country has spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "should come before the House and, if necessary, be debated? It is not merely that one debates the price; but even if it were the price, how can we in the House possibly judge whether the price is a right one? Many considerations enter into it. Are the other bids that have been made to be disclosed to the House? Is the physical valuation which has been made by valuers. to be disclosed to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "FOODSTUFFS (DE-CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ave a common quality. In his New Year message to the members of the Department, the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Food said: Our job at the Ministry affects perhaps more directly and more intimately than that of any other Department the day to day welfare of everyone in this country. The common characteristic of these Orders is that they all mark stages in the dissoluton of that Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "FOODSTUFFS (DE-CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Elaine Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Elaine Burton", "preceding_text": "ing to get more supplies into the shops simply because as many people as before are not able to buy them. If we go round the shops in London, and I think it is the same in other large cities, there is no shortage of food, but the question is whether people have money with which to buy it. Since bananas have been de-controlled I have seen on the barrows and in the shops everywhere far more bananas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1399.2", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "FOODSTUFFS (DE-CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "d, therefore, I assume the hon. Gentleman did not understand that I was in order because we are concerned at the moment with rationed foodstuffs. I was saying—and I am sorry to have to repeat it—that food expenditure in this country was 8s. 11½d. in 1936–37, and in 1950 was 14s. 6½d. That is per person, and I have no doubt that that expenditure included money spent on bananas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1399.2", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "FOODSTUFFS (DE-CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "he moment with rationed foodstuffs. I was saying—and I am sorry to have to repeat it—that food expenditure in this country was 8s. 11½d. in 1936–37, and in 1950 was 14s. 6½d. That is per person, and I have no doubt that that expenditure included money spent on bananas. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members opposite cannot understand what I am saying, they should try to keep quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "FOODSTUFFS (DE-CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "ining that old age pensioners are not able to take up their rations. I understand that a reply has now been sent to that letter. I gather that the original letter was mislaid for about eight weeks, and I am glad it has turned up. I hope the House will be informed of the answer. Finally, I wonder whether the Parliamentary Secretary has seen the leader in \"The Times\" headed \"Liberating the Sausage.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-18", "file": "debates1953-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c1a587ffa6827fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "FOODSTUFFS (DE-CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member is going to say that it is wrong to remove a control because it may result in an increase in price, let me cast his mind back to what his party did in the middle of 1950. They de-controlled oranges, which doubled in price. That does not make it necessarily a wise thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-18a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-19", "file": "debates1953-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "29afef2cd5746fa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-19a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Holmes", "preceding_text": "Could the hon. Member who put the Question explain how this can be done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-19a.1434.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-19", "file": "debates1953-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "29afef2cd5746fa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-19a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FLOOD DISASTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member suggesting that, quite irrespective of this present disaster, the charge for new coast protection works should fall substantially upon the Exchequer and only to a much smaller degree on the local authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-19a.1500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-19", "file": "debates1953-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "29afef2cd5746fa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-19a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FLOOD DISASTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "nd, after all, these were completely flooded, and the paper in the office was like mush; I was tempted to wish that it was Somerset House—had pulled together. The whole place was in a frightful mess, and it was undoubtedly due to the way in which everybody got to work that recovery has been so quick. I commend the whole organisation for what they did; I did nothing but pipe around and be cheerful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-19a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-19", "file": "debates1953-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "29afef2cd5746fa0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-19a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FLOOD DISASTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "river board or the catchment board, as it used to be. The other side of the street is a few inches higher and the householders there have not had to pay this substantial extra rate. However, it was the unfortunate ones who were paying the extra rate who got flooded out, while the others did not; they are naturally rather bitter about it, and feel that the liability should be spread a little wider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-19a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-20", "file": "debates1953-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "53649f0636b8eccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-20a.1635.7", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (LOSS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Tory Party were in power.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "—three separate, solid, examples and he ran to an Act passed in the period of the Coalition when the Prime Minister was Mr. Lloyd George—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-20a.1635.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-20", "file": "debates1953-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "53649f0636b8eccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-20a.1666.1", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL LAND (LOSS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": ". Member used, I have no doubt in very good faith. May I join in congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Mr. Hollis) on being lucky in the Ballot and on making an eloquent, and interesting speech on his Motion. My hon. Friend was not in the least partisan. As he said, this is not a party, but a national issue. That example has been followed by hon. Members on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-20a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-20", "file": "debates1953-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "53649f0636b8eccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-20a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn)", "preceding_text": "eachers can be induced to go to the right places. In all these respects we think there have been improvements, and we are quite certain that we can asseverate that there is and will be every possible effort. There were 209,000 teachers in January, 1950. In January, 1953, there were 227,000. I cannot work out quickly what the percentage increase is, but it is really something quite sufficient, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-20a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-23", "file": "debates1953-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "20742dc1458163f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1743.0", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "It is only possible for directors to run companies under the nationalisation set-up satisfactorily if they are not prevented unreasonably from exercising their free judgment by those who own the shares. The complaint all along has been that under the set-up under nationalisation there has been interference with the day-to-day management by members of the Corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-23", "file": "debates1953-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "20742dc1458163f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. and learned Gentleman does not appear to have appreciated is that if we put so precise a lower limit into a statute it often works out as something very near an upper limit too. The difficulty is that a potential buyer is able to point in the Act of Parliament to what was apparently considered as a reasonable level of price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-23", "file": "debates1953-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "20742dc1458163f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "o exactly what the hon. Member for Rotherham in a speech a little time ago accused the Government of wanting to do, of concentrating on the \"brass\" It would be a little objectionable to insert here the question of price as the only consideration to which statutory force is given while ignoring the other considerations, to which I attach considerable value, of the general overall national interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-23", "file": "debates1953-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "20742dc1458163f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Gentleman will not press these Amendments, I should like, on Report stage, to introduce an Amendment to cover this point, that is, to lay down that a reasonable price must be one of the considerations before the Agency, and to meet the right hon. and learned Gentleman by putting that into the Bill. As has been said again and again, a provision in a statute is better than any Ministerial assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-23", "file": "debates1953-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "20742dc1458163f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "at I said that the Agency should be put under the control of the Board so that the Board could ensure that the assets owned and controlled by the Agency would not be broken up indiscriminately for financial purposes at the cost of sacrificing the efficiency of the industry. My argument on that occasion was completely consistent. That argument was consistent with the one I am putting forward today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-23", "file": "debates1953-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "20742dc1458163f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ved at £150 million by a process of calculation which I can only describe as rather inspired and detailed, and now apparently he end his Department are so old-fashioned that they find it impossible to prepare accounts which will compare the previous prices of these companies or other assets with the necessary adjustments and alterations in the intervening years. I simply cannot see any difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-23a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1909.7", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend agree that increases in certain commodities such as coal, and light and heat, and certain foodstuffs, bear more hardly on women than on men in the Civil Service, in the teaching profession, and in the local government service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1909.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1937.2", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "taken. The right hon. Gentleman knows from his own experience that when public money is loaned to private companies perfectly satisfactory techniques have been worked out which provide a high degree of security. I do not think that we need treat this as if it were a sudden and new departure in Government finance. It is one which hon. and right hon. Gentlemen have experienced for a good many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1937.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is less clear in either thought or statement than I habitually find him. The justification for this is that it is necessary, whatever other sources may, and in due course will be, available, to provide that a source of public investment shall be available so that there can he no question of a check to its development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1941.2", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:.\"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is confusing two issues. What he said earlier was that the nationalised industries had to come to this House for sanction to raise this capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1976.1", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Soskice", "preceding_text": "t he has said is that he thinks that the powers are unnecessary. If he thinks them unnecessary now, why did not he think them unnecessary before; or is this a case of dormitat Homerus and through all these long months was the Solicitor-General slumbering in blissful ignorance on this matter? I cannot believe that that is the case. We feel that there is something indecent and suspicious about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1978.0", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ider it and seek to improve it, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman will agree, right up to a very late stage. I have seen it happen time and time again. This Bill has been considerably improved since its original introduction. Let me come to the arguments which have been advanced and deal with them as shortly as I can. I do not believe that there is anything unpleasant or suspicious behind me", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And blindfolded.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "rt time ago the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Summers), who speaks to some extent for the steel industry, said that he conceived of the Board as a kind of policeman to look after the public interest. That is a simile we are prepared to accept, and it is accepted by the Government that there must be a body to look after the public interest. But that body will do this job without any serious power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.2016.1", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens (Blyth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens (Blyth)", "preceding_text": " took office, or whether it means just that? When hon. Gentlemen opposite were at Strasbourg and not in office they took one point of view, but on obtaining office they made a complete change of front. This has been a source of great resentment to the Continental countries, and as the stock of the party opposite has gone down the stock of the party on this side of the House has gone up enormously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.2016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-24", "file": "debates1953-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2000d08ce3393f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " control of steel and coal. Incidentally, I am glad to see that another Strasbourger has come into the Chamber in the person of the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton). Let me make it equally clear that we on this side of the Committee neither now nor previously when we were on the other side of the House ever suggested that the United Kingdom should join a supra-national authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-24a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2114.3", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " to prevent what is happening now—rising unemployment, concealed unemployment, under-employment, short time and the like. It is easy to exaggerate the anxiety and fear, but even the hon. Member for Kemptown (Mr. H. Johnson), only the other day at Question time in this House, drew the attention of the Minister to the fact that unemployment in Brighton was six times higher than the national average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2114.3", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " make that statement. There is another strange thing which I mention only to prove the point that there is anxiety in places where one would least expect it. A telegram reached me yesterday. From where? Torquay. It said: Torbay now a distressed area. Unemployment figures Torquay 1,300, Paignton 480, Brixham 225. Immediate action essential to obtain light industries. Have informed Charles Williams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "s issue as the subject demands. The speech of the right hon. Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) was in some ways unfortunate, because he did not set the problem of unemployment and employment in its proper perspective. I asked him to give us some idea of what percentage of unemployment he regarded as a norm, and he said he wanted conditions in which there were more jobs available than men to fill them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2160.1", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "on interferes greatly with mobility, but there are other factors. Hon. Members will realise that in the '20s and '30s the coal industry was in a very bad state, and there were in South Wales no prospects for men to find employment there. Young men stood at the street corners in their hundreds of thousands. Some of them might possibly have found employment elsewhere, but many thousands did not try.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2196.1", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Of course you are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Thompson", "preceding_text": "e, as the whole community of this country stands, resolved not to see the kind of conditions return to which the hon. Member for Durham, North-West (Mr. Murray) referred. The tenor of the hon. Lady's remarks was to blackguard my party not with an imputation of what we had done or about what was to happen but with the imputation that we were deliberately designing our policy to create unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2196.1", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is why we are in such a mess.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Thompson", "preceding_text": "e deliberately designing our policy to create unemployment. [HON. MEMBERS; \"Of course you are.\"] There could not be a worse type of accusation to make of a public policy or one more inaccurate, as the hon. Lady herself knows. Let me remind her that the party which is in control of our affairs in this country is the same party as is in control of the city on whose behalf she assumed to be speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2199.6", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"And the North-East \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": " Committee. We found ourselves up against exactly the same limitations as those to which the Minister referred, and so we make no great criticism. He seems to have left out from his speech anything about the usefulness of the Act. Doubts were expressed by other hon. Members on that side of the Committee. I must therefore make it clear that the Distribution of Industry Act, 1945, saved South Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2199.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2213.0", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ing him, but he did not give me any notice about this beforehand, nor have I had an opportunity of seeing the letter or understanding the context in which it was written. All I want to say is that what I have just said, and what my right hon. Friend has said, is the policy of the Government, and I hope that that disposes of the matter, and that I may be allowed now to get on with my other remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2258.0", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "N.-E. LANCASHIRE DEVELOPMENT AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " on the basis of sections. This is the primary problem of the whole cotton textile industry. Of course, we must have weaving and spinning together. In every advanced country the processes are done in the same factory. Modern countries where there is plenty of land have factories where all the processes take place—the carding, spinning, weaving, dyeing, fashioning and printing—on the same premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-25", "file": "debates1953-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f5fc4bacaae621f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "N.-E. LANCASHIRE DEVELOPMENT AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": " of this kind came before the House. I hope that I can deal with some of the questions that have been raised, though I confess that after nearly nine hours continuously on the Front Bench I may perhaps have overlooked some points. May I say at once that I regret that so many hon. Members who found themselves inhibited by the rules of order did not attempt to intervene in the debate this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-25a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2316.0", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that this decision will give considerable disappointment to ex-Service men and rather more than disappointment to ex-Service men's organisations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2316.1", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Surely they were considered?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I could not attempt to answer all those carefully considered and very rightly posed questions at Question time or during the period immediately afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2318.2", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I could not attempt to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2319.0", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it would be practicable to give it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2319.0", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it would be practicable to give it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I quite understand that every effort will be made to make party capital out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2319.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2319.4", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "That is not good enough. These matters have been considered very often. I have often had proposals when I was in the right hon. Gentleman's position in which we had to consider whether this or other changes were justified. I never remember not being provided with some kind of estimate from the Treasury. It would have been a very queer way of doing business if I had not had it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2321.0", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not pretend to be able to deal with every detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2321.0", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not pretend to be able to deal with every detail. [ Interruption. ] I must say that I think hon. Gentlemen opposite are very ungrateful to make all this fuss, because I give them good information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-26", "file": "debates1953-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe02d37108e975f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2321.4", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (AMALGAMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think it would be very right to tell the House exactly what economies were foreseen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-26a.2321.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-02-27", "file": "debates1953-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "34335f2c605c3933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2444.1", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are phonetic.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Taylor", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. and gallant Member inform the House what parts of the words \"Sam\" and \"nag\" are not phonetic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-27", "file": "debates1953-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "34335f2c605c3933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2473.1", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "he proceedings of a Committee on which we are both serving—and where we have heard many speeches on this subject, both in and out of order, from the hon. Mem- ber for Bath—he had heard hon. Members saying \"renumeration\" when they meant \"remuneration.\" Both those words are actually pronounced as they are spelt. There is no advantage in simplified spelling between \"renumeration\" and \"remuneration \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-27", "file": "debates1953-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "34335f2c605c3933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2473.1", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "to have. The minute any one takes up the point made by someone else, they say that there is something else which one ought to have taken into account. The most remarkable contribution was that of my right hon. Friend the Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker). who said that this Bill would give him freedom to spell how he liked. But this is a Bill to make quite sure that ever), one spells alike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-27", "file": "debates1953-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "34335f2c605c3933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2480.1", "colnum": "2480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " thing to be able to read. That is the big and most important thing to do. We do not believe that there is any obvious probability in the view that one kind of spelling for the earlier stages and a different kind for the later stages is the best way to do that. The Minister and the Ministry are deeply conscious about this and have never stopped thinking and talking about it for the last 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-27", "file": "debates1953-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "34335f2c605c3933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2491.1", "colnum": "2491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scottish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": " rubbish: The day we feel that spelling and grammar and syntax are completely under control down to the last comma, we shall quit writing. Anybody who knows anything of grammar understands that English syntax is completely under control, fixed, rigid and inflexible. One cannot depart from the fixed form of English syntax, and yet this well-known English paper says it is as chaotic as our spelling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-27", "file": "debates1953-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "34335f2c605c3933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2492.3", "colnum": "2492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "t because there has been a 30 per cent. increase in illiteracy over the last few years. Because there has been an increase in carcinoma of the lung, would hon. Members dare to tell the medical profession how to tackle that problem? Yet the House is telling the teaching profession how to tackle the problem of spelling and why it makes for delinquency. Let us look at a few of the practical problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-02-27", "file": "debates1953-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "34335f2c605c3933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2494.0", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " but comprehension should come first. Every practising teacher knows that and uses the phonetic method before moving to the other teaching methods adopted at present. In infants' classes, the teachers create all kinds of systems to try to teach children how to move from the phonetic to the visual. I will sum up this argument and I will make up my mind in a moment whether I support the Bill or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-02-27a.2494.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-02", "file": "debates1953-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9897964e45e2f92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.14.10", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "Is it not the practice for Ministers, in those circumstances, through their Parliamentary Private Secretaries, to inform Members concerned that they proposed to answer their Questions together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.14.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-02", "file": "debates1953-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9897964e45e2f92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.19.6", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I might suggest that the hon. and learned Member should carry out active proselytising work on his own side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.19.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-02", "file": "debates1953-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9897964e45e2f92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Am I to understand that you, Mr. Speaker, impute that by putting down this Question I was not supported by facts, and that I was not fully justified by facts in placing it on the Order Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-02", "file": "debates1953-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9897964e45e2f92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLITZED TOWNS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": " that, at the present rate of progress, it would be the year 2088 before Southampton was restored to its pristine beauty. I do not quarrel in any way with the hon. Member's mathematics. I feel as strongly about the matter as he does. I feel very strongly about Portsmouth, not merely because I happen to represent a part of it, but also because Portsmouth is the greatest naval seaport in the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-02", "file": "debates1953-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9897964e45e2f92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLITZED TOWNS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government said it was all 'boloney'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": " rapidly. This combination of two Ministries coalesced; and it was soon apparent that there was a rigidity and austerity more suitable to religious dogma, where any kind of backsliding might endanger not merely the economic stablity of the country but the immortal soul of the weaker vessel. I am the last person in the world to wish to throw any doubt upon the value of planning in economic affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-02", "file": "debates1953-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9897964e45e2f92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "t of our maximum security prisons all the petty habituals and put them into camps, possibly open, and possibly what one might term the medium security camp. I know that among this type, particularly the younger ones of 30 and 40 years of age, there are escapes, but does it really matter? Do hon. Members realise that every year 30,000 criminals, some of them dangerous ones, escape from our prisons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-02", "file": "debates1953-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9897964e45e2f92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "station, but, because of the Forestry Commission having had a ceiling put on the number of their staff, they have had to cut down the number of prisoners who may be engaged in forestry. That is by instruction of the Treasury. In other words, the Treasury are insisting that prisoners shall work inside, sewing mailbags for four hours a day, instead of doing useful constructive work in afforestation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-02", "file": "debates1953-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9897964e45e2f92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " much that it has not proved possible to provide useful work, hard physical work for most of this particular type, from which they can get a sense of achievement, where they can see something being done, where their muscles will be kept in good trim, and where they feel that when they go out, no matter what hard work they have done before, they will not be coming back to the place for a rest cure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-02a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the number of letters of appreciation that have been received by, I should imagine, every Member of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.174.2", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.174.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.184.10", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Yes, but may I ask the Minister to answer my question? Has he satisfied himself that the manufacturers in this country are not too closely mixed up with the growers in America?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.184.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Indian?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "y right hon. and learned Friend and of all other Ministers who have to advise our Gracious Sovereign in these matters. My first point is that I note with much regret that both in the Bill and in the White Paper the Sovereign is described as \"Head of the Commonwealth.\" Why not \"British Commonwealth\"? It may be a sentimental thing to say, but I believe that the word \"British\" is an honourable title—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "he time has come to reconsider our whole attitude to the rules of the British Commonwealth club. I do not like the idea of India, a republic, not owing complete allegiance to the head of the Commonwealth, and I think that is a matter which ought to be reconsidered at the next conference. Indeed, if any country does not wish to accept the rules I submit that we might be better without that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"James VII.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "en any particular trouble to consult a representative from Scotland. The Secretary of State for Scotland, I understand, has a predilection for the return of the Stuarts. Perhaps the Prime Minister thought that that right hon. Gentleman's opinion ought not to be considered as an impartial opinion in case he should recommend that a proclamation should be made in favour of James Stuart V of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is perfectly true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " Muniments and Library, Westminster Abbey. He starts his 7th chapter, on page 73, with the words: On the eve of the Coronation\"— and mark this statement, Queen Elizabeth II is the sixth Queen Regnant of England. Is it any wonder that that phrase gives offence to many people in Scotland when it appears in a book issued by a person of authority and to be found in the Library of the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.209.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is an incitement to violence.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "reat importance. It is a matter which is keenly and poignantly felt by a great many people. The position of the Crown is at least as keenly regarded by the people of this country as the position of many hon. Members of Parliament, to go no higher than that. There is another old Scottish song which the hon. Member would do well to remember: Ere the King's crown go down There are crowns to be broke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I hope that the debate is not still in the \"Irish turn.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has said that he will investigate this on the grounds of historical accuracy. I am putting before him a sentimental view which may not be intolerable and may be the basis of a unity of understanding. I am suggesting that the first Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom was the Queen Mother, who is still with us. She was the Queen Elizabeth I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.234.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "ion. This has been a very important and a revealing debate, particularly in regard to the two Republicans and the Welsh-Scottish Republican. The poet Robert Burns came from the constituency of the hon. Member for South Ayrshire, and he wrote: It's no in titles, no in rank, That moves men; Nor Lunnon Bank. He added his conclusion that The heart's aye, the past aye— That makes things right or wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.235.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "We are doing this for the sake of those who have deliberately cast off their allegiance to our common Monarchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL TITLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKibbin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKibbin", "preceding_text": "f it had been proposed to give Queen Elizabeth the title of Queen of Great Britain and Ireland I could have understood some objection coming from the Irish Republic, for whom obviously the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. Healy) and the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Mr. O'Neill) were speaking. I could quite understand that they should then kick up hell on behalf of the Irish Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-03", "file": "debates1953-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "df7c26623f572c44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPERANNUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "yman) said that N.A.L.G.O. had failed to look after the officers he mentioned. I am not sure that those strictures would be accepted by the officers of N.A.L.G.O., who have been tenacious in pursuing the interests of their own members. The hon. Member for Edge Hill (Mr. A. J. Irvine) raised a legal point. He may not be with us on the Committee stage, and we shall miss his wise and learned counsel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-03a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.391.6", "colnum": "391", "heading": "GERMANY (KRUPP DECONCENTRATION PLAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did you not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that until 1948 it would have been lawful for our authorities to have completely expropriated Herr Krupp's assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.391.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "WOMEN'S CONFERENCE, LONDON (ALIENS' VISAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On the question of the legality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "WOMEN'S CONFERENCE, LONDON (ALIENS' VISAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I was about to submit a point of order to you when the Prime Minister interrupted in order to anticipate it. I want to ask you whether you will consider, in relation to the Ruling which you have just given, the consideration that no question of the operation of law is involved in this matter at all. It is purely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.397.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "KOREA (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister tell us how many of these casualties were men or boys of 19; how many of them were called up in February and sent to the Far East in July; and what is the percentage of our soldiers in Korea who are National Service men shoved into the Army by means of forced labour and who would come home tomorrow if they had an opportunity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tungsten.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "derstand it, is preserved in almost complete inviolability. Surely it is not to be more limited by tungsten than by iron ore? These notions do not take so much regard for the type of material as some of us might if we had it thrown at us. I hope that the Minister will consider that point and let us know whether he can consider once more putting into the mouth of this gift horse just one more tooth", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into that now, because it would take me a long time to develop the argument. The hon. Member knows perfectly well that before the war the industry had production capacity greater than the demand made upon it. He knows that under the Socialist and Liberal Governments unemployment rose to 40 per cent. and that it came down as a result of Conservative policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"OH.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "ement is open to criticism. This is an imperfect world, and I would not advance the argument that there could not be such a situation in the steel industry or any other industry. It is sought in this Amendment to exercise discipline—I do not know of what kind or sort—over inefficient management. I can assure the Committee that the owners of these particular companies will have a great deal to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The use.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "Oh, no. The hon. Member is reading into my words things I have never said or implied. The consumption of scrap in various plants varies in different ways. I could give dozens of technical explanations for that, each of them satisfactory and beyond criticism. The main concern of the Committee this afternoon is the question of inefficient plants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "e—although I know that he will not commit himself on all of them—that many of them were rightly made in the light of new conditions. It is only reasonable that that sort of thing should happen in the future. In our opinion the new Clause seems to fall into the error of assuming that a plan, once made and approved by the Minister, must be rigidly adhered to unless the Minister approves of a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-04", "file": "debates1953-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "89c0193d37f321c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "t even have gums that are of any use. They will be a facade. 9.15 p.m. These debates and the refusal by the Minister to accede to our request to give that power to the Board expected by the steel workers of this country, has created great interest among them. I have received telegrams both yesterday and today from 20,000 steel workers, who at their meeting last Saturday objected most vociferously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-04a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-FRENCH TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I had a cordial exchange of views with the French Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-FRENCH TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I had a cordial exchange of views with the French Prime Minister—[HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear.\"] Hon. Members are making so much noise. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.560.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-FRENCH TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": " conceal in this matter? Why can he not let the House and the public know something of the proposals—the very modest proposals—made by the French, to which I believe he has returned a negative answer so far? Why cannot we be told the course of the negotiations so that the British public and the House have a chance to make up their minds about what association we should have with the European Army?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.562.2", "colnum": "562", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS (TRANSFER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And accepted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. While I appreciate the apology which has been offered by the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "free world. No one with knowledge of the facts of our economic situation could challenge our claim that the effort we are making on defence is the absolute maximum of which we are capable, and that any further substantial diversion of our resources from civil to military production would gravely imperil our economic foundations and, with them, our ability to continue with the rearmament programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.585.4", "colnum": "585", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I can explain to the right hon. Gentleman. All those remarks were made in an utterly different climate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.585.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "Now there is a new Government on trial. I am the last to wish to attack that Government or anyone else out of hand, but we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Government say in the White Paper that, by 1954, we shall have something between 400,000 and 500,000 trained National Service reserves. If we are to consider what is the right period for that purpose, should we not also consider what was the period of training which men received in the Army during the war to make them fit for immediate battle? The period was eight to 10 months, and they were then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "entleman the Minister of Supply was attacking his own Government for the lack of anti-aircraft batteries with which to protect London. That is a state of affairs which should be exposed. Although I believe that a considerable advance has been made in equipping our first-line Forces with modern weapons, it seems to me that we have put our goods in the shop window and left nothing under the counter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": " to do when we on this side of the House were in Opposition, that is, to see that the B.B.C. have more facilities and more funds for this very important psychological aspect of cold warfare. Reference has been made to a strategic reserve. I know the necessity for the Forces in Egypt at the moment, but I feel that the sooner we get the strategic re- serve back to this country the better it will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "Because from my own experience and training I always thought that concentration was better than dispersal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": " the Middle East which could take the place of that particular base. If war should ever break out—which God forbid—it is vital that that base should be maintained as it was in the last war. If we come to an agreement with Egypt very shortly, as I hope we shall, if we bring a large quantity of troops back from Suez do not let anybody say that we have scuttled. We shall be doing nothing of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Cary", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Cary", "preceding_text": "ich would justify the call-up, the period of National Service, being reduced. Indeed, I would go further than that. Certainly in my constituency and amongst my own constituents I see not the slightest evidence that there is widespread concern about the present period of National Service, or that the country generally is preoccupied with the sort of review that the right hon. Gentleman has in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.616.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.617.8", "colnum": "617", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "I really cannot accept that. The hon. and learned Gentleman talks about abandoning the arms programme when, in fact, we are putting into the common pool of defence of the free world the maximum of our effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.618.2", "colnum": "618", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "ene in this debate for more than a few brief minutes. I want to take the opportunity of congratulating the Government on laying before the House a White Paper which in so many ways is, perhaps, the best White Paper that has ever been placed before the House of Commons. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Worthing (Brigadier Prior-Palmer) regretted that we were not holding a two-days' debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.687.6", "colnum": "687", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No appeasement!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "If it would appease my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Merton and Morden (Captain Ryder)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.687.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "WAR PENSIONER, SUTHERLAND (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": "It is a strange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.693.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.693.7", "colnum": "693", "heading": "WAR PENSIONER, SUTHERLAND (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ent. pension should be paid and after much correspondence, it was eventually agreed that it should be paid. At the same time he applied for a constant attendance allowance—that has been required for all these years. But that was denied after much correspondence and a visit by a welfare officer, who did not go to see whether the man was well or not, but to try to find some means of evading payment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.693.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-05", "file": "debates1953-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "51cb4cb3adc9ffcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "WAR PENSIONER, SUTHERLAND (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Smyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Smyth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend did not quote the figure correctly because he did not include the retirement pension that he gets from the Ministry of National Insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-05a.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-06", "file": "debates1953-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "4e5552be673f81a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-06a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "CHRONIC AND AGED SICK (ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will be some day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "y eloquent when there is a different Motion on the Order Paper. But the Government, the local authorities, the voluntary agencies concerned in the welfare of the elderly are all active and desirous of seeing fulfilled the aims which are outlined in the Motion moved by the right hon. Gentleman. I apologise for again referring to the hon. Member for Leicester, North-West as the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-06a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.830.6", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I will certainly look at the question of a shortage in certain parts of the country. If the farthing were rounded up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.830.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.833.6", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in the Kirkintilloch area, where these anomalies have existed for many years and where, having spent considerable sums of money in making appeals—after a tribunal had decided—the people are convinced that it is very much like two brothers who quarrelled over a cow which, while the solicitors tried to solve the problem, was killed——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.833.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.840.8", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "The first part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is based on a totally inaccurate supposition. My right hon. Friend is receiving a deputation from the City of Birmingham next week. So far as the second part of it is concerned, there have been practically no major road improvements in the London area in the past 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.844.6", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": "Forces here or too many there.\" I have no doubt that that could be argued, but I think that hon. Members will agree that it is difficult to argue in this House. Logically, we could do so, if we could have a large map of the world, marked with pins to show all our garrisons, world wide, brought into the Chamber. Presumably, Mr. Speaker, that would be out of order and hardly acceptable to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.844.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Middle East?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I said that they were under-posted in theory. These under-posted units are restricted mostly to this country and to certain less essential stations. but all those in Korea and Malaya are at full establishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sixty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "e have made careful selection and it is an opportunity for a good, promising officer on a short service commission to serve longer than he can at present. In September, 1953, we shall be opening the school at Welbeck for grammar and secondary school boys, which was a project in the last Estimates. I am sorry that more boys did not apply from the North—they represented 30 per cent. of 200 which is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can tell the hon. Gentleman exactly. What happens in many of these forces is that certain of them have companies in an area and so somebody forms one company here and another somewhere else. If we get enough of them together, they are turned into a battalion. I could instead have spoken in terms of companies. I assure the hon. Gentleman that there is nothing bogus about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "4,700 million been maintained. I also said that I would say how we had met the reduction. With the Army remaining at the same size, it is patently impossible to meet a financial reduction in what might be called the essential hard core expenditure—that is to say, feeding, clothing, paying, transport, and so forth. Therefore, most of this cut has fallen on production, which, I think, is inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": " a substitute for, the Centurion. Probably it will be the most powerful tank in the world. To what extent this field of development will continue, I do not pretend to know, but my own feeling is that I cannot escape expecting developments in some other field, in another technique, which will eventually, as has so often happened, replace the tank by something else. The Army badly wants a new rifle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a base.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "reement with the Egyptian Government, whilst it does not give us that, does open the way to it. In the event of a hot war, of an invasion by Russia of the whole area, the two British divisions there are not themselves a decisive factor. The decisive factor would be a defence pact for the whole area; and the only method of opening the way to that is to get an agreement with the Egyptian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "pt to carry this enormous burden ourselves. These Army Estimates have shown us that that is not a practicable policy, and that we must adopt the alternative policy which I attempted to explain last week—a policy not of a \"little England\" but of abandoning our Imperial pretentions in their old form. That is the factor which we have to face. In terms of the Army, which is what we are now discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Yes, there is every indication that it \"will be in no way inferior.\" That still leaves us in the position that the best possibility we can hope for is getting something as good as the.280, but any mention of a compromise means a compromise between the.280 and something less effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or equal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "S: \"No.\"] If I am proved to be wrong about that, we shall all be delighted. I hope that when the new weapon emerges the Government will give hon. Members of this House the same opportunities for seeing its performance as were given to hon. Members by the last Government. If we find that what has emerged is a superior weapon, I shall be the first to proclaim the fact and congratulate the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "y as rigorous, but as positively unpleasant, as possible in order to show them just what life can be like. That may not be a universal practice, but it does happen in some units. There are men, for instance, who are required to get out of bed at half-past four in the morning merely to demonstrate that with really good discipline men can be got up at half-past four in the morning without complaint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does not happen very widely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "not mentioning the units here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"but I shall tell the Secretary of State. The young man who made that complaint wrote also, when he had been in the Army rather longer, in very glowing terms of what his life was like then. He wanted to make it clear that he had no grouse against the Army as a whole but that that particular thing seemed to be silly and unnecessary, and I agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "s long been a question of what effect a Ministerial visit has. I remember once in a unit being asked to inspect the food. I was assured that this was the food they normally ate from day to day. I ventured to inquire of one young man what the food was like as a general rule and he said, \"Oh, it is fairly good. Of course, when a brigadier comes along it is very good. Today it is just about average.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Alan Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Alan Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "arently, the first thing we want for the backward peoples is that they should go into the Army. Today, if anyone wants to learn about fertilisers, he must go into the Army. If anyone wants to learn anything for his country, he must go into the Army. What is it that has suddenly changed the Army from the Blimpish, backward thing it was a year ago to what it is today? I should be interested to hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Alan Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is Blimpish enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Alan Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "eavy thing composed of a vast number of native soldiers without the proper n.c.o.s and officers to train and control them. I hope that the Under-Secretary will be able to give us some encouragement on this question of a Colonial Army in whatever part of the Colonial Empire it happens to come, because I believe now that the great Indian Army has been flung away—flung away, I say Mr. Deputy-Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.983.5", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "In addition to that, I see all over the place in London and in my home city comparatively junior officers being driven about in motor cars. I cannot see any reason why any officer should not drive his own car. Why should he have a driver to drive him about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Treasury; not the War Office\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": " plus allowances. Further, why are instructors from the A, B, and D Reserves paid 7s. 6d. a day in addition to Reserve pay, whereas the Territorial Army warrant officer only gets 3s. a day for the same duty? All these are rather small points, but they do add up in the minds of many Territorials to the feeling that the object, from the War Office point of view is to get a Reserve Army on the cheap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Excuse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "e alibi he introduced today, I want to pinpoint what I think is the major defect in the Government's policy, and that is their failure to give a square deal to officers, warrant officers and n.c.o.s who have given a lifetime of service to the Armed Forces and who, after all, are the best recruiting agents. Let me turn to the right hon. Gentleman's new alibi which appeared for the first time today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They could.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": " seeds were planted then, and we are reaping the reward. To solve this problem we have to get down to fundamentals. The hon. Member for Windsor (Mr. Mott-Radclyffe) raised the question of regimental tradition. I think it is valuable, but it has never had the value, which he seems to think it has, for the other rank. Such men could not opt for the Oxford and Bucks, the Berkshires or the Hampshires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Guards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "hat particular regiments were closed according to their strength. A man could only get into a regiment which was closed if he could prove a family association with it. Hon. Members must also remember that there are many good sections of the Services which are not tied to localities. For instance, the Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers, the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, the Royal Army Medical Corps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "to the workings of the National Service Acts as such. This country is attempting to do something quite stupid. It is trying to have a great Army, a great Navy and a great Air Force, and we cannot have them all. We must put our money on what we think is the winning horse—and I am quite sure it is not the Navy. I am quite sure that belongs to the museum. Naval power has been supplanted by air power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-09", "file": "debates1953-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "a3296fc06a2330c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED QUARTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "aw—which we have not—instead of having smaller and lighter divisions. I should like us to have experiments to see whether we could dispense with corps headquarters altogether, I have never been in corps headquarters so have naturally thought them a superfluous organisation—that is a deliberately exaggerated view, but I think that we could certainly experiment in order to cut one link in the chain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-09a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that if he makes this compulsory he will also make dearer the cheaper footwear?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1096.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1115.9", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Lady realise——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1115.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "nd that we should endeavour to face the physical effects in regard to restoration of land, reparation and repair of houses, safety of life and so forth. I was not at that moment contemplating the detailed processes which arise in making sure that in no circumstances had any person been liable, whatever their business, to loss in money from that event. I was dealing with the broad physical effects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "KENYA LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (MEMBER'S ARREST)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "or shipbuilding and sheets for motorcar bodies, and so on, there will be a matching, a balance, between the supply of steel products and the demand for them. In those circumstances, we shall probably re-enter what in pre-war days we were pleased to call a free market. In a free market there is no need at all to have statutory control or limitation over the distribution of steel and steel products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "But there is no mention of the word \"supervise.\" The Amendment is to insert after the word \"conditions\" the words, \"and the equitable distribution.\" That is the function of the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "The Minister is quite right when he says that our Amendment throws up the difference in outlook between the two sides of the House on the measure of control and Parliamentary supervision which there should be over the iron and steel industry. He did not say it in those words perhaps. I paraphrase and, if I may say so, put it rather better than he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "t is right and proper, if we are to have a supervisory Board, to provide that full employment should be a major, primary consideration. The Parliamentary Secretary has explained that that is his objective, and I should like him to express it a little more clearly. I think that this Amendment, good as it is, is expressed in rather a cagey way, as though the Government do not want to be pinned down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member should let me complete my sentence. I saw the confidential memorandum which the Council of Ironfoundry Associations distributed to their 2,000 members. They had the courtesy to send me a copy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " and Steel Board having a measure of control over an engineering undertaking or enterprise. Surely that would have been wholly wrong. Also, it would have been impossible to operate it efficiently. In removing iron foundries from the control of the Board my right hon. Friend gave effect to the representations which had been made to him by the iron foundry industry and, I readily confess, by myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-10", "file": "debates1953-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a2345a9c4a215373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "I think that after the statements my right hon. Friend the Minister has made tonight right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite owe him numerous apologies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-10a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1267.7", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A mixed blessing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Before this dead time is sold, will my hon. Friend bear in mind that unlimited hours of T.V. would be an unmixed blessing for families with small children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1267.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "ing and education, because the same point applies. The Board have certain powers they can use if they are not satisfied with existing arrangements. Surely, the hon. Gentleman can see that a threat of action which those carrying out the existing arrangements consider contrary to their interests is bound to be enough to ensure that full and accurate information is immediately available to the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "All right. That does not in the least vitiate the point I was going to make. When these assets were bought they were not paid for at their true worth. They were paid for on Stock Exchange values, which does not necessarily imply the same thing at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "No, but nevertheless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will not have a contract.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "before it begins to deliberate, upon an affirmative Resolution which may be put forward by the Minister, the buyer might go off. The Financial Secretary said with some melodramatic effect that he feared that might happen. But, if the buyer did go off before the affirmative Resolution was passed, he would be subject, as any other breaker of a contract is subject, to the laws for breach of contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "If that argument is sound, why is the British Post Office such a fine institution? It has been nationalised for all these years and we are perfectly satisfied about its ésprit de corps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "espects at a rate of improvement that has been greater than theirs. I would also suggest to him that it is not possible to compare the operation of British Railways with that of the railways of some continental countries. We have in this country the busiest railway system in the world. It is more intensively used than any other railway system, I believe —possibly with the exception of the Belgian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rk in the mean while, is not going to choose a job which is rather hard and which is a dirty job, and is one which, though it has ultimate prospects, has no immediate attraction. The reasons a young man became a cleaner was not because he wanted to become a cleaner. Nobody ever wanted to be a cleaner. A man became a cleaner because some day be hoped to become a driver, which was an attractive job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1396.4", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Collick", "preceding_text": "ndment was primarily to call attention to what they regard as certain weaknesses in the organisation of the British Transport Commission's undertakings. I got the impression from the hon. and gallant Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Colonel Gomme-Duncan) that possibly the primary motive of hon. Gentlemen opposite was to seek this opportunity to direct a few more gibes at a public undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "roads running through the Scottish moors? Since nationalisation the old private character of the railways has gone. In the old days these elaborate fences had to be erected to demarcate the property. But now all that has passed and there is no reason for those fences or for the carefully tended permanent way with men going up and down to make sure that not a blade of grass grows between the tracks", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS (TRAVELLING EXPENSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": ". I fly regularly, and besides saving my own time, I am glad to know that I save the country a little money as well. I hope now that the Treasury have been so generous as to put us on the same footing as railway travellers, the wives of Members will withdraw their objections to their husbands flying. Very few of us Members fly from Scotland. Indeed, in the last few months I have always been alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS (TRAVELLING EXPENSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Chief Whips.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Taylor", "preceding_text": "air we would not arrive until 12.30 p.m. That is the chief reason we travel by train, though it is at a little more public expense. We use air travel frequently and our wives have no objection whatever to it. It never crosses their minds that it is more dangerous than surface travel. Apparently it is only Prime Ministers who think occasionally that air travel is more dangerous than surface travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Palmer", "preceding_text": "I must make the usual apology of an English Member who dares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " do what the House of Commons asked and directed it to do. The Board has to play their part in the social and economic development of the Highlands. If one likes to divide the functions of the Board into two, that is one of them. That is the essence of the Cooper Report. It is the essence of the 1943 Act. I do not want to enter into technical arguments. We have heard two technical experts tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-11", "file": "debates1953-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de5b78d5e3f382a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ople can afford to pay. We could do as the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) suggested and use the installed capacity, but it would be at prices which no crofter could pay. That argument is theoretical, and far away from the practical case. The hon. Member has been invited by the Hydro-Electricity Board to go to the Highlands and see the schemes, but he has never accepted the invitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-11a.1456.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1496.5", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DAY NURSERIES, KENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "How can the hon. Lady say that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1496.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1497.9", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DAY NURSERIES, KENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "I thought you were passing direct to another Question, Mr. Speaker. In view of the unsatisfactory nature——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1497.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Air Estimates, 1953–54", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "h the Foreign Secretary, so far as the Air Force is concerned. There is no concealment of the number of warships in the Royal Navy or of the number of divisions in the Army, but neither the House nor the nation have any idea of the number of squadrons or front line planes in the Royal Air Force, although the Estimates for the Royal Air Force last year and this year amount to nearly £1,000 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1586.0", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "rs were lowest. I think it can now be seen more clearly by some people that if one buys up old machines at low prices it is easier to put in lower tenders. However, that was as far as it went at that time. I will add only this. It did seem to me that some of the officers concerned in the Service Departments did not try very hard to hide their political tendencies in favour of the private operator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1599.3", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A party piece.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt my hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "Unit trooping is not normally done by air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": " circle round London and a 20-mile circle round Manchester, we find that there are more people living in the Manchester area than around London. These two areas, coupled with six seaports if attacked by atom bombs, would be in chaos, and Britain would virtually be finished. Are the Government satisfied that, with the bomber force we have, we can find the Russian targets? Do we know where they are?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "the Communist Party and visited Eastern Europe with others and reported objectively on what he saw—condemning that which is evil and praising that which is good, and not condemning everything wholesale—he has been debarred from appointment. He has been debarred not because he has not the qualifications, but because in my opinion M.I.5 are interfering and suggesting that he might be very dangerous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "In view of the attack which the hon. Member is making on British scientists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Under-Secretary will also bear in mind the contribution to this debate of my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith, North (Mr. Tomney) and the points which he made about electronics. It is an important technical matter, and there was a great deal of substance in what my hon. Friend said. The hon. Member for Stroud and Thornbury (Mr. Perkins) wanted to impeach everyone in the House except himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1672.13", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "f movements to and from overseas, and the greater turbulence of postings in home commands, the suggestion is impracticable. Civilians do certain specialised jobs overseas. For example, telegraph line installers are Post Office employees. The suggestion is impracticable. The hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Osborne) suggested that the Air Ministry was attracting agricultural labourers away from the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1672.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1953–54.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman is learning fast. With the experience of one or two Army debates he will become quite good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-12", "file": "debates1953-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f3533264648ba47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1953–54.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " an aggravated form, but in view of the carefulness of my hon. Friend's investigations it is likely something did happen. If there was an incident where an n.c.o. abused his authority by making the men in two huts stand by their beds for a long period it would be widely known the next morning. Everyone at West Kirby would know about it, and recruits coming in for several weeks would hear about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-12a.1685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-13", "file": "debates1953-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "0dfb7f8e4bfca930", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-13a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS (PROTECTION OF LIVESTOCK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville West", "preceding_text": "n allowed to stray. Very many sheep have been killed upon railway lines and public highways because farmers have failed to control them and keep them within bounds. The Bill contains another danger to the farming community. It provide that if straying sheep go on to the agricultural land of a neighbouring farmer and his dog seeks to chase them away he would be committing an offence under this Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-13a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-13", "file": "debates1953-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "0dfb7f8e4bfca930", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-13a.1778.0", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS (PROTECTION OF LIVESTOCK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "I will read on: … and the dog is or has been worrying livestock on that land. … If it is chasing sheep it is worrying sheep on that land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-13a.1778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-13", "file": "debates1953-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "0dfb7f8e4bfca930", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-13a.1780.3", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOGS (PROTECTION OF LIVESTOCK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is confusing himself in trying to confuse me. The argument of those who have supported the Bill is that the solution to their problem, as they would have it, is that all the dogs should be destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-13a.1780.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1799.8", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I agree that that is one element of the agreement, but the Danes are satisfied with 66 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1799.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1802.0", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that in the Conservative Party's statement of policy, which I have in my hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1802.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1809.3", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What did he say?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Since the Minister said that bananas which are dearer than under control should not be bought, is he aware that I did not buy them at 2s., but that I told the barrow boy that that was the worst of having the opposite party in power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1809.6", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I will let the hon. Gentleman know as soon as I possibly can, because I have seen them myself at below 2s. per lb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1809.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1822.4", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is making a very sweeping allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1822.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Hutchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send it away for salvage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Hutchison", "preceding_text": "y records and I find that during the 10 years which have elapsed since 1943 I have made in this House on this subject no fewer than five speeches on the Navy Estimates and two speeches on Adjournment Motions, I have asked 14 Questions, exclusive of supplementaries, and have accumulated a folder of correspondence with the Admiralty weighing over 2 lb. and still the end does not seem to be in sight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1887.2", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "preceding_text": "Commander Harry Pursey (Hull, East) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1887.3", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "te—5H—which includes courses preparatory to leaving the Service and for reestablishment in civil life afterwards. Last year the sum estimated was £68,000; this year it is only £62,000—a reduction of nearly 10 per cent. Now I turn to the vexed subject of battleships. I am sorry to see that my hon. Friend the Member for St. Pancras, North (Mr. K. Robinson) is not still here. I am not pro-battleship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1887.3", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "craft. Although we suffered some serious losses in the war as a result of aircraft attacking capital ships, when any ships had the aircraft to which they were entitled they were able to operate over the whole of the seven seas. The arguments before the war, during the war and now, that battleships under modern conditions cannot operate in coastal waters off the enemy's coast, is absolute nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "se I have done so before, but the subject was dealt with by the First Lord and references have been made to it since. I have always maintained that the Russian Navy is vastly over-rated. Whatever ships they have, they are not comparable with ours. The crux of the matter is personnel. The Russians have never been sailors. Like the hon. and gallant Member for Macclesfield, they have not webbed feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "ered a major disaster and they lost the war. In 1914–18 they played no part of any magnitude in the war at sea. Indeed, the British Navy had to send their submarines at considerable risk through the narrows into the Baltic to do the job of the Russian Navy. In 1939–45, again, the Russians did practically nothing at sea. What is the threat of the Russian Navy? Is it capital ships? No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear. hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "g men from the lower deck they always go outside and get them from somewhere else, whether they take them from the Royal Naval Reserve officers of the Mercantile Marine—and I am not criticising those officers: they make very good officers—or from the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, the \"Wavy Navy,\" the Navy's sea territorials, the week-enders—and I say nothing against them: they make good officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "ition to be promoted, since the Navy is their life's career; and they should have the opportunities—and full opportunities at that—of the training provided by the State that are given to outsiders. whether they come from the sister service, the Mercantile Marine or the sea territorials. Have I the support of the opposite side in that? No, because they are against lower deck promotion on principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1895.1", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "I thank the Parliamentary Secretary very much. I am grateful to him for making that point clear. However, he will agree with me that that has not always been the Admiralty policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1895.1", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "to other ranks. The hon. and gallant Gentleman has given me a chance to make that clear. To sum up, from all these arguments I say that there is an overwhelming case for the Admiralty to reconsider the question of promotion to commissioned rank from the lower deck with the object of granting more. Then from that follows—and I shall follow it briefly, because I do not want to take up too much time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1895.1", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "ground. Under that scheme there was class vested interest, restricted to preparatory school boys—admittedly in the past in some cases they paid money, because they could afford to—and their being given a State education and a certain career, if only they kept their noses clean, to the age of 45, and of reaching the rank of lieutenant-commander and a pension of £400 a year—at the age of 13½.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1895.1", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "were. I cannot go into all these things in complete detail from A to Z. I must leave something to the sense and imagination of hon. Members. At 13½ a boy does not know his thumb from his elbow. He does not know what be wants to do about his career. He was previously pitchforked into Dartmouth, into a monastic institution, insulated and isolated from his fellow schoolboys and everybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "the yard are obsolete. Many of them are unheated, and in the winter the temperature drops below freezing point. Quotation after quotation from the Select Committee's Report could be given to substantiate what we have been saying for four or five years. There are obsolete workshops, obsolete road works, shocking canteen facilities and no indication that the Admiralty really appreciates the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-16", "file": "debates1953-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "60536ec98aaf896c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1983.3", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": " for having gone to the expense of sending this cruiser to Mombasa, and I should be glad if we could be told the considerations upon which the action was taken. I have previously questioned the worthwhileness of all the money spent on the Navy. Admittedly, I must confess that such information as I have is secondhand and based mostly on an intensive reading of the writings of the late Lord Haldane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-16a.1983.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2062.3", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HUNGARY (MR. SANDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer to the second part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is in the affirmative. We shall continue to persevere, but I do not think I ought to take up the time of the House in dealing at length with arguments as to the balance of reasons which have led us to take our decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2067.4", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "BRITISH AIRCRAFT, GERMANY (RUSSIAN ATTACK)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ln aircraft of Flying Training Command was shot down by Russian MIG 15 fighters near the zonal boundary in Germany at about half-past two last Thursday afternoon, 12th March. The whole crew of seven were killed or have since died as a result of their injuries. I offer to the families of these officers and airmen the deep sympathy of Her Majesty's Government and of the House in their grievous loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2067.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us about them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "s are eventually agreed must be such as to strengthen the economy of Western Europe. We now propose to have talks with the European Governments. These will be begun during the Council of the O.E.E.C., which is to be held in Paris on Monday next. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and I intend at this meeting to inform the Council about the discussions in the Commonwealth Conference and in Washington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ration on various matters of foreign policy. I was received by President Eisenhower on three occasions, and I had many meetings with the Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles. Our discussions covered most aspects of world affairs of concern to both our countries. My right hon. Friend and I also met a number of the Congressional leaders. I will not inflict upon the House a detailed account of these talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ast. Both Governments recognised the close relationship between the fighting in Korea, in Indo-China and in Malaya. I was able to inform Mr. Dulles of certain steps which Her Majesty's Government have taken to tighten up the existing system of controls over the shipment of strategic materials to China. These were described in the communiqué and were welcomed by the United States Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "isfied the genuine needs and aspirations of the peoples concerned. We reached full understanding on the present position in regard to Persian oil. The communiqué issued after our meetings stated that in the opinion of the United States Government the proposals of 20th February were fair and reasonable. It is important that our two Governments should thus be seen publicly to be in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "urn the better parts of the industry, the lucrative profit-making parts, to private enterprise. I do not refer to \"private enterprise\" as the man in the street understands that term, but to financial interests remote from the industry which have one intention, and one only, and that is to increase profits. Increased profits in any industry can be earned only at the expense of those who work in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2106.2", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "That was in 1915. Does the hon. and learned Gentleman suggest that that sort of thing still goes on, and that all these things have not been put right by 1953, and that there has been no improvement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2119.0", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that some firms are getting less steel than they got before nationalisation. As 2 million tons more are being produced, the logic of that argument is that some firms must be getting a great deal more", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2124.1", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the quotation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I think, with great respect, that the Minister has misunderstood what I said. He did not say that he wanted the Board to act contrary to the public interest; he said that he did not want them to act in the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2129.0", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "are three main principles which I have always maintained. When the hon. Member for Sheffield, Park suggests that we have no principles, or that we have run away from our principles, I can assure him he is entirely wrong. The principles behind this Bill have been laid down for a great number of years. One of the first, a negative one, is with regard to nationalisation. We dislike and fear monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is making a profit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " the industry will be strangulated. This is a bad Bill because, in spite of everything that has been said by hon. Members opposite, it does nothing for the industry. There is nothing in the Bill that will increase or alter in the slightest degree the steel producing capacity of this industry. The only thing the Bill does is to restore the industry to the people who want to make a profit out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e, it does nothing for the industry. There is nothing in the Bill that will increase or alter in the slightest degree the steel producing capacity of this industry. The only thing the Bill does is to restore the industry to the people who want to make a profit out of it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is making a profit.\"] The industry is now making a profit—and it is making a profit now for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2138.0", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Steel.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "ing to a report in \"The Times\" he said: There are industries which it would be folly to take into public ownership—those, for instance, which do a considerable foreign trade and on which our exports depend, those which are integrated with other industries abroad, those which, for instance, make large use of foreign patents, and those which are operating efficiently and to capacity already.…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2140.1", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Member that I never go to my constituency for any extended period as much as a week without going into one of the enterprises. I had remarked that. All I say is that one wants not only the competitive spirit within the enterprise itself, but between enterprise and enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2142.1", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "s really the answer, and the only answer, to the problems of a basic industry in the economy. I ask them to consider whether it may not be possible that the present solution—what I have suggested as the minimum of controls at the strategic points—may be an alternative answer. I ask them to consider whether this scheme is not very similar to a scheme that was suggested by the Trades Union Congress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2142.1", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "of this industry to private hands must depend to a very great extent on the view that potential buyers form as to the political future of this industry. We have all in mind that we want to obtain the very best price we can. I say in all sincerity that there is nothing which can be done to improve that price more than for right hon. and hon. Members opposite to say, \"Let ideologies go to the wind.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2158.1", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "onight, that, if there is a Division, there will be a substantial majority for its Third Reading, and that, when it goes to another place, it will make a rapid passage through that House. Finally, I hope my right hon. Friend will be encouraged by this important experiment in our industrial affairs that millions of men and women in this country who are not blinded by party political considerations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2175.1", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "eve that this is a compromise is wasted effort, because this cannot be anything of the sort. This Bill is no compromise, and I believe that hon. Members opposite have been saying it is with an eye not to present legislation but to future elections. Hon. Members opposite want to come along when this problem arises again and say, \"Here we have produced a moderate compromise. Why not leave it alone?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-17", "file": "debates1953-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "dfc70bd3dee057eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2203.3", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY PENSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Major Sydney Markham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sydney Markham", "preceding_text": "throughout the country will be somewhat better as a result of our deliberations tonight. I remember that when I spoke on the Adjournment Motion on 19th June last I was supported by Mr. Albert Edward Davies, the late Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North. I should like to pay a tribute, across the Floor of the House, to a man whose work for the railway workers of this country was absolutely outstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-17a.2203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-18", "file": "debates1953-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "1a26731b88751fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I understood the Home Secretary to speak in terms of a Departmental Committee to be set up under the chairmanship of Lord Waverley. Then he used the. word \"acceptances.\" I understood that a Departmental Committee was a committee of civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-18", "file": "debates1953-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "1a26731b88751fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1952–53; MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53; NAVY, ARMY AND AIR ESTIMATES, 1953–54; AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "imulating or otherwise the production of home-grown beet? Finally, for many years these supplementary Estimates have been brought to the House on the account of the Ministry of Food. We shall unavoidably have one more, in 1954, but I hope it is the last. I want to see the Government get out of State trading at the earliest possible moment and restore every one of these services to private traders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-18", "file": "debates1953-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "1a26731b88751fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.77.5", "colnum": "77", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1952–53; MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53; NAVY, ARMY AND AIR ESTIMATES, 1953–54; AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why privately? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I did not reply to that point because any discussion of savings is out of order. My hon. Friend can count himself fortunate that he has made his point, but I have no doubt that if I sought to respond to it I should be declared out of order. In any case, I will privately give my hon. Friend the information which he seeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.77.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-18", "file": "debates1953-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "1a26731b88751fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1952–53; MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53; NAVY, ARMY AND AIR ESTIMATES, 1953–54; AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What else?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is very well aware that pouches and wallets are freely used by the defence Departments for the carrying of confidential papers, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-18", "file": "debates1953-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "1a26731b88751fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1952–53; MINISTRY OF DEFENCE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53; NAVY, ARMY AND AIR ESTIMATES, 1953–54; AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1952–53.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The pouches or the papers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is very well aware that pouches and wallets are freely used by the defence Departments for the carrying of confidential papers, and so on. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What else?\"] It is desirable that they should not lose them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-18a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-19", "file": "debates1953-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "59fe9529f5b97273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-19a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "It is quite untrue that there is a stoppage in hospital development. The money allocated for capital resources is more or less the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-19a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-19", "file": "debates1953-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "59fe9529f5b97273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-19a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not masters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot think that these dignitaries have in any way been treated with lack of consideration and respect by the fact that they were referred to the two principal Secretaries of State who are masters of the whole of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-19a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-19", "file": "debates1953-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "59fe9529f5b97273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-19a.232.4", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All at the same time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Gough", "preceding_text": "med modesty, he did not pursue this matter much further. He said that he had belonged to two regiments, one in the First World War and another in the Second World War. I can beat that. I belonged to two Services, one in the First World War and one in the second. In the second, I belonged to a regiment in the Brigade of Guards, the Rifle Brigade, the Reconnaissance Corps and the Parachute Regiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-19a.232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-19", "file": "debates1953-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "59fe9529f5b97273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-19a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wonderful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "aised and there is no immediate intention of raising them. The right hon. Gentleman has not deceived me; I know him far too well. Anything he says needs to be checked. When he says he has formed seven new battalions I want to know the strength. When he says he has formed 502 mobile columns, I want to know how they are formed, and when he says five colonial battalions, I want to check what he says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-19a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-20", "file": "debates1953-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d333f454079173a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-20a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "JEWELLERY AND SILVERWARE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "x2153; per cent., or 100 per cent., when packed in a box, which is a nice piece of work, and by itself carries a rate of only 50 per cent. The whole tiring becomes absurd. There is the case of a manicure set, which is part of the products of Birmingham and Sheffield. I do not think anybody would regard a manicure set in the possession of a lady as a luxury. It is a very desirable sanitary article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-20a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-20", "file": "debates1953-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d333f454079173a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-20a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "JEWELLERY AND SILVERWARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"And the public.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ould be imposed so that we do not lose all our valuable Queen Anne and Georgian silver. I want finally to refer to the question of design, which to my mind is paramount. It is not merely a question of our design having failed in the last few years; our design has failed in the last 50 years, and this is a criticism of the whole industry. It is a criticism of Sheffield, of London and of Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-20a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-20", "file": "debates1953-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "2d333f454079173a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-20a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "ain what a formidable list that is. I like to be fair. Byron and Coleridge went to public schools but the moral training did not have any effect upon Byron. Darwin went to a public school, where he was rebuked for wasting too much time on science. Burns did not go to a public school, but, if he had done, they would have interfered with his accent, corrected his sentiments and destroyed his poetry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-20a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-23", "file": "debates1953-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c556c2c726d6b5e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-23a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister tell the House if in his opinion and that of the Government, the old age pensioners are able to buy food and light—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-23a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-23", "file": "debates1953-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c556c2c726d6b5e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-23a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "FLOOD AND STORM DAMAGE (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No advertising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "e later months of this year as a result of these unfortunate experiences for which it was certainly not responsible. After all, this trouble spread a long way up the East Coast, and even the mouths of the Tyne and Tees were not without their problems arising from it. I represent a great seaside resort— South Shields, the seaside resort for the Tyneside with the best free pier in the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-23a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-23", "file": "debates1953-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c556c2c726d6b5e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-23a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "FLOOD AND STORM DAMAGE (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A bookmaker?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "em. I want to draw attention to a case that has been brought to my notice, because it may be symptomatic of some of the troubles that the Government will have to meet in the long run. I have a friend who is a Tory alderman of a county borough council. He is an accountant; he is also a fellow of the Statistical Society, so that in mathematical matters he ought to be regarded as above all suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-23a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-23", "file": "debates1953-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c556c2c726d6b5e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-23a.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "FLOOD AND STORM DAMAGE (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ing the Prime Minister's words that the damage requires to be treated upon a national basis. We also accept the spirit of the debate, and I think we may say without exaggeration that broadly we have the approval of the House of Commons. I feel myself that since this debate started, there have been opposite me a number of Balaams. They came to curse, but they stayed to bless. On that Biblical note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-23a.599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "preceding_text": "I thought that if I was getting out of order it would be your responsibility, Mr. Speaker, to tell me and not that of hon. Members opposite. The point which I wanted to make was this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. As the House knows, the Second Reading of the Judges' Remuneration Bill was put down for Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ngress. I have one or two of them here, and it might interest the House if I read them out. Mr. Chinyana says: At the back of federation is the wish to get our land. Mr. Chisenga, on 5th August, said: Federation means white domination and slavery. The Bemba Superior Native Authority says: The Federal Government will grasp land from the territorial Governments to account for the immigrants….", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "All I am saying is that it is an artificial creation of the 19th century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "of the two Northern Territories, preserved in the Preamble. On that point I would ask only one question: Is the Preamble to be an integral part of the Constitution? That is a matter of some importance. It need not be, but is it to be? Any safeguards in the Preamble will be worthless unless they are enshrined in the Constitution. I hope that the Minister will make that perfectly clear in his reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " upon, remain undiminished but changed. I do not quarrel with that because it is essential to maintain our status, but I do complain that from the beginning she has sought to weaken the provisions for safeguarding Africans while retaining all the safeguards for herself. It is well known that all these changes were proposed in the first instance by Southern Rhodesia not by Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.684.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "s to what would happen if it were allowed to continue indefinitely … but it seems likely that if the common voters roll were retained and it became apparent that by means of the common voters roll Africans were being elected among those 26 people … then a move would be made to change the Constitution so as to reduce the number of representatives chosen to represent African interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "It is certainly the argument brought forward by right hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many of you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "It is certainly the argument brought forward by right hon. Gentlemen opposite. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Maybe it is brought forward by my right hon. Friend, but we are still a free party, whatever they may be, and, if we choose to differ, we can do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "e are the kind of words that he uses in Southern Rhodesia, not those that he uses in England. I happened to have a letter a few days ago from a friend of mine in Southern Rhodesia whom I had not seen for many years. The Secretary of State smiles and seems to think that it is very funny that one should write to someone from Southern Rhodesia. Quite frankly, I expected the letter to be one of abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": "ople we can consult are the Africans who have had a European education. What does that mean? It means that we are handing over the potential constitutional rights of millions of Africans to a small self-appointed caucus; that is how I see the position. I would far rather trust the Colonial Office, even under the present Government, for the welfare of these Africans than I would trust these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dooald Wade", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is his name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dooald Wade", "preceding_text": "e. My correspondent is an ex-colonial Governor. He would not wish to be quoted as any greater authority on this matter than other ex-colonial Governors, but he has had very considerable experience. I quote him as an example of one writing with a sense of responsibility, to make it clear that this opposition to federation is not simply the opinion of a few politicians or even of a few missionaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " he is making an error. The second thing we have to face is the assent of the African people. Just how can we get it? How have we always got it up to now? We get it in two ways. One is by commanding respect and confidence, and the other is by consultation with the chiefs. These are the two ways, and, today, the overwhelming number of the chiefs are against us. No one attempts to dispute that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.746.4", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "s of \"The Times,\" and right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite must remember, that, in this matter, the opinion of the whole of the native Press has been against them, or, at any rate, the overwhelming majority of the native Press. The right hon. Gentleman referred today in disparaging terms to the popular Press, and I expect he means \"The Times,\" \"The Manchester Guardian,\" \"The Observer\" and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.746.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "ver, that I cannot admire their selection of points in their endeavour to reveal the weakness in this structure of federation. If we are to have federation at all, a scheme has here been devised which is as good as we could possibly have. In fact, there has been drafted into this scheme every conceivable form of protection for the Africans which already exists under Colonial Office administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "ind in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland today is not fear of the unknown but fear of the known. They fear what has happened in Southern Rhodesia. They fear the risk of what they think is present-day Southern Rhodesian African native policy being applied throughout the federal system. We in this House know that under the Federal Scheme it is impossible. We know that that policy could not be applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-24", "file": "debates1953-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "dcd98e4a7436df17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "trolled legislature. He would say it was a European-controlled legislature which, so far as African interests in the federal sphere are concerned, is protected simply by a power of veto in the Secretary of State, which he may be called upon to exercise by an African Board which is really subservient to the legislature itself. I am not saying that that is no protection. I do not want to exaggerate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-24a.780.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-03-26", "file": "debates1953-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "163dfc82f59999f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-26a.842.8", "colnum": "842", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is this not a matter for the Clerk at the Table to decide?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-26a.842.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-26", "file": "debates1953-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "163dfc82f59999f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-26a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF CRIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": "re onus on the person arrested. I am surprised that such a Measure should have been brought forward. It assumes that we are in the midst of a great crime wave, but from the conduct of the judges in Scotland I am satisfied that the law there is strong enough to handle the situation and that there is no need for this sort of Measure. Violence in Scotland has been considerably reduced over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-26a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-26", "file": "debates1953-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "163dfc82f59999f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-26a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF CRIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"United Kingdom figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "idgeton quoted figures. Today I am glad to be able to tell the House that in 1952 there were 513,559 indictable offences known to the police as compared with 524,506 in 1951. Even so, the number of offences of breaking and entering, sexual offences, and offences of violence against the person show an increase. It is not a large increase but still an increase—in the last category of 6,516 to 6,997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-26a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-26", "file": "debates1953-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "163dfc82f59999f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-26a.885.9", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHITE FISH AND HERRING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ions by the Government, we are not going to get very good legislation in the future. I think that the Joint Parliamentary Secretary has shown great discretion, common sense and reasonableness. He listened to the arguments that were adduced on both sides of the Committee, and he accepted those that were reasonable. He has improved the Bill as a result and all he gets from the Opposition are taunts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-26a.885.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "leman had said that it was a large number, and that was the only point with which I was dealing at the time. I merely said that hon. Gentlemen who were interested in this legislation probably had a very good idea of the number of Amendments that would be coming along. If they had not, and if they had been curious enough to ask me, I should have been able to have given them that information myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ind back to other cases of major Bills—of a nationalisation character and others—he will find that this occurred at the end of a Session in 1947. This is always apt to happen at the end of a Session or a section of a Session, because that is the time at which the House has more or less finished with legislation. In 1947, the length of time given for considering the Amendments was exactly the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many were there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "n for considering the Amendments was exactly the same—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is exactly the same in days, whether it happened in March or July. In that year, on 31st July, this House received the Agriculture Bill and the Electricity Bill, both major Government Measures, and the Lords Amendments to the Agriculture Bill were taken on Monday, 4th August; that is to say, four days after its receipt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "thing in the nature of the Amendments which have come to us—I see that the Opposition have put down Amendments of their own to them—to which exception could be taken by the Opposition, judging by the debates which have taken place hitherto. It is unfortunate that there should be an interruption of business at 7 o'clock, but that certainly cannot be put down to the responsibility of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "ter to familiarise him with it by giving him a seat there so that he need not just watch the proceedings from the outside like one of those \"near-peers\" that he advises us all to be, the business of this House and that of another place would go more smoothly. His main complaint was that my right hon. Friends did not complain of the number of Amendments when he announced the business. But, my Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Sevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Sevan", "preceding_text": "hey can seriously say that Parliament has given adequate consideration to this Bill in all these circumstances? I hope, therefore, that the Government will accept the Amendment, and that we shall consider this Bill after Easter. I am convinced that if the Government try to thrust it through against our wishes we shall be here until the early hours of the morning. We shall be here very late indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I may speak again, with the leave of the House, and not because I want to argue the case with the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. A. Bevan). Some of the language which he has just used is tending to deteriorate the debate from the high standard at which it started. I hoped that we should not get into that frame of mind in this House, particularly today. Therefore, I rise to make a suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman also said that we would be threatened with a great many manuscript Amendments, and the rest of it. To get over that difficulty, I have suggested that we should carry on the debate on the Lords Amendments today only until seven o'clock, but the understanding would be that before we rise for Easter the Lords Amendments would be disposed of as well as the rest of the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " I thought it was a fair offer, in view of the arguments which I have heard. By leaving over these Amendments they could deal with the difficulties which they have said they experienced. I have not had these difficulties put from other quarters, but hon. Gentlemen opposite have put them, and I am trying to meet them. The House should realise that we are giving a helping hand in those difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "amber or not, but so long as there is a Second Chamber it is only right that this House, which is the dominant Chamber, should consider what is being done by the other place and have time in which to do it. Therefore I appeal, with great sincerity, to the Government and to the Leader of the House that we should have time to reconsider this matter. What concession has the right hon. Gentleman made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ief Whip to warn my hon. Friends that we should need them until a late hour or an early hour, whichever is the right word. Many of my hon. Friends, for sheer financial reasons that will be known to many of them, have cancelled their hotel accommodation tonight so that they will not have to pay for it. Having cancelled it, where will they be at 10 o'clock? They may be on the streets or in the soup.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "wn Motions of censure and that he has been personally responsible for complicating the business of the House. Here is an opportunity for the right hon. Gentleman to show that he is a big man, that he recognises the rights of Parliamentary democracy and that there ought to be time to discuss a Bill of such a character. Not one supporter of the Government on the benches behind him has supported him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (MASSACRE, UPLANDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "ikuyu. These facts, ignorance of what was happening among the Kikuyu and ignorance of their language, argues a regrettable lack of interest in these people who are our wards. Thirdly, I say that responsibility rests in some measure upon the Minister. Though I consider it to be a false impression. He has in this House created an impression of indifference to African interests and African liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (MASSACRE, UPLANDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I really cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (MASSACRE, UPLANDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "onference and I again pledge myself to this extent: if I thought there was any chance of useful results and not merely further quarrelling emerging from such a conference. I would do my best to see that it was called together. The right hon. Member asked a question about an article concerning suspicions of their Kikuyu labourers and squatters entertained by some Europeans. It is no good supposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-03-31", "file": "debates1953-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5b9f3a5359e44206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1164.8", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not lost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "lot of our difficulty, I thought that that was true and I still think so. But that did not receive complete assent in all quarters of the House. It was an attempt to meet the situation but it was not acceptable. Since then we have further considered the matter to see if we could continue the discussion tonight, but we have lost three hours on the debate on the Adjournment which has just concluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-03-31a.1164.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-01", "file": "debates1953-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "38fa3c32e5731515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "PRESIDENT TITO'S VISIT (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Again may I thank the Prime Minister for that statement and for the very welcome announcement it contains? He is aware that Yugoslavia suffered possibly more than any other nation in casualties in the last war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-01", "file": "debates1953-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "38fa3c32e5731515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "DESERTERS (CORONATION AMNESTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "While we welcome the modification of the original scheme upon which the Government have now decided, is there not something anomalous in the position that men who deserted during hostilities are to be treated more favourably than men who deserted after 1945? Surely that is an anomalous position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-01", "file": "debates1953-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "38fa3c32e5731515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Opposition are not proposing to move the Prayers today, so I do not think that it is a matter of very great consequence in what order the Prayers are printed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-01", "file": "debates1953-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "38fa3c32e5731515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman took me up so sharply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-01", "file": "debates1953-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "38fa3c32e5731515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not have said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman took me up so sharply. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends for not pursuing the matter today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-01", "file": "debates1953-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "38fa3c32e5731515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "SCOTLAND (WIND-BLOWN TIMBER)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. James Stuart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. James Stuart)", "preceding_text": "quantities. Instructions are now being sent to the Departments concerned, and the issue of these special licences should begin soon afterwards. The Minister of Materials is also arranging that departments who receive softwood allocations will be able to issue licences for home-grown softwood against their allocations for the second half-year, some weeks earlier than would normally be the practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-01", "file": "debates1953-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "38fa3c32e5731515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1306.3", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY ACT AND LONG LEASES (SCOTLAND) ACT EXTENSION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheatley", "preceding_text": " Scottish Grand Committee from July to the beginning of April, we could not have permanent legislation on this subject in so far as it affects Scotland, particularly having regard to the criticisms that were levelled against the temporary legislation by the leaders of the Conservative Party when they were in Opposition. May I add to my list of criticisms what was said by the present Lord Advocate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-01a.1306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-02", "file": "debates1953-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9fa216dc90cdf734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1354.7", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I dissent from the last part of my hon. Friend's supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1354.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-02", "file": "debates1953-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9fa216dc90cdf734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1377.4", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "SUDAN (MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": " the point. Did the Minister of State make it quite clear to the Egyptians that no undue interference will be tolerated while the Sudanese are achieving their independence? Secondly, did he make it quite clear to General Neguib in Cairo that such comments as he made a week today about cleansing the filth of British Imperialism from the Nile are bitterly resented by many hon. Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1377.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-02", "file": "debates1953-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9fa216dc90cdf734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "DRIVING TEST EXAMINERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ld probably like to have it— and he asked the instructor ' What's the weather like?' The instructor replied ' Not so bad.' I found it hard to believe that, at 10.30 in the morning, he could not have formed his own opinion about the weather, which was quite good, and, in fact, I concluded that, for some reason, a code was used to enable the examiner to gain knowledge of the pupil's driving ability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-02", "file": "debates1953-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9fa216dc90cdf734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1465.1", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "SPONSORED TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "imate, made by a champion of commercial television, Mr. Macmillan, in \"World's Press News.\" He is a director of Feature Programmes Limited. His estimate for a half-hour play was £2,200. One and a half minutes of advertising— let us say—£2,200. How many businessmen in the country can afford that kind of cost? Those who do not dislike it on principle, as a majority of public-spirited businessmen do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-02", "file": "debates1953-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9fa216dc90cdf734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "SPONSORED TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "nger of commercial television. It is not the censorable things, it is not the obscenity, it is not the horror. which are the main dangers of commercial television. If one manages somehow to establish a rigorous censorship one can prevent obscenity on the screen. The real danger is the effect of the unending banality of commercial programmes day after day, night after night, especially on children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-02", "file": "debates1953-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9fa216dc90cdf734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "SPONSORED TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "e conflict between good viewing and good advertising. Let me give a few instances of this conflict. The hon. Member, in his naive way, said that it was in the interests of the advertiser to give a good programme, which shows that he knows nothing whatever about television—although I do not want to be personal. At every stage the interests of the viewer and the interests of the advertiser conflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-02a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.12.5", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "That is a different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.12.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.12.6", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"5s.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Although the Secretary of State considers that this is a different question, surely the wages that are paid in Scotland, 10s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.12.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.12.8", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "It is not necessarily the minimum wages that are paid in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.12.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "Could the Secretary of State say if there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "GENERAL FINANCIAL POSITION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If we stand back and look at the developments of 1952 as a whole, we see clear evidence of the success of our disinflationary policies. The developments of 1952 have vindicated the strategy of the last Budget. Employment has been maintained; inflation has been checked; we have created room to expand exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "FOOD AND AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The cost to the balance of payments of the extra sugar will be partly offset by a substantial fall in our imports of expensive substitutes. After rationing has ended, the present small subsidy on sugar for domestic use will end too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "REVENUE IN 1953–54", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The yield of Surtax in the last two or three years has exceeded expectations mainly because we have been able to check up on arrears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.71.6", "colnum": "71", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Taxation is reduced.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " presentation and that is, after all, perhaps, the highest compliment that can be paid to any Chancellor of the Exchequer. Moreover, the Chancellor has beaten the record of averages in that his speech was somewhat shorter than is customary. Whether that means that it was safer to be shorter in title light of taxes to be imposed or not, I do not know, but his speech was somewhat shorter than usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.71.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.77.5", "colnum": "77", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He may not be a player.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "shton-under-Lyne (Mr. Rhodes) will agree with me. He is looking so happy at the moment because he has taken a foremost part in defending the claims of amateur theatricals in this respect. The same applies to amateur sport, but I was just a little worried when my right hon. Friend said that nothing must be paid at all. There must be many amateur sporting clubs who pay a moderate sum to a secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.77.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All cricket.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "preceding_text": " by one-third—which would have cost only £60 million—that would have conduced even more to the encouragement of the export industries. Representing a Lancashire constituency, I welcome, of course, the decision of the Chancellor that cricket shall be put in a specially privileged position. If I understand it correctly, amateur cricket will be wholly exempted from the effects of Entertainments Duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "rket business is merely the Treasury going into the City of London and borrowing, from people who have balances to lend, in anticipation of revenue, most of which flows in after Christmas. Why should the Treasury have to incur interest burdens for the taxpayer in order to borrow money in anticipation of revenue from people who, if they paid their taxes punctually, would not have the money to lend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "to carry. Probably as time goes on we shall find that Purchase Tax will be reduced in this gradual fashion when successive Budgets are introduced by our party. I am sure that the taxi drivers will appreciate the Chancellor's announcement of the method by which he is going to give them some relief, which will enable them to earn a better living than they have been able to earn for some months past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "s opposite. That was the first of the so-called incentive Budgets to which we were to be treated. This year we have another \"incentive Budget.\" If the incentives that are offered in this year's Budget achieve the same meagre results as last year's Budget then the statement which has been so warmly welcomed by hon. Members opposite today will, in 12 months' time, be bound to be just as much a flop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "ion of £30 million in the food subsidies, according to what the Chancellor said today. I am very glad that he has not done any-think like he did last year, because of the effect which such action must and would have on the different classes whom this kind of thing particularly affects. From my own personal observation, I can say that the pensioners today are worse off than they were 12 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "nitesimal difference in price. We are told that there is a possibility of our having unlimited sugar, and it is likely that there will be no increase in the price. I have listened to previous Budget day promises to reduce Purchase Tax \"next time,\" but today we have had a reduction in the tax on almost everything. Is not that a big improvement on last year? Is it not a direct incentive to everyone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-14", "file": "debates1953-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "75f3fe14ec61ac20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "st year? Is it not a direct incentive to everyone? [ Interruption. ] Perhaps the hon. Lady the Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock) will listen to this. She claims to have the support of old-age pensioners. I represent a Glasgow constituency and I have the support of my old-age pensioners. They are quite convinced that they are at least as well off this year as they were under Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-14a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ubsidies which have given rise to much concern on these benches. The right hon. Gentleman seemed to imply that having made it very difficult for people to buy houses by putting up the rate of interest, he was now going to put up the rents and cut the subsidies so that they could not become tenants of houses either. That is one way of cutting a housing programme, if that is what he is trying to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "eant to encourage additional spending, does the Chancellor think that because it will go to undistributed profits it will be put to reserve and saved in the ordinary way? If that is his view, and if he thinks that this will not have any effect on dividends, he is quite wrong. It is almost and I would say quite certain that the effect of this concession will be an increase in the rate of dividends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ttee. There are examples from the Financial Statement. We can take what examples we like. Let us take the case of a married couple with two children at £500 a year. They get the magnificent sum of 4s. 6d. in the year as a result of this concession, or about a penny a week. Take, at the other end of the scale, that fortunate individual the eligible bachelor, with £100,000 a year of unearned income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ear of unearned income. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"] I do not want to be personal about hon. Gentlemen opposite. Let me tell such individuals, whoever they are, that they will get out of this concession £2,500 in the year, a cool £50 a week, and that their tax-free income will go up 50 per cent. as a result of the Chancellor's generosity. This is the kind of man whom we are to encourage to work harder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "tionary policies abroad as well as at home, so long as the Government refuse to try to alter that pessimistic climate of opinion which they themselves have created, and so long as they refuse to take far more positive action to procure the effective re-equipment of industry at home. But above all, this Budget marks the sharp reversal of the progress made in these last years towards social justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you getting at? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " am very pleased to see here—he does not always honour us with his presence-—because he obviously has not followed my speech, to read it and he will see the answer. Hon. Members opposite can say what they like. One thing that they cannot deny is that the effect of this Budget is to increase substantially, instead of diminishing, the differences in incomes. It helps most the least deserving people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose burden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "It must have been very discouraging for the right hon. Member for Leeds, South when he woke up this morning and looked at the newspaper headlines. In \"The Times\" he would have seen, \"Lightening the burden.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who for?'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Member for Leeds, South when he woke up this morning and looked at the newspaper headlines. In \"The Times\" he would have seen, \"Lightening the burden.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose burden?\"] He would have seen in the \"News Chronicle,\" \"Butler's bumper Budget.\" In the \"Manchester Guardian\" he would have seen, \"Mr. Butler eases the yoke\"; in the \"Daily Telegraph,\" \"A brave and a wise Budget\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "\" Of course, if a man's income does not suffer any tax because he has a number of children, he cannot get any tax reductions in Income Tax—he is not paying any Income Tax; but it is quite wrong to say that he does not get anything out of the Budget, because his wife, who goes into the shops to buy things for her children, has to pay less Purchase Tax, and so everybody will get something out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More dividends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "goes into the shops to buy things for her children, has to pay less Purchase Tax, and so everybody will get something out of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Hon. Members opposite say that nobody benefits except those who actually receive the Income Tax reliefs, 'but is that true? Of course it is not. The Chancellor told us yesterday that half of these reliefs went to industry. What does that mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " \"Nonsense.\"] Hon. Members opposite say that nobody benefits except those who actually receive the Income Tax reliefs, 'but is that true? Of course it is not. The Chancellor told us yesterday that half of these reliefs went to industry. What does that mean? [HON. MEMBERS: \"More dividends.\"] No, It means that there will be money in industry to secure the employment and pay the wages of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "t I am very glad that the Chancellor admits that the pressure has to be kept on and that he agrees that taxation is still much too heavy. There is no doubt that expenditure is still much too high. I am sure the Chancellor recognises that and I am sure that he will do all he can to reduce it. There is still plenty of scope for economy and reducing expenditure. There are plenty of economies to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In local government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "to see that there has been a reduction of 22,000 civil servants, but that is not nearly enough. In any large organisation it is very difficult to make economies, and the State is the largest organisation in the country. We have to be unceasingly vigilant if we want to do it. It is not only in the State that we want to do this, but in the nationalised industries, which are almost part of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "is not only in the State that we want to do this, but in the nationalised industries, which are almost part of the State. [An HON. MEMBER: \"In local government?\"] Local government would be another field for economy, and I will say a word about that later. I want to say a word about the Welfare State. The Chancellor has proved in two Budgets that the Tories are not out to destroy the Welfare State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "achelor with an unearned income of £100,000 a year. Within my limited acquaintance, such fortunate beings do not, as far as I know, exist, and, although the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Leeds, South is apparently more fortunate in his acquaintances, I do not think any of us need spend much time on this somewhat intangible figure. I should like to go a little more into the sphere of reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It happens every year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ns by the present Government when the fact is that they are not. This process began four months before the last Election, as can be verified from the Digest of Statistics. All that hon. Members have to do is to refer to table 23, which shows that during the second half of 1951 unemployment in this country rose by 133,000, a process which began in July of that year when the figure stood at 209,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " It usually happens in winter, but not in summer; but it happened in July, 1951. The figure went up by 19,000 to August, by another 13,000 to September and by 49,000 to October, and so on. As I said, that process began four months before the last Election. I do not attempt to draw any deductions from that except one, which is that it could not have been the result of any action by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I will develop this a little further, since I am challenged. There is a school not very far away which has in the playground a futuristic piece of sculpture against which the children play cricket and for which the education authority paid £850. There is another example of waste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-15", "file": "debates1953-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4b5025f22a351cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ightly amusing by the fact that the right hon. Gentleman seemed to classify himself among those who were resisting such a suggestion. I can only say that there are thousands of railwaymen in my constituency, and that there is not the slightest sign of any suggestion of industrial action. The fact is that working men and women know full well that they are better off under a Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-15a.313.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. Gentleman aware that the Earl of Selkirk, as Government spokesman in another place. said that the transfer of assets will be given the same degree of priority as exports which may secure dollars?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.353.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.362.6", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows pefectly well that his right hon. Friend was asking a question about what was going on in the minds of the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.362.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.370.7", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I can help the hon. Gentleman by repeating some of the things I have said before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "nomic activity and still become bankrupt. We can produce a great deal, but if we are not producing the goods that the world markets require and at competitive prices, then we cannot afford to pay for our imports. We cannot live in this country by taking in each other's washing. We can produce activity by sending people to dig holes in the ground, but we cannot sell holes in the ground for dollars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "t to justify any inequity by saying that we all have a vested interest in the solvency of the country. Of course we have; we entirely agree. But the Tory Party—and the speech of the Economic Secretary this afternoon supported this—have not yet learnt what is involved in the present economic situation, because they are still glorying in the sunshine of this entirely \"phoney\" and temporary recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "her big increase in that figure. There was a worsening of £21 million in relation to shipping. The most serious matter was an increase of £30 million in respect of increased interest payments on sterling balances in London as a direct result of the Chancellor's policy. We rarely get through economic debates without someone opposite shouting \"Groundnuts.\" The total cost of the groundnuts operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.413.5", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "ration to say that the family business has been the basis of all our past prosperity and is the basis of all our future prosperity, because the family business derives from the enterprise and hard work of individuals willing to take risks. We depend on the judgment of such people. We depend on them to maintain the fundamental strength of our economy, to build up the large businesses of the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.413.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way as there are others who wish to speak. The Board of Inland Revenue and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have to make very rough-and-ready guesses for their own guidance, and all that is very good for themselves but it is impossible to try to treat the future as an exact map.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "letter to \"The Times\" in which he was £400 million wrong in this way and it took him a week to discover his mistake. I repeat it was not only that the Government stopped increasing stocks, but that everybody else stopped doing so, too. I was very glad to hear the remarks made by the Economic Secretary to the Treasury on the question of the terms of trade, on a point which I have often made myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did they not then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson). The first cause was the physical cut in imports made by the Chancellor with our support, and, indeed, on a plan prepared by the previous Government, as I think he will agree, before he actually got to the Treasury. I fully agree that in that respect we should have done exactly the same thing ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheer up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "rves which will be certain to be needed if a recession reduces, as it would almost certainly do, our exports more than our imports. I believe that is the truth of the situation. Nobody knows when the economic weather will change. Surely we ought to be prudent enough to be forewarned and forearmed against the change which may come at any time, the precise moment of which we cannot possibly predict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-16", "file": "debates1953-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "f59f4686e5f8ba36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "is partially sealed lips about some convertibility scheme of which we have never been very clearly told, and conjuring the newspapers into the rather hilarious state of unrealism which we saw on Wednesday morning. The Chancellor may come to regret this complacent attitude. The speech that we listened to on Tuesday would not have been made by a Chancellor who really cared either for social justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-16a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-17", "file": "debates1953-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "db010edb0aa354df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-17a.531.0", "colnum": "531", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (PARTIALLY DISABLED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not suggest that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "cheme to another because of the difficulty of placing responsibility upon those employers who were in the saddle, so to speak, prior to 1948 and who are no longer responsible for a man in his present occupation. To saddle a new employer with the supplementation in respect of an injury sustained when the man was employed by somebody else, is an extremely doubtful proposition to say the least of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-17a.531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-17", "file": "debates1953-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "db010edb0aa354df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-17a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (PARTIALLY DISABLED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "its, assistance rates, retirement pensions and so on, something has been done for certainly the great majority of these people. There may be, and there probably are, certain cases that do not come into any of these categories, but I should think that the number of those people is probably very small indeed, and certainly not anything like the 35,000 to 40,000, which is the total we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-17a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-17", "file": "debates1953-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "db010edb0aa354df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-17a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (PARTIALLY DISABLED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "es, but I should think that the number of those people is probably very small indeed, and certainly not anything like the 35,000 to 40,000, which is the total we are discussing. [ Interruption. ] Well, 50,000; the hon. Member's guess is as good as mine. I think that everybody who has spoken has given a slightly different figure so perhaps the hon. Gentleman will accept mine as reasonably accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-17a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-17", "file": "debates1953-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "db010edb0aa354df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-17a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (PARTIALLY DISABLED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "es. I should like to ask my hon. Friend whether it is possible—and I do not know, and I have not heard it from anyone else today—when the Ministry is dealing, as I hope it will be very soon, with the cases of partial pneumoconiotics, they could in some way adjust the system in order to take care of the people whose compensation is unduly low because of their reduced earnings in the pre-war period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-17a.577.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BELGIUM (BRITISH PRESS ARTICLES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "lored by the Government, it seems to me to be throwing a pretty wide aspersion on the British Press. Does the Under-Secretary not think that it is his duty to the British Press to particularise and tell us which newspaper it is whose views are deplored by Her Majesty's Government? This is a perfectly proper question, and one he should answer. May I press the Under-Secretary to answer the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellor is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This Question was put down to the Prime Minister, in view of the response we had last Thursday to a Question asking the Treasury to reverse their decision. Now I see that there is a representative of the Treasury again here—presumably to give the same sort of answer—but as he is not a Member of the Cabinet he cannot be responsible for their decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.643.5", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor of the Exchequer aware that when my hon. Friend put a question to the Chancellor last week it was answered by the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, who was completely flummoxed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.643.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "STEEL PLATE DISTRIBUTION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A rose by any other name—\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I thought I made it quite clear that this is a distribution scheme organised on voluntary lines by the industry itself with guidance from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.648.2", "colnum": "648", "heading": "STEEL PLATE DISTRIBUTION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I thought I had already explained quite clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"People live longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " The shortfall here is remarkable and very large in proportion to the total yield. The Death Duties yielded in 1951–52 £183 million. The estimated yield for 1952–53, just concluded, was £175 million, and the actual yield only £152 million. That is a shortfall of £23 million, or about one-eight of the total estimate. For this year, the estimate is only up to £160 million. Why is this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ed in 1951–52 £183 million. The estimated yield for 1952–53, just concluded, was £175 million, and the actual yield only £152 million. That is a shortfall of £23 million, or about one-eight of the total estimate. For this year, the estimate is only up to £160 million. Why is this? [HON. MEMBERS: \"People live longer.\"] No, it is not that simple suggestion that I thought might be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " lives of the just and the unjust alike, the true explanation is not to be found in my right hon. Friend's activities but lies in those of the right hon. Gentleman, who has raised the rates of interest and thereby belittled the wealth of the rich, both living and dead. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has promoted a depreciation of capital values, on which, of course, the Death Duties are assessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "y saying that in my view it is not reasonable to say, as the Chancellor has said, and as his Economic Secretary has said, seeking to belittle this increase, that one must think of the thing net and not gross and take account of the fact that we get some tax back on it. Of course, we get tax back on it, but that is true of every item of expenditure in the Budget. Take the great figures for defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "n I was at the Treasury—and I thought it hardly necessary to appoint a Committee. I thought it quite clear that they would end by saying that there is no possible administrative means by which we could give a rebate to traders in respect of tax-paid stocks when the level of Purchase Tax on those stocks was reduced. There is no way of doing it and the Hutton Committee Report develops that argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Batteries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ink they should have shared some of the benefits of this Budget. Broadly speaking, the biggest reductions are made on the most luxurious articles. That point has been made but it is a most important point. On expensive furs, jewellery and so forth, substantial reductions have been made. No object previously liable to Purchase Tax, except taxicabs and pianos, has been taken wholly out of the range—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "leman, who in some respects made a small virtuous beginning last year. What did the Prime Minister say at Glasgow, when he got away from personalities and got to the broad issues of policy? He said: Sixpence off Income Tax is class favour to over 30 million people. There are about 50 million people in the United Kingdom, and so this Income Tax relief is class disfavour to nearly 20 million people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And children.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "course, worked all this out before he made this carefully considered statement. He said that just over 30 million people were going to get this relief. I assume that he is right in this one figure, but then I ask: What about the other 20 million people? I am not venturing to argue with him; I am assuming that he is right. What about these 20 million people who are left out—forgotten men and women?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ny times, but I should like to deal with the arguments of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Leeds, South, which have been repeated today by the right hon. Gentleman who preceded me, that all the benefits were fortuitous, that there was nothing which the British people had by their own efforts done during the year, and that there were no actions of the Government which led to these same ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Call in the experts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": ",000 of untaxed income. Surely we are getting to a state of complete farce when taxes rise to that height. It must be my object, in so far as I can achieve it, as it is the object of many of my friends whom I consult from time to time, to do what I can to urge the Chancellor to cut down administrative expenditure still further. How much my right hon. Friend can save by that it is difficult to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Cole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Cole", "preceding_text": "eat deal has been said about the economic background of the Budget, but not enough has been said about the psychological effect on the people of this country at having something taken off the Income Tax at last. This is the first time for 16 years that a Budget has not imposed any extra taxation. This is the first time since the war that anything has been taken off the standard rate of Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.740.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.740.2", "colnum": "740", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What people?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Cole", "preceding_text": "e war that anything has been taken off the standard rate of Income Tax. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] A couple of years ago there was an increase in the standard rate of Income Tax under the previous Government, and that in a time of peace. Here we are eight years after the end of the war and we have to look to a Conservative Government for the first time to give some uplift to the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "22 million out in his expectations of revenue and £200 million out in his expectations of expenditure, and in the year in which he does that he is applauded as a wonderful Chancellor of the Exchequer. That is why I say that it is one of the easiest jobs in the Government, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is permitted a margin of error far in excess of what is permitted in any other Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "t took office in 1945, they inherited not only six and a half years of the consequences of war but, at the same time, the consequences of neglect in the between-the-war years. I should like to ask hon. Members opposite to make a comparison between seven years after the 1939–45 war and seven years after the 1913–18 war. We are accused of having left the nation in a bankrupt condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "orks are built out of steel. Therefore, throughout the years 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950 we had to have steel allocation schemes in Great Britain in order to find enough steel to finish the steel works they now enjoy. That is how far we are bankrupt. In the next place—these are the figures of a bankrupt nation—aluminium up 20 per cent. sulphuric acid up 61 per cent., refineries 10 times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "r the British nation to continue its economic dependence upon the United States in this way. I believe that the people of this country want British economic independence, whereas the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer reckons the assistance from America as part of his income. Indeed the situation is even worse than it is made to appear. What happens? I was speaking the other day to an industrialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Groundnuts!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "d. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has made only one discriminatory relief in his Budget, that is the 40 per cent. relief for the first two years for mining exploration, which is a characteristic example, in my view, of how not to do it. The most effective way of doing exploration of that sort is for the nation itself, for the Government, to assemble geophysical teams and send them out to explore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "xplore. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Groundnuts!\"] It is no use hon. Members talking about groundnuts. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) said the other day, the fact is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given more money away to the moneylenders than was lost on groundnuts. Now I come to one aspect of the Budget to which I must refer. The Chancellor in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "out a quarter past nine. I wish to honour my arrangement with him. but I propose to finish what I have to say. In his speech the Chancellor spoke of his plans to give certain reliefs. He relieved certain categories of consumers of certain goods and he relieved the taxpayer of his standard rate of Income Tax. At the same time he defended the decision of the Minister of Health to send the structure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "axpayer of his standard rate of Income Tax. At the same time he defended the decision of the Minister of Health to send the structure—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—yes, to send the structure and the organisation of the National Health Service to a committee. I have no objection to that, not the slightest. In fact I would support an investigation into the organisation of the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-20", "file": "debates1953-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3ee38032814e130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t is wrong with that? But why has not the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health been doing it? What is he paid for? After all, be has nothing else to do. He has plenty of machinery at his disposal; why has he not used it? I invite the attention of hon. Members to these figures, because there is obviously on the other side of the Committee a deep antipathy towards the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-20a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "he Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) has just referred. Unliquidated damages might be regarded as a monetary claim, but what about the much more obvious and much commoner claim to damages which have not been liquidated and which remain to be ascertained? Is that or is that not a monetary claim? There is another difficulty, as I am sure the Law Officers would tell us if they were here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "the passing of this Act, or thereafter obtained or appropriated by them, partly for or to the purposes of the existing road haulage undertaking and partly for or to other purposes shall be treated, or shall not be treated, as property held by the Commission. … I could not agree to the suggestion by the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan). This is an exceedingly simple point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "d rail. It is tragic that, in the development of collection and delivery services, and the correct concentration of those services at certain points, the railways have had to allow vehicles to stand in the open during the winter. That has meant that in the morning there has been considerable difficulty in starting. Sometimes one lorry has had to be towed by another round the yard to make it start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "preceding_text": "ask your guidance, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, on a question of procedure? During the altercation which has just ended, the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale), asked a question when seated and covered by a hat provided by the Serjeant at Arms. Subsequently, when the hat was required on this side of the House, the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) prevented it from being passed over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am judging solely by the only method of testing public opinion—the formation of the House of Commons at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " The Government Front Bench have attacked an hon. Friend of mine for what he said about the difficulties of the small men in this business of providing proper labour conditions, a co-ordinated service, and so on. They attack us and even drag in the ex-Service men in an attempt at a rather cheap argument. If any persons have shown themselves to be the friends of the ex-Service men it is this party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ur conditions, a co-ordinated service, and so on. They attack us and even drag in the ex-Service men in an attempt at a rather cheap argument. If any persons have shown themselves to be the friends of the ex-Service men it is this party. [ Laughter .] Certainly. At the end of Second World War we did not leave them to go to the Mayors' Distress Fund, as did the Tory Party after the First World War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jobs for the boys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "readth of this country such as we now have? Bless my heart and soul, there has been established by the Tory Party and their supporters the Traffic Licensing Commissioners. With what object? To keep out the small unit man. Let us face up to it. We know that, whenever a small man makes an application for a haulage service, the big owners of transport bring all the legal people possible to oppose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not allowed to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I want to take up with the Parliamentary Secretary the question of the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, East (Mr. J. Harrison), because he has not really answered the point then made. He does not take much part in these debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "sed the industry, they would have been only too pleased to have written to me to give specific examples of the stupidity of nationalisation and so on, but they have not done it. I can tell the Minister that what has come back to me is a report to the effect that the trunk services given by the depots in my constituency—and these trunk services are day and night services, and some are not economic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.\" We have already discussed the terms of the Lords Amendment to all intents and purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "—the proper thing to have done when the Bill was going through the House was to have supported the Liberal Party in their Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "onable opportunity of doing so notwithstanding that their resources permit them to do so only if their operations are on a small scale … This is, of course, the familiar adoption of a somewhat ancient device. This is the poor widow again, and the Tory Government are looking after the widows and orphans by making a special provision which will enable them to start up in the haulage business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.960.2", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am not, of course at liberty to quote the speech made by a noble and learned Lord who sat on the Woolsack during the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.960.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "I announced the business for this week I said it was proposed to give today and tomorrow to this consideration; and I would point out to the right hon. Gentleman—he was leading then for the Opposition, as he is tonight—that no adverse comment was made on that suggestion of time. Therefore, I and my right hon. and hon. Friends naturally assumed that that was considered reasonable by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "g to do justice as between the public, whose vehicles are being sold, and the Road Haulage Association, who are buying them, if a reserve price were attached to these vehicles by the Commission, with the consent of the Disposal Board. The Attorney-General has just made an interesting proposal, and one worthy of our attention. I think we should hear from the Minister or the Parliamentary Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.989.4", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "That remains to be seen. The steady improvement in the Government's position in the country as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.989.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.993.4", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I realise that it is within your power to refuse to accept such an Amendment, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but, with your permission, I would ask the Minister to move an Amendment. We have had an interesting discussion, and the Minister has shown us clearly that he is in favour of a reserve price being fixed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.993.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.993.6", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e, and was guillotined without proper consideration. It has now been repeated in a modified and tepid form by the Attorney-General at the end of some remarks he has made. We want to know from the Minister what objections he has to following this course, and we want to know whether he would not consider, in view of the fact that he thinks his party is going ahead in the country at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.993.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "tion of the Leader of the House was that we would see how we got on. We have got through one Amendment without a Division. Now is surely the time, when something important has arisen, to see whether the Government cannot have second thoughts and meet us in some way. If they do meet us on this point, which we regard as one of the most important, the Amendments may then begin to go much more easily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I really think we ought to have a statement from the Minister as well as from the Attorney-General. We are much obliged to the Attorney-General for the help he has given us, even if, in the process, he has got into something of a tangle with the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ome progress since the right hon. Gentleman moved a similar Motion an hour and three-quarters ago, but we have not made all that amount of progress. We have still a good deal of ground to cover with these Lords Amendments, and on the whole I think I should advise the House that we should continue—again, to use the phrase which I used before and which I repeat, if I may—and \"see how we get along.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half-past two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "preceding_text": "ether it is right to proceed to discuss Amendments that affect the lives of large numbers of my constituents and of constituents of every Member now sitting in the Chamber. It is scandalous, in circumstances in which this House of Commons can determine from day to day, in accordance with the Standing Orders, what time it commences, that having commenced our day's business at 3.30 in the afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about morning Committees?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "preceding_text": "s of my constituents and of constituents of every Member now sitting in the Chamber. It is scandalous, in circumstances in which this House of Commons can determine from day to day, in accordance with the Standing Orders, what time it commences, that having commenced our day's business at 3.30 in the afternoon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Half-past two.\"]—I said 3.30 in terms of business, apart from Questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "preceding_text": "ome regard. He is meeting them at a fairly early hour. He has some work to do before he meets them. I have no intention of taking part in Divisions in this House today and have not done so since 11.40 p.m. yesterday. I protest against the circumstances, whereby 18 hon. Members, because they have missed their last trains, are going to be hanging about and sleeping in the most disgusting conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "preceding_text": "easons he died was the fact that he really believed these all-night Sittings were important and he would never go without a pair. At 3 a.m. today, there' will be at least a dozen or 18 Labour Members of Parliament in this House experiencing the circumstances I have mentioned, but not one hon. Member opposite will have to spend a night in these circumstances. I do not see anything funny about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "preceding_text": "House experiencing the circumstances I have mentioned, but not one hon. Member opposite will have to spend a night in these circumstances. I do not see anything funny about that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I can get home. I live only a quarter of a mile from here. If the right hon. Gentleman who is sneering so much, had not got a fairly large bank balance derived from his ancestors, he would not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hon. Member doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "preceding_text": "ve to spend a night in these circumstances. I do not see anything funny about that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I can get home. I live only a quarter of a mile from here. If the right hon. Gentleman who is sneering so much, had not got a fairly large bank balance derived from his ancestors, he would not—[ Interruption .] I object to the House discussing the Motion or this Bill which is before it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "morning people tend to speak at greater length than they otherwise would do. I am sure the right hon. Gentleman will sympathise with them. It is often more difficult to speak precisely at 1.30 in the morning. I hope the right hon. Gentleman will take into account the amount of time which will be lost on account of prolixity of that kind. I urge him strongly, in the interests of his own popularity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Are we not to hear something more from the Leader of the House? He is a man who likes to do things the hard way. He gets himself and us, because we are the sufferers, into one tangle after another. He will not realise that he is in a mess and has to ask for mercy. Instead he goes on. Let him observe what has happened. As he acknowledged, there has been no obstruction at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I can speak again only by leave of the House. We are much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for what he has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have watched with a great deal of perturbation and anxiety the wilting away of the Leader of the House. If this goes on I can imagine that we shall have the Leader of the House in the Coronation procession borne upon a stretcher, or perhaps in an ambulance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman will agree that it is possible that the Commission might not want to run a substitute service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1036.5", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Unladen weight—and five-fourths brings it up to 17,200, which is an increase—I am doing the calculation rapidly but I think I am right—of 3,500 as compared with the pre-nationalisation figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1036.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "—that this small section of the road transport industry might be hived off from the much bigger section of the railways which form a majority of the Transport Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am moving now, of course, only the Amendment dealing with the \"six-fifths\" and the \"five-fourths.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is 4 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "y had on 1st January, 1948. After further argument they were moved to the position when they admitted there had been some growth and they would be able to keep six-fifths of what they had. Finally, we have reached the position where in another place they agreed that the Commission should be allowed to keep five-fourths of what they had. I am told that that is greater than six-fifths by 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " spite of the Guillotine, and it was a very honest Opposition effort to devote so much limited time on this Bill, especially when the closure was moved after every few columns. We are told that this is a reasonable time to debate the Amendments. We cannot know the reason, but we are expected to debate them while a dozen Tory Members are lying full length on the benches taking no interest whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1067.2", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "c is to be carried, the number of vehicles will have to be reduced again. We are not told upon what basis that will be; but what we do know is that it is impossible to conduct the trade and industry of a great town on the basis of the proposals we now have. What does the Amendment say? The Amendment suggests that there should be an increase of 4 per cent. over the figure in the previous Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1067.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1072.5", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "rvative Party seem to have two kinds of morality. There is the promise they made to the electorate which is bare-facedly ignored and the promise bought and paid for which has to be carried out; and as this transport deal that we are witnessing continues, we see the flagrant corruption becoming more apparent. Here is an illustration that 200 vehicles are compensation for 7,000 horse-drawn vehicles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " Amendment half-way down page 2, dealing with the transfer of property to companies with a view to the sale of their shares, but reserved that for the opening of our resumed debate. That would mean that we should not adjourn forthwith, but take the Amendment to leave out lines 33 to 37 and insert other words, and the Amendment to line 44. I hope that will be agreeable to the right hon. Gentleman -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member states that there were no speeches made from this side. That is not correct, as I made a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has spoken since then\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "It is true the hon. Member did speak, but that was at nine o'clock last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1089.5", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "han I have. The right hon. Gentleman pays little attention to the proceedings. He comes into the Chamber for short periods and then makes the wildest statements, such as the claim he has just made. If we have not made all the progress he wants, the responsibility lies in a large measure with the Patronage Secretary. For example, it was absurd for the Patronage Secretary to move to report progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1089.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-21", "file": "debates1953-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83f194e35881701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collide", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When it is ready.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collide", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman does not seriously say that to the House. He knows perfectly well that the Bill contains a provision that when the Commission prepare their scheme, it has to be laid before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-21a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1148.7", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have a guess.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I cannot speculate on future prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1148.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What prices?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that for the past 10 days, at all events, I have seen no prices on barrows stocking bananas in the London streets? Does he agree that it is a good result of Tory policy that bananas are sold at prohibitive prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Speaker, but I cannot make myself heard. My point of order is this. In view of the fact that, from the right hon. Gentleman's reply, he has clearly misunderstood my question and also totally misunderstands what is happening in this area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1170.4", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1170.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1179.4", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Jobs for the boys.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "bson Jarvie, commenting, according to \"The Times\" today, on last night's debate says: The United Dominions Trust, with the full knowledge and approval of the Minister, is actually at this moment, in conjunction with the Road Haulage Association, organising an ad hoc company for the specific purpose of financing potential buyers of transport units desirous of getting back into the haulage business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In reply to the first point of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman), if he consults the Journals of the House for the day on which this Bill was read the Third time here, he will see it entered there as \"Read the Third time, and passed.\" So the Bill has passed this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "Needless to say, I think this will be accepted by hon. Members on both sides of the House. I am very glad to have this opportunity of making a statement, and I may add that I think it is very unlikely that anything said from the Opposition benches at any time is likely to frighten, shame or embarrass me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "hat the important words are \"with the full knowledge and approval of the Minister\"— is actually at this moment, in conjunction with the Road Haulage Association, organising an ad hoc company for the specific purpose of financing potential buyers of transport units desirous of getting back into the haulage business. I say straight away that that statement of Mr. Gibson Jarvie is absolutely correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1188.6", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ion of credit facilities, I had to consider in advance—planning ahead is not a bad maxim for a good Government—what would be the best form of providing credit facilities. It was suggested that some structure of this kind would be suitable, and, before the Press announcement was made, naturally full approval both of the Minister of Transport and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1188.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1193.4", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Who goes first?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "icial officer and as a high person at the Bar, we in this House regard him more as a politician than as a judicial officer. My hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) has rendered a good service, I think, to Parliament and to the community, and I honestly believe that he has rendered a good service to the Minister of Transport, by enabling this matter to be ventilated today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I took it that Mr. Gibson Jarvie, being a very intelligent person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e point which he himself wrote into the Bill yesterday. 5.30 p.m. I think the Minister should have been more careful in the phrases he used about the United Dominions Trust, when we consider the sort of people he is dealing with and their activities in the road haulage depots that we disclosed in the House yesterday. He should have regard to the fact that these people are quite slippery operators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to delay the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to delay the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—I want to ask a question. If we agree to the Adjournment Motion being withdrawn, does that not imply that we accept the explanation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " us some clearer idea, and a real lead on this matter. I have listened to the Minister of Transport during the past day and night and I got no clue from him that he is interested in the national well-being. We have just had an amazing demonstration from his hon. Friend, so we fall back upon the Parliamentary Secretary. Here is a great opportunity for him. Let him take an example from Lord Winston—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "we have no explanation in the Lords, but we get no explanation in the Commons until all the Amendments to the Lords Amendments are disposed of, so that it is only when it is too late to put the thing right that we are told, what the Clause means and how it is intended to operate. I feel, therefore, although, as I say, I rose with trepidation and hesitancy and with a certain sense of insufficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "igher. I take it that that is a statement of Government policy, on which we can rely, and that, in fact, the Commission will be able to form companies with more than 50 vehicles in number and with more than an aggregate weight of 200 tons unladen without the consent of the Minister. It is very important, and I take it that there is no dissent from that, and that it is the policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e little man should be catered for, it is contradictory to that argument that the shares should be sold in one parcel. Therefore, we would prefer to go upon the basis that the whole of the shares may, or may not, be sold in one parcel. It may well be the case that a number of the shares will be sold over a period and that a considerable number will be left in the hands of the Transport Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "preceding_text": "f carried, the right hon. Gentleman's Amendment would be bound inevitably to have a dilatory effect upon the Commission in disposing of their shares. I should have thought that that argument was self-evident. We believe that reasonable speed is the essence of the contract here, and the right hon. Gentleman's proposals, made in however good faith, would have the effect of slowing down that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1340.3", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will sit down I will answer him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1340.3", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "they find difficulty in getting rid of them in the particular shareholding groups in which they have been established, the various machineries I have outlined are open to them, and then, if in the view of the Disposal Board the time has come for the units or such companies as are not sold to be disposed of as chattels, at that moment they will have to dispose of all remaining vehicles as chattels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was taken during the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "gh Private Members' time on Friday and take it away from Private Members of the House? We ought to know. Are they going through until 4 p.m. on Friday? If so, are they sure they will get all the Lords Amendments? In each case, the Government has merely inconvenienced hon. Members on both sides of the House later today and has possibly stolen Private Members' time on Friday which is sacred to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": ", simply because we have done our public duty. I protest very strongly against this action, which, as I say, is spiteful, vindictive and petty. After consultation with our Chief Whip I think it right to inform the House of what indeed the House scarcely needs informing about. It is obvious that the pairs which were made on the basis of a very different type of business for tomorrow cannot operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "rough all these debates. I have a lot of other things to attend to. However, I have very carefully followed the course of this important Bill, and I am bound to say that I understood, before the Recess, before the lamentable events which occurred a little while ago, that the course of business which would have led to the conclusion of this Bill and of the Lords Amendments was practically accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has just been speaking. I must be allowed to say what I thought was the general impression on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sion. I understand from various sources that hon. Members opposite and the leaders of the party, whoever they may be and whichever seem to show the winning colours at any particular part of the race, received very strong reproaches from their constituents, \"Why are you not fighting this Tory Bill better?\" The result has been that they have lashed up their fury, their pretended fury—all false, sham", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "us sources that hon. Members opposite and the leaders of the party, whoever they may be and whichever seem to show the winning colours at any particular part of the race, received very strong reproaches from their constituents, \"Why are you not fighting this Tory Bill better?\" The result has been that they have lashed up their fury, their pretended fury—all false, sham [ Interruption ]—all rubbish", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have all gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "opinion, to an altogether dishonest and even disgraceful bit of obstruction over the Lords Amendments. We have every intention of carrying this Bill through. It was thought that it would be for the convenience of the House, having had to sit so late last night, if hon. Members could disperse early tonight. I was told that it made a difference to many hon. Members opposite in catching their trains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". [HON. MEMBERS: \"They have all gone.\"] That was one of the reasons why my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House moved the Adjournment. Under great provocation, in face of many insults, we try to consider with good feeling the reasonable convenience of the House. And what is the result? The result is this speech of the right hon. Gentleman, this exhibition, founded on humbug, ending as it did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "isters have gone to Paris on public duty, on quite definite assurances. We are not in the least disheartened or discouraged by this conduct. It is only hon. Members opposite who suffer in public reputation. I will make it perfectly plain that as far as the Government are concerned we have every intention of carrying this Bill into law, and dealing with the Lords Amendments before this week is out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Does that offer hold or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-22", "file": "debates1953-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e4a3754a2613616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1356.2", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Saturday and Sunday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to exacerbate the feelings which have already been manifested, but I want to make a suggestion. It is that, instead of discussing the Transport Bill again tomorrow and on Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-22a.1356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1386.6", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister so ignorant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1386.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1387.8", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I will do this in the next six months. May I add that I am sure the House would like me to say how nice it is to see the right hon. Gentleman back in his place once more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1387.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman considered the point that I raised earlier about having repre sentatives of local government on this committee, bearing in mind the changes which ought to be made as a result of our recent experiences? May I take this opportunity of saying that the Committee, by any standards, is an impressive one, and if I may have the indulgence of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1398.8", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I rise to congratulate the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) on the progress he is making below the Gangway, by the courtesy with which he permitted his hon. Friend the Member for Maldon (Mr. Driberg) to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1398.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1416.6", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Champion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is next week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Champion", "preceding_text": "and put down this new Clause, but I do not think anyone can regard it as being entirely satisfactory. For that reason we are now seeking to amend and improve it to secure that the Transport Commission will in some cases have a better chance to operate and to carry out the functions remaining to them after this Bill becomes—as I sup pose it will, even after a marathon week end—an Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall have been here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "I think that matter is provided for every day. My hon. Friend has raised a substantial point. I hope that when we arrive here tomorrow morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman is a little confused. I said that there was a great difference between road passenger and road haulage. These figures from the Commission refer to road haulage. They show that the road haulage companies in which the old railway companies had minority shareholdings had about 550 vehicles and that the railway companies' holdings were equivalent to about 270 of these vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is fed up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "at this Chamber was swarming with hundreds of Members on the opposite side, determined to gag us and bring an end to our discussion. It is rather a sad reflection upon their enthusiasm for the debate and for this Bill that there is not a single back bencher in the House apart from the hon. and gallant Member for Pudsey (Colonel Banks) who is here on duty as a joint Parliamentary Private Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Christmas present.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " blind to common sense. At the same time as we ask the Commission to obtain the best possible price, is it wise to say, \"You will sell the shares in this way, and only in this way, as soon as practicable and in the same parcel\"? Will the Attorney-General tell us what \"one parcel\" means? As a Scotsman I take a down-to-earth view and I see these shares wrapped up in brown paper and tied with string.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With the string.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " the Attorney-General tell us what \"one parcel\" means? As a Scotsman I take a down-to-earth view and I see these shares wrapped up in brown paper and tied with string. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A Christmas present.\"] That may well be, but no prizes are offered for suggestions as to who may receive that present. There is another consideration. Where does the small man come into this \"one parcel\" of shares?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " thing still goes on; we still de-nationalise; but we do not need this and if we keep it we may put the taxpayer at a disadvantage.\" We are very touched to see the hon. Member for Holland with Boston (Sir H. Butcher) arriving in the Chamber. We do not know what will happen in the next few minutes, but I shall be glad if he will listen to the argument. He is a distinguished member of his own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. H. R. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. H. R. Rogers", "preceding_text": " popular Parliamentary Secretary. However, I am surprised that my right hon. Friend should be surprised at the cynicism. After all, who but a cynic would have attempted to pilot the Bill through the House. My hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) has said that there might be sinister motives behind the Clause. I am not sure that there may not be some truth in what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": " years. I feel that the Minister must, in his better moments, still agree that the words which it is sought to delete are really impracticable to operate and that the principle of providing for an element of competition already exists in other Clauses. I feel that on this occasion, in view of the fact that the Minister has turned down so many of our Amendments, I do not think he has accepted one —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1513.2", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "res the public interest. On the other hand, the public interest is emphasised and expressly advocated in our Amendment. The Lords Amendment says nothing whatsoever about routes covered by existing services. This point was very well dealt with by my hon. Friend the Member for Wednesbury (Mr. S. N. Evans). Our Amendment expressly takes this into account while the Lords Amendment ignores it entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no justice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Gurney Braithwaite)", "preceding_text": "one thing, acceptance, acquiescence and agreement are quite another. If I may use an example which will put the case to the House with clarity, a poignant chapter from my own life, there was a time some years ago when I was engaged in a particularly agreeable piece of courting, when a proposal which I made was listened to with the keenest and most polite attention but failed to achieve acceptance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1523.3", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I am a little sorry now that I gave way to the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ned to a long debate and it was agreed between us that I should wait for the right hon. and learned Gentleman. It was also agreed that I should not occupy too long myself in view of the fact that we have a formidable amount of business to transact—all hon. Members know that. I am trying to put the case as succinctly as I can. What I am saying, in all good temper, to the hon. Member for Wednesbury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "te enterprise before nationalisation. The large increase in C licences which has taken place since 1948 is, we suggest, not entirely of course—there are many reasons why traders take out C licences —but to a considerable extent, due to the frustration of traders, who would never have bought lorries for themselves had it not been for the fact that they felt the service left something to be desired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1527.0", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "We have argued this question to and fro and I see no prospect of coming to an accommodation about it. It is our view, on this side of the House, that the private haulier will give the trader a better transport system than he at present obtains under the British Transport Commission. If I were to stand at this Box for the next 12 hours —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1537.0", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": " the Parliamentary Secretary in this regard. I would call the Minister's attention to the general trend of these debates. We hope that the Treasury Bench will not keep on taping on the theme that we are out to destroy the Bill. We have got so far with the Bill now that our Amendments to the Lords Amendments are directed to improving the Bill. This is a remarkable example of Parliamentary drafting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1556.0", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Before the Attorney-General sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Amendments, the great majority of which, taking them as a whole, are concessions or part-concessions to the Opposition point of view. Therefore, on that calculation, we have already spent the best part of more than four Parliamentary days. That is quite a lot of time. I think that I can say on behalf of my right hon. Friend who has been conducting the Bill so admirably on behalf of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "e Standing Committees of this House do very valuable work in moulding the legislation of Parliament, but for the sittings upstairs two hours and 2½ hours is the normal amount of time. That should be kept in mind when I say that on the first day of these proceedings that was the sort of time which Amendments were taking. On that sort of calculation, which I admit does not carry one very far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Gas Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "rt of calculation does not carry one very far, because some Amendments are more important than others. But at the pace at which we have been going, I estimate that it would now take about 90 more hours to get through the Lords Amendments. I have only to state that proposition for every hon. Member, whether he has been in this House for a long time or a short time, to realise that it is ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " these debates on the Lords Amendments, I think that we have done most of the giving so far. I put it to hon. Members that, considering the rights of the minority, as we have done, considering certainly the rights of the majority, we are all, wherever we sit, agreed that it is of paramount importance at any time, but I think perhaps more than ever now, that Parliament should not be made a mockery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "late one and one last night not very late, and one more day—that is to say, this sitting day— that sitting late today, but not unduly late, say, all told about 12 hours from four o'clock, was an ample and reasonable time for concluding this business. We never had any suggestion of sitting through Friday or Saturday, because, weighing the matter up, we concluded that 12 hours was a reasonable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "tting late today, but not unduly late, say, all told about 12 hours from four o'clock, was an ample and reasonable time for concluding this business. We never had any suggestion of sitting through Friday or Saturday, because, weighing the matter up, we concluded that 12 hours was a reasonable time. [ Interruption. ] Twelve hours from four o'clock do not take us into late tomorrow or into Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, all night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentlemen opposite would have thought that what we suggested was right. Perhaps they did, but did not like to accept it. Anyhow, no agreement was reached on that subject, so I would now put it to the House that we propose to make some more progress tonight. After all, it is only 11.40 p.m. We would think it reasonable, if it was acceptable to the House as a whole, to sit to, say, 2 a.m.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The whole week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "at what we suggested was right. Perhaps they did, but did not like to accept it. Anyhow, no agreement was reached on that subject, so I would now put it to the House that we propose to make some more progress tonight. After all, it is only 11.40 p.m. We would think it reasonable, if it was acceptable to the House as a whole, to sit to, say, 2 a.m.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, all night.\"]—and then adjourn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "have come to the conclusion that 12 hours or so is reasonably ample, and hon. Members know perfectly well that it is. We are proposing to put to the House a plan by which, with an hour or two's tolerance each way, it should be achieved. First, we propose that we should make some more progress tonight, sitting to 2 a.m. or thereabouts and then adjourn. Then we shall put on the Order Paper a Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "bers know perfectly well that it is. We are proposing to put to the House a plan by which, with an hour or two's tolerance each way, it should be achieved. First, we propose that we should make some more progress tonight, sitting to 2 a.m. or thereabouts and then adjourn. Then we shall put on the Order Paper a Motion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]— arising out of the decision of the House on 24th November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Guillotine the Lords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " more progress tonight, sitting to 2 a.m. or thereabouts and then adjourn. Then we shall put on the Order Paper a Motion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]— arising out of the decision of the House on 24th November. [ Interruption. ] There is no need to abolish anything; it is merely a question of carrying out and exercising the powers which this House has within the last few months accorded to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ovember makes it open to the Government to put down a Motion, which we will do, for debate, and that debate can last for only two hours—again by decision of the House on 24th November —setting out the time within which this matter must be concluded. At the end of the number of hours which will appear in the body of that Motion, you, Mr. Speaker, have no option but to put the Question to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "e remaining time tonight and on Monday is used of course obviously depends on those who have Amendments to propose and those who wish to debate them. The right hon. Member asks how long the Government had in mind for the debate on Monday. We thought that given assiduity and not loquacity, about 12 hours would suffice from the beginning of today's Sitting. I think we might sit to, say, about 2 a.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1570.0", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "her place. It does not amuse me, but the smiles of hon. Gentlemen opposite making light of these grave things are idiotic. It is an idiotic attitude to take. They will be sorry for this. What are they deciding by this decision? Because of the Guillotine in this House, we were unable adequately to consider the Bill, and the Minister, time after time, with his record of friendship for Franco Spain —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1570.0", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rder from the gentlemen of England. In the meantime, I will maintain my complacency and my good temper. About five minutes ago I referred to the Minister of Transport and his outlook on politics, and to his general temperament, which is not unrelated to his friendship for Franco Spain; the friendship which existed at the time of the cruel Spanish war, when Hitler and Mussolini were in that battle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "o use it on House of Lords Amendments? Was it mentioned? Did it dawn upon a single Member of this House that it would be used for the Amendments of another place? I ask the Leader of the House. Did he mention it? Did any other Minister mention that this was intended to cover Amendments from the Lords? Can he tell me? I will willingly give way. I think he ought to answer. I will give way willingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1573.3", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "What about Abadan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1573.4", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ration of the Lords Amendments as we have on these Amendments. Why should they? They were Tories dealing with Amendments that came from a Tory House of Lords at the other end of the corridor and with which they were more likely to agree than would the Labour Party in opposition. That also seems to me to be an unreasonable argument. It cannot be shown that we have been filibustering or obstructing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1573.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1573.4", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "with which they were more likely to agree than would the Labour Party in opposition. That also seems to me to be an unreasonable argument. It cannot be shown that we have been filibustering or obstructing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite seem in a merry mood tonight, which we can understand, but they have not been here for the greater part of our proceedings. For a considerable part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1573.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1574.5", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman referred to certain conversations—he told us that he would, and, therefore, he had a perfect right to do so—that we had with him before the sitting began this afternoon. What happened was that he offered us today to a reasonable hour and the whole of Monday to a reasonable hour. That was a free offer, free of restrictions and free of the Guillotine. We did not think it enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1574.5", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too generous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e did not think it enough. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Indeed, we did not. We may be right or we may be wrong, but we conscientiously and genuinely believe that we could not adequately fulfil our duties with regard to these Amendments from another place in the time which would thus be available. We had a perfect right to think so and to say so. We were offered the whole of today and the whole of Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1579.4", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was hoping that we should find ourselves in a friendly atmosphere tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1579.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1579.4", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"House of Lords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " before Easter, and not a word was said or anything done. What has happened since? Three or four days of Parliamentary time have been expended on trying to debate this Bill all over again on fundamental principles. Members tried to spend as much time as possible, and the Government have felt themselves up against this issue: are we going to assert the right of the majority in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1579.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "You are not a Lord yet—in the House of Commons to carry through their business, when three or four days more than had been expected had been allotted to the issue in question? I think there must be some stop. It was said there would be 90 hours more debate if we did not take these steps. I think that would be an intolerable burden upon Parliament—90 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"House of Lords\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " our throats when every step we take has to be assented to by a democratically-elected Parliament, and what we do tonight and on Monday has to be settled on the opinion and authority of a freely-elected democracy. You can take Franco home—with Abadan! 12.30 a.m. In the present state of affairs we find it absolutely necessary and right, and in conformity with true House of Commons tradition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " House of Commons tradition—[HON. MEMBERS: \"House of Lords\"]—to use the facilities which the Order of November undoubtedly gives us. So, except for any points of order which may very properly be raised on Monday, within the two hours provided—I will not attempt to forecast that, Mr. Speaker—we intend to close this matter on Monday if it is within our power, and if we have a Parliamentary majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " We intend to press this through, and we hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite, with full consideration of matters, will utilise the time which is still at their disposal in such a manner as to make the discussion of Amendments as full and as reasonable as possible. I am very much astonished that this outburst, this four-day episode, should have occurred. We are not trying to make party strife bitter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan (Ebbw Vale) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Member, or anyone else who happened to catch your eye, Mr. Speaker, to carry on the discussion. All I wish to say is that we think any good Parliamentarian in his heart and conscience, when he looks back on this story of the Transport Bill since the night before the Easter Adjournment, when we separated, will see that what has happened has been a very unfair use of Parliamentary time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1583.2", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who broke the pairs last night? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ctly what has happened. Hon. Members sitting behind him have said they were not going to sit for the hours ordered by the right hon. Gentleman; they had no intention of obeying the behest of the right hon. Gentleman last night. His talk to us reminded me very much of the first sergeant-major I had in the Royal Engineers, who said, \"You may break your mothers' hearts but you will never break mine.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ons of livelihood. This Clause went first of all to the House of Lords, and when it was brought back to the House of Commons the Conservatives used their majority to prevent you from voting or arguing about it in the House of Commons. In those circumstances, what argument have you got against me if I invite my fellows in this depot to come out on strike against that Measure? \" Where is the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "But when the Government limit the democratic rights of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1593.4", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was arguing about direct action by strikes, and I was glad to hear the line he took, although I was not quite sure that that was the line he took.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I moved this Motion some two hours ago in order to have the opportunity of explaining the general proposals of the Government. It is in the hands of the House whether it wishes to go on or not and get back to discussing the Bill. If it is the wish of the House to get back to the Bill now I shall be quite prepared to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " or four more competitive orations from other right hon. Gentlemen opposite. We should count ourselves lucky that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) have, so far at any rate, resisted the temptation of verbal incontinence. I certainly do not want to ascribe to them any virtue they do not possess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that his name did not appear inside the book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1596.5", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that his name did not appear inside the book. [ Interruption. ] He made a statement which was not true and in his subsequent writings and in his newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1597.7", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not on Lords Amendments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "tine. It is illogical. We have to judge the attitude of hon. Gentlemen opposite to the Guillotine not by what they say now in Opposition but by what they did when in power. They are six years out of time in making that sort of point. It is within the recollection of us all that in 1947, by guillotining the Trans- port Bill and the Town and Country Planning Bill on both Committee and Report stages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1597.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "rteous attention. I naturally accept at once the statement of the right hon. Member that he was misunderstood by hon. Members on this side of the House. Nevertheless, I should still like to ask him what authority he has for making that statement. I ask him to believe that hon. Members on this side of the House are perfectly prepared to face the rigours of all-night Sittings or continuous Sittings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Did the right hon. Gentleman allow any individual discretion to hon. Members on his side in this matter, or did he give instructions that there was no need for them to communicate with hon. Members opposite with whom they had been paired because his repudiation was sufficient for them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1600.8", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not think it would be in order for me to go into the circumstances of the hon. Gentleman's frustrated visit to China. I was making the simple point that we developed a line of conduct in regard to these matters, and it has been varied by the other side of the House; and no evidence has been adduced to the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1600.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I have for about the last ten minutes been engaged in answering points put by the hon. Member's hon. Friends. If his hon. Friends put the points it was they who were out of order. I have made the position clear that by our standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1602.0", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "During the course of the last two hours we have had raised a number of questions, most of which were not really very relevant to the Transport Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1602.4", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is your contribution?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ture of the House of Lords, the future of Parliament, political strikes in industry, a long discussion about the ethics of pairing, a discussion of the atti tude of Ministers to a tragedy in Spain nearly 20 years ago, and a variety of other matters on which opinions are necessarily divided but the conflict on which is not directly relevant to the matters the House is supposed now to be discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1602.4", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that the hon. Gentleman is so far still with us as to display any interest whatever in what is being said. I did not even know he was awake, and until quite recently he was not in the House. I would suggest to him with all respect and courtesy that the best way for him to find what any contribution to a debate is is for him to keep quiet and listen and then he will find out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman said it was the Minister's statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "That is true. I have two quotations here; one from my hon. Friend and one from the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "on of any kind. Frankly, I welcome the situation that has arisen. I am delighted that the Government have taken measures which effectively reveal to everyone the true nature of the Government's use of power, and the extent to which they have gone to protect the rights of property by the sanction that can be imposed by the House of Lords. I hope, therefore, that out of the time that we have wasted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-23", "file": "debates1953-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcc97e1cdd3b3469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1607.2", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "iving the Committee of a quorum. It is complete humbug for someone who behaved like that to hold up his hands in horror because the Government of the day imposed a Guillotine on this kind of procedure. Then it is suggested that we ought not to make a fuss about this because it involves only a day. The Prime Minister says that the Constitution cannot really be in question over a matter of 24 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-23a.1607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-24", "file": "debates1953-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "786cdfbe3f554b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-24a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS (PIGS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "My point is that the stunning today is all done by electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-24a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-24", "file": "debates1953-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "786cdfbe3f554b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-24a.1716.3", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S CIVIL SERVICE (APPOINTMENTS BOARD) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " variety of views, the best persons shall be put into these positions of great responsibility. If anybody were appointed to be, say, Marshal of the Civil Service, I should think that that would create the utmost terror in the ranks of civil servants, who might very well expect to be paraded on the annual pay day to receive the issue in the way some of them recollect when they were in the Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-24a.1716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-24", "file": "debates1953-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "786cdfbe3f554b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-24a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "SCHOOL, WEST HARTLEPOOL (REBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn)", "preceding_text": "ete schools and war-damaged schools. That has not been possible, and where it becomes necessary for the Minister to choose between the quantitatively obligatory school and the qualitatively highly desirable replacement, one has only to state the choice plainly to see which way the Ministerial decision must properly go. The local education authority now proposes the rebuilding of the bombed school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-24a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1759.3", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "In view of the Minister's cowardly reply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1771.2", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, because none of us wishes to waste time on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEM BERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot take that view. The House stands guardian of its own Privileges. If the House feels that it should insist on the Privilege point on any of these Amendments, hon. Members can express themselves by voting against the block Motion. There is no other way in which it can be done.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1779.1", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "roposed by the Allocation of Time Order is carried at the end of the day the House has automatically waived its Privilege in regard to Amendments which are involved in it. The right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) and the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ellis Smith) asked for a precedent. I do not know of any case in which Lords Amendments have been agreed to en bloc —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1780.7", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " mentioned. Therefore, it is our submission that the Lords Amendments are separate from the House of Commons consideration of the Bill up to its passing—its consideration at earlier stages, and to which the Allocation of Time Order originally passed properly applied. Moreover, it is the case, to the best of my recollection—I can be corrected if I am wrong—that no Minister of the Crown at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1780.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1780.7", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "y not be held to apply to it—I am very doubtful about it—it is something which was not contemplated. I submit that it is a precedent of grave constitutional importance. The provision for supplementary orders to the original Order dealt with the report of the Business Committee, which is significant. My belief is that the provision—I had something to do with this when I was a Minister of the Crown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1780.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1788.2", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I should like to point out to the House that I have considered the matter very carefully, and I have given a Ruling, but it is for the House to decide how to use the limited time. The Motion has been moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1788.2", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I should like to point out to the House that I have considered the matter very carefully, and I have given a Ruling, but it is for the House to decide how to use the limited time. The Motion has been moved—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes; I called on the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House, and he moved his Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1793.0", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "When I rose, I at once said, \"I beg to move.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1793.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1793.7", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I was hoping to be able to continue the speech which I began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1793.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1793.8", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Member has already moved the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1793.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1793.8", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not been moved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "oved the Motion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] I heard him. I said that I would not propose the Question until I was satisfied about the point of order, but that does not prevent the two hours from running. The proceedings on any Motion moved by any Member of the Government for supplementing this Order shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion two hours after they have been commenced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1793.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1797.4", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I think it was Mr. Speaker, and not one of those who raised points of order, who used the phrase: \"to cover unanticipated circumstances.\" That is exactly what we are dealing with; today, unanticipated circumstances. Never before in the long years that I have been in this House has any attempt been made by any Opposition to filibuster Lords Amendments at all. It never has been the case in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1797.4", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "success we must all admit, within the rules of order to reopen issues on the Bill itself in a way far more than had ever previously been thought possible on Lords Amendments. There evidently is some weakness in our procedure. They have exploited it, and this is the result. But if the procedure of this House is reduced to a mockery, and I say deliberately that that is what happened, then the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1802.3", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " is part of the elementary art of leading the House of Commons, and my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) had similar experiences. The trouble with this Leader of the House, with this Chief Whip, if not with this Prime Minister, is that they get a special delight out of saying, \"No\" to the Opposition. They do not believe how much sweetness and light can be caused and created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rmed some part of the capitalist system of those days. I remind my hon. Friend that the Wild West films that I used to see always ended up with virtue triumphant and vice defeated, and I have no doubt that that will be the end of this Bill, too. I would also remind him that the rustlers always got shot, and that this Government are going to get shot for what they are doing in this particular Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "come it as much as I would, and nobody would get a greater shock than hon. Members opposite. I assure the right hon. Gentleman that he will be able to resume his holiday in Italy and stay as long as he likes. He will not be troubled when he is on this side of the House. He can even go to Spain to see General Franco again, where I have no doubt he will be very welcome. I now come to the next point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1883.5", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Full knowledge and approval.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "—in order that they should be able to finance the purchase of lorries. I still do not know why, when those questions were being put to the Government no reference was made in the answers to the fact that United Dominions Trust were to be used as an instrument of Government policy in this connection. It is quite clear that it is. Mr. Gibson Jarvie has said that it is with the Minister's—what is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1883.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1885.1", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "urchase credit facilities are to be relaxed in the case of the purchase of these lorries. We can therefore sum up the position by saying that the Government intend that these nationalised lorries shall be sold at a loss. Even though they are to be sold at a loss, they are still not sure they can sell them. Therefore, they are giving the United Dominions Trust credit facilities for borrowing money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1888.6", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": "I am quite capable of making a speech in this regard but it will be very short, sharp and to the point. My thoughts about the hon. Gentleman would never alter, but I might have to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1888.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many drivers were there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "a few months ago a great many did not believe that this would happen, although they could see the axe swinging over their heads, but now that it has really come people are extremely concerned. I have had many instances of this, including a meeting with a number of lorry drivers in my constituency last Saturday. One of them told me that he was a Conservative but proposed to vote for me from now on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1895.0", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never discussed here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "prang from a feeling that, if the other issues were debated, the hollowness of their general charge would be demonstrated. Anyhow they are now able to say, though I do not think many people would believe them, \"Look at the large number of issues we have not been allowed to discuss.\" I say in advance that to spend three days on a new Clause that was welcomed by their own spokesmen in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1895.0", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "y are now able to say, though I do not think many people would believe them, \"Look at the large number of issues we have not been allowed to discuss.\" I say in advance that to spend three days on a new Clause that was welcomed by their own spokesmen in another place—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Never discussed here.\"]—and on which full information was given there and much advance information was given here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1895.0", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Be accurate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "think the arguments are extremely strong and weighty. It will necessitate some rather complicated Amendments. The principle is simple. The Amendments may look formidable, but they will not be formidable save in words. Every time hon. Gentlemen wave the Order Paper, as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) did a night or two ago, and say \"Three and a half pages\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1895.0", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "dvance notice that the Amendments would look complicated and formidable, but that they would not be formidable save in words. I added: In substance the machinery would be perfectly simple. If, as I hope, it is possible to introduce Amendments in another place, they will then come back to this House where we shall have a chance to consider them and their full implications. Now we have had a chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "econd Reading speech than he made on this Lords Amendment, but I hope he will forgive me if in what I have to say I do not go in great detail into some of the general issues. I will, however, deal with one or two of the points made by the hon. Member, and not least with the uncertainty in the minds of individual men, for whose welfare I am just as conscious and anxious as any hon. Member opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1899.0", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They had compensation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ly touching the lives of the employees. 10.0 p.m. I regret the disturbance caused to individuals and the uncertainty as to their future, even though I think that political pressure is being exerted to play on their natural fears. It is fair to remind hon. Members of the many thousands of small hauliers who not only lost their jobs but lost their businesses that they had taken pride in building up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1899.0", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "cil machinery. The hon. Member for Swansea, West made the point that 15,000 or 20,000 people would have their position worsened and they might not find jobs. The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East, with his glorious disregard for accuracy, said that they would lose their jobs. There is no possible case for arguing that they would lose their jobs. The greater proportion, we hope, will be absorbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1899.0", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "d lose their jobs. There is no possible case for arguing that they would lose their jobs. The greater proportion, we hope, will be absorbed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] I must finish the argument. I submit to the hon. Member for Swansea, West, who is President of the Railway Clerks' Association—an office he has held since 1948—that there is a very powerful Transport Workers Salaried Staff association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That is not the question—the full support and approval, the full authority and approval. Anyway, can the Economic Secretary to the Treasury answer \"Yes\" or \"No\" whether the Chancellor associates himself with the precise language used by the Minister of Transport? Will he tell us that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.3", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "So, first of all, my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.5", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d then it is left with the banks. But what different language from the positive approval and authority that lifted this business right up to the high priority of exports for dollars and a particular line of business. It means that the Government are affording to the United Dominions Trust, and, I gather, certain other organisations as well, credit facilities ranking equal with exports for dollars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.5", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "siness right up to the high priority of exports for dollars and a particular line of business. It means that the Government are affording to the United Dominions Trust, and, I gather, certain other organisations as well, credit facilities ranking equal with exports for dollars. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] But it is said by Lord Selkirk, and it has not been repudiated. He said, \"This is common practice.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-27", "file": "debates1953-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "917226c3749a620b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.5", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You had three days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Second Reading. It could have been examined in Committee on Amendments, and it would have been subject to Amendment on Report stage before it went through. The new Clause was started in another place. It is a big Clause, but it comes here without any Second Reading, with no Committee stage and no Report stage, and we have to deal with it as best we can by way of Amendments to the Lords Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-27a.1905.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1941.3", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "preceding_text": "As I said, while I have taken considerable trouble over this, I cannot substantiate that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1941.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1957.7", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "TANKS, LEEDS (SUPERVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Mr. Griffiths rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1957.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1957.11", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "TANKS, LEEDS (SUPERVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member put down a Question for answer. If the Minister is not here, he cannot answer it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1957.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1958.7", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY PROJECT (REORGANISATION COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I should now like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1958.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1961.0", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY PROJECT (REORGANISATION COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not gather that the Leader of the Opposition suggested that my right hon. Friend the Minister of Supply had absented himself on this occasion with the deliberate intention of avoiding being present when such an announcement as this was being made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1961.0", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY PROJECT (REORGANISATION COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e is he?\"] He is not here, I am sure, only because Questions came to an unusually early end. I suppose accidents like that do sometimes happen. It is quite clear that if I had made my answer in the ordinary way, neither the absence of the Minister nor the imputation which the right hon. Gentleman has chosen to throw upon it would have had any foundation, or lacked the fullest possible explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1961.0", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY PROJECT (REORGANISATION COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " in Parliament, and I am very glad it should be. But let us get all the facts ready. After all, surely it is not a party matter. It is a question of doing the best thing we can for our country in a matter on which great sums of money have been spent. I certainly think it would be easy to find at a later date some opportunity of discussing it, and the Opposition, with their rights over Supply Days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY PROJECT (REORGANISATION COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that now we are going to send the Committee on their tour of inspection, to give us their advice on detail, it would be well to await the result of that before producing a White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1962.2", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY PROJECT (REORGANISATION COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ion. Then they have appointed a committee to find reasons why the Government are right. The Prime Minister admits the Committee may find reasons why the Government arc wrong, but I do not see how they can, because they are appointed on the basis that the Government are right. Surely my right hon. Friend is right that now the Government should table a White Paper and should provide time themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1962.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1964.7", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "TANKS, LEEDS (SUPERVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the reason?", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply (Mr. A. R. W. Low)", "preceding_text": "I desire to apologise to you, Mr. Speaker, to the House, and to the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. D. Griffiths) for my failure to be present when Question No. 55 was called, and I hope that you and the House will accept my sincere apologies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1964.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "TANKS, LEEDS (SUPERVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that that is not a true statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "TANKS, LEEDS (SUPERVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that that is not a true statement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—but in fact these tanks are delivered from the Royal Ordnance Factory at Leeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that it is a fact that the agitation of his hon. Friends in this matter has been based upon certain increases in charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that it is a fact that the agitation of his hon. Friends in this matter has been based upon certain increases in charges—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] That was the whole of their agitation, and that is why they wanted the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "increases in charges—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] That was the whole of their agitation, and that is why they wanted the inquiry—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes. That being the case, why is the right hon. Gentleman excluding the question of fares and charges from the inquiry? In response to my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Ernest Davies), he is also excluding wages and conditions of labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1971.7", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "NEWSPAPER ARTICLE (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ford", "preceding_text": "n the House yesterday afternoon. I wish to make it clear that I realise that I have been guilty of an indiscretion. I apologise most humbly to the House and to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock) and the right hon. Lady the Member for Fulham, West (Dr. Summerskill). The article referred to was based on my answers to a series of questions, and I did not actually write it myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1971.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1973.2", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "NEWSPAPER ARTICLE (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the newspaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "for the Leader of the House or the Prime Minister to make this Motion to you, Mr. Speaker. It is the usual custom, though we may have had some breaches in it. I am bound to say that there is also a very long tradition, in what I may call minor matters of decorum, when an apology has been made, full, frank and wholehearted, for that apology to be accepted with generosity by the House, and I am not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.1973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.2079.7", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "EXPORTS TO CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "speaks later in the debate and will draw my attention to such words of limitation I shall be very grateful. In the meantime, I shall go on with my speech on the assumption that the words are not there. Why should not the Order have been limited strictly and rigidly to the countries with the territorial waters of which the policy of the Government is concerned? It could have been done quite easily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.2079.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.2079.7", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "EXPORTS TO CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "t need them and will do everything in its power to keep them out. That is not a criticism of the American market. We would do the same in the same position, and we would be right. There is no reason in the world, on ordinary economic considerations, why the American market should absorb our surplus manufactured goods. The Americans can make them all themselves quite as well as we can, and cheaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.2079.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.2085.1", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "EXPORTS TO CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where did it come from? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I should like to make my own speech. During last year Hong Kong imported 400 million dollars' worth of goods more than it exported. Where did the balance go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.2085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-28", "file": "debates1953-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "3ad90cb6993cea4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.2087.2", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "EXPORTS TO CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "No. I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-28a.2087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2136.2", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA AND SINGAPORE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "In reply to the hon. Member's Second Reading speech on this matter, may I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2149.1", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION AND PLANS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "tly been done I cannot give the right hon. Gentleman details. The £500,000 has to be against specific schemes of which I should be glad to give details when I have them. In answer to the right hon. Gentleman's second question, it is, of course, highly desirable that in the emergency all races should be associated. That has not been possible at this juncture with regard to this emergency committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2153.2", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "BRITISH ARMAMENTS INSPECTION (GENERAL SPEIDEL)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "night in certain Army establishments in this country and at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. The representatives of the European Defence Community will include Herr Doktor Speidel (who is the German representative on the Military Committee of the Interim Commission). I do not know any reason why the former Chief of Staff of General Rommel should be under any exceptional disability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2153.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2158.6", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. My hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) left me just now to keep an appointment at 4 o'clock, but I can communicate his Resolution to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2158.10", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I submit that that is authorisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2158.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2229.1", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": ". That dip in 1952 is largely attributable to a decline in the production of consumer goods, that decline in the production of consumer goods stemming directly from the decline in consumption which took place before the General Election. Having dealt with that wholly unfounded suggestion and having shown figures in authoritative documents, I want to turn now to the question of what we ought to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2251.1", "colnum": "2251", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They know it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ped by American money. As the right hon. Member for Blyth said, their natural markets have gone for the time being. The American taxpayer will refuse to subsidise Japan any longer and Japan will have to earn her own living in competition with Lancashire and Yorkshire textile exports in the Far East. It is not only the employers who ought to be told of these facts. We ought to tell the workers too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2269.3", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not a cosh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": ". The one thing that the policy of the present Government does not do is any sort of qualitative selection. There is no item in the Government's policy which will ensure that money will be invested in this industry and not in that. The other day, the Economic Secretary talked about \"a flexible weapon.\" I listened to him saying that we had to create the right economic result with a flexible weapon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2275.1", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "petitive position today is to have successive rounds of wage increases which are entirely unrelated to output or efficiency. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blyth went on to talk about last year's Budget and said that the cuts in food subsidies brought in their train an inevitable round of wage increases. That is true, but let me make it plain that that round of wage increases is now over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2275.1", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "cy. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blyth went on to talk about last year's Budget and said that the cuts in food subsidies brought in their train an inevitable round of wage increases. That is true, but let me make it plain that that round of wage increases is now over. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The round of wage increases in 1952 was completed by the recent award for the coalmining industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2291.3", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "HOSPITAL PAY-BEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " he had acute appendicitis and that the appendix ought to be removed. The wife of the hon. Member, anxious about his welfare, immediately agreed that he should be taken to a nursing home, because the specialist assured her that the last vacant bed in the hospital nearby had gone, and so the hon. Member went into the nursing home. Eventually, he had the operation, for which he paid 52 guineas, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2294.1", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "HOSPITAL PAY-BEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not the Parliamentary Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "the governing bodies of the teaching hospitals, on regional hospital boards and on hospital management committees, doctors appointed by the Minister. What many of them have done is to use the influence they possess, which is very considerable in hospitals, to deny beds to patients in order to make them available for their private patients. As my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2296.1", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "HOSPITAL PAY-BEDS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "een discussed, although fairly briefly, in a very temperate spirit. Perhaps I may, in the time-honoured words, greet the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale—as this is the first occasion since I became Minister of Health a year ago, in which he has intervened in a health debate—by saying that he has shown considerable knowledge of his subject and that I look forward to hearing him again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2298.1", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "HOSPITAL PAY-BEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Member for Barking made some observations. But I should like to be absolutely clear on one point in answer to the hon. Mem- ber for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Blenkinsop). The object of the Regulations is not to reduce the charge to private patients. It may well be that it will have that result, but that is a different point. The object of these Regulations is to carry out fairly the 1946 Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2298.1", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "HOSPITAL PAY-BEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "en advantage, or will take advantage, of Section 5 of the Act to multiply the number of pay-beds beyond what was conceived in the original Act. The last point I want to put before the House is this: it has been said that this is a new policy, and in some respects one in favour of the specialists. I am bound to say that the best witnesses to call into the box on that are the specialists themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2298.1", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "HOSPITAL PAY-BEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ents. My part in these Regulations has been confined to this. The specialists came to me and they said, \"We should like to abandon the detailed schedule.\" I said, \"No, I cannot agree.\" So did the right hon. Gentleman before me. They said that they did not want a detailed price ceiling but a few general ceilings, and the specialists would adjust their amounts to the paying capacity of the patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-29", "file": "debates1953-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "aaf326868960045d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2303.0", "colnum": "2303", "heading": "HOSPITAL PAY-BEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Very well; I am finishing in a moment. The only reason for the vote is because these Regulations are not the 1948 Regulations. That has offended the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-29a.2303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-30", "file": "debates1953-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "b86fb34e7c243875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2328.2", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that this complaint has been sent to the Home Office and this prisoner did make application for underwear but it was refused? He had been wearing this type of underwear for 17 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2328.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-30", "file": "debates1953-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "b86fb34e7c243875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2333.9", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rickshaws.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman ask for a report on the use of such taxis in the City of Colombo, which in my recent experience I have found to be Very efficacious and handy vehicles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2333.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-30", "file": "debates1953-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "b86fb34e7c243875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2358.1", "colnum": "2358", "heading": "LEASEHOLD PROPERTY", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": " then in a better position, he has to pay a higher rent, and he pays the rent for the house. What the hon. Gentleman wants to go back and discuss—and what I believe bedevils this matter—is the morality of the original transactions in the middle of the 19th century. I would ask hon. Members to remember that in many cases the tenant got the right to build the house he wanted, on the terms he wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-30", "file": "debates1953-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "b86fb34e7c243875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2392.1", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "LEASEHOLD PROPERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "articular merits whatsoever. It would be conferring an equity upon some people who could make quite a strong moral claim—I am not disputing it; they are the persons the right hon. Gentleman the Father of the House has in mind—but it would be conferring advantages on at least an equal number of persons, and probably far more who had no more claim and, in fact, far less claim than even the landlord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-30", "file": "debates1953-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "b86fb34e7c243875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2392.1", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "LEASEHOLD PROPERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "qual number of persons, and probably far more who had no more claim and, in fact, far less claim than even the landlord. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members should look at the evidence relating to Cardiff. One of the matters to which we had to apply our mind was: how many of the ground lessees in Cardiff were in occupation? I am sorry if I am taking up the time of the court by going into this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2392.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-04-30", "file": "debates1953-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "b86fb34e7c243875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2418.0", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "LEASEHOLD PROPERTY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is all right.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I have not. All I can tell the hon. and learned Gentleman is this. Not only did the hon. Gentleman in his speeches, and other candidates in Wales, advocate leasehold enfranchisement, but the Conservative policy for Wales and Monmouthshire said to the electorate just before the election: We favour the encouragement and diffusion of freehold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-04-30", "file": "debates1953-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "b86fb34e7c243875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2436.1", "colnum": "2436", "heading": "LEASEHOLD PROPERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": " case of one house or a dozen but of streets, districts and whole areas. I know that very well myself. I have seen these things happen. I have seen the results, which are very serious for the lessees concerned. Those who give excuses for such conditions say, \"Yes, but the person who entered into the lease is dead.\" That may well be. The original leaseholder certainly should be dead after 99 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-04-30a.2436.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-01", "file": "debates1953-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3e01c484d799119c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-01a.2516.0", "colnum": "2516", "heading": "COLOUR BAR (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Whipsnade?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ellion or treason the land should revert to the Crown. 'If the whole of the Kikuyu land unit is reverted to the Crown, then every Kikuyu would know that our little Queen was a great Bwana'. It did not end there. It ended with a reference by the speaker to the Legislative Assembly of Kenya, consisting as it does of many Europeans and some few Asian and African members, as a Parliamentary Whipsnade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-01a.2513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-01", "file": "debates1953-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3e01c484d799119c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-01a.2516.1", "colnum": "2516", "heading": "COLOUR BAR (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "the African Co-operative Farmers, Ignatius Musazi. There were present distinguished Europeans responsible for the great reforms of the Owen Falls Scheme and the European representatives of many organisations. The Kabaka of Buganda, who was in this country a year or so ago, was there. Asians, Africans and Europeans sat there exchanging hospitality and information in perfect amity and understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-01a.2516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-01", "file": "debates1953-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3e01c484d799119c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-01a.2525.1", "colnum": "2525", "heading": "COLOUR BAR (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "I believe in it, certainly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-01a.2525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-01", "file": "debates1953-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3e01c484d799119c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-01a.2579.1", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "COLOUR BAR (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very relevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "That is really not quite relevant to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-01a.2579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "That really is not in accordance with the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " has been reported in the Press in the last week or two, there have been any discussions with the Paramount Chief since our last debate, because when the matter was debated before the Paramount Chief had not declared his view one way or the other about federation. I see it is reported in the Press that he has been given in specific terms a promise of safeguards to be enshrined in the Constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "he Speaker or the Lord Chancellor. I do not wish further to labour the point, but the argument might run that we should agree to regard these addresses —that is what they are now described as —as different from any other. These are the arguments being advanced—that they should be regarded as different from any other because, first Her Majesty's Government have refused to listen to representations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "th March, 1953, a few weeks ago, when the policy, both in general and in detail, was endorsed by the House by a decisive majority, considering the state of the parties, of 44. It will be debated on Wednesday next, the day after tomorrow, on the enabling Bill, a fact of which the Opposition were well aware when they put the Motion on the Order Paper. It is an unhappy piece of Parliamentary tactics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.53.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.106.2", "colnum": "106", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I am pointing out that in the case of the Barotse, the most important, the most numerous tribe in Southern Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "modern Mr. Squeers, determined to force down the throats of the Africans a medicine that he thinks is good for them. It may not matter if he addresses us in that way because we know how to take him at his face value, but I hope he will accept a little advice from me. It is not the best way to treat Africans, whose minds are not so instinctively attuned to ideas of natural leadership as is his own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "hat the Secretary of State might have felt it wise to accede to the invitation extended to him by my right hon. Friend to disavow on behalf of the Government the sentiments contained in those speeches. In case he overlooked the invitation, may I now formally extend it to the Under-Secretary of State? I am sure he will not forget it by the time he gets up to speak, having been reminded of it by me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "lly mean to elicit from him an answer which will reassure Africans, in the African Continent and will satisfy them that the British Government does not associate itself with the kind of speech which has been made and which was quoted by my right hon. Friend. That is the case that we make for the Motion. I assure hon. Members opposite that we simply do it, not to have another Second Reading debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": " the African Continent and will satisfy them that the British Government does not associate itself with the kind of speech which has been made and which was quoted by my right hon. Friend. That is the case that we make for the Motion. I assure hon. Members opposite that we simply do it, not to have another Second Reading debate—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps I may wait until the conference is finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members opposite will listen, I will tell them why I think that those embellishments are not worthy of the right hon. and learned Gentleman. In the first place, when starting his speech the right hon. and learned Gentleman alluded to the words \"creaking device\" and said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I do not think the right hon. Gentleman can be allowed to say that, because the machinery of the Select Committee is not apt for that purpose. Are the Committee going to stay together or are they going to different places?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "He is not a party to supporting the irresponsibility of the other African leaders. The leaders of the African opposition to federation have shown themselves to be irresponsible. There is no trick about that; it is a statement of fact. One mine in Northern Rhodesia came out on strike. It shows that among the followers of the miners' leaders there was no great urge against federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "g certain stiff conditions. He was not exacting any stiff conditions. The conditions upon which the Paramount Chief of Barotseland was relying were conditions which are already in the scheme and have already been agreed. It is entirely wrong for the right hon. and learned Gentleman to tell the House that the Paramount Chief of Barotseland was asking for something extra or something not yet agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-04", "file": "debates1953-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d4861893d7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-04a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DE-CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "I will, with permission, answer Question No. 61. So far as tinplate supplies are concerned, I have nothing at present to add to the full reply I gave to my hon. Friend on 23rd March. The output of iron and steel in general has been steadily increasing, mainly as the result of the completion of a number of new blast furnaces during recent months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "d final voice on legislative action. Our challenge on this point is that the Government have taken steps whereby the legislative powers in this House have been belittled and even diminished. In effect, the power of legislative initiative and authority have been undermined by the procedure the Government adopted, so that to that extent they have passed from this House to another Chamber altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ch, after we had considered it, we have done. But this is not a declaratory Motion. It is a censure Motion and we are therefore entitled to give our reply on the circumstances of the case. The censure is really contained in the Amendment. It is not upon the Government for their conduct of business, but on the Opposition for obstructing that conduct. We really have a cast-iron case for our efforts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I can only think that he does not know what is meant by obstructing or being silly. We gave the House adequate time to consider the Lords Amendments, but the right hon. Gentleman complains that we did not give the House and the Opposition facilities for the discharge of their duties. When this matter first came up we announced \"one day,\" and at that time it was considered enough by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "silly. We gave the House adequate time to consider the Lords Amendments, but the right hon. Gentleman complains that we did not give the House and the Opposition facilities for the discharge of their duties. When this matter first came up we announced \"one day,\" and at that time it was considered enough by the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We then offered two days, and in that they acquiesced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "First of all, they objected to the original time-table Motion on the stages of the Bill. Last Monday, finally, and after 30 hours' debate, we fixed a limit of time for the debate on the Lords Amendments. That is what happened. The first Motion was to stop the filibustering on the Bill itself. We had already been threatened in the Second Reading debate with all sorts of horrors from the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.233.8", "colnum": "233", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "s saying, when the ranks are divided the best thing is to try to get them together to attack the enemy, even if it is for a poor cause and in a sham battle. It does apparently serve some purpose. Therefore, the Opposition took the completely unprecedented action of obstructing the Lords Amendments to a Bill. I sometimes wonder whether it was not due to the appendix of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.233.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.233.8", "colnum": "233", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Crocodile tears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "did not realise that that Motion could be put down. They thought there would have to be a whole day spent on a time-table, instead of which there was only a couple of hours. They thought they were going to make us lose an extra day in that way. All measures for curtailing debate, from the Closure upwards, are repugnant to everybody, and are resorted to only with very deep regret by any Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.233.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "hat. What is, however, quite clear is that this Government are not to be censured in the country for the way they have reacted to the methods the Opposition have chosen to obstruct public business. On the contrary. The Government will be praised for putting a limit to such nonsensical and unwarranted proceedings. People outside do not want to see the business of this House degenerate into a farce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "aking tea, sweets, and eggs and, later, sugar, and today steel, off the ration—or even providing more red meat. There has been no Motion of censure for our failure to give effect to the promise of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) that there would be a million unemployed last Christmas. There has been no Motion of censure upon us for keeping the cost of living more steady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ar, and today steel, off the ration—or even providing more red meat. There has been no Motion of censure for our failure to give effect to the promise of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blyth (Mr. Robens) that there would be a million unemployed last Christmas. There has been no Motion of censure upon us for keeping the cost of living more steady—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] —for a longer period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ping the cost of living more steady—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] —for a longer period—[HON. MEMBERS: \"And higher.\"]—than for some years past. There has been no Motion of censure upon us for having increased family allowances or pensions or for improving social service benefits. The Opposition have nothing at all about which to censure us in our conduct of public affairs. Our Administration is successful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": ", and we will not give time for them to be discussed—we will vote you down.' Is that still the policy? May we have a declaration from the Minister of Transport, when he replies to the debate, on whether he is still in agreement with these sentiments? There is a particular one about the nature of foreign Parliaments, which perhaps he thinks are shaped better and well fitted for other types of rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.239.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are they?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way. I do not know General Franco, and that is a fact which I have to point out from time to time to Labour hon. Members of this House and outside who ask me for letters of introduction when they want to visit Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which century?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "time Let us examine the doctrine adduced by both the hon. and learned Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing) and by the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison), who opened the debate. They have said that the House of Lords was trying to overrule this House. I have here the OFFICIAL REPORT of all the proceedings on this Bill in the House of Lords—Committee, Report stage and Third Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Post Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "myself snore. It is not as if this Bill were as good as it might be. I am a much more violent denationaliser than many of my right hon. Friends who sit on the Government Front Bench. I do not know of a single nationalised industry which is not worse than a comparable private enterprise industry in any country and in any age. That is why I am rather more advanced than some of my right hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "t as an individual against the misuse by the Government of the time-table regulations to prevent adequate discussion here. I thought that the Leader of the House was very weak indeed in his reply to my right hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, South. The right hon. Gentleman referred almost with joy in his heart to the fact that the Reform Bill was carried by one vote. But that was a reform Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "mber in it to preserve its status and privileges, and if those are in any way endangered this matter should certainly be debated very seriously. But is the language which was used by the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South the right sort of language? If what he was saying was, \"These three matters have been brought about because of the refusal of the Government to give one extra day for debate\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Defrauded?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " save the day that they think they will save.\"— [OFFICIAL REP0RT, 27th April, 1953; Vol. 514, c 1811 and 1813.] For that reason this Motion was put down as a censure Motion in order that one more day should be lost out of Government time to make up for the day of which the Opposition, to their discomfiture, were defrauded by the reduction of the time on the Lords Amendments from five days to four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ion; they were direct concessions to their point of view. That disposes of five of the seven points which occupied this House three days, including an all-night sitting. Then there was a limit on the amount of information to be given in the Commission's annual report about companies under its control. That again was a point which the Opposition had asked for, and with which they were in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to provoke any rebuke from you, Sir. I do not think it is an impertinence for me to say that I think you acted with great deference to the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": " employment. Those subjects are the concern of people who have sent us here to the House of Commons to represent them, to speak for them, to safeguard their rights, to try to shape legislation that is reasonably safe for them, and we have been denied the right to discuss any of those matters. The Government should hide their faces in shame at having brought the House of Commons into such contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "on. They should not introduce controversial legislation unless they are convinced that it is in the urgent interests of the country that such legislation should be passed. No one can suggest that either transport or steel comes into that category. No one can suggest that a steel industry which, under national guidance and ownership, is flourishing would receive any advantages from nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "eated. Therefore, the second point arises, that if the Government insist on forcing legislation through this House with a narrow majority such as they have, it may also be necessary to consider the constitutional relationship between us and Northern Ireland. So that hon. Members may have some appreciation of the mischief arising from the behaviour of the Leader of the House and the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "st curious argument. He said that it was because Conservative Members of Parliament had other things to do apart from sitting in the House of Commons. I do not want to spend too long on this argument, but, going round the country, nothing impresses me more than the constant fear by thoughtful people that Members of Parliament on both sides are in danger of becoming specialists in Parliament alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.322.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way to the right hon. Gentleman. I have a great deal to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " fact, to be considered in large measure —sprang from the will of the House of Commons itself. It would be quite unrealistic to deal with this Motion of censure without dealing with the Transport Bill. The right hon. Gentleman asked me whether we had it in mind last November, at the time when the original Motion was put on the Order Paper, that we would be confronted with a situation of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman two short questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman two short questions? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] They will not take up too much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "This is on record; \"Urgent national interest,\" or words to that effect. We can follow it out tomorrow in HANSARD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " contributed useful ideas to this Bill in its various stages. They have, and I am very grateful to them. I believe that the Bill has been improved as a consequence. I take back nothing that I have said before about the value of consultations of this kind. But, lately, people who have taken no part whatever in the discussions on the Transport Bill have interested themselves in the Lords Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "followed our debates. Had he been here he would have had an opportunity of seeing at every stage how full regard has been paid to the views of Members on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-05", "file": "debates1953-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a906ffc7d14cc17d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It is this gospel which the right hon. Gentleman has reaffirmed today which is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-05a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-06", "file": "debates1953-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3d5ad37941464f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rteous to let the Opposition know the form the Bill was to take this year. rather than to take action without informing the Opposition at all? In view of the fact, also, that the undertaking cannot be carried out this year—for no reason for which the Government is responsible, but because the Select Committee has not completed its findings—the House may still feel that it wanted to amend the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-06", "file": "debates1953-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3d5ad37941464f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "g between the African employees, represented by their union, and the European employees represented by theirs. As I said last Friday, the dispute is not between employers and employed, but between one union and another. Obviously, any employer who tries to liberalise the terms of employment so as to give Africans greater opportunities of advance is, so to speak putting himself into the lions' den.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-06", "file": "debates1953-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3d5ad37941464f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Uganda.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "lved by the enterprise on which we are embarking this afternoon. Self-government has not solved the problem in other places. Would any of us say that the problems between the black and the white people have been solved in South Africa? Neither has Colonial administration always solved the problem. Can any of us say that the problem of the relations between black and white has been solved in Kenya?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-06", "file": "debates1953-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3d5ad37941464f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.487.2", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "I confess that the right hon. Gentleman always conveys the impression to me that there is nobody who is good in Africa among the white settlers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.487.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-06", "file": "debates1953-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3d5ad37941464f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "gn or change if the political complex changes, and whose function would be both anomalous and ineffective. The second point taken by the right hon. Gentleman was the old debate on the word \"differentiating.\" I hope that tonight I shall be allowed to develop this argument. In the four speeches I have made previously I have never been allowed to get out more than 10 consecutive words on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-06", "file": "debates1953-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3d5ad37941464f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " may be that the expression \"with the consent of the Governments\" may be subject to whatever rules they have made. I agree on that, but, from the point of view of the review Clause, all these four Governments are outside the Constitution, are looking at it from the outside and are deciding whether by agreement they can reach this concord as to the alterations in the provisions of the Constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-06", "file": "debates1953-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3d5ad37941464f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I do not think the last point is true. There is no evidence to indicate that. On the first point, I agree that, if all the four Governments agreed, something involving a necessary United Kingdom Act will eventuate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-06a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-07", "file": "debates1953-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a95f8c35569c19a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "It has been going up since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-07", "file": "debates1953-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a95f8c35569c19a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Burn it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": "talked about the importation of coal into this country. I ask him how much was imported in 1926 when the present Prime Minister led the campaign to drive 500,000 of us from the pits and assassinated the coal industry. I leave the hon. Member for Orpington there and turn to answering the question by the hon. Member for Ayr (Sir T. Moore), who asked what Burns would have said today about the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-07", "file": "debates1953-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a95f8c35569c19a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "or increased the allowance to widows and widowers and failed to bring in elderly married couples, spinsters or bachelors, I remembered that the Economic Secretary and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, as well as the Chancellor, voted for it when we were in Opposition. I was absolutely staggered that my right hon. Friend did not take steps to do in Government what he supported in Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-07", "file": "debates1953-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a95f8c35569c19a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "to deal with post-war life, they should pay contributions in respect of other people whose incomes have been raised satisfactorily to meet the difficulties of the post-war world. I am quite certain that if the Chancellor will look at the problem from that angle he will be able to do something before very long to relieve these people. I believe that the Budget is a triumph for Conservative finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-07", "file": "debates1953-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a95f8c35569c19a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "onomising equipment in industry. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Battersea, North did not run a new hare this evening. He will remember his hon. Friend the Member for Brig-house and Spenborough (Mr. J. Edwards), who was Economic Secretary to the Treasury, replied to me from this side of the House on 8th June, 1951, when the entire Conservative Party, together with the entire Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-07a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-08", "file": "debates1953-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fbcb023dab45c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-08a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS COUNCIL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have read that. What is the use of that? There is no penalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-08a.775.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-08", "file": "debates1953-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fbcb023dab45c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-08a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S DISABILITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Count.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "I regard this as a very bad Bill,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-08a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-11", "file": "debates1953-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "de4e4b75b08b9cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.860.7", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the fact that when his right hon. and gallant Friend made his announcement about decontrolling the price of eggs and their derationing he promised that there would not be any increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-11", "file": "debates1953-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "de4e4b75b08b9cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lenuox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lenuox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I do not for a moment accept the hon. Gentleman's classification of this particular point. I think it highly regrettable that we should descend to personalities of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-11", "file": "debates1953-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "de4e4b75b08b9cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "If the issue were as the right hon. Gentleman has put it, of course there would be no question which way the answer lay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.876.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-11", "file": "debates1953-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "de4e4b75b08b9cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "be on a Trust which will become interested in the purchase of a large number of vehicles and that it will not be disclosed during the sale and purchase whether the United Dominions Trust and its subsidiaries are actually to finance the purchase? Therefore, is not the correct principle to refuse to have on the Board anyone who will be associated with the financing of the purchasing of the vehicles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.876.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-11", "file": "debates1953-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "de4e4b75b08b9cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With atom bombs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "case of China? How is intervention actually even to be attempted? By the armies of Chiang Kai-shek, which are certainly a danger to no one but themselves today? By General MacArthur's precept, which is to bomb China—a very simple policy indeed, in two words? I looked the matter up in the gazetteer today and saw that the area of China is 3,869,000 square miles, which is quite an assignment to bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-11", "file": "debates1953-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "de4e4b75b08b9cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Egypt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "preceding_text": " years that lie ahead. Whatever arrangements may be made about certain aspects of one small place or another, I am convinced of one thing— and this is one thing in foreign affairs about which one can speak with absolute confidence: I think the smaller nations of Europe have the right to choose what their future should be. We may have a partial settlement, but we shall not get a lasting settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-11", "file": "debates1953-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "de4e4b75b08b9cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "hat he intended. I am certain he had no wish to antagonise the Arab world. After all, if we are getting ourselves at cross-purposes with the Egyptians, we certainly do not want, at the same time, to throw the rest of the Arab world into Egypt's arms. I had hoped that we would at least keep friendly with the rest of the Arab world while the Egyptians themselves are, to say the least of it, hostile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-11", "file": "debates1953-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "de4e4b75b08b9cfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " do not believe that there would be serious difference on the other side of the House with that view. But, having said that, I want to go a little further and say that, if the Americans or those who speak officially for the American people, as opposed to American individuals, who are so often much more generous than their leaders, could be a little more generous, not in material aid, but in terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-11a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who is he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the precedents on which I have relied in this matter. In 1924, from February to November, Mr. Fenton; in 1929, May to June, Mr. Normand; 1929–31, Mr. Watson; 1936–37, Mr. Reid; 1941-43, Sir David Murray; 1945–47, Mr. D. P. Blades; 1947—this is where you come in—March to October, Mr. Wheatley; 1947–48, Mr. D. H. Johnston. All these are precedents for a Solicitor-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1093.5", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "No. I have met Mr. Nehru and I lived in India for some years between the two wars. I looked upon him as a very high-class Right-wing Brahmin. I am interested to learn what the right hon. Member says. Surely the right hon. Member agrees that the giving of Dominion status to India has nothing to do with Left speaking to Left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Freeman", "preceding_text": "ot good enough for the Minister of State, in a passage which I thought was unworthy of him in his speech this afternoon, to fire at us for the first time from that Dispatch Box a list of atrocities of which we had heard nothing before. One can only assume, from the way in which they were brought out, that the purpose of doing it was to cloud people's judgment and to whip up feeling in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1175.2", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister says that the terms on which he will agree are that all the technicians in the base are responsible to London, that violates Egyptian sovereignty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1191.5", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGGS AND FEEDINGSTUFFS", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "—in that when it was quite clear that the Ministry intended to remove the general control of eggs and to decontrol the price, together with many other farmers I bought a lot of pullets, for quite clearly a new racket had begun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGGS AND FEEDINGSTUFFS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "After listening to the dissertation upon the alleged difficulties of the English farmer by the hon. Member for Deptford (Sir L. Plummer) we can well understand how he succeeded in losing £40 million of the taxpayers' money in ground nuts schemes and the abortive attempt to produce eggs in Gambia. March 26th was an important day in the history of this nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1196.0", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGGS AND FEEDINGSTUFFS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been in this House since 1945 but has not taken the trouble to follow the course of Parliamentary Questions on this delectable subject of shell eggs. Had he watched my activities in the matter he would have discerned the figure in the answers to Parliamentary Questions on shell eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGGS AND FEEDINGSTUFFS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says \"obviously.\" How many times in the last Parliament did he and his hon. Friends feel sleepy and go home and leave the Government, their Government, to be defeated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-12", "file": "debates1953-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5afd76d0ec7cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGGS AND FEEDINGSTUFFS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says \"obviously.\" How many times in the last Parliament did he and his hon. Friends feel sleepy and go home and leave the Government, their Government, to be defeated? [HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW many?\"] Very many times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-12a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "ntry pass which did not entitle him to do so. This was eventually brought to the notice of the Chief Justice who withdrew Mr. Evan's pass on 9th May, and that, as far as I know, is the position. As regards the question of his being an undesirable immigrant, there is no doubt that since his arrival in the Colony he has been engaged in activities of a sort which could only be regarded as subversive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "BECHUANALAND (BAMANGWATO NATIVE AUTHORITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "y way, except in regard to Seretse. Any person, with all the necessary qualifications, whom they might designate would no doubt receive the approval of the High Commissioner and my noble friend. As regards Seretse himself, it is quite clear, that the reasons given time and time again in this House on behalf of the previous Government and by the present Government for his exclusion still hold good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "returned, but is not now seated on the Government Front Bench. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels I could not have hit the nail more squarely on the head than I did on this occasion. As I was saying, none of this can happen until an emergency has arisen. I see that the Minister of Materials is now again on the Government Front Bench. It seems to be a gratifying afternoon for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He can speak for himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": ", in steel making. They asked what would be the position if, at some future date, the Ministry of Materials were to come to an end. It would be both outside the scope of this debate and outside my province to speculate as to whether a Government Department is to be wound up at any time, and I should hesitate to make myself the spokesman of such an announcement when the Minister is present himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1311.3", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "long time to the expenditure of so many words on so simple and short an issue. The Minister, and several other hon. Members who have contributed to the discussion, have overlaid the point with so many words that its central matter has been completely obscured. The Parliamentary Secretary has got this thing completely wrong. He has not hit the essential nail on the point at all in what he has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "e imported into a Statute. I ask the Minister to shake himself up a little. After all, we are making legislation. The Minister ought to have a greater sense of responsibility and not try to pass this off by referring to Clause 2 (6) which, as I have said, is miles away from the point. That subsection is the only excuse that he has tendered to this House for this stultification of English language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very weak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "That shows clearly that, in the opinion of the right hon. Gentleman, the holding of other appointments was not necessarily inconsistent with whole-time membership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1321.2", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "It is very unsatisfactory if that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCES (PREVENTION OF MISUSE) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "preceding_text": "produced birds with large breasts which were very succulent, and they made a much greater delicacy on the table. What they did not know, of course, when they offered those birds to people in expensive restaurants, and no doubt to Senators and Congressmen, was that the oestrogen remains in the breast of the chicken and causes, in men only, I am glad to say, sterility which is a very serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-SPANISH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Stalin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "l go dining with Marshal Tito, they say, \"Is this a one-way traffic? How is it that they are opposed, in principle, to dictators? They cannot be, because here we have the evidence that they are prepared to meet them.\" Why, even the other day, hon. Members of this House cheered to the echo the announcement that the Prime Minister was prepared to meet Stalin and was prepared to discuss a settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-SPANISH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That does not make Spain any better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "hey say \"Why?\" I, too, ask why? If it is a case of condemning as a principle, negotiating with any system or with any man who controls a system based on thuggery, all I can say is that what is happening in Spain under Franco is happening a thousandfold more in Russia and the satellite States. Do not let anyone try to tell me that any change of heart has taken place; it is only a change of tactics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-SPANISH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "arrangement whereby the regime could be progressively liberalised before any attempt could be made to have elections in Spain. Anything short of that would result merely in the return of the Communists. I believe, as one who has taken some interest in Spanish affairs for some time, that the Labour and Left-wing elements in this country and France are responsible for Franco being where he is today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-13", "file": "debates1953-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "c03a42fec9f46e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1374.3", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-SPANISH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says that we shall be; that is because no doubt he thinks we ought to be and is not prepared to stand up for any of our rights under Treaty obligations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-13a.1374.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Scandalous and ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1390.6", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hornsby-Smith", "preceding_text": "Of those families who replied when asked why they should not pay the full charge between 60 per cent. and 70 per cent. were earning over £10 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1390.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1398.8", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1398.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1415.5", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "That this House deplores the conduct of the hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East, during the course of debate on 22nd April, 1953 [Hansard, column 1215", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is on the Order Paper a Motion, widely signed by hon. Members opposite, making what appear to be wholly unjustified reflections on the character and conduct of my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1415.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1422.5", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We are on a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Thompson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1422.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1423.4", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Keenan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Keenan", "preceding_text": "your guidance, Mr. Speaker? There was a new Clause which the Minister has withdrawn. She proposes to have it moved into the Bill in another place. My hon. Friend the Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Hayman) has a new Clause, and because of his inability to attend here he was not able to move it. Will he have an opportunity of doing what the Minister can do, and have it moved in another place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1436.4", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "on service of the country. Anyone who heard or read what the right hon. Lady said on 12th February can have no doubt as to what was her intention at that moment. She has never withdrawn from it though she has tried today to suggest that the word \"building\" somehow alters all of it. Section 104 deals only with building and I do not accept as any concession what she tells us about the three schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was another one yesterday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ld have been more helpful than the Bishop of Brentwood, who was one of the most outstanding men of his day, and a man of absolute integrity. Certainly this theory that someone has been trying to do a bit of bargaining or trying to get an extra halfpenny is not borne out by the facts. All this was in August, 1951, and there was an Election shortly afterwards, with lamentable results to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have not said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "eally a simple issue of whether the Catholic schools are to pay for the Minister's delay and whether the Minister is to carry out her bargain or not. It does not involve any large sum of public money and does not make the slightest difference to the future, except for a limited transitional period and a limited number of buildings. It is nonsense to say that the Amendment cannot be dealt with now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1509.3", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "ed schools. Four from 15 leaves 11, unless my arithmetic is wrong. At least one or two of the 11 would not anyhow, as far as I can see at the moment without going into all the details, rank for grant. There is no talk of displaced pupils grant for them. Therefore, with all the schools named by the Catholic Education Council, we get absolute, complete 100 per cent. retrospection right back to 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "I must get on. If we were to give grants to those under the terms of a \"building account\"— words I never used—it would mean complete retrospection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Lady sits down, I wonder whether she could help me about the 76 schools. Does she say that there are 76 schools which would rank for displaced pupil grant?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Hutchinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Hutchinson", "preceding_text": " to the right hon. Lady. She says it is not acceptable to the other parties with whom she negotiated. Then the right hon. Lady has just told the House that there are 11 schools— as I understood her figures—whose position is uncertain. She is prepared to accept for the purpose of the revised grant four schools which I understand are already established as schools or at least are partly established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1521.3", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": " certain words and some doubt regarding whether the Minister has or has not broken faith with some of the parties concerned. Let me say at once that if it comes to a vote I shall support the Minister, for the simple reason that I must accept the explanation of my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General that the words which my right hon. Friend seeks to delete are immaterial and mean nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1521.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "inancial obligation that was only about £5 million or £6 million in 1944 is now £30 million or more, which is impossible for those concerned. There has not been a great deal of expression here today of the true educational spirit of seeing that the children get what some parents have ceased to provide. This is the first educational debate that has shown up the different protagonists on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-14", "file": "debates1953-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9724937ed4eebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": " should vote, and that before coming to a decision we should try to elicit some further information. The crux of the matter, as I understand it, is that there are some 15 schools at the moment not in receipt, or likely to be in receipt, of a grant of any kind, and that if this Clause is passed as it stands, or even as amended, four schools will receive benefit but 11 schools will still be outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-14a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-15", "file": "debates1953-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "1bd59615a1bead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-15a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "ROUGH GRAZING LAND (CULTIVATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "e by State enterprise. There are a good many other areas of saltings and mudflats of great potential fertility if we did the work. It is far better to try to do that where we have something really good when we make our capital expenditure than to go chasing the rough grazing up to the hills. Personally I enjoy sailing on that particular stretch of water and I should dislike very much to see it go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-15a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-15", "file": "debates1953-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "1bd59615a1bead9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-15a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "ROUGH GRAZING LAND (CULTIVATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Over there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "It is well known that the Whigs won the revolution. I would merely ask, \"Where are the Whigs now?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-15a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1711.1", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "resolve. In some respects the right hon. Gentleman lost the argument; so did the President of the Board of Trade; so did the Minister of Supply, and so did the Minister of Education because the Minister of Housing and Local Government said to them, \"Look here, boys, you stand back a bit; I am advancing here.\" That is exactly what has happened, and they have all stood back and he has gone on a bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1716.1", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the right hon. Gentleman disappointed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "diate response to one or two points made by the right hon. Gentleman. I am bound to say that I found his speech singularly disappointing. He has been making the most vicious personal attacks on me in the Left-wing Press, where I cannot reply, and in elections at which I was not present. I thought he might have repeated some of these charges in the House of Commons this afternoon, but we found him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And they were not permanent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "s perfectly true that in 1951 certain charges were put on the National Health Service. But not by me. That was done by the rest of the Socialist Party. And it was the Tories who made the charges permanent and introduced another Bill making charges on dentistry and spectacles and hospital gadgets. The charges on spectacles, of course, come from the 1951 Socialist Act, and not from the 1952 Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " is to say that charges in the Health Service are immoral and anti-social, and that includes the charges brought in by the Socialist Ministers in 1949 and 1951. But that does not apply to the original charges in 1946. So the Socialist policy now is to abandon as soon as possible all charges in the Health Service and, in order to do that, they will slow up and hinder the development of the Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1762.1", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. K. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not on your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. K. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "iet and sedate debate compared with what we expected. I cannot help feeling that this is due to there being no Mr. Whip to chastise the Tories but, instead, a Sunderland scorpion for the Socialists. I wish to discuss one particular point which I think should fall within the terms of the remit of the Guillebaud Committee. I shall endeavour to be brief because many other hon. Members wish to speak —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What paper was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Partridge", "preceding_text": "fficiency of that hospital. Of course, it is very desirable from their point of view that there should be an inquiry, especially as private, and not public, funds are involved. I have no doubt that the subscribers to the Manor House Hospital want to know whether they are getting value for their money, and I see no reason at all why it should not be equally desirable when public funds are involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1773.1", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": " them, he got very wrong answers, but that is not surprising, because he does that in most other cases. The figure rose rapidly and it is still soaring. I am glad we are to have a committee of inquiry. Most certainly, in case there is any doubt about it, we have a mandate for it, because in the Conservative Party manifesto, \"Britain Strong and Free,\" which has been quoted so often in this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Partridge", "preceding_text": " chronic sick, which includes the aged and the mentally deficient about whom the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Messer) was speaking earlier today. I believe that much can be done for this third category even within the amount of money that the country can afford. As I say, when I talk about the chronic sick I include those who, because of their age, have deteriorated both physically and mentally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": "bw Vale (Mr. Bevan) will have a secure place in the social history of this country. Now I come to the point to which the hon. Member for Mitcham referred in the closing part of his speech—the effect on production. This is the point I want to make. We are told on every Tory platform, and we heard it at Sunderland hundreds of times, that in October, 1951, the Tory Party took over a bankrupt concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that they were very valuable material on which the Guillebaud Committee might get to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": " has been a steady and continuous decline in recent years. Whereas in England and Wales deaths per 1,000 live births in 1947 were 41·4, they fell in 1952 to 27·6. In Scotland there has been an exactly similar trend, the respective figures being 55·8 in 1947 and 35·2 in 1952. In other words, the fall in England and Wales has been 33 per cent, and in Scotland 37 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1819.3", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "—and in Scotland it has fallen, equally dramatically, from 66 to 27. So far as Scotland is concerned, the fall in the last two years has been most marked because there has been a fall of no less than 42 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-18", "file": "debates1953-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "41d835a106f7b9af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": " my two right hon. Friends have taken a wise and prudent step towards ensuring that the patient receives the best possible treatment and the nation receives value for money. There has not been one word said in this debate that shakes my conviction of the truth of that statement. Far from wrecking this Service, which we, together with hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, did so much to build up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-18a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I suspect the hon. Member of trying to use this period of question and answer for some political advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1884.3", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "which the Chancellor is making it his first task in this Budget to renew is £637, or about £180 a year. But let us look at the complications that are involved in this. In 1948–49 we had to pay back £1 to the Isle of Man. The next year the Isle of Man paid us £1, and the following year we had to pay back £2 to the Isle of Man. On the figures for 1951–52 we had £3 from the Isle of Man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1888.2", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Glanville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Glanville", "preceding_text": "tole from us the public houses in the new towns in order to enrich themselves. The working man is not concerned about the strength of the beer but about the cost of it. In all the working men's clubs in my area—and I defy contradiction by any one; my hon. Friends can prove this—they are not concerned about the laughter of my teetotal fanatical friends. As far as I am concerned they can go to hell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1891.0", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "emely disappointing reply. He seemed to me not to have attempted to answer the extremely cogent arguments of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing). Consequently, I am afraid I must press the arguments again. It is perfectly true, and my hon. and learned Friend made the point emphatically, that there is no revenue interest in this Clause. It may be described as small beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1972.2", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandling", "preceding_text": "iculty pointed out by the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg), that linesmen, and so on, are ruled out. That was why we decided to act by definition, by the question of whether people participate in a game. I suggest to the Committee that it is fairly clear who participates and who does not. For example, the object of a game of football is to kick a ball into the goal and the referee cannot do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Argentine?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "in the summer: it is much less attractive in the winter when it is windy, wet, cold, snowy and frosty. Winter sport should be helped rather more than summer sport. As for the Commonwealth links, it is true that there are games between the Australian and British teams, the South Africans and West Indians, and so on. But there are other sports also which play an important part with the Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.2003.3", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Soccer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Which sport is the hon. Gentleman talking about? What clubs pay amateurs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.2003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.2015.2", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "tes of League football on three Saturdays in the winter. That will give some comparative impression of the public impact on the two games. Thirdly, I would not dream of quoting the Commonwealth on sentimental or international or political grounds, but the fact is that cricket in the Commonwealth depends almost exclusively on the money they can get from tours in this country or our tours with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.2015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.2018.4", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "It does not say so in the Clause, does it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.2018.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-19", "file": "debates1953-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "14a263b69e7c1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They should be allowed to do what they like.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": " too much \"spectatorism\" goes on in this country at present. What we want to achieve is a great increase in the playing of games and a great decrease in the watching of games. I am sometimes shocked to see thousands of young men on a Saturday afternoon, apparently in good health, wasting the afternoon in a kind of mass hysteria by watching other people doing what they ought to be doing themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-19a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"McCarthy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "easure to Her Majesty's Government and the British people than that President Eisenhower should visit us in this Island, as he so often did during the war, and I earnestly hope that this great event may occur during his tenure of the Presidency of the United States. If I thought that there was any chance of his being able to detach himself in the near future from the great responsibilities he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2086.6", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "SOLDIER'S DEATH, CHESTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2086.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2091.1", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He pays Petrol Duty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "an 1s., and I think few amateur clubs charge more than 1s., and then usually for seats in the stands. If that is correct, does it mean this? A man who travels in a bus in an industrial area to watch a football match pays 1s. in tax, while a man who travels in his own motor car, and who has had his car tax reduced, and who pays over 1s. to watch an amateur game, pays no tax. Is that discrimination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2110.1", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": "r to examine the game of football from the viewpoint not only of the richer clubs, but of the great mass of players who carry on the game and see that it is kept on that high standard which we all demand when we send our football teams abroad, as we have sent them recently and they have been severely beaten. My hon. Friends will all want to see a Scottish team come down to London and beat England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2121.0", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter)", "preceding_text": "o placed as to put football with cricket on one side of the line, or should it remain in its present position? That, as I understand it, is the issue, and I submit to the Committee that on that basis there is some obligation on those hon. Members who urge this discrimination in favour of football to show that there are real, practical and conclusive grounds for giving it that particular attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2134.2", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Essex?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "a little doubtful about that county; Kent, one amateur; Derbyshire, two amateurs; Hampshire, one amateur; Middlesex, two amateurs; Worcestershire, all professional; Leicestershire, one amateur; Warwickshire, all professional. There were 15 matches played yesterday including the M.C.C. match at Lords, and there were 16 amateurs playing in those 15 matches. All the rest were professional cricketers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2152.0", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "outstanding generosity of quite a limited number of public-spirited people. They had their burdens added to by the Chancellor's action last year, and now they are faced not merely with the refusal of this Amendment but with no possibility of encouragement. Finally, the Financial Secretary said that we had accepted the principle of discrimination and invited us on this side of the Committee to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2157.2", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is why they went down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "e sport which is played in one's constituency. As my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South gave many examples and spoke most eloquently about the matter, I shall be brief. The Chancellor should be reminded once again that teams which are not in the first division tend to have serious financial difficulties. The team in Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke City, is the greatest and best in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2166.3", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "m in the hope that he would see where his own interests lie. The only thing I can suggest is this. We saw not long ago in a certain television programme that he produced a little cricket bat which I understand was presented to him by various of his hon. Friends. The cricket bat was signed by those gentlemen. I am going to make him an offer. He can have from us either a Soccer ball or a Rugby ball.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2182.2", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "ld reconsider the matter. My contention is that this duty is rapidly killing the sport and ultimately, if the charge is not removed or substantially reduced, there will be no boxing except for a few amateur events which will far from attract the whole of the public interested in boxing. Most people interested in amateur boxing are also interested in the major professional boxing which takes place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2185.0", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": " Incidentally, I was making this my means of livelihood, owing to two serious operations, but I have now had to take a job that does show me a living wage, and will continue to do so until this heavy burden is removed. There are 80 boys around here who would have been kept busy in the boxing world at my shows. He finishes up by saying that there are now only 24 instead of 72 of these boys engaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Almost every professional boxer in this country has come from the amateur ranks. On that there can be no dispute whatever, and if we destroy professional boxing it will obviously bring almost to an end the amateur side of the sport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Almost every professional boxer in this country has come from the amateur ranks. On that there can be no dispute whatever, and if we destroy professional boxing it will obviously bring almost to an end the amateur side of the sport. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] For the reason that I have just given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not taxed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ituency. If there is no football club, either soccer or Rugby League or whatever it may be in one's constituency, either at the top or at the bottom of the league, then some hon. Members are unconcerned about the sport, and not much concerned about the subject of taxation. We have had a great deal of talk in the course of previous debates about which is the oldest sport in the country. That sport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ation. We have had a great deal of talk in the course of previous debates about which is the oldest sport in the country. That sport—[An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not taxed.\"]—some have claimed, is not cricket. Arguments have been adduced in support of Soccer which, it was claimed, was played in Scotland more than seven centuries ago. In fact, the oldest sport of all is combat between two individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not by the right hon. Member for Fulham, West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "efence; but for the purposes of the noble art of self-defence hon. Members are not prepared to spare a single farthing. What is the argument against the continuance of this sport? I expect that hon. Members will agree that the amateur side of the sport should be continued and, indeed, encouraged. We have it in the schools; it is encouraged there. We have it in the Services; it is encouraged there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ose association, much closer than some hon. Members imagine, between the amateur side of the sport and the professional side. Of course, anybody who has any knowledge of this matter is well aware of that. There are some hon. Members who have not much knowledge of the subject, although I am bound to say that whenever a big fight is coming along they are very anxious to procure tickets to attend it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2191.2", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "h as he estimated. I doubt whether his estimate will be fulfilled at the end of this financial year. In those circumstances, since the Financial Secretary asked for some suggestion in this matter, I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman might make the concession of returning to the duty level of last year. That would afford some measure of relief. I do not propose to go further into this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2191.2", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ince the Financial Secretary asked for some suggestion in this matter, I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman might make the concession of returning to the duty level of last year. That would afford some measure of relief. I do not propose to go further into this question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—unless hon. Members provoke me into doing so, and if they do, I have no objection to continuing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2194.0", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "If I am to judge by the roars from the Government benches, I shall have to face the Government benches singlehanded tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " hon. Member to make his contribution. I did interject once in the hon. and gallant Gentleman's speech to say \"Hooray\" when he told me that the participants in the ring now had to fight only six times a year, that they now had to suffer some injury only six times a year instead of 30 times a year as they did in his youth. The sole object of the promoters is to make money out of this entertainment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2196.0", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " are much greater if the blow is delivered at that vulnerable point. The object of the participant is to render his opponent unconscious, for which he will receive a monetary award. And they call this a sport. For my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) to compare boxing with Rugby is nonsense, and for this reason. In Rugby the motive is not to render the opponent unconscious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2198.2", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "of them, including Randolph Turpin and others who have played a very big part in boxing recently, belong to the organisation. It has been able, as trade unions usually are, to make suggestions to the British Boxing Board of Control for improving this very ancient sport. The sport needed improving and it still needs improving. Not one of the 3,500 professional boxers has been dragged into the ring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2208.0", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member for Lichfield and Tamworth (Mr. Snow) was unfair when he used the language he did to my right hon. Friend the Member for Fulham, West (Dr. Summerskill).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-20", "file": "debates1953-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c2da050546e7c867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2210.3", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. McGovern", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. McGovern", "preceding_text": "ths and are used as \"stooges\" or chopping blocks to test the ability and the ferocity of those engaged in the promotions. I agree with my right hon. Friend that the boxing ring promotes the worst instincts in the human race. Women shout \"Kill him, kill him!\" when a man has been driven round the ring and the blood is flowing from him. It reminds me of the time when I was in Spain, in the bull ring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-20a.2210.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-21", "file": "debates1953-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8abc6c71a1d1409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2240.0", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "I would be the last person to say that in any way the Scots have been able to do this more quickly than the English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-21", "file": "debates1953-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8abc6c71a1d1409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2267.1", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "NIGERIA (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I have only just returned and I could not answer that precisely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-21", "file": "debates1953-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8abc6c71a1d1409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2338.1", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": "As one who has very little expert knowledge of the subject of valuation. I must admit that I have been listening to this debate today with an ever-deepening sense of gloom and forboding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-21", "file": "debates1953-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8abc6c71a1d1409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2365.1", "colnum": "2365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. A. Sparks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. A. Sparks", "preceding_text": "to deal. Nothing has been said about the position with regard to new houses erected since 1945. Apparently, the right hon. Gentleman is going to assess them with a totally different value altogether from that at which they were before the war. He is going back to 1939 to assess them for rating purposes. Good luck to the tenants of the new properties since 1945. Their assessments are going to fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-21", "file": "debates1953-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8abc6c71a1d1409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2370.1", "colnum": "2370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Child of the moonlight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "om or of politicians has yet devised. In other words, I do not at all welcome the possibility of the basis of the grant being modified. I remain persistently in favour of it. I am anxious to see that uniform valuation which would give us the best possible distribution of the money available. But even without complete perfection. I am still a loyal parent of my intellectual offspring in this field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-21a.2370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-22", "file": "debates1953-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "474a17ff2344351b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-22a.2469.1", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Marlowe", "preceding_text": "I intervene only for a few moments. I cannot help thinking that it is a sad reflection on the integrity of hon. Members opposite that, whenever appointments of this kind are made, they immediately become suspicious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-22a.2469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-22", "file": "debates1953-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "474a17ff2344351b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-22a.2470.1", "colnum": "2470", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "No one has ever impugned the integrity of Lord Douglas from this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-22a.2470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-05-22", "file": "debates1953-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "474a17ff2344351b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-22a.2485.1", "colnum": "2485", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dandelion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "once said of Bernard Shaw that he was a good man fallen among Fabians. The noble Lord is a noble man who has fallen among Tories. I was very interested indeed in his comparisons with a herbaceous border; it set my mind at work as to where we ought to place him. I think he is clearly the lily, \"unstained and pure,\" standing above all others, and is certainly one of the finest flowers in the border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-05-22a.2485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-09", "file": "debates1953-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "53dd9c29d3332157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-09a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " put his finger on a matter of which I am very conscious. I had made some notes on the subject of incorporating in the enabling Bill matters which are now in the Orders in Council, but I did not deal with that subject because I thought the remarks were getting a little wide. I shall, however, be ready to do so when opportunity occurs and when the arguments are different to those now being adduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-09a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-09", "file": "debates1953-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "53dd9c29d3332157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-09a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": " the position of the Secretary of State. Secretaries of State can perform each other's functions at any time. In practice, the Secretaries of State for Commonwealth Relations and for the Colonies work together closely in all matters. The official channel for communication between the Federal Governments and Her Majesty's Government will be through the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-09a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-09", "file": "debates1953-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "53dd9c29d3332157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-09a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "to say, by referring to the \"cuckoo Minister.\" That is an offensive and regrettable term. The trouble is that the cuckoo is not merely an unwanted, unwelcome intruder into the nest, but it also belongs biologically to a different species, and I regretted that such a comparison should be made by one of Her Majesty's Ministers at a time like this in referring to proposals for African representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-09a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "If it is not in the best interests of the Corporation, why did the last Government permit Lord Trefgarne to hold outside directorships?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA (KIKUYU TRIBESMAN'S DEATH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Could the right hon. Gentleman make clear to those in authority that we in this country will not countenance treatment of that kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "labour. What we want is to get Lancashire to use more efficient methods. If we took the tax off I do not think it would be helpful in that way. When last year we criticised the D levels, I think we were justified to a considerable measure, but the Committee ought to bear in mind that since that time the prices of raw materials of the textile industries, cotton and wool, have dropped substantially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "first time—the great concern for the production and sale of luxury textiles, such as velvets. They were mentioned by the hon. Member for Rossendale (Mr. Anthony Greenwood) and by the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde. In some of the projected programmes of the Labour Party there are suggestions that Purchase Tax is to be removed and that there is to be substituted something called a luxury tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.271.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.280.8", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "It certainly would be out of order, but the hon. and gallant Member did not say that, or I should have stopped him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.280.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "know whether hon. Members opposite think that the tax on these things should go further down or should not have come down at all, because between them they seem to have taken both points of view at one time or another, with considerable variety and often with much eloquence. What is the attitude of hon. Members opposite? Should the tax on motor cars be further reduced, as their Amendment suggests?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "re. The fur trade of this country employs between 9,000 and 10,000 people. It exports skins and fur garments worth roughly £25 million a year. It earns hard currency. It contributes to our invisible exports. It adds lustre to our reputation for craftsmanship. Whether furs are luxuries or not in the view of hon. Members opposite, the fact is that they help this country to earn its bread and butter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.315.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "ent in the past year. They say: We have experienced short-time working varying between three and four days per week for over six months out of the last 12 months, and this, of course, does not take into account the kind of underemployment that takes place while men are retained on the premises. We also feel that as almost a part of the furniture industry we should be treated on a comparable basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.328.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I have listened with close attention to what the Financial Secretary has had to say. In view of the arguments which he has advanced, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mink coats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "he effect of that Amendment on the cost of living would be to reduce the wholesale price of essential articles such as lino, carpets, wallpaper, cutlery, stationery, brushes and combs, toothpaste, etc., by 1s. 8d. in the £. It reduced the price of articles like gramophones, gramophone records, paper serviettes, motor-cars and such less essential articles by 3s. 4d. in the £ on the wholesale price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The corkscrew would be a luxury to some—perhaps to my hon. Friend, the Member for Ealing, North (Mr. J. Hudson)—but I think a good many other people would regard the corkscrew, though not the dog, as a necessity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.372.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ch residences were to be valued. The right hon. Gentleman obtained the consent of Parliament to suspend those provisions. He then proceeded, on his own admission, to employ staffs to value residences on entirely different principles not approved by Parliament. He now comes before Parliament and asks that Parliament shall validate expenditures used for principles to which Parliament has not agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.386.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the Government, in due course, will make an explanation. It is not my affair who rises to speak, but it is my affair to try and keep the debate in order. It is clear that all that is asked for is in regard to an Act of the present Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.388.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "It is clear this Resolution is for Valuation for Rating. That is the name of the Bill for which this money is being asked. It is quite in order to ask how much money is wanted and what it is for, but it only deals with an Act of the present Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.389.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " customary courtesy the right hon. Gentleman has used a private explanation which I gave to him. I met him this evening and told him I intended to raise this matter. I told him why I was not able to be present on the last occasion, and with his usual good taste he has used a private conversation for public disclosure. All I can say to him is that in the future I shall treat him like the cad he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.394.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "that he likes chaffing and attacking other people, but, like many people who make attacks, he is very sensitive to a counter-attack. Since I know his character, since we have had a long friendship in this House, far apart from party discussions, going back for many years, if I have in any way offended him I am sorry, and I hope he will take it in the spirit in which it was given—as a piece of fun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.396.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.396.5", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "So he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.396.8", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "c then there is no possibility of verifying what has been said. I could say what I thought the right hon. Gentleman said to me, and where would we go from there? It has always been considered the proper thing that private conversation between Members ought not to be used in public debates. That is all I say, and I accept the withdrawal of the right hon. Gentleman, and hope he will not do it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.396.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "n opportunity to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who has a direct interest in this matter, to explain that the Government would like to withdraw this Resolution and deal with it at a little later stage, after reconsidering the matter. Therefore, I make an appeal to the Committee. It is apparent to all sides that there has been irregular expenditure on the part of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": " appeal to the Committee. It is apparent to all sides that there has been irregular expenditure on the part of the right hon. Gentleman. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] I think you yourself, Sir Charles, reproved hon. Members for indicating their views by shakes of the head. If any hon. Gentleman thinks that the right hon. Gentleman has not committed irregular expenditure will you let him get up and say so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "Of course we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-10", "file": "debates1953-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "82f0a945ccdeaa8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Charles. Do you not think it would be a good idea if we had one speech which was remotely in order? Every speech to which I have listened so far has been clearly out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-10a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.447.5", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Two periods of deferment have already been granted for the worker concerned, but an application for further renewal has been considered three times by the Agricultural Advisory Panel, who each time recommended rejection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.447.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You say they are guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "Not that I know of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Speaker, but that does not invalidate my point. I admit that the Secretary of State said that there were many loyal people in this organisation, but he did make implications about the organisation itself, which may be right or not. In fact he made allegations—they may be right or wrong —and the person who is going to appeal to the Supreme Court is apparently the chief officer of that organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "re were many loyal people in this organisation, but he did make implications about the organisation itself, which may be right or not. In fact he made allegations—they may be right or wrong —and the person who is going to appeal to the Supreme Court is apparently the chief officer of that organisation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Was.\"] Well, he was, and presumably he is being tried somewhat in that capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ht or wrong —and the person who is going to appeal to the Supreme Court is apparently the chief officer of that organisation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Was.\"] Well, he was, and presumably he is being tried somewhat in that capacity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] —yes, somewhat, because surely it is alleged it is so, as it is argued that the organisation was being used for these purposes. I submit with great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.458.2", "colnum": "458", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ta was an organiser or furtherer of the schemes of Mau Mau; that is in question. The statement by the Colonial Secretary, so far as he has gone, says that some members of the African Union were being used as cover, or the Union was being used as cover by some members of the Mau Mau organisation or sympathisers. I still think that that would leave the court absolutely unprejudiced when it comes to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.460.5", "colnum": "460", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman, while the appeal is still pending, uses in this House the phrase that evidence had been found in the course of the trial that the Kenya African Union had been so used as a cover. I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that despite the high office which the right hon. Gentleman holds, you, as Mr. Speaker, responsible to the whole House and the traditions of the House, ought to rule that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.460.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.463.2", "colnum": "463", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "cclamation. The response has been encouraging and has given evidence of the way in which he can lead, guide and inspire public opinion, particularly African. These visits have shown the population that he is with them, and they have shown that they are with him. To sum up, the position of Kenya is still one of danger, but it is improving. The population is coming over to our side in large numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.465.5", "colnum": "465", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister waves backwards and forwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.465.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.466.3", "colnum": "466", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e welcome the improvement in the situation in Kenya, and may I say that today the Minister sought, quite rightly, to indicate that this is not a struggle between black and white, but a struggle between loyal, decent people and this terrorist organisation, and that, as a matter of fact, the overwhelming number of the people who have been killed have been Africans. May I, therefore, in view of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.466.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "t of order to suggest that. It is just the same if addressed to a back bencher as if addressed to the right hon. Gentleman. I ask the House in this matter to recollect itself. We have spent a lot of time on this matter and we have had an interesting statement. It does not help the clarification of our business if we have all these interruptions. I hope the House will now proceed with its business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "May I put this point to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "May I briefly point out to the hon. Member that the Motion which we are discussing was foreshadowed before we rose for Whitsun. It was then received with acclamation from every quarter of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Income Tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "The reduction in the amount of tax paid by Surtax payers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "nings. Indeed, they say that they should be maintained. The working people of this country have never objected to a high standard of living for those who make genuine contributions to their economy, amusement or administration. What they do resent is political and economic nepotism and the triumph of mediocrity in people getting themselves into cushy jobs for life and giving very little in return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "promise—raising the allowance not to £100 but to something intermediate between £85 and £100. Presumably if the whole concession would cost £14 million, some half-way house such as that would cost less than £14 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-11", "file": "debates1953-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0c9617d575041ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee (Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee (Newton)", "preceding_text": "earned Gentleman would not produce that same argument again. I hold the same sentiments, and I hope to be able to show that this issue is far too serious, and the consequences of refusing the Amendment so imminent, for us to await the report of a Royal Commission in x years' time. Last year the Solicitor-General also sought refuge in telling us that the Labour Government had done nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-11a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-12", "file": "debates1953-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "cf1846170697cf30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-12a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "New Clause.—(REPEAL OF LONDON EQUALISATION SCHEME.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "ich I think represents only a small sector of the people in which a great deal of equalisation has already taken place. There are, however, startling differences, and they are differences which require examination. I do not think anyone would deny that, and there could be no more appropriate occasion and time for discussing it, because the House is making good progress with the business before it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-12a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-16", "file": "debates1953-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b79c12b822f5de3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.736.5", "colnum": "736", "heading": "OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE (RUBBER STAMPS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborae", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is another Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborae", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister use his influence with local government officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-16", "file": "debates1953-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b79c12b822f5de3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "KOREA (CASUALTY LIST ERROR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "While I am sure every hon. Member appreciates that the right hon. Gentleman would not deliberately commit such an error, nor indeed would any member of his staff, nevertheless he will agree that the incident was most distressing to the people concerned. Can we have a definite assurance that the whole matter will be checked and crosschecked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-16", "file": "debates1953-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b79c12b822f5de3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "KOREA (CASUALTY LIST ERROR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "While expressing appreciation to the Minister for the speedy and manly way in which he has tackled the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-16", "file": "debates1953-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b79c12b822f5de3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "The access to the House is surely access by foot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-16", "file": "debates1953-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b79c12b822f5de3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.757.2", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "he view of the Chancellor that the 40 per cent. allowance was justified in 1951 in the peak period of re-armament, it must surely be more so now. I know that some hon. Members on the other side of the Committee and certain people in the business and financial world do not like initial allowances and do not regard them as the most effective means possible of giving financial assistance to industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-16", "file": "debates1953-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b79c12b822f5de3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ustry. They do not help it much though they do help it a little. Hon. Members opposite always love loans, especially when, apparently, they are not likely to be repaid, and so they like these allowances. The Government have put up the Bank rate, have made borrowing more expensive, and now they have decided to let some people have some money for nothing. That, on the face of it, seems a little odd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-16", "file": "debates1953-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b79c12b822f5de3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cut?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "hank the hon. Gentleman for the correction and he will appreciate that it makes my point even stronger. Discrimination has been made against expenditure on plant and machinery. One of the others has been left as it is, a second has been increased and this one has been cut. I fail to understand why, if the initial allowances are to be restored at all, there has been a cut in this type at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-16a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-17", "file": "debates1953-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65d0f562b44f092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.960.2", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CORONATION (UNITED STATES BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in this House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that what is good taste is a matter of opinion and that it may vary on both sides of the Atlantic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.960.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-17", "file": "debates1953-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65d0f562b44f092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.960.4", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CORONATION (UNITED STATES BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "I cannot add much to the reply which I have already given. The right hon. Gentleman says that opinions vary in this matter, but we have had the opinion of Her Majesty's Ambassador in Washington, and also reports from our Consular Officers in the United States, and no such complaint as the right hon. Gentleman has made has been made in any of these reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.960.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-17", "file": "debates1953-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65d0f562b44f092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.976.9", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Member for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher) stand up just now when I called him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.976.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-17", "file": "debates1953-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65d0f562b44f092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.976.14", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I have now called the next Amendment. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Islington, East, is not sitting in his usual place, but, still, I did not see him stand up when I called his name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.976.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-17", "file": "debates1953-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65d0f562b44f092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ent out to the right hon. Gentleman and, reading it by the seaside, he inserted in it this promise to introduce an Excess Profits Levy. The evidence that the right hon. Gentleman was the source of it is quite clear from the fact that it appeared in the middle of two sentences about the wild extravagance and the dissolute, improvident expenditure, and so on and so forth, of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-17", "file": "debates1953-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65d0f562b44f092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor has used an argument in his reply which I do not think the Committee should let pass. He has taunted hon. Members on this side of the Committee with dragging in the class war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-17", "file": "debates1953-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e65d0f562b44f092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.1101.0", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Leg or neck?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "on. Member from the shadows of the Home Counties. None of them has had any experience whatsoever of the difficulties of living in islands. I can support everything which the hon. Member for St. Ives has said. Let the Chancellor of the Exchequer come and break his leg on one of the outlying rocks of my constituency and see how long it takes him to get any benefit out of the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-17a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1161.3", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is the President aware that I have received that sort of silly answer for a very long time now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "CORONATION DECORATIONS (REMOVAL)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his statement will be regarded as rather mean and miserable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1205.10", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "At the same time, it is not in the Bill. The House of Commons has no protection whatever except for the word of the right hon. Gentleman which I certainly accept, but I can accept it only while he remains Secretary of State for the Colonies, and I doubt whether that will be very much longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1205.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I agree, meaning dormitory labour, transferred labour, immigrant labour—every one of the grave problems that used to confront the United States in its early developing days. There will not be trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "What we are seeking to do is to say that the trade union law of Britain shall apply, which is not the case in these Territories. The right hon. Gentleman does not appear to have read the new Clause by which we seek in this Bill to give the Africans the right to have trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "That is certainly not the impression which was given last Tuesday when, for about eight hours, there was a series of speeches amounting to a denigration of the British in these Territories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "That is certainly not the impression which was given last Tuesday when, for about eight hours, there was a series of speeches amounting to a denigration of the British in these Territories—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]— and I must make a strong protest against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "I was not in the Chair at the time, but I understand that this issue was started by the hon. Member for Oldham, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "I have great sympathy with the hon. Member, but I think he should raise that point on the proper occasion. This charge to which he refers was made some time ago. It has now only been raised again —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "I understand that the charge referred to was made some time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "That is false. On a point order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-18", "file": "debates1953-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c1a550016125567", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have that assurance that there will be a clear definition of what this amounts to, of what are the powers of Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-18a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-19", "file": "debates1953-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91cc56e2554714a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-19a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "estion which the private companies could not give. They could not give it because their circumstances were wholly different. It is because we know that B.E.A. can do this work that we are entitled to put pressure on them; but we must recognise what they have done. They have arranged 50,000 new connections in five years as against 80,000 in 28 years by the private companies. That speaks for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-19a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-19", "file": "debates1953-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91cc56e2554714a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-19a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e economic no matter how heavily we indulge in high pressure salesmanship. What have I to suggest? There are two things which the Government must do, to the first of which I have already referred. The Government must have a capital investment programme which makes adequate provision for this and which is willing to hold back the use of resources elsewhere in order that they flow in this direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-19a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-19", "file": "debates1953-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91cc56e2554714a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-19a.1370.2", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "t is for them to decide how to finance this. They must accept the fact that capital contributions are wrong. The system of a line rental is better because it spreads the amount over a period, but it means heavier charges and, therefore, needs capital. By far the best is the guaranteed minimum arrangement. It is for the area boards to think clearly about that. I have said some controversial things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-19a.1370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-19", "file": "debates1953-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91cc56e2554714a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-19a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "themselves. We have an administration that has come in. I do not know whether it is Civil Service administration, but I often suspect that it is the administration of the Services and that men who have been in the Services are bringing Service administration into it, whereby everything has to be dovetailed on a piece of paper before it can be done. I do not know what has happened, but there it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-19a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-22", "file": "debates1953-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2113c748f57eb88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1555.2", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even of dog racing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eirene White", "preceding_text": "t it to the Chancellor that, after all, films are really not on the same footing as dog racing or cricket. I believe myself that films have such an impact upon the mind and the outlook of so large a proportion of the population that they have a far greater influence upon the ideas and the ideals of the people and that we should do everything possible to foster and prosper an industry of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-22", "file": "debates1953-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2113c748f57eb88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Carmichael", "preceding_text": " of the first things to be done in the industry is to improve the conditions of the workers. The other point which has already been mentioned is the renovation of the halls. It cannot be done on the present money going into the cinemas in working class areas. I represent a very congested area in the City of Glasgow. There are six cinemas in that constituency alone, and the prices are all below 2s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-22", "file": "debates1953-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2113c748f57eb88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1591.2", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ommendation of very important Budgetary effect to meet that situation. What they recommend is that, because this dislocation takes place, and in order to avoid it, and because the Hutton Committee cannot satisfy itself that there is any 100 per cent. water-tight rebate scheme, then any future Chancellor of the Exchequer should renounce the use of Purchase Tax as an instrument of national planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-22", "file": "debates1953-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2113c748f57eb88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1591.2", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor of the Exchequer to adopt, in regard to Purchase Tax, a policy of small and regular changes. I suggest to the Committee that in accepting the recommendations of the Hutton Committee the Chancellor, far from solving the problem, has made it a good deal worse. In this Budget we have the first substantial overall reduction in Purchase Tax which we have had since the tax was introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-22", "file": "debates1953-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2113c748f57eb88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1591.2", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rable things. Of course, anybody who does not mind destroying the social and economic fabric of the country can always produce facts and figures in favour of such a reduction. What the Chancellor has done is to accept what the Committee have said, that the only way of getting rid of the rebate problem is to make progressive small reductions in Purchase Tax until this very naughty tax is wiped out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-22a.1591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-23", "file": "debates1953-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e91b833b7d092342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-23a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I rise to make only two short points. The first is in reply to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epsom (Mr. McCorquodale). Whatever there may be in his last observation, it can only have a limited application. No one can seriously pretend that family coalmines were a success in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-23a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-23", "file": "debates1953-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e91b833b7d092342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-23a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is a little wrong in one particular. If one is assessed under Schedule A, according to a case which was decided in the House of Lords, one cannot be assessed under Schedule D in respect of the same property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-23a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-23", "file": "debates1953-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e91b833b7d092342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-23a.1866.6", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JET ENGINES (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "gines go and let our development lead be reduced by that amount. The argument was that 1946 was part of the honeymoon period, and that what happened afterwards could not have been foreseen. I profoundly disagree with that argument, and I need only remind the House of the famous Fulton speech which my right hon. Friend the present Prime Minister made in March, 1946. He certainly foresaw the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-23a.1866.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1889.6", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "We are doing so. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the consumption of liquid milk is 60 per cent. above what it was before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1889.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1889.6", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "We are doing so. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the consumption of liquid milk is 60 per cent. above what it was before the war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I do not know why hon. Gentlemen opposite should cheer that so much, it is not particularly due to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1889.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1897.3", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "wish it to displace desirable developments in other directions. These special schemes for growing rice may therefore in due course involve allocations, and ultimately expenditure, in excess of the existing statutory limit of £140 million. The legislation to which I have referred will also, if necessary, provide cover for expenditure up to £3 million which may be incurred under these arrangements.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1897.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1898.0", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "n of authorising in advance of the new legislation actual expenditure in excess of the existing statutory limits. But the House should be aware that Colonial Governments may in the interim be entering into commitments, to the extent which I have indicated, on the understanding that the necessary funds to meet these commitments will be provided by Her Majesty's Government under the new legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1908.3", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (EAST BERLIN DEMONSTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman had access to reports of the trials now taking place in East Germany, where confessions on oath made in public hearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1917.2", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "of paragraph 112—this was argued by the hon. Lady for Flint, East (Mrs. White)—which provides for non-discrimination on grounds of race in the Civil Service, is vitiated by the fact that in determining the suitability of a particular person for employment regard would be had to the circumstances of the locality in which he is employed. This paragraph was not put in without a great deal of thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is off after an electric hare again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1973.2", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Soviet Union.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "aland wanted to federate with Tanganyika it would first have to take the step of seceding from the Federation which we are now discussing. It all comes back to whether there is a right of secession under the present scheme. My advice is that there is not. There is no federation of which I, as a layman, and my advisers with expert knowledge can think, in which there is a right to secession as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.1973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2028.1", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Might.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is that the Chairman intervened on 9th June and said that the matter would be discussed on the Motion \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2028.1", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is that the Chairman intervened on 9th June and said that the matter would be discussed on the Motion \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Might.\"] There is nothing dubious about the phrase \"I might allow the hon. Lady.\" In that connection \"might\" obviously means \"shall.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2041.5", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman allow me to put a question? It is very important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2041.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2058.3", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "MILK AND RICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rum and milk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2058.3", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "MILK AND RICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "at I criticise the action of the Government. I sympathise with the desire of hon. Members to end these proceedings, and I shall not make a long speech. Hon. Members opposite are listening to me quietly, and if they continue to do so I shall not be long upon the subject of rice. Rice puddings are not the perfect diet for English children when the children of the Far East go hungry for need of rice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2058.3", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "MILK AND RICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Apple pies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "tion to the freeing of rice is that it will result in a greater consumption in this country when there is such a scarcity of this commodity in the East. We need not absolutely keep to rice and the rice puddings which have been so enthusiastically spoken of this evening. Like most hon. Members opposite, I started in my early days with the rice pudding. I also had a good mother who knew how to cook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-24", "file": "debates1953-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "393c0b3376eda8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2061.1", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "MILK AND RICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I want to endorse the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, North (Mr. J. Hudson). Although they have not been met with the sympathy and understanding which they deserve by hon. Members opposite, they are nevertheless important, and some day must be considered by this country and the rest of the European nations to which he referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-24a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-25", "file": "debates1953-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f154baa57939805c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-25a.2095.6", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-25a.2095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-25", "file": "debates1953-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f154baa57939805c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-25a.2222.2", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE MAN (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "May I have the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-25a.2222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-26", "file": "debates1953-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "83d62d15f5ded69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ws what we are up against. I want particularly to refer the President of the Board of Trade to it. The President of the Board of Trade, no matter what Government is in power, carries great influence in the Government, in the House, in the country, and increasingly about the world at international conferences. This is what the Japanese workers delegate said at this conference, speaking in Japanese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-26", "file": "debates1953-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "83d62d15f5ded69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2275.3", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "ommodities. To the layman, particularly, it has been apparent during the past few years what great difficulty there is in securing accurate or satisfactory legislation on these matters. I think that on both sides of the House we are all agreed that the law did need amendment. I should like, if I might, to congratulate the Government on having recognised that and on having brought the Bill forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-26", "file": "debates1953-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "83d62d15f5ded69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2291.1", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Swingler", "preceding_text": " of trade marks and the falsification of trade descriptions, that are going on now as they did before, and which will again undermine British trade in certain markets unless we can get some action. So far as we are concerned, dealing with the problem inside Britain only is merely tinkering with it. There are some people in this country who are prepared to aid and abet this international \"spivery.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-26", "file": "debates1953-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "83d62d15f5ded69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2295.0", "colnum": "2295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": " told in another place that this Bill would not affect current descriptions or trade descriptions or marks but only those in the future. Perhaps we have not got this clear. Lord Mancroft's speech in another place made plain, in the assurance he gave, that current descriptions, whether misleading or not, that were already in currency would not be affected by this Bill. That was how I understood it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-26", "file": "debates1953-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "83d62d15f5ded69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2299.1", "colnum": "2299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Mr. J. Rodgers) spoke of the honesty of traders and trades in this country, and in general I would agree with him. I know many the quality of whose products can be relied upon. But there are trades and trades, and there is one in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-26a.2299.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.17.7", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BERMUDA CONFERENCE (TELEGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Gentleman speaks of exercising economy in this matter, may I ask him, with great respect to his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, whether he regards it as economy to use the \"Vanguard\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.17.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.24.5", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (INFORMATION TO MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I quite see the point that the right hon. Gentleman opposite is making. I am trying to distinguish between any arrangements for formal Committees to be addressed by Ministers upstairs in substitution for debates or discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.24.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "LABOUR ATTACHES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "any in the established diplomatic and foreign services who were not only lacking in sympathy with Labour Governments of the time in their personal, private business, on which one would not seek to reproach them; but in their public appearances and public activities many showed not only indifference but, in practice, actual contempt for the Government which at that time they purported to represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "LABOUR ATTACHES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Moscow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "ovement in this country, that too has fallen into the hands of the Communists. It is part of my argument that we should do whatever lies in our power to fertilise the Foreign Service with new men and new thought. The day has long gone when palace revolutions and the intrigues which circulated round the prince or junta were decisive in determining the nature of the Government. Those days have gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "LABOUR ATTACHES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "I am sure that if they have, the hon. Gentleman will be aware of them. In any case, if I pursue that subject I shall be called to order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "LABOUR ATTACHES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I wonder where the hon. Member got that idea. In 1942 we had the Prime Minister we have now, but he was not yet a member of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.67.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "LABOUR ATTACHES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is election stuff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Of course I agree, but what I am putting to hon. Members opposite is that they are objecting to an economy. While they were in power we were so over-spending our national income that many economies have had to be effected and this is one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "LABOUR ATTACHES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "nd that if there should be extra money to spend these services will then be restored? My hon. Friend was asked by an hon. Member opposite to give an undertaking that there would be no further cuts in the number of labour attachés, and I hope he will be able to give an affirmative answer. I hope he will also be able to say that when we can afford to spend more money as our position improves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "LABOUR ATTACHES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ery little about Venezuela if that is the best the Government can think of. In that country there should be a special representative who will face the sort of problems of which I am speaking. These proposals of my right hon. Friend are good and the Government should pay heed to them. I am willing to admit that the right hon. and learned Gentleman opposite dealt with the matter in a reasonable way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.91.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I do not think that in many parts of Cheshire there is any question of competition between florists und market gardeners and the local authority, because if this service is not supplied by the local authority it will not be supplied at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You made it one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "s, \"We do not intend to divide on this Bill but have merely put forward our Amendments in order to have a general discussion,\" which I believe was the way he started his speech on the Rochester Bill last year. The Clauses of the Bill are reasonable, and I certainly hope that the support of Members on both sides of the House will be forthcoming for the Measure. This is not a party political matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": " a book back after the proper time, the book is free; it is an entirely different matter. I think that the hon. Member was very confused in comparing a public library with the hire of flowers. This Bill passed through all its stages in another place, and unfortunately there was no debate. I wish there had been because many noble Lords in another place have a considerable knowledge of horticulture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.135.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.148.8", "colnum": "148", "heading": "CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Charles Mac Andrew)", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the House could have come to a decision on this now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.148.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "the insurance Clauses. The House decided on a previous occasion that this particular type of Clause was an undesirable Clause for general application, and I see no reason why the Cheshire County Council—or the Berkshire County Council for that matter, because Berkshire had agreed to abide by the decision taken over Cheshire—why this county council should indulge in insurance of their own property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-29", "file": "debates1953-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "03cb5f70ea8904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I am proud tonight that the group presided over by my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) has drawn the attention of the House to these Private Bills. A number of Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-29a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. and gallant Gentleman replies, may I put two questions to him? None of my hon. Friends on this side of the House from Scotland has caught the Speaker's eye today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. and gallant Gentleman replies, may I put two questions to him? None of my hon. Friends on this side of the House from Scotland has caught the Speaker's eye today. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Not in regard to any Scottish question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. and gallant Gentleman replies, may I put two questions to him? None of my hon. Friends on this side of the House from Scotland has caught the Speaker's eye today. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Not in regard to any Scottish question. [HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"] Except perhaps the hon. Gentleman who dealt with the Scottish new towns, and the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Why should they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "me yet. It is a good staff, and includes a great many disabled men. A certain number of disabled men, some of them particular friends of mine, blinded men who are physiotherapists in different parts of the country, are given cases by the Ministry. I hope this proposal will not go forward, but if it does I hope that the disabled men who are employed directly and indirectly will not lose their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Do not spoil it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "ght. I should like to make it clear that my vote against the Motion is not a vote for the Opposition. Rather than engage in arguments which would be misunderstood, I should like the facts to speak for themselves. In the six years from 1945 to 1951, Parliament voted £12 million for war pensions; in the period of not quite two years from 1951 to the present day, Parliament voted £10½ million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. I have read the speech made by my hon. Friend which is reported in the current issue of the British Legion Journal. However much he may have thought he was being absolutely fair, there was only one thing that I and others could be led to believe, that the senior officers of the Legion were advising the Legion to resist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "r a moment that the first reaction of the leaders of the Legion was similar to the first reaction of the humblest member. I say that when one is the leader of an organisation of the size of the Legion one has greater obligations than merely expressing the opinion of the most humble member. One has the obligation of leading, and leading in the way one thinks to be right after careful consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": " Government want to abolish the Ministry? Look at the marvellous work the Ministry have done on this business on artificial limbs. I believe that the work has no equal anywhere. I have been with doctors, and other professional people who know this part of the work, and who can almost pick out in the street an artificial limb that was made at Roe-hampton and one that was made by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.317.5", "colnum": "317", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "The warmongering prophecies. It is just as true in this case that they will be proved equally wrong. If, in fact, it is true that as a result of this move there is a decline in the service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "preceding_text": "aph 8 of the White Paper says that an additional Parliamentary Secretary will be appointed to the Ministry of Pensions, but paragraph 3 (2) of the Order states that the Ministry of Pensions and National Service may appoint an additional Parliamentary Secretary. I have already mentioned this to the Minister and I am given to understand that, in legal language, \"may\" and \"shall\" mean the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "preceding_text": "rence of those committees could be written into the Order itself, as I understand was done in the original Royal Warrant in 1919. In paragraph 24 we see the words, \"The Government is confident\" that various things will be done. Perhaps the words \"The Government is confident\" are not very much of a guarantee, although I believe there is every reason for believing that this splendid work will go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "only optional, but compulsory. They would like to see a separate report from both sides of the Ministry. I recognise, as we all do, that there is a natural anxiety on the part of the members of B.L.E.S.M.A. and of the British Legion as to their future under the new scheme, but I am bound to say that I do not share that anxiety. On the contrary, they will derive many advantages from the new scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lonsdale (Sir I. Fraser), in a most courageous and moving speech, explained why he believed that the Government were wrong. I attach a great deal of weight, naturally, to what he said, but none the less I shall vote for the Bill because I am convinced, and I go only on my own conviction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "preceding_text": "e new dispensation which has earned their gratitude and inspired hope in them. These veterans, whose average age is 63, ask \"Why pick on the war disabled when you make your experiment in simplifying the machinery of Government and reducing costs?' Why should we who were the guinea pigs for the experiments of generals in war now be the guinea pigs for the experiments of politicians in peace-time? \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-06-30", "file": "debates1953-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e7ba9b18410c8db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PENSIONS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Mr. Heath-coat Amory)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"What is it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Mr. Heath-coat Amory)", "preceding_text": "ming of the proposal. So far as hospital treatment goes, in the last three years the needs have been reduced by a quarter; medical boarding in the last two years, by a half; appeals in the last six years, by two-thirds. We suggest that this move now—and I agree that it could be postponed—means that we shall not risk losing something which we have at present and which we might lose by postponement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-06-30a.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.375.8", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. and gallant. Gentleman feel able to recommend such a suggestion to the B.B.C?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.375.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.376.7", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "Only an hour ago I saw good looking bananas at 1s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to embarrass the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to read the actual words to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "DEATH PENALTY (SUSPENSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "o know from the Home Secretary today whether he still believes that. Was my hon. and learned Friend moving in a realm of fantasy? This week we have had completely established that a case was made against a man on a charge of murder; that it succeeded; that the appeal failed; the application for reprieve failed; the man was hanged, and we know today that he was convicted and hanged on a false case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "DEATH PENALTY (SUSPENSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "preceding_text": "If I said that, I apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.419.5", "colnum": "419", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "chool-building, it is very easy to proceed on the basis of the simplest rules of arithmetic, to say that the Labour Party had six years in office and built so many places, so many a year, and that the Conservative Party have had two years in office and have built so many places, so divide the number by two, and, if it is better, that proves that the Conservatives are better than the Labour people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "mes. I should have hoped that this Report could have been acccepted, but I am asked in the Amendment to welcome the emphasis laid in the said Report on the importance of school-building and then to express my confidence that Her Majesty's Government has made and is continuing to make the best use of available resources. … That is a three months' moratorium. No use of the material resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "been acccepted, but I am asked in the Amendment to welcome the emphasis laid in the said Report on the importance of school-building and then to express my confidence that Her Majesty's Government has made and is continuing to make the best use of available resources. … That is a three months' moratorium. No use of the material resources—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] After all, during three months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "hey say: clearly stated, which is true, that it is the policy of the Government that the school-building programme … But they do not point out that it had not been the policy of all previous Governments. It had not been the policy of the Labour Government. It was the policy of this Government, the Government now in office, but it was not the policy before. That seems to have been forgotten—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "tarted. Look at the speeches in each Estimates debate. What is the yardstick which is taken?—\"We have more schools being built\"—\"we have started more schools\"—\"the number of schools on the ground is going up.\" But what was wanted, what we all wanted and what we now regret we did not get, were completed schools. The schools were started, but were not completed and could not be used by the children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.443.6", "colnum": "443", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "of the programme year only one-third was completed. The year after the end of the programme 40 per cent. of the work was still undone. So that is the stage at which we had arrived at the end of 1949. When I took office at the end of 1951 that is what was not done. What are the facts? I was confronted with a situation where there was £120 million worth of work on the ground which was not completed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.443.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "be wasting manpower to have another survey now. If I had the money and the material we could get to work on these schools straight away. That is not the difficulty. The difficulty is to take our present resources which are being devoted to one plan, that is to the provision of new schools and the bringing of children of school age into them, and devote those resources to replacing the old schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She said no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "ionably necessary that there should be a survey of the old schools. I have the greatest admiration for the men and women who have to teach children in conditions which are the negation of all good education. It must be heartbreaking as each year there is a further deterioration. I ask the right hon. Lady to say whether she will consider seriously that recommendation of a survey of the old schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "n view of the particular time when that step was taken, it can only be described as sheer stupidity. Then in Scotland they introduced into the schools some 700 uncertificated teachers. I suppose the nominal intention was to relieve the pressure undoubtedly existing, but the ultimate result was to reduce the already lowering standards of education. How could the standards of teaching be maintained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is dealing with a different set of figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are laughing at the hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is dealing with a different set of figures—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course she is. I do not know why her friends are laughing at her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rooms.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "g dates came into operation at the end of 1951: no new building, primary or secondary, other than several small prefabricated units, has been started in Glasgow. That is an extremely incorrect statement. The \"small prefabricated units\" he talks about and of which, apparently, he does not think a great deal, consist of eight new aluminium schools and one timber extension having a total of 47 rooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.486.4", "colnum": "486", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "he total value of work done on school-building in Scotland was £2 million; in 1948, it was £3·7 million; in 1949, £4·2 million; in 1950, £4·4 million; in 1951, £5·3 million; and, in 1952, £6·5 million. That shows that the work actu- ally being done in the finding of places for children is growing year by year and was bigger last year than it has ever been before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.486.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not think I can answer that without notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "one of labour, there are 150,000 more people unemployed in this country today than there were two years ago, and nearly one-tenth of them—14,000—are in the building and contracting industry. If these are the difficulties, they could be surmounted. We on this side of the House believe that if it is proved necessary, education should have a greater priority, even compared with other social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "fficulties, they could be surmounted. We on this side of the House believe that if it is proved necessary, education should have a greater priority, even compared with other social services. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] I say that, and I repeat it. If the necessity is shown, I believe that education should have a greater priority, even compared with the other social services, and I invite the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Abingdon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "al services, and I invite the Government—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"] I use the plural, not the singular, and I say I would invite the Government to show whether this necessity has arisen. What we have got at the moment, through the kind of Budget we have had, is more unemployment and relaxation, private luxury and enforced idleness. These are luxuries and wastage which the nation cannot afford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan):", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan):", "preceding_text": "ialist controlled, and by private developers, large and small, who have joined in the spirit of the housing crusade. All we have done is to give them a chance, and, of course, to abolish the development charge. Now the accusation is that our success in the housing drive has been at the expense of other building. If it were true it would be an important, though not necessarily a decisive objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan):", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan):", "preceding_text": "gazed in the crystal perhaps we had better look at the facts. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Shields rather denigrated figures or the use of figures. I am not in the least surprised. He said that he was against arithmetic, especially simple arithmetic. It may be a very reactionary view of mine, but I still believe that two and two make four. Let us look at the figures—Neave, 22,986.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCHOOL-BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "pent on all educational building we have spent £50 million, and as against £16 million spent on primary and secondary schools we have spent £36½ million. The comparison is the same. Who was standing back in 1948? I am not unduly concerned with the right hon. Gentleman's accusations, because I am used to them, but I am a little surprised that the Leader of the Opposition fell into this trap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "CANNED CORNED MEAT (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "That leaves more meat on the ration to be bought by those who cannot afford to buy bully beef.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "CANNED CORNED MEAT (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "That leaves more meat on the ration to be bought by those who cannot afford to buy bully beef. [ Interruption .] It is something inherited from the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-01", "file": "debates1953-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e4dc5479e6301629", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.543.4", "colnum": "543", "heading": "CANNED CORNED MEAT (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman would not wish to misrepresent me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-01a.543.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman convey to his right hon. and learned Friend that nobody expects him to make any statement or any comment upon any issue raised in any of these cases? All that the Question asks is whether he will order a public inquiry. Will he bear in mind that public confidence in the administration of justice has been gravely shaken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I have before me the figures of discharges which arose between our medical examination and the Armed Forces medical examination. For last year the figure was 7 per cent. *", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.591.20", "colnum": "591", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.591.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ry responsible people, leaders of thought of various kinds, including leaders of the Churches, and so on, people whose opinions are worth taking note of, and who are very apprehensive about any form of commercial television in our country. I put it to the right hon. Gentleman: is it wise, in view of the modifications the Government have made on this matter, which is not a party political question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "and who are very apprehensive about any form of commercial television in our country. I put it to the right hon. Gentleman: is it wise, in view of the modifications the Government have made on this matter, which is not a party political question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is not. I notice certain cheers coming from the other side, and, I admit, from my side, but it is not a party political question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "pread apprehension, there had been any modifications in our previous views. I have repeated what our previous views were. I stand by that today. The whole point of what my colleagues and I had in mind in making this statement was to put before the country and before some of those who have been criticising before being in the position to know what kind of form the alternative television might take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.596.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "sition with regard to Aberdeen will cause very great pleasure in North-East Scotland, particularly as it reflects the sound economic position of the Government? With regard to competitive television, may I ask the Leader of the House whether, as Parliament has taken a decision regarding the principle of competitive television, the debate in the autumn will merely be on the technicalities involved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "oned the agricultural committees. Inevitably the agricultural committees are just as much a part of the Government's administrative system in relation to farming as are the Ministry of Agriculture in their status in the central Government at Whitehall. A great responsibility rests on the agricultural committees. We cannot farm from Whitehall, and the less farming we have from Whitehall the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I certainly am. We have given Australia an undertaking that she can produce the meat and we will give her an economic price for nine years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": " need an extra working capital amounting to about £60 million. That is a lot of money, and if we add to this the need for further fixed capital investment it becomes clear—on this I take issue with the hon. Member for Wednesbury, who spoke before me—that if we are to get the meat production which we require, massive additional capital investment in this industry is required. It has got to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "No, it has not been continued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.706.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-02", "file": "debates1953-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c4fe8192d1846624", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.706.4", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "I am not deprecating grass drying, but I am deprecating putting public money into risky enterprises, where the money should normally be found by the private entrepreneurs themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-02a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-03", "file": "debates1953-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb4244e7b046c402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-03a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARSHALL AID COMMEMORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I agree. But I would invite American Senators over to take advantage of any educational facilities available. I will not mention any names—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-03a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-03", "file": "debates1953-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb4244e7b046c402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-03a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "It seems that for some reason or another many hon. Members are rather surprised and perhaps annoyed that this matter has been raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-03a.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that in order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ew there had been \"unwitting unfairness\" to a small number of boys who had been at a disadvantage educationally and socially. He said there had been \"unwitting unfairness\"; the Committee said there had been \"no conscious bias.\" If hon. Members will forgive me, I want to read an Admiralty minute which I dictated in 1951 before that Committee was set up, which I hope is still on the Admiralty files—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "these boys. I do not wish to go into that any further—I would rather pass that point—but that is the whole gravamen of my charge on this section of the Report. My case and my attitude is that the 16-plus entry has never been given a fair chance. When I got to the Admiralty after the scheme had been running for two years, I found the admirals sucking their teeth about it. There are a lot of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "uncommitted—that he will get the examination at 13½ at the cost of a large number of candidates on whom at a later stage the Navy might want to rely. They hanker after the public school entry. I do not mind the public schoolboy having a fair show in the Navy, but I do mind him having more than a fair show. What I want to see in the Navy is the best product, no matter from where he may come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "sted in the 13-year-old entry. I see a number of naval officers here and I single out two of them who happen to suit my purpose. Two of the brightest luminaries among them are the hon. and gallant Member for Merton and Morden (Captain Ryder) and the Parliamentary Secretary. Neither of them is a Dartmouth product. Both of them entered by special entry and both of them are great credits to the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "preceding_text": "o recommend our new scheme unreservedly. In fact, it is doubtful whether any other committee on a career entry or education, or any other subject for that matter, has ever hedged their main recommendation with so many qualifications and \"ifs\" and \"buts.\" In spite of a certain amount of repetition in the debate I must make some further quotations to develop my theme. The Committee state: They said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "3-year entry and support the 18-year one. The Tory Party have no mandate or majority in the House of Commons to justify such a half-baked scheme as this. I warn the Admiralty and, in particular, the Government—because they are responsible—that if this 13-year-old entry scheme is forced through in the teeth of opposition in this House and the country I shall oppose it, lock, stock and ruddy barrel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Summers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Summers", "preceding_text": "Member for Hampstead (Mr. H. Brooks), express almost without qualification my views on that particular aspect of the subject. What I want to bring out and what has not been mentioned yet is that the evidence in this Report appears to me to bring out, quite conclusively, that the requirements of the Navy seem to be found more satisfactorily from among those who have had a boarding school education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "ools have entered for the examination and have succeeded at the written test, without having any approximation to the potential personal qualities of a future naval officer. I remember answering a Question from the hon. Member for Southampton, Test, (Dr. King) who asked why it was that so many had failed. Perhaps here I may answer the only point of fact which I have been asked in this examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DARTMOUTH NAVAL COLLEGE (CADET ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Failed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": " test, without having any approximation to the potential personal qualities of a future naval officer. I remember answering a Question from the hon. Member for Southampton, Test, (Dr. King) who asked why it was that so many had failed. Perhaps here I may answer the only point of fact which I have been asked in this examination—[ Laughter .] I mean debate, though I agree it has been an examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE (LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ernment to introduce legislation amending an Act they themselves passed in 1946. The expiry of Section 62 was an eventuality not only provided for in that Act but continuously foreseen at every moment from 1946 until the present time. But it was only on 2nd July, at a loss for some other subject with which to fill up the second half of a Supply day, that this Motion was put down by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE (LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dodger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I have already said that there have been no formal representations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (BUILDING REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the Defence Regulations (No. 4) Order, 1953 (S.I., 1953, No. 885), dated 28th May, 1953, a copy of which was laid before this House on 29th May, be annulled. I daresay that there are many hon. Members who do not know what this all refers to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.992.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (BUILDING REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Religious.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Campbell", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Horn-church (Mr. Bing), as is his universal custom when any mention is made in this House of Northern Ireland, has found fault with the Government of Northern Ireland. This time, it is on the ground that it is a retrograde Government which has increased unemployment, and shown racial discrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (BUILDING REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I shall not deal with conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (BUILDING REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "at unemployment is used as an excuse to free all building from further restriction and inhibition. Let us try to translate that into terms of Great Britain. Suppose that we had 8 or 9 per cent. unemployment in Great Britain. Apparently, by the same logic, the Government would not build more schools, although they are needed badly. They would not take down the slum schools and build modern schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-06", "file": "debates1953-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "50c1fca0d63ed845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (BUILDING REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the House?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "preceding_text": " raised one or two points on quite general matters and, in the course of three minutes, I should like to reply to them. First, he says that there is no Explanatory Note to this Order. But the matter has been referred to the Select Committee which, as he knows, has the right to send for representatives of the Department concerned, and that Committee is able to obtain any explanation it may require.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-06a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-07", "file": "debates1953-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ca7da1a59616a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1031.6", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "In view of the very unfair discrimination against British goods by the Spanish authorities, would the hon. Gentleman not consider banning imports of oranges from Spain and consider recommending to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he should reduce the tourist allowance for visitors to that country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1031.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-07", "file": "debates1953-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ca7da1a59616a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1119.2", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "lause will benefit have not lost the desire to save, and, so long as that remains, the National Savings of the present will be the national capital of the future. Unless the ability to save is restored before very long, the desire to save will fade away. Thirdly, common justice. Certain pseudo-economists whom I know have said and still say that it is the workers who create the wealth of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-07", "file": "debates1953-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ca7da1a59616a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1167.4", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. A. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. A. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "ew very unwisely, decided to take advantage of that situation to provide himself with extra revenue. Taking the fuel tax and the motor vehicle tax generally, it is fair to say that Britons are among the highest-taxed motor vehicle owners in the world. That must obviously be a cause of some concern at present. I do not know how many meetings are going on here, but I really cannot make myself heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1167.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-07", "file": "debates1953-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ca7da1a59616a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1180.3", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ay be marginal cases where that one-tenth of a penny may make a difference between an increase in fare or not. Obviously, there must be a point where the smallest additional amount tips the balance in favour of an increase. I do not think that that would be frequent. When we are concerned with a substantial suggested loss of revenue, I think that the fare argument has been very much over-stressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-07", "file": "debates1953-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ca7da1a59616a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "sed then was that it would damage the on-licence holders and that they might ask for a reduction in their licence fees. I realise that times have changed. We have been told by right hon. Gentlemen and hon. Gentlemen opposite that they have pulled all the skeletons out of Government offices, that they have saved the country from bankruptcy and that we are now getting along in a most prosperous way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-07", "file": "debates1953-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ca7da1a59616a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " full bottle. We have done very well in the Lobby tonight, I am glad to say, and on nearly every other occasion. I think this nonsense should be stopped. It really is a lot of nonsense. I happen to know the two protagonists on both sides. They are both personal friends of mine. One speaks for the off-licence holders and the other speaks for the on-licence holders. I have known both for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-07", "file": "debates1953-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ca7da1a59616a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "eaks for the off-licence holders and the other speaks for the on-licence holders. I have known both for many years. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"] No names, no pack-drill. 11.0 p.m. Seriously, here are people whom I know as two personal friends, and on this issue they are both pushed by those whom they represent. I appeal to the Chancellor to have the courage on this occasion to cosh them both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-07a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1234.3", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL JUDGES (TERMINATION OF APPOINTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "That is a question that I am quite willing to examine. It is not quite so simple as it sounds, because it would probably have to depend on local legislation and local legislation can be set aside by other local legislation. I am willing to re-examine the matter, but my present opinion, which is liable to change, is in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1359.2", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman will recall that, in particular, I indicated that during the course of reconstruction of the companies, which was to get them into a suitable shape for sale, it would be necessary to effect distributions and arrange for the purchase and issue of shares for redistribution. For example, there was the distribution to the Agency in money in one case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1359.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock", "preceding_text": "In my very short speech I shall not attempt to follow the points made by the previous speaker, except to say that I did not notice any personal attack upon the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock", "preceding_text": "e potentialities of aviation and the influence that it can have economically on us as a nation. Six months ago the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, whom I see in his place, informed the House that he was shutting down nearly 20 flying training schools for reasons of economy. Today, the Minister of Civil Aviation tells us that he is shutting the Ministry of Civil Aviation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Group Captain C. A. B. Wilcock", "preceding_text": " economically on us as a nation. Six months ago the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, whom I see in his place, informed the House that he was shutting down nearly 20 flying training schools for reasons of economy. Today, the Minister of Civil Aviation tells us that he is shutting the Ministry of Civil Aviation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] All right, degrading or down-grading it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1412.4", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "et the special and temporary conditions in the limited period when heavy supplies are available. I want to deal with the circumstances in which the Ministry think it right to resort to the action that is allowed under the Order. We cannot say that there is an abundance of meat or that there has been for any time. I know there is a story that we have never had so much meat as we have had this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1418.3", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman is so out of touch with the people of Blackburn. I do not want to be led into speaking too long. I only wish to say that it is quite clear—and I think the whole House is with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Royle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Royle", "preceding_text": "h (Mr. Willey) has put forward. I hope it can be assumed that the Minister is glad to have this opportunity to make a statement about the difficulties of the meat situation at the present time. The purpose of the Order against which we are praying tonight is admirable, in a general sense. It is to permit the retailers to do what they have not been able to do since 1940—to sell meat off the ration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1438.3", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "reakdown in distribution, the sort of breakdown we have in Blackburn this week. The reply of the Parliamentary Secretary on the situation in Blackburn is totally unsatisfactory. When the fat pork was delivered in Blackburn the butchers refused it on the advice of experts appointed by the Ministry itself to allocate meat to the butchers. I am quoting from the \"Daily Express\", not a Socialist paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1442.2", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " when he says that as a result of the steady rise in the price of meat under this Tory Government the best prime cuts of meat have become the exclusive monopoly of the wealthy people. But this is obviously only the beginning of the process, because when, through raising the price of high quality meat, the demand for it falls off, the next logical step is the total abolition of the subsidy on meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "While you were out of the Chair, Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Secretary dealt at length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-08", "file": "debates1953-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "c0d56f0352cfa4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " about scrapping rationing—that has been said while you have been out, Mr. Speaker—and also about the necessity to get rid of price control and the subsidies. Subsidies and the policy towards the British farmers are intertwined and we cannot get rid of the one without dealing with the other. I submit that the Government tonight have been found out in a hopeless situation about pork and ewe mutton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-08a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-09", "file": "debates1953-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4b8f72fa3a02e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1481.9", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. and learned Friend take any other action which is open to him on a matter on which I think it is agreed on all sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1481.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-09", "file": "debates1953-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4b8f72fa3a02e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will realise that the accident of illness cannot, unfortunately, be helped. He will be gratified to hear that my right hon. Friends the Foreign Secretary and the Minister of Housing and Local Government are making very satisfactory progress towards recovery. All of us will be glad to hear that, and none of us can help illness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-09", "file": "debates1953-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4b8f72fa3a02e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1487.0", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — S.H.A.P.E. (SENIOR POSTS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Put him in the Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Medlicott", "preceding_text": "While not wishing to raise any question at all in regard to nationalities, which would be very undesirable, can we have an assurance that, in the event of any emergency arising in the forseeable future, arrangements will be made so that the vital services of Lord Montgomery may be made available on the highest level?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1486.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-09", "file": "debates1953-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4b8f72fa3a02e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that so much time has been generously awarded to Scotland next week, and that English Members will not attend during those debates, would it not be for the convenience of the House if the House met in Edinburgh?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-09", "file": "debates1953-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b4b8f72fa3a02e43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION FOR RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " all reasonable people on a Bill which, I agree, the Minister had to introduce because of the problems he encountered and which my right hon. Friend encountered in the operation of the 1948 Act. If there is anyone who can make a good workable job of this difficult task I think the valuation staff of the Inland Revenue will do it. At least they will try very hard to produce a satisfactory solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-09a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-10", "file": "debates1953-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "39d5355dec7ae731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-10a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "MARSHALL AID COMMEMORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rs. The Secretary of State for Scotland is nominally responsible for education north of the border. We have been told that these scholarships are tenable at any university. I see that the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Henderson Stewart) is present, and I am sure he would agree that the Scottish universities can offer more to these American students than the English universities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-10a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-10", "file": "debates1953-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "39d5355dec7ae731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-10a.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "MONOPOLIES AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the butchers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " must be judged. That was a case referring to shops. Of course, we remember that the party opposite fought an Election not very long ago, in 1950, on a document called \"This is the Road.\" The first and practically the only concrete proposal in that programme was to: preserve and extend competition in the shops and in the factories. They have not done anything in implementation of that, pledge yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-10a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-13", "file": "debates1953-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "be0e9608581ce77d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": " to achieve. It is in the field of the cost of living that ordinary men and women expect something more than they have so far got. I appreciate that the Financial Secretary did not wish to make a very strong point of the slimness of the Bill as compared with last year, but I would remind him that the ordinary man and woman has to think whether he or she can afford 1½d. for an evening paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-13", "file": "debates1953-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "be0e9608581ce77d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1756.1", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "preceding_text": " Budget is calculated to take into account the human problem. I hope it is not too late for my right hon. Friend to take into account the human problem in the case of the Isles of Scilly. My hon. Friend also made great play with the word \"burden.\" I therefore ask the Chancellor to do four things. First, could he consider some form of delay so that these people can get used to the idea of taxation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-13", "file": "debates1953-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "be0e9608581ce77d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Crosland", "preceding_text": "s inevitably from the decision about the length and speed of the rearmament programme. That is not to say that because we on this side accept that cuts in taxation this year are possible and are justified, we approve of the particular cuts that have been made. This point has been made again and again from this side of the House, and I shall not go into it again myself, but the fact that we object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-13", "file": "debates1953-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "be0e9608581ce77d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1760.5", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And into the mines.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "xtremely alarming trend of the movement of labour at the present time, which throws doubt on the basic assumption on which the Budget was based. It is extremely disturbing to find that month after month since the beginning of the year, labour has been moving out of the engineering and metal manufacturing industries and into the service industries, the distributive trades and such like occupations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-13", "file": "debates1953-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "be0e9608581ce77d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "the retention of the title and of the Bill going forward as it at present stands. Therefore, the hon. Member is perhaps a little less than just when he speaks of the Secretary of State having rebuffed those proposals and suggestions—those advances, if that term is preferred—made by the Dundee authorities. It is not the Secretary of State who has done that. It is the University which has done that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-13", "file": "debates1953-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "be0e9608581ce77d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1821.3", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "r body—students, teachers, colleges—in the University have urged my right hon. Friend to stand by the Recommendations of the two bodies which examined this matter before. I therefore ask hon. Members, with the greatest earnestness, to believe that in those circumstances no Secretary of State could have done other than my right hon. Friend has done in order to maintain the harmony which was gained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-13", "file": "debates1953-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "be0e9608581ce77d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1835.2", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " school is suitable to a lad of 14, or a lad of five. All sorts of complications and questions of whether there are reasonable transport facilities available or not will come up for consideration. Then the whole thing starts. A department in the town hall is opened and someone is appointed to deal with the problem. There must be someone to deal with it and no doubt he will get a title before long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-13a.1835.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-14", "file": "debates1953-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "79edc81beae04aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.1881.6", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I think the supplementary, which is quite obvious, might have been put in a written Question if the right hon. Gentleman had the guts to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.1881.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-14", "file": "debates1953-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "79edc81beae04aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.1882.0", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackeson", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman. I have always treated him with the greatest courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.1882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-14", "file": "debates1953-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "79edc81beae04aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.1902.1", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "TIMOTHY JOHN EVANS (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " necessity of the House to have an opportunity to discuss the Report of the tribunal appointed to inquire into the trial of Timothy John Evans before the execution of J. H. Christie. There again, I find that that is entirely covered by authority. This is, in fact, an attempt to move for the discussion, upon the Adjournment of the House, of a capital sentence which is pending, before the execution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.1902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-14", "file": "debates1953-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "79edc81beae04aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.1928.5", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "ancellor of the Exchequer, have been considering whether it is possible now to increase that. As was announced last week in another place by the Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power, an additional £1 million is to be spent this year on essential road maintenance and improvement work throughout the United Kingdom. Scotland, the Highlands, will also get part of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.1928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-14", "file": "debates1953-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "79edc81beae04aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.2000.1", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "concerned—was work which had been previously agreed upon and postponed. If my information is correct, the two roads that he mentioned were covered by the special grant of £750,000 made by the previous Government for this and construction work; the two roads which the right hon. Gentleman has now announced as being pushed on with were two that were discussed and agreed to under the previous scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-14", "file": "debates1953-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "79edc81beae04aee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "As my time is short, perhaps I may leave this to the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-14a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "PETITION (KENYA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There cannot be a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2034.2", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say whether his attention has been drawn to a statement made by the Prime Minister of India in a speech at Agra on 6th July in which he said: It is a scandalous thing that the people of Africa are being treated as wild animals, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2034.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2036.3", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "No charge has been preferred against Mr. Frankenburg. His entry in certain cases has been refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2036.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2044.5", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "That is another Question, but, by and large, my answer to that would be \"Yes.\" It is impossible for anybody to tell when they are resisting arrest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2058.1", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN DEFENCE (GENERAL RIDGWAY'S STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Labour Government did far more for the defence of Europe than has the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "ISMAILIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Whilst appreciating that the British commander must take all steps necessary to protect his troops, may I ask whether it is not unfortunate that he did not communicate his intention to the Foreign Office beforehand, in view of the very delicate situation existing? Will the Government see to it that in future, before similar action is taken, the Foreign Office are informed and consulted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2128.1", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Hutchison", "preceding_text": "In fairness to the Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary, and in answer to the right hon. Member for East Stirlingshire (Mr. Woodburn), I would point out that the Parliamentary Secretary was present for a period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "rdworking nature, they have always had their skill and their craft, but that did not prevent the stagnation and decay of Scottish industry in the 1920's and 1930's. We have grim pictures of those days. The City of Glasgow with 109,000 people dependent on Poor Law relief—one-tenth of the whole population. The town that I represent with one in every five registered males unemployed. And Lanarkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2177.3", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Luck.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "r any such fear now. I know that we shall have our difficulties in the years that lie ahead. In this changing world we cannot foresee how trade may develop in any other country, but our experts in the Government, having examined the situation with all their skill and with all the facts at their disposal, advise us, and we accept their advice, that with good management, hard work and a bit of luck—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-15", "file": "debates1953-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6f37c6a286afc407", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2181.1", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "SCOTTISH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The standard is precisely that laid down by the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton). That is something which, I should have thought, would not be opposed even by the most ardent supporters of hon. Members opposite, in their heart of hearts. It is something for which we can take credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-15a.2181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-16", "file": "debates1953-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7793ac702d64c0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-16a.2222.1", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": " by the police—I want to make that clear—as rather might have been thought. What happened was that on his being removed from the prison to the police court he was removed among a group of other prisoners who were being taken to Warwick Assizes in a hired car, and the practice is that when a number of prisoners are taken together they are handcuffed so that there may be no united attempt at escape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-16a.2222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-16", "file": "debates1953-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7793ac702d64c0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-16a.2256.1", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "COLONIES AND BACKWARD AREAS (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "in the first instance we can provide the requisite technical staffs. That is the very basis of development activities. We are entitled to ask, why have the Government reduced the sums made available for this purpose? In the first year—I will relate the facts and if Government spokesmen do not agree with them, no doubt they will controvert what I am saying—or at any rate during the first 18 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-16a.2256.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-16", "file": "debates1953-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7793ac702d64c0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-16a.2261.1", "colnum": "2261", "heading": "COLONIES AND BACKWARD AREAS (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why could he not continue?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but it is unfair to Professor Arthur Lewis to say that he was dismissed. The term of his appointment came to an end; there was no question of dismissal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-16a.2261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-16", "file": "debates1953-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "7793ac702d64c0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-16a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "COLONIES AND BACKWARD AREAS (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "l times; that is, the question of transport, not only in the West Indies, but in Nigeria. I said a few moments ago that the very basis of economic development is the provision of the necessary technicians, but it also requires transport. What is the good of talking about agricultural development and the like unless we think of it in terms of how what is produced is brought to those who require it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-16a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF MATERIALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I did not follow up this matter on the previous Question, because this Question was on the Order Paper. It is all very well for the Minister to say that we did not achieve anything, but we did start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the party behind me would agree entirely with what I have said. We cannot have universality —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " off what I call the manufacturing field to speak of farming. This is a question of the application of science to production. The two things which are going to save us, both in the balance of payments problem and in meeting our moral obligations to the backward peoples, are the engineering trade and farming. The increase in home food production is vital. I have just become a part holder in a farm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "ate does not much help in this way. It could help by allowing the boys and girls of this country to come on to the labour market a little better equipped than they are. But the State have taken over the whole monopoly of education. No longer is one entitled to choose where one's boy or girl may be educated. This raw material is thrown on to the workshop floor very imperfectly educated and trained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "sh Medical Journal\" or the \"Scotsman.\" Look at any leading newspaper and we find employers of labour instead of using this magnificent, free and well-established service of the Ministry which is at their disposal, would sooner spend 8s., 10s.—even 25s.—on an advertisement in one of these papers to fulfil their needs. They know that the Ministry is incompetent and unable to provide for their needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.87.4", "colnum": "87", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the South Bank?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "r who had ever visited it and only the second Member of Parliament to have done so. Reference has also been made just recently, in several articles, to the building of a science centre. I can only repeat what has been said by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in a debate in another place, that the Government intend to build a science centre, as was the intention of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.87.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "try as a whole\"—of which this factory formed a small part—\" is adequate, and so it is not necessary to grant a licence to roof over this unloading yard to enable the men there to be kept continuously at work.\" That is the sort of frustration and exasperation that arises from the intrusion of bureaucratic Bumbledom in industry today. I am sure my hon. Friend will not think I am being unkind to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ion, but I believe that the very heart of this problem is the consideration that unless we are prepared to alter our fiscal arrangements in order to give proper incentive to industry to spend money on capital goods and the projects of research, then our deliberations today will practically have been wasted. There is no field in which I feel greater frustration than in the field of fuel technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.129.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Free enterprise.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "m an eminent technologist in this field, Professor Simon, Professor of Thermodynamics at the University of Oxford. Writing recently in the \"Financial Times,\" he said: The Ridley Committee Report is in many ways very valuable, but its recommendations really boil down to saying that all will be well if everyone does what he likes—assuming that the rates for the various forms of energy are realistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-20", "file": "debates1953-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88687821b50b6608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "hey become operational in the squadrons. Lord Trenchard's view—he is a greater authority than I am—is that, with all the resources available, and the engineering capacity and production that is available to us, we ought to be able to bring a modern aircraft from the drawing board to production and into service in the squadrons in two years from start to finish. It is taking us a great deal longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-20a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-21", "file": "debates1953-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1a278070d6cc6ee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.185.9", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "When a Member is genuinely seeking information as I was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.185.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-21", "file": "debates1953-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1a278070d6cc6ee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "In protection of yourself, Mr. Speaker, I never said anything of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-21", "file": "debates1953-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1a278070d6cc6ee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I made my speech. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman had better make his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-21", "file": "debates1953-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1a278070d6cc6ee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Who did?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " in Asia which has the dignity and the position to give a certain amount of leadership—namely, India. India should have been invited to help at the conference and to guide us in the problem of solving the terrific national upsurges that are taking place all over Asia and South-East Asia. I am not one of those who went up and down the country hurling personal epithets at the present Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-21", "file": "debates1953-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1a278070d6cc6ee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "s—it backfired. It is of paramount importance to bring into these top level conferences the experience and judgment of India. I do not subscribe to the theory that in the first analysis the revolutions in Asia and South-East Asia have anything to do with Communism. I am convinced that what happened in Malaya had, in the beginning, nothing to do with Communism, because I was there when it happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-21", "file": "debates1953-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1a278070d6cc6ee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ot a dusty Foreign Office brief and he seemed afraid that he would upset the Prime Minister. He is afraid to upset the non-Butlerites. Here we see a party split from top to bottom, some supporting the Prime Minister, some supporting the new bright Butlerite Socialist approach and some not prepared to give a lead in world affairs. In other words, we see a party afraid to go into a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-21", "file": "debates1953-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1a278070d6cc6ee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": " the last ones had ended in complete failure. What is more, at the General Election which resulted in their being, quite rightly, removed from power, they did everything in the course of their Election campaign to queer the pitch for their successors. Most things are fair at a General Election, but when a country has been trying to have a bi-partisan foreign policy and has up to a point succeeded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-21a.305.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REGENCY ACT (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Such a matter has never even required Ministerial advice, and it has never come before the Cabinet. I think I am voicing the opinion of all Members when I say that in a personal matter of this kind, the feelings of those concerned should be respected by everybody and the present deplorable speculation and gossip brought to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.373.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.384.11", "colnum": "384", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "preceding_text": " speech of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and one or two of the other speeches from colleagues behind me, one could almost say that the spark which the Prime Minister struck two months ago would be wholly extinguished. It is not for the first time in recent months that we on these benches have had to rescue the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary from the party behind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.384.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "lleged rift between the Prime Minister and the rest of the Conservative Party. We can understand their difficulty. The Recess is very close. It is obvious how painful for them must be the continued contemplation of their own differences on almost every topic. When we add to that the clear evidence of the steady growth of this Government's influence in the country, we can understand their feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member had greeted that initiative with enthusiasm when it was made in the capital of Scotland, we might by now have been further on, but now that we are missing the figure who alone could be the appropriate figure to secure the high level conference suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member had greeted that initiative with enthusiasm when it was made in the capital of Scotland, we might by now have been further on, but now that we are missing the figure who alone could be the appropriate figure to secure the high level conference suggested—[HON. MEMERS: \"Oh.\"]—who alone could be the appropriate British figure at this moment to attend the high level conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "m? Smoke him out? I suppose they would smoke out the Foreign Secretary, too. Let hon. and right hon. Gentlemen remember that at that time when they applauded my noble and my right hon. Friends, the two stood together. There is nothing more offensive, if I may say so, than to see men who have no right to assume, to arrogate to themselves, the right to use such language, barking at the heels of men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "less with a certain amount of relief, to the old one. They certainly did not take their eyes off the score to any marked extent. I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State when he said this afternoon in what I thought was a remarkable speech, that this old score contains some pretty good passages. He was very careful in his speech to read out the best passages it contains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "e with my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State when he said this afternoon in what I thought was a remarkable speech, that this old score contains some pretty good passages. He was very careful in his speech to read out the best passages it contains. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I agree with him. I think some of the passages are pretty good, but others are a little bit out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "m. I think some of the passages are pretty good, but others are a little bit out of date. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Yesterday all that the Chancellor of the Exchequer could really do was to report to the House that the old tune was still being played. He could do no other; and, indeed, he played it as well as it now can be played. The fact remains that it is out of date, and will no longer do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "till being played. He could do no other; and, indeed, he played it as well as it now can be played. The fact remains that it is out of date, and will no longer do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I want to say this in all sincerity. Applied to the present international situation it can be interpreted, left just as it is, as a demand for unconditional surrender on the part of the Russians in advance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ntitled to ask whether he informed the United States that he was going to say what he said and whether efforts were made, as they ought to have been made, to carry American official opinion with him, as it was important to do, and which, if they had succeeded, might have saved a lot of trouble. I liked the spirit of what the Prime Minister said. He was enjoying himself, and what he said was right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d. He was enjoying himself, and what he said was right. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to get this applause from hon. Members opposite, who at the time, I gather, were rather cold about it. It is significant in this debate that in speech after speech—not all of them, but a lot of them—from the other side, it is clearly their view that they are glad we are in this mess at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Nutting)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Nutting)", "preceding_text": "ow deeply we all sympathise with him in his tragic grief and loss. The right hon. Member did his best at the opening of his speech to explain away the speech made by his right hon. Friend the Member for Grimsby (Mr. Younger), but whatever he may have said, that speech will remain in the minds of my hon. and right hon. Friends as a very cheap and abusive attack on the Lord President of the Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-22", "file": "debates1953-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "cb6a0f7694b53631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Clause 18.—(SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION AND EXTENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Keeling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Keeling", "preceding_text": "ng to undertake on the Government's behalf negotiations with the owners of inhabited houses, and supervise the work of maintenance. I can give the assurance on behalf of the National Trust that it is willing to do that. It has a good deal of experience in this matter. Of the houses in the country which are shown to the public at least one in three belong to and is maintained by the National Trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-22a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.593.6", "colnum": "593", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Leader of the House is well informed on Parliamentary affairs and Parliamentary history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.593.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You have had your protection.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "It is quite apparent that some hon. Members do not remember when this country established its constitutional position, thanks to Mr. Speaker's defending the seven Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.594.4", "colnum": "594", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is quite correct in thinking that the Appropriation Bill and the Consolidated Fund Bill have always been regarded as occasions on which any grievance can be raised, but grievances are so many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.594.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (ADDED DAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "s on a bugle outside the National Insurance office? Is this a Coronation year complex that we have? We understand that the Permanent Secretary of the Department was seen by a deputation and that at that meeting the Permanent Secretary was informed that the General Council desired the old provisions to continue at least until there had been a general review. Is that the case? We would like to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (ADDED DAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "mmittee what my right hon. Friend said, that it was no static figure, that men were going in and out of extended benefit. I think the figure he quoted was that 41 per cent. were on extended benefit for less than a year. Of the 47,000 who had been on extended benefit, 39,000 qualify for added days. Of the 39,000 who qualified to receive added days, 20,000 received added days for more than 30 weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.621.7", "colnum": "621", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (ADDED DAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving me an opportunity to clear up that point. I did say at the beginning that this 47,000 were constantly coming on to and going off extended benefit. In the case of these 1,300, we are dealing with men who have been on extended benefit and then got work about 5th July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.621.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (ADDED DAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "The number remaining are those who are getting credits, registering at employment exchanges, and in fact are mainly those who are superannuated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (ADDED DAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "The number remaining are those who are getting credits, registering at employment exchanges, and in fact are mainly those who are superannuated—[ Interruption .] I do not quite know what M 406 is. They are those who have not been claiming National Assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (ADDED DAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ion in Wales. I should like to give the Committee some figures, as there are a number of Welsh Members who are interested in the figures for Wales. Of the 6,800 persons on extended benefit in Wales, 6,100 are now receiving added days under the Regulations. Of the others, 110 have found work, 35 are on sickness benefit, and only 270 are on National Assistance, of whom 135 were already receiving it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (ADDED DAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "What is the policy of the party opposite? Are they in favour of unlimited benefit as a right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (ADDED DAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am asking a question. This is at the end of our debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (GUARANTEED PRICES AND MARKETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "price and market guarantees for home production under the Agriculture Act of 1947. We feel from what we have heard in speeches by the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and other hon. Members that there is an attempt on the part of certain Members of the Government, supported by very influential people in the Conservative Party, to end the planning arrangements which we made in the Act of 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (GUARANTEED PRICES AND MARKETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " the long-term guarantees which are laid down in Part I of the 1947 Act will be considerably weakened, and that British agriculture will go back to that state of affairs, which hon. Members opposite, quite rightly, are prepared to defend, which existed in the 1920's and 1930's. I do not want the farming community to go back to that freer economy which we knew in that period. We know what it meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (GUARANTEED PRICES AND MARKETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ift from the land before the war, and we did not approve of the mortgage difficulties which were felt by many small farmers. We certainly did not approve of the neglect of the land. That is why we brought in very early, when we had power after the war, the new Agriculture Act of 1947, which gave the farmer for the first time the security which he never had when hon. Members opposite were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "FISHING VESSELS (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have frequently been told from that bench that I have not understood something, but I wish some hon. Members over there would try to get things properly and would not be in such a hurry to teach. Let us have a little more humility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-23", "file": "debates1953-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "670dffe00c464c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "FISHING VESSELS (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ve action which has been taken to preserve our fisheries, what is he going to say tomorrow afternoon when he is talking about the conservation of the fishery grounds in the Moray Firth? What arguments are we to expect against the Overfishing Commission now established if it sets standards which he is the first to deplore? The hon. Gentleman is expected to be the custodian of the fishing interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-23a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT (CANAL ZONE NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "But has action gone as far as to produce the body of Leading Aircraftman Ridgen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.876.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scandalous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with the hon. Gentleman that what really counts in this matter is action, but the number of people held for political offences in Greece have decreased by more than one-third, from 9,200 in July, 1952, to 6,000 in 1953.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is for me to disclose every step of the discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.888.5", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "All this is to be found in the speeches to which I have referred and which I have here. If the right hon. Gentleman likes to refresh his memory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.888.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "be a defaulter because I feel very strongly that Central African Federation will provide conditions in which African advancement can be accelerated. In no other way can what we all wish to see, the speedier improvement in the lot of the Africans, be brought about. Therefore, although I shall not go into the Division Lobby against my party I shall certainly not go into the Division Lobby with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND FEDERATION (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the hon. and learned Gentleman, he has slid off the point which I wanted to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "TRANSPORT COMMISSION EMPLOYEES (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that the trade unions have had them for more than a few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "TRANSPORT COMMISSION EMPLOYEES (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"The principal proprietor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is the case that the compensation to the firm of which, presumably, he was a member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "TRANSPORT COMMISSION EMPLOYEES (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman was so careful to consult about the policy the Conservative Government should pursue regarding the possible reorganisation of transport, has not been consulted—they who are to receive these assets—as to what they can do to make the transition as smooth as possible. This is typical again of the Conservative psychological approach. When it is a question of acting against the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-27", "file": "debates1953-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b78077bdcd6e663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.984.4", "colnum": "984", "heading": "TRANSPORT COMMISSION EMPLOYEES (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One hundred and twenty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "h of the resettlement period, and certain other matters, the Minister and the House should realise that we are now engaged in totally different transactions from those transactions under the Act of 1947. I will go further, I will even make a move in the Minister's direction. In the case of the Railways Act of 1921, which was a compulsory merger by Act of Parliament of some hundred or so companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-27a.984.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-28", "file": "debates1953-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c4078602d77d91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1103.4", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS, HOUSE OF LORDS (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "It is further in the event of time, Sir. What I want to draw your attention to, Sir, is that in another place this afternoon the question of your Ruling yesterday was raised and Lord Woolton promised to make a statement in another place tomorrow on your Ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1103.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-28", "file": "debates1953-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c4078602d77d91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1108.9", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND ROAD ACCIDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ment an opportunity of stating their policy in relation to a number of matters concerning roads. If the House approaches the debate with a slight feeling of nausea I can well understand it, because we have discussed transport ad nauseum for the last 12 months, but it has been a limited aspect and, from the point of view of the Opposition, a not very profitable Measure that we have been discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1108.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-28", "file": "debates1953-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c4078602d77d91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1141.3", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND ROAD ACCIDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "oduce a system of these progressive signals in Oxford Street as well. We have also introduced many parking restrictions with the aid of the local authorities, and we are having an experiment prohibiting the loading and unloading of goods on the free side of certain streets. The result of this has been a slight improvement, and last year London Traffic moved half a mile an hour faster than in 1950.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-28", "file": "debates1953-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c4078602d77d91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND ROAD ACCIDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will be easier.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " other places. One of the things that we shall have to do to relieve the congestion of the roads is to reduce the number of heavy vehicles on the roads. Far too many goods are being carried on the roads that could quite conveniently be taken by rail. Unfortunately, the Minister has been responsible for an Act which will make it more difficult to have a co-ordinated and reasonable transport system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-28", "file": "debates1953-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c4078602d77d91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND ROAD ACCIDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "l be easier.\"] Everyone will agree that there is a good deal of heavy traffic on the roads which is a danger to the roads and to other road users; and where this can be diverted to the railways, it ought to be so diverted. On the subject of congestion in London and other big towns, I think the time is coming very soon when the private motorist will have to be banned from the main shopping centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-28", "file": "debates1953-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c4078602d77d91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND ROAD ACCIDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "t we get on the roads today are very large numbers of people who are so cautious in their driving that they dare not pass anything, and, when they come up behind a large bus or a lorry, which is by law restricted to a certain speed, they all bunch up nicely behind it and pack themselves up tight, so that nobody else can attempt to pass. If we then get somebody coming up the road with a decent car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-28", "file": "debates1953-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c4078602d77d91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Clause 2.—(POWER OF SCHOOL CROSSING PATROLS TO STOP TRAFFIC.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The police do not carry a sign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Mr. H. Nicholls) asked me whether it might be possible to do away with the signs altogether. There would have to be some method of making the motorist aware why he was being stopped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-28a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that there would be deep resentment if the Post Office went to international conferences already committed about the allocation of frequencies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1286.5", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS (CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am not going to carry this matter any further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1286.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (HIGH LEVEL TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman say whether the Government are as prepared in this matter to take a line as they are in the matter referred to just now, and could he tell us in that case what that line is? Does he realise that these matters are far too serious to play a kind of political \"What's my line?\" parlour game, to be followed some day by the game \"Why?\", and that his whole performance is altogether——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1288.3", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (HIGH LEVEL TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I was in the middle of the last sentence anyway, Mr. Speaker, namely, whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware that his whole performance is altogether too tragically reminiscent of the similar stone-walling performance which he used to offer us when he played the same part at the time of the Spanish Civil War, when he betrayed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1288.5", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (HIGH LEVEL TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "—altogether too tragically reminiscent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1288.9", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (HIGH LEVEL TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ion on a highly complex and difficult and important matter if one has to do it against constant interruptions from some Members on the other side of the House who wish to prevent me from putting any question at all. I want the right hon. Gentleman to answer my question, if he will, and tell us, because we should like to know from the Government, what line they propose to pursue. We can understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1288.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION AND EXECUTIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " regret is that the Minister has not taken more notice of the advice he has had from him. I join the right hon. Gentleman also in paying tribute to Lord Latham, who has served the London transport organisation with ability and fidelity. I hope that the House will forgive me if I put a series of questions of some little length to the Minister on this most unsatisfactory and revolutionary statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION AND EXECUTIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "These are two quite proper questions, if I may say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1301.4", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION AND EXECUTIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Under the railways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "l concerned and that it is better to make it plain now. The Road Haulage Executive comes to an end at the conclusion of the disposal of the road haulage vehicles and I am told that the anxiety is bad there. We are ending it there, too. In the case of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, I am satisfied that as part of the Commission they can be better administered than as a separate Executive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ribution to Western defence through the European Defence Community. That is why, in April, the North Atlantic Council was making plans for further development—I shall come to this in a minute—under the new Supreme Commander, General Gruenther, to whom on his access to that high post we offer our good wishes because he is a most distinguished military man in whom we all have the fullest confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Of course; we had to use the word that somebody else invented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Brilliant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ortunity to see what the right hon. Gentleman's Army is like, we shall discover whether they will carry on in the Army or not. I prophesy that they will not. I have told the right hon. Gentleman before that he is a disaster for the Army, and that the Army will pay a big price for him. Many times in the past he has told us that the Army has too long a tail; I say the Army has now got too much head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ncentrating on new-type weapons, more expensive weapons, the cost of the maintenance of the present size Army becomes increasingly prohibitive, as has already been indicated in the White Paper. It is also becoming clear from the recruiting figures that we shall not be able to get an efficient Army with the right Regular content in it for a very long time. Where can we reduce the size of this Army?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "sition we used to have a committee meeting at about this time of the year and say, \"What are we to talk about this time?\" Whoever was to open the debate would say, \"I will ask a few interrogatory questions; that will get the debate going, and we can go on from there.\" That is precisely what the right hon. Gentleman did. Of all the many speeches he has made, this was the weakest which I have heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, it is not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "cast likely to materialise, especially in view of the fact that, as a result of the curtailment in the production of Canberras, the strength of the Second Tactical Air Force will be very much less than it was intended to be? I now want to say a word about naval power. Is it a fact that, in the view of Her Majesty's Government, the Russian Navy is now the second best in the world? Is that accepted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "Certainly only in this country. I do not know where the hon. Gentleman wants them to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1424.7", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "But could I deal with this point? What the hon. Gentleman is endeavouring to do is to show that I misquoted Field Marshal Sir William Slim on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1424.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "e, which is evinced by the headline, is that you cannot cut the call-up. We know the right hon. Gentleman has a very agile mind. It darts forwards and sideways and up and down, but all I am saying is that an ordinary simple person who read the article, who did not know the Field Marshal and who had not read his previous article, would think that the Field Marshal had advocated cutting the call-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1425.2", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Obviously the hon. Gentleman will get the cheers from the claque behind him. That we expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "EVANS CASE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "mother and get her to see Christie, because he knows where the child is.\" We may ask how could such a result to the inquiry have come about; how could it happen that there should appear, on the face of it, to be so many errors and mistakes in this document which the Home Secretary has submitted to Parliament? I suggest that it was the result of the unfortunate way in which—these are my last words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "EVANS CASE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "I have just listened to one of the most formidable speeches which has been delivered in this House for many years, and I do not think there can be any honest Member of this House who is not very gravely disturbed by the evidence which my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing) has presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "EVANS CASE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Disgusting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ew evidence on which Mr. Scott Henderson partly reached his result. The hon. and learned Member for Hornchurch has already produced many overwhelmingly powerful reasons why this Report is not worth the paper it is printed on, because there are little snippets picked here and there to suit Mr. Scott Henderson in order to reach this conclusion, which it is clear he had reached before he had started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "EVANS CASE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "o knows he is going to hang in a day or two, and what he might confess to. Nobody can say what would be the psychological state of a sane man in such circumstances, but what about the psychological state of an insane man? If we are to judge the matter we should have all the evidence, and not just little bits and pieces that Mr. Scott Henderson and the Home Secretary choose to present to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1458.3", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "EVANS CASE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "Henderson that he could only have done that from first-hand knowledge? Therefore, with something of bewilderment I set the Report aside feeling that it was extremely hard to decide the truth in this matter, but having very much in mind that here seemed to be one unshakable and unquestionable fact that bore very heavily against Evans. But now what do we hear from my hon. and learned Friend tonight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1460.4", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "EVANS CASE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "If I may interrupt, because this is a point of some importance, I would say that one of the two police witnesses, on oath—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1460.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1473.2", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "EVANS CASE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is leaving that point at the moment and going to another one, and we are very anxious about this. This is not a party question at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-29", "file": "debates1953-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9f48fdfe55b9414a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1473.5", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "EVANS CASE (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been most unfair, and I am surprised at him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-29a.1473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-30", "file": "debates1953-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "02f21d2fa67f5fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-30a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ly and dollar position than of the competence of the Raw Cotton Commission. Now, the Commission have a good name for the quality of the cotton they buy. One knows that throughout the spinning and weaving districts of Lancashire there is a real fear on the operative side that the return to private buying would mean a return to some of the poor qualities that they knew so much about in pre-war days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-30a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-31", "file": "debates1953-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c1558cad18509517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-31a.1756.7", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "POST OFFICE STAFF ASSOCIATIONS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "I think that it would have serious repercussions. I know that hon. Members opposite treat this as a joke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-31a.1756.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-31", "file": "debates1953-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c1558cad18509517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-31a.1757.7", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "POST OFFICE STAFF ASSOCIATIONS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"T.U.C.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hylton-Foster", "preceding_text": "s which must govern the question of recognition or non-recognition of E.O.(T.) A. but there is one matter which is greatly striking to a layman who looks at this problem. My hon. Friend the Assistant Postmaster-General, in making his announcement yesterday, pointed out the large proportion of representation—I think 16 out of 23—that this grade has on the executive of I might call the T.U.C. union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-31a.1757.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-07-31", "file": "debates1953-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c1558cad18509517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-31a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "POST OFFICE STAFF ASSOCIATIONS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is being attacked by his hon. Friends, but my interpretation of that is that it is an attack upon the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-31a.1760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-07-31", "file": "debates1953-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c1558cad18509517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-31a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "POST OFFICE STAFF ASSOCIATIONS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ering staff of the Post Office. They work side by side with engineers with whom they share most common problems. Anyone who has ever had experience of trade union negotiations inside Government service or in private industry would, I think, agree on one thing: that it is undesirable, from the point of view both of the employer and of the employee, to try to negotiate with a multiplicity of unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-07-31a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-20", "file": "debates1953-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d14e7b34674b3a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1784.5", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The figures are the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1784.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-20", "file": "debates1953-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d14e7b34674b3a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1803.3", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANZUS COUNCIL (U.K. PARTICIPATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "May I first of all ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that all of us, even those who disagree with him most, are very glad to see him back here in full health and that the House of Commons is a duller place without him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1803.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-20", "file": "debates1953-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d14e7b34674b3a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1803.6", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANZUS COUNCIL (U.K. PARTICIPATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Surely the Prime Minister will now at least add some apology, or make some public penance, to my right hon. Friends for the denunciations he made a year or two ago when they took up precisely the same attitude, and——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1803.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-20", "file": "debates1953-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d14e7b34674b3a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1805.4", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Doddo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "While appreciating the effort that the Prime Minister made earlier in the year, may I ask why he does not state that the opposition to that plan is so great that it is now as dead as the dodo?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-20", "file": "debates1953-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d14e7b34674b3a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1813.1", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "With regard to the first question, let me say that no advance notice was given to either Government; that is to say, one Government was not treated more favourably than the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-20", "file": "debates1953-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d14e7b34674b3a6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1940.4", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "HOUSING, HORNCHURCH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member is being less than fair. What size of house does he want for a two-bedroom house? He has made a suggestion in a broadsheet, which is a propaganda sheet, that the Conservative Council has reduced the size of houses built to the minimum possible. What size does he want them to build for a two-bedroom house?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-20a.1940.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1958.0", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Do I take it that there is additional information which the Minister has not put in the White Paper, and if that is so, why does he produce a White Paper containing only part of the facts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1957.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1958.4", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "No, not all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1958.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1965.10", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Send a warship.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Johnson", "preceding_text": "asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will send a commission of inquiry to investigate the disturbances in Nyasaland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1965.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1978.0", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "TRIESTE (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Muddle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ake statements which really give the facts and what is the policy of the Government. Perhaps I might ask the Leader of the House the question in relation to the Foreign Secretary, but, although it is not for me to be quite so insistent with respect to another place, I should have thought that it was right that statements should be made on behalf of the Government tomorrow which will clear up this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1991.3", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "work in recent months. I hope the hon. Gentleman will not quarrel with the statement that we are getting into the stage in which rural areas are better served by road passenger services, whoever operates them, than by the railways. I would remind the House that many of the branch line stations, for some reasons best known to our forefathers, are always a mile or half a mile away from the villages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1991.3", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lorries for the boys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "in consultation with the Disposal Board, have been engaged in making the necessary preparatory arrangements for the disposal of road haulage units, and, with the approval of the Board, the Commission announced on 12th October their programme for the first stage of the operation. This will involve the sale of about 1,500 transport units, comprising about 10,000 vehicles, in three monthly schedules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1999.1", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Having been born myself under Gemini I think I am entitled to examine them. Paragraph 12 of Part I of the Report records that the announcement of the Government's policy on transport in May, 1952, halted or at least seriously restricted prospects of realising major economies in the field of road-rail co-ordination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.1999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.2000.1", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "s. The effectiveness of this obstacle to the achievement of integration was assured by the obligation imposed on the Commission by Section 3 (2) of the 1947 Act to allow customers to decide whether goods entrusted to them should be carried by road or by rail. The logical and complete conception of a thorough integration of all services is no more than another name for naked and unashamed monopoly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.2006.1", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s a good thing that we should get a deep and emotional love of the House of Commons in which we spend so much of our time. But it can be a nuisance. I am not talking, of course, of the House of Commons, but of emotional affection for undertakings of a commercial character. If one meets a Great Western railwayman, he tends to swear that various improvements made on that railway beat all the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.2006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "rs have realised, in the middle of Road Safety Week. No one can have heard, as I did early yesterday evening, with complacency that the increase in accidents this September compared with September last year has been the highest monthly increase since the war, and I should not like it to go out that a conceivable consequence of the Government's transport policy is to add to the dangers on the road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.2094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-21", "file": "debates1953-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1f8c301501836aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because of Government policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "costs and made a profit, but also to have paid a reasonably adequate sum towards central charges. The Road Haulage Executive faced a year of great difficulty and uncertainty, as I recognise and have never attempted to hide. They have not been so successful and their contribution, if demanded, to the central charges would not have been met. I do not deny that they have had exceptional difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-21a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2128.6", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that complaints from tourists were very few and far between?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2128.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2132.0", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "In view of the appalling disclosures in the \"Sunday Pictorial\" only this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2132.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2148.0", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Are we to take it, therefore, that the Tory Party are not only going to break every Election pledge——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2147.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2159.2", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "athy from the free thinking world. I am sorry for the people there. I am not sorry for the leaders. They are not leaders at all. They do not know what they are doing. Mr. Manley's party, the P.N.P. in Jamaica, have issued a statement deploring the conduct of the leaders of the P.P.P. in British Guiana. They said that Ministers neglected their opportunities and engaged in \"political exhibitionism.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2159.2", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "f State to intervene in a thousand and one administrative details where the local government have already sufficient powers to deal with the matter. Let me be quite clear. So long as Her Majesty's Government have a responsibility to this House for the affairs of Colonial Territories, that is to say, before those territories gain complete independence—and some may never be in the position to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2159.2", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "here the local government have already sufficient powers to deal with the matter. Let me be quite clear. So long as Her Majesty's Government have a responsibility to this House for the affairs of Colonial Territories, that is to say, before those territories gain complete independence—and some may never be in the position to do so—[ Interruption .]—some of them may never be in a position to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same as you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "uld have thought the hon. Lady would have given some attention to the views of a lady who is strongly, I believe, of her political way of thinking. I suggest that any impartial reader, after studying the White Paper, would draw six main conclusions. First, that Ministers were attempting to gain control of the machinery of government for the sole furtherance of party and not of national interests —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "en some attention to the views of a lady who is strongly, I believe, of her political way of thinking. I suggest that any impartial reader, after studying the White Paper, would draw six main conclusions. First, that Ministers were attempting to gain control of the machinery of government for the sole furtherance of party and not of national interests — [HON. MEMBERS: \"The same as you.\"] Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2163.1", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "Secondly, that Ministers, while holding their portfolios—I hope this will also be greeted by jeers and cheers from hon. Members opposite —first succeeded in inciting strikes for political purposes in the sugar industry and then attempted, though without success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2163.3", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "as not always been followed. We think that that is a system which is likely to set up severe constitutional strain. Perhaps it will be in the memory of the House that Mr. Bustamente retained the presidency of his union in Jamaica. That is contrary to the policy which we think right, but Mr. Bustamente has not used his position as a trade union leader in the way in which P.P.P. Ministers have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2172.2", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It is always the practice of this House, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, whenever an hon. Member has been referred to in the direct way in which I have been referred to by the right hon. Gentleman, that the speaker gives way in order that the point may be cleared up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2174.3", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "That is again a very complicated question, into which I am quite prepared to enter if the hon. Gentleman really wants me to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2174.5", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman has already convicted them, whereas no criminal charge has been preferred against them. I will now turn to the effect of all these events upon the economic life of the country. It was being brought to a standstill. There was a run upon the Savings Bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2176.3", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The first part of the right hon. Gentleman's reply was, as usual, extremely courteous. I will conclude by referring to our decision to transfer troops from Jamaica to British Guiana. The 700 men or thereabouts who were transferred were to secure law and order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2177.1", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman does not know the impression that his words make outside. If it is suggested that this was said by a newspaper, it means that it is put forward by a responsible editor. If, on the other hand, it was said by some contributor, then responsibility rests solely on the contributor. If the right hon. Gentleman is alleging that any responsible newspaper, except possibly the \"Daily Worker\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2209.1", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "stating, \"Go home, Limey.\" In all the time I have been in British Guiana I have never heard the term \"Limey\" used once. I have checked with many other people and they say the same thing. \"Limey\" is a term used very often against us by Americans. It seems to me that there is the leadership and the influence of the American Communist woman, Mrs. Jagan, who is trying to tell somebody else to go home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2237.1", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "hem here it is not too much to say that we are satisfied that this was the right step to take. There is another argument which has not been raised but which has been inferred from interruptions, and that is that we were wrong to interfere at all. Having given a Constitution, we should let the elected Government do what they like. They should go on being Communists and kill and plunder and destroy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2261.1", "colnum": "2261", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ality. I have noticed him on occasions on which he has been flippant where he ought to have been serious and party political when he might have been speaking in a broader and national sense. That seems to indicate a certain insensitiveness on his part. It has led some people to question whether part of the troubles in the colonial sphere, which have increased so markedly during his term of office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2269.1", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "As regards the first question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2269.1", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Suspected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " industrial strife instead of using their position as Ministers to calm and alleviate it; their reckless disregard of the economic interests of labour whose major need is to attract, not to repel, capital investment from the outer world, and their clear determination to achieve their ends by every possible means, legal and illegal, not excluding violence, disorder and even, it is suspected, arson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2269.1", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will he take action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "er, would have been guilty of dereliction of its own duty both to the Colony and to Parliament. The right hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) said that the grave charge of arson, if it could be maintained, merited prosecution. That, of course, is true, but he knows that that does not rest with the Home Government. It does not even rest with the Governor; it rests with the Attorney-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2271.3", "colnum": "2271", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "But under whose authority is General Templer acting? Under my right hon. Friend's. The Leader of the Opposition, in his rather peevish and waspish manner, talks about making party points, but he gave no credit for parts of the world where he thought —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2271.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.0", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "om which the sea can only be kept back by large dykes and drainage works which are most costly to build and to maintain. The natural cost of producing sugar and other crops is very high, and, in addition to these, there are other handicaps from which it suffers. Strangely enough some centuries ago this was the area that was supposed to be the place where the fabled city of El Dorado was situated——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2272.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.2", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Follick", "preceding_text": "Mr. M. Follick (Loughborough) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.4", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "country unless large supplies of capital investment are brought in from outside, and such a partnership between us and that Colony will be established by doing just that thing. Of course, it has made other difficulties. There is a mixed population of different races and a dark history of slavery followed by the confusion immediately following emancipation. The principal source, the sugar industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.4", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ty, but Ministers —are not disputed. According to the terms of the Amendment, they are to be deplored. The tendency to establishing Communism is also admitted—I suppose by all the party opposite. The actions taken by Her Majesty's Government for law and order are not attacked. So what remains? What remains of this Motion of censure? I suppose that is an internal question inside the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-22", "file": "debates1953-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d301c2b57a627a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.4", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "evolutionary situation, but it yet attacks the only effective means of controlling it. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Llanelly ended his speech with a particularly bitter attack upon my right hon. Friend which was deeply resented on this side of the House. I do not think he really meant to say it, because he never really knows what he is going to say and probably never says what he means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-22a.2273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-23", "file": "debates1953-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec5cd8361f5db491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-23a.2310.0", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENEMY PROPERTY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman practises in the legal profession. If he thinks that we can say arbitrarily that in a certain case there was somebody \"in the know\" and in another case there was not, without providing any means of investigation, he is going even further into Cloud Cuckooland than he was buried in it already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-23a.2310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-23", "file": "debates1953-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec5cd8361f5db491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-23a.2393.6", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "BRITISH GUIANA (TROOPS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "although America has its own brand of imperialism there are a large number of Americans and influential American newspaper people who do not like our British imperialism. Of course, America is bound to take a little interest in the struggle of an American State for independence. I remember, on one of the first days of this news, seeing in the paper, \"Washington approves of the Colonial Secretary.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-23a.2393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-26", "file": "debates1953-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "63d44db8d53cd709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2418.2", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "That is a completely different question, but I have answered it on many occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-26", "file": "debates1953-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "63d44db8d53cd709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2452.1", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was he there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "ecently they had a meeting with the trade unions to deal with efficiency in their industry. With regard to the development of joint consultation, there is a small point that I want to take up with the Minister. I have mentioned it to the right hon. Gentleman, so it will not come as a surprise. I read the report of a Margate conference—not the one I attended but the one which the Minister attended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-26", "file": "debates1953-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "63d44db8d53cd709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2486.3", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "se as a substitute for large coal. They can convert \"fines\" and very small coal into most useful domestic fuel. Briquettes have a bad reputation in households for some unknown reason. I do not know why. I see that ex-miners opposite are nodding agreement, but that reputation is not true. I was the first Tory Member to have the honour to address a Co-operative conference of coal managers last July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-26", "file": "debates1953-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "63d44db8d53cd709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2490.3", "colnum": "2490", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "No, I would give it a rather stronger word than that, a word I used this afternoon about the British Electricity Development Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-26", "file": "debates1953-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "63d44db8d53cd709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2490.3", "colnum": "2490", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So do the shares.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "romotional advertising of the kind which appeared in \"The Observer\" of 11th October? I will pass this newspaper to the Parliamentary Secretary in a moment in order that he may have a look at it. The advertisement said: Britain's electrical generating plant today adds up to many millions of horse-power more than it did a few years back. I quite agree; so does our industrial production, I might add.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-26", "file": "debates1953-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "63d44db8d53cd709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2550.1", "colnum": "2550", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. L. W. Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. L. W. Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "rather a generic way, but the word \"coal\" itself covers a vast multitude of different categories of that fuel, different qualities and different grades, and what the modern power stations are burning is coal such as the housewife just would not recognise as that commodity at all.' It is the unwashed and untreated smalls which might almost be described as the refuse of the mine which is brought up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-26", "file": "debates1953-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "63d44db8d53cd709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2550.1", "colnum": "2550", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. L. W. Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. L. W. Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "advantage to have not only a market for this commodity but also a market which will convert it into a really efficient form of power for the use of the community as a whole. Before I leave the question of electricity again, I should like to return to something which was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster upon this subject in the very enlightened and informing speech which he made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-26a.2550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2616.7", "colnum": "2616", "heading": "MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The question of a façade had not entered into my mind in connection with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2616.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2620.1", "colnum": "2620", "heading": "TARIFFS AND TRADE (GENEVA CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "May I assure my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2623.2", "colnum": "2623", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. J. D. Profumo)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seventy-eight?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. J. D. Profumo)", "preceding_text": "e safety standards which all airlines have now reached. The Corporations are most meticulous and punctilious in this respect, and the House may be interested to hear a statistic which I think is quite remarkable. If a man was born on a scheduled airliner and it was possible for him to go on flying without ever coming down at all, he would be 78 before he was statistically due for a fatal accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2623.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2632.0", "colnum": "2632", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "get that even the Financial Secretary to the Treasury called those who are now in responsible positions in the Corporations \"Quislings\"—hardly nonparty language. Do the Conservative Party Central Office remember the leaflet that they circulated in the constituencies at the last Election? I have one here that says: Messrs. Attlee and Co., General Jobbers. Telegraphic address: Squandermania, London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2631.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2633.0", "colnum": "2633", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "h were sustained in nationalised industries. For reasons which the Parliamentary Secretary quite fairly stated in regard to aircraft availability, the civil aviation industry was amongst those having the most. Then, at the bottom of this leaflet, it is said: Unless this account is settled at the General Election further items of cost will have to be defrayed by selling your freedom and prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2661.1", "colnum": "2661", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Group Captain Wilcock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Group Captain Wilcock", "preceding_text": "of the House, we are, to say the least, a little suspicious of the treatment by the Government of the public Corporations. The comments made by the Chairman of B.O.A.C. relating to operating permits—very properly made, and I thought he was very moderate in his comments—require an explanation by the Minister. We on this side of the House are not in any way opposed to private enterprise in aviation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2672.1", "colnum": "2672", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "not mean that nothing can be delegated. I hope that the Minister will look into this point. I thought that the hon. Member for Wellingborough was a bit unkind in his opening remarks. He made a very long speech. He said that we used to have enormous rows in our civil aviation debates, but my impression was that the debates in years gone by were always very friendly, even when we were in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2681.5", "colnum": "2681", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "nter, they run only a half or a quarter full. That is the sort of derogatory attitude taken towards the Highland and Island services that we resent. They should be called commercial services as they were in the old days of the Gandar Dowers and the others. They went there and they came back—and they brought the then Member for Orkney and Shetland, Sir Basil Neven Spence, with unfailing regularity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2691.1", "colnum": "2691", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "o see anything done that would detract from that status which has been granted to Prestwick. We do not want to see the development consequential upon that pledge being slowed up by the opening of this new transatlantic route direct from Manchester to New York. I crave pardon if I have somewhat exceeded the time limit that we all like to observe. I had no intention of exceeding my usual 10 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2715.1", "colnum": "2715", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "he feelings of certain Scottish Members, charges like those of the social services arise, it should not be clear and apparent to everyone, whether they live in the Isle of Man or in Scotland, that they are being provided with these services out of the national pocket. They could then at least appreciate some of the things that the English do for their colleagues across the Border and in the Isles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2728.1", "colnum": "2728", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "retty good profit, and none of that profit goes back to the Exchequer except through the normal channels of taxation, although the Exchequer have made its manufacture possible through the Ministry and the Corporations? The Corporations have also to pay for the aircraft as it is being built and developed, and I should like to know whether foreign countries or companies have to pay as they go along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-27", "file": "debates1953-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ad7605c11fbf4161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2742.1", "colnum": "2742", "heading": "BRITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) say that, on the whole, conditions were better in Scotland. I agree with him about the need for co-ordination, and the irritations which come through lack of it, and I hope that the new Scottish Transport Council will provide that co-ordination. The hon. Member for Anglesey (Mr. C. Hughes) asked me a number of questions about Wales. Wales is a very difficult problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-27a.2742.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2791.3", "colnum": "2791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Here is a very real difficulty in the instance of people who hold credit for assets formerly nationalised, and who wish to go into business——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2808.3", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ng; I am not saying that the plan might ever have been accepted as it stood. I am saying that any chance of its acceptance was destroyed by its sudden delivery as an ultimatum, and by the deliberate ambiguity of the language that was used. That was an offence against the first rule of the wise conduct of foreign affairs, which is always to say quite frankly and quite plainly exactly what you mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2817.1", "colnum": "2817", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "d a Declaration and informed the Soviet Government at the very same time that they wished to publish a new protocol to give effect to it. There was no kind of discussion with the Russian Government at that time, and I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman's reproaches to us in this respect are entirely justified. I admit that, of course, no one pretends the circumstances were exactly similar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2821.1", "colnum": "2821", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "the three Governments thought it best to say so. Later Mr. Bevin continued: We cannot get agreement on the setting up of the Free Territory. Therefore, we came to the conclusion … to try to break the deadlock by this proposal.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th March. 1948; Vol. 448, c. 2998–9.] There is not such a very great difference in purpose in what we have been trying to do at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2821.1", "colnum": "2821", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will lead to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "is question—in our communications to the Italian and Yugoslav Governments. The right hon. Gentleman says our communiqué was badly drafted. It certainly was not easy to draft and what we said in the concluding sentence of the paragraph which deals with this matter was this: The two Governments expect that the measures being taken will lead to a final peaceful solution. I should have thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2916.0", "colnum": "2916", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "e is no doubt that the country as a whole has been shocked by this. This is not a party matter at all. Many non-party people have been very much shocked by it. It is regarded in the country generally as a most deplorable incident, which the country hopes will not be repeated in any comparable form, and it strengthens the feeling in the country that the present Government is really losing its grip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2920.0", "colnum": "2920", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I should like to get this completely clear. It is rather important. The communiqué, in our view, is not explicit at all. It is not, therefore, satisfactory to quote the terms of the communiqué. The question I asked was very simple. I asked, was Signor Pella told by Her Majesty's Ambassador in Rome, when the latter first informed him of this new decision, that this meant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2921.0", "colnum": "2921", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "I told the right hon. Gentleman that Her Majesty's Ambassador informed Signor Pella that the two Governments, or that Her Majesty's Government—we only spoke for Her Majesty's Government—expected that this decision would lead to a final settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2921.0", "colnum": "2921", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "I told the right hon. Gentleman that Her Majesty's Ambassador informed Signor Pella that the two Governments, or that Her Majesty's Government—we only spoke for Her Majesty's Government—expected that this decision would lead to a final settlement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] He was told what was said in the communiqué which was issued on 8th October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2921.2", "colnum": "2921", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "I really do not think that these words can be plainer or have a plainer meaning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2921.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2921.6", "colnum": "2921", "heading": "EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRIESTE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Mr. Dalton rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-10-28", "file": "debates1953-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "5842f199f981e182", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2942.3", "colnum": "2942", "heading": "SHEFFIELD (AIRPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "They have not done so yet, but I am not here to say what Sheffield have done or are doing. I am here to say what the Government will do if Sheffield carry out the course of action suggested. If Sheffield like to apply for the aerodrome, my right hon. Friend will consider the application on its merits, without prejudice and without committing himself in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-10-28a.2942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-03", "file": "debates1953-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c28f0d57740189bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "preceding_text": " and private owners wants a little more explanation. It may be that there lurks in that seemingly innocent phrase something to do with changes in rent control. It may be that it has something to do with subsidies to private owners. We shall certainly want a very full explanation of that. We also have no indication of the amendments to the financial provisions of the Town and Country Planning Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-03", "file": "debates1953-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c28f0d57740189bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "all join together in wishing Her Majesty and the Duke God-speed on their journey and a safe return to her loyal and devoted subjects in these islands next May. This is the third time that I have been called upon to follow the Leader of the Opposition in the debate on the Address in this present Parliament and two years have passed since we had a General Election. When are we going to have another?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-03", "file": "debates1953-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c28f0d57740189bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "he element of calm, patient study and a sense of structure by both sides may render lasting service to our whole people and increase and consolidate their influence for good and for peace throughout the quivering, convulsive and bewildered world. More especially is this true of a period in which the two-party system is dominant and about 14 million vote Tory and about another 14 million Socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-03", "file": "debates1953-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c28f0d57740189bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "e a premature judgment, for no attempt has yet been made to explain our plans. Before I sit down this afternoon White Papers, giving full schemes for England, Wales and Scotland, will be found in the Vote Office. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government will unfold his scheme in detail during our debate tomorrow, and I shall not anticipate his explanation of its structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-03", "file": "debates1953-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c28f0d57740189bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "arguments must be borne in mind. It is the policy of both parties in the State to sustain and increase homegrown food on which this island depends so largely for a favourable trade balance and, in the ultimate issue, for its life. It is not an easy task to reconcile the beneficial liberation of our food supply from Government controls with that effective stimulus of home production which is vital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-03a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " happy thing if we could only settle this business and maintain the base there. When I was Foreign Secretary I did make an offer of a four-Power agreement, without prejudice to others coming in—who, I think, would have come in—with Egypt as one of the four Powers, the others being the United States, France and ourselves. Egypt would be treated on the basis of complete equality with the best of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "in the suburbs, and because the price of land is high in the suburbs the population must remain congested in the City.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd May, 1909; Vol. 4, c. 846.] This speech roundly and vigorously condemned land monopoly and urged that the land owners should be made to pay. Therefore, I am in healthy company, for it was a speech by the present Prime Minister in this House on 3rd May, 1909.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " always find that some years ago he said something in contradiction of it. To do him justice, he takes it very well. Look at him sitting there beaming. He has no sense of shame about it. He finds these references amusing, and he thoroughly enjoys himself every time they are produced. Therefore do not let hon. Members opposite try to get him out of a difficulty, because he is not in any difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ndered whether the Civil Service had been assisted in its preparation for the Minister by the Conservative Central Office, and I thought that some care needs to be exercised on that matter. This morning my hon. Friend the Member for Leith (Mr. Hoy) drew my attention to something which is very much more serious. We are dealing with a controversial Bill; at least, I imagine it will be controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "nment, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any popular edition of this character about a coming Parliamentary Bill, or about a Parliamentary Bill at all. If there had been such a proposal, I should have resisted it. The most that was done in the way of having a popular edition was the provision of the popular edition of the Economic Survey, but that was largely a factual document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " urge the Prime Minister to have a senior Minister to deal with these matters so that he can stand up to his colleagues about it. I also ask the Prime Minister to bring this matter before his colleagues with a view to instructions being given that the popular edition shall be withdrawn. The booklet which the Prime Minister now has in his hands is the coloured edition. If we get this sort of thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A white sheet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "s in Stockwell are still there. They were of an age when I first went to them. I would say to our municipal architects and engineers and some of the Government people, \"Why must you build things to last for ever? A school ought not to last for ever, because inevitably it becomes out of date.\" This is a week of White Papers. Why should we not have from the Minister of Education another White Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£600 million more than you had.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hether it would not do me some harm, but it turned out that it did me some good. I put it to the right hon. Gentleman now that he likes coalitions, and, of course, he has an additional reason for wanting a coalition at this time. Look at the jam they were in when the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was ill, and when the Prime Minister himself was laid aside. The Government have no reserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " for Foreign Affairs was ill, and when the Prime Minister himself was laid aside. The Government have no reserves—[An HON. MEMBER: \"£600 million more than you had.\"]—on that side of the House for finding further Ministers when vacancies arise. That may be one of the reasons why the Prime Minister would like a wider choice which will help him out of difficulty. The Gracious Speech is a thin speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not say those things. This is a typical Tory untruth, which I should expect from a Minister who has produced this pamphlet, a typical Central Office product. I never used the word \"warmonger.\" I advised my people not to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "n have been built within the last 35 years. Many of the newer dwelling houses are, I think, in fairly good repair. Many are owner-occupied or owned by the local authorities or by housing associations or similar bodies and, in the main, they have been well looked after. The private landlord, too, has been able, or was able up to the outbreak of the last war, to take proper care of the newer houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "d, in general, with the statutory deduction. That is something, at least, to go on. The advice that we received was that work which would have cost £6 in 1939 would cost £18 today. The information produced by these experts, therefore, meant, broadly speaking, that for houses with a statutory deduction of £6, expenditure of £6 was going on repairs, year in and year out, in the years before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I will call the hon. Gentleman when the time comes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "cretary of State for Scotland will be speaking in due course. I hope and believe that much of this can be done by friendly agreement between the landlord and tenant by the ordinary method of good will and arrangement. But there are two legal conditions and these must be satisfied. First, the house must be in a good general state of repair. A new definition will be given when the Bill is published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I certainly will, as rapidly as possible, assist in this part of the scheme. I am very conscious that the House has listened with great patience to me, trying to unfold a rather complicated scheme, and I therefore return for just a moment to where I began. We must press on with the building of new houses, and we have a good record in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I would not say the majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On this occasion we must see that private owners do the repairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " laid down that the landlord could put that increase on the rent merely by serving a notice and then, if the tenant thought that the repairs were not being properly carried out, the tenant could go to the sanitary authority and, by paying 1s., could obtain a certificate that the house was not in a good state of repair. Perhaps I am wrong, but I understand that that procedure is now to be reversed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": " which is 40 per cent. of the existing rent. Therefore, we propose that all controlled rents should be allowed to go up by this amount in order to enable repairs to be carried out. For example, a house with a rent of £15 a year, excluding occupier's rates, would be increased by £6, making a total of £21, an increase of 2s. 4d. a week, provided—and only provided—that the necessary repairs are done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "Its meaning is exactly as I have described it. It is the same position for the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the tenants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "It is what I say; in England, they do not pay owner's rates at all. In Scotland, if the owner's rates are increased, the owner will continue to pay the rates as at the time when the Bill becomes law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It was after the Budget, and therefore the statutory Resolution had been passed by the House. It was, in fact, an explanation of the financial situation of the country at the time and not a piece of propaganda carefully prepared in order to try to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It was after the Budget, and therefore the statutory Resolution had been passed by the House. It was, in fact, an explanation of the financial situation of the country at the time and not a piece of propaganda carefully prepared in order to try to make—[ Interruption .] Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.228.5", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not know that there is any rule against that, but I would say at the same time that when hon. Gentlemen have finished their speeches they should remain and listen. Interchanges in this House should be confined to oral exchanges and not extend to a display of documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.228.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "tary Inspectors' Journal\"—the journal of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association—calls attention to the fact that we were in fact engaged upon a very great programme of war-damage repairs. It says: It must be remembered that the condition of many houses in certain parts of the country is much better than it otherwise would have been, because of improvements effected as a result of war-damage repairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "to prevent any large programme of repairs from being carried out, because the landlord will not move. The Government have brought forward a scheme with a maximum of political odium and a minimum of physical results. The right hon. Gentleman described himself as a man of political experience when he made his speech this afternoon. It looks as if the laurel wreaths on his brow were going a bit awry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " rescue of these tenants who, because of a situation compounded of historical neglect and statutory inertia, are compelled to suffer under conditions from which they should be relieved? We must acknowledge the fact that not only slum clearance and reconditioning should be carried out by local authorities, but that all rent-restricted houses must eventually become the property of local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "preceding_text": "ow they can justify the continued existence of a Second Chamber which in many ways is out of tempo with our present political development. That brings me to the major issue of the hereditary principle. I honestly believe, and I believe that there are many of my hon. Friends who agree with me, that the hereditary principle should no longer be the sole basis for representation in our Second Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "e often been anomalies, and whereas it is possible to justify the retention of an anomaly it is not, in my opinion, possible to justify the restoration of one. University representatives in this House made a great contribution, and whatever may have been said in party speeches since their abolition, or whatever might be said in the future, they were, all in all, free from party political approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. S. Moody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. S. Moody", "preceding_text": "that and to see that tenants are not exploited, I believe that the nation as a whole will probably be sufficiently reasonable to accept the higher standard of rents, but I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that all property cannot be saved by increasing the rent, even to the utmost which the tenants could pay. The Government have allowed these things to accumulate by neglecting them in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "I am sorely tempted to follow the hon. Gentleman in the provocative remarks he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.264.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, a very serious point is involved in making such an accusation against me. I never sleep in the House. I can get plenty of sleep at home. The hon. Member is not right in making such a charge against me, when I never did sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "es are highest, and particularly in British Guiana.…The best results can be looked for in British Guiana.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th April, 1952; Vol. 498, cc. 3015, 3019.] If we in this House do not realise the strategic significance of rice—and I believe we do; from time to time there are references to its importance—I can assure hon. Members that the Communists do understand its importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "live on if he spends the whole of his money on food is 60s. The natives cannot bring their wives and children, who are left in the reserves to scratch what existence they can from the land around their huts. The whole standard of wages must be lifted, and there should be a minimum wage for the workers on the farms and the workers in the towns. I welcome the fact that the Government have now begun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "n we examined the White Paper we found only one charge of an intention of violent action to create a situation of revolution in British Guiana. That was the charge—a charge of arson to burn down the Government buildings and European premises. That charge was splashed over all the newspapers of the world. I venture to say that no one who has gone into the charge now believes that charge to be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": "h were uttered by the right hon. Gentleman in winding up the debate on Guiana about a week ago? He said: Let me be quite clear. So long as Her Majesty's Government have a responsibility to this House for the affairs of Colonial Territories, that is to say, before those territories gain complete independence\"— and these are the words I want to stress— and some may never be in the position to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-04", "file": "debates1953-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "ffe625e3d43c28c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": " on Guiana about a week ago? He said: Let me be quite clear. So long as Her Majesty's Government have a responsibility to this House for the affairs of Colonial Territories, that is to say, before those territories gain complete independence\"— and these are the words I want to stress— and some may never be in the position to do so—[ Interruption .]—some of them may never be in a position to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-04a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-05", "file": "debates1953-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "257c072908133bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Why?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": "etary of State for the Colonies, I intend to pursue this matter, even with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the short time at my disposal. When I was interrupted, I was quoting from the speech of the Secretary of State for the Colonies in the debate on British Guiana, in which he said: before those territories gain complete independence—and some may never be in the position to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.306.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-05", "file": "debates1953-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "257c072908133bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": "es. If the policy is that, for these Colonies which can never achieve a viable independence alone, nor yet in federal association with others, there will be no ultimate independence, let them say so. They should send out a Commission to these dependencies—issue a White Paper and submit to the logical conclusion in that they be given the privilege of sending members to the Imperial Parliament here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.306.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-05", "file": "debates1953-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "257c072908133bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "first step towards that goal, and I am sure that all sections of the House will join with me in assuring the Sudanese that we will give our support to their freely elected representatives in achieving what is promised to them under the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement which we have signed. I think this would also be a suitable occasion on which to express our confidence in the Administration in the Sudan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-05", "file": "debates1953-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "257c072908133bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector McNeil", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you never use it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector McNeil", "preceding_text": "e in telling us about E.D.C. Perhaps his hon. Friend, the Joint Under-Secretary, who was so courteous to us last week—and I am glad to have this opportunity of saying so—will deal more fully with the subjects, but I hope that he will not be tempted to be as discreetly ambiguous as he was last week on the subject of Trieste. Ambiguity is one of the more tempting weapons of the armoury of diplomacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-05", "file": "debates1953-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "257c072908133bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I had not proposed to enter at any length upon that legalistic point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-05", "file": "debates1953-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "257c072908133bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "imself—and when the hon. Member for Preston, North referred to the simple faith of his constituents that, \"Winston would not let the country down in Suez\" he was giving the game away. Indeed, the Prime Minister was the practical leader of this group during the dreadful months when the Foreign Secretary's illness gave him the opportunity of steering the ship of State himself through foreign fields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-05a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-06", "file": "debates1953-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0a38b8b4d6008406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-06a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ts together, and if there is an uneven flow it means bad sequence and deliveries must suffer. That has been happening. Take the case of steel plate and consider it in the light of the theory that the effective working of industry can be planned in detail. If that is so, surely the arch-planners in the arch-planning period might have foreseen with a little more accuracy the rolling capacity needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-06a.530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-06", "file": "debates1953-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "0a38b8b4d6008406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-06a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " the new spirit we have infused into the economy. The right hon. Member asked about investment, and that perhaps is the most important question he asked—the level of factory building and investment. What about this investment story? What did we find when we took office? We found a great overloading of the programme. We found that the right hon. Member had himself decided to end initial allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-06a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.602.5", "colnum": "602", "heading": "TRIESTE (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I think it can also be accepted that it shows how immensely important it is to try to get a final settlement of this business, because there have been other Trieste riots recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "rably. That really is the example given in paragraph 2 (iii) ( c ), at the top of page 7 of the White Paper. This could only happen if the auction is not a real market, that is, if there is no real competition between the buyers. We do not think that absence of competition will be general, but, if anything of this kind does develop, the Government will certainly take special steps to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the auction rings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "ets. Auctioneers will be as anxious as anyone else to preserve their markets as real markets, and naturally, the whole of this subject will come up for discussion at those talks. The House may recollect that among the suggestions made before the war by the Bingley Commission was the suggestion that there should be some kind of reserve buyer ready to step in to break attempts to form a buying ring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I want to say, quite definitely, that the Government will take action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "pathy with the Socialist views of the Opposition. Over and over again we have examples. Indeed, in Suffolk one branch of the National Farmers' Union passed a resolution a week or two ago that the Minister should resign. More than that, in the Press this week the Government proposals which the Minister has been trying to explain today have been condemned by responsible opinion all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Peart", "preceding_text": "d to the farmers by the Minister and any Conservative Members who are here today, if they explain the Appendix, the arrangements, the two-fold price guarantee, the decision to sell on a free market—to quote the document— mainly by auction and by private treaty sales. I believe that they will receive total opposition from every farmer in the country. I have consulted farmers in my own constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.637.6", "colnum": "637", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is afraid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I would give way, but for the fact that I remember that when I wanted to interrupt the Parliamentary Secretary he refused to give way on a specific question. If he can be rude then, I am going to be firm on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.637.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where did it start?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "No, but I think I am entitled to quote to the House those words used by my right hon. Friend at that time which I think very relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A lot of rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "When I have heard the speeches of my hon. Friend the Member for Wednesbury (Mr. S. N. Evans) in this House, I have never been prepared to go the whole way with him, but there has been a lot in what he has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We know where the crooks are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Butcher", "preceding_text": "ed marketing board. The reasons have, in part, been given by my right hon. Friend the Member for Kelvingrove (Mr. Elliot), himself a former Minister of Agriculture, who made a most attractive and brilliant debating speech from this bench. He said that the real argument is between hooves and hooks and that it was well known where the hooves were, but not the hooks. That, of course, is acknowledged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "She is fed up with big joints from 14 cwt. bullocks carrying three quarters of a cwt. of unsaleable fat apiece, for which the butchers have to pay. Let nobody kid themselves that the butchers are winning any medals at the moment. It is a wonder to me that they do not go balmy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "niversities in the last 12 months, and I have been to four of them—I can get an audience of farmers at any time. In fact, I have come to the conclusion that this is a subject on which I agree with nobody, and nobody agrees with me—except all the housewives, 95 per cent. of the rank and file of the Labour, Co-operative and Trade Union movements, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and half the farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.706.8", "colnum": "706", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "out 113,000. From September, 1951, to September. 1953, under the present Government, the increase was 65,000. I shall give the figures for sheep and lambs because they tell us a bit the other way round. The increase from 1949 to 1951 was 409,000, and from 1951 to 1953 1,300,000. Remember that in 1947 we had a flood that drowned several million sheep and that by 1949 we had barely begun to recover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.706.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.706.8", "colnum": "706", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " the present Government, the increase was 65,000. I shall give the figures for sheep and lambs because they tell us a bit the other way round. The increase from 1949 to 1951 was 409,000, and from 1951 to 1953 1,300,000. Remember that in 1947 we had a flood that drowned several million sheep and that by 1949 we had barely begun to recover. [ Interruption. ] Yes, indeed; we lost three million sheep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.706.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, not for the first time, does not know what he is talking about. The frost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ck banks talking— It is reasonable for us to suppose that in many cases the profit margin will continue to decline, making it more than ever necessary to keep a close watch on expenditure. That is the situation. Expenditure is going down, and the confidence, not only of farmers, but of those ancillary to farming, those who lend and those who supply the farmers, is shaken. Where have we got to now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.712.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Harold Green, the Warwickshire Farmers' Union council delegate? He says: This is the most dreadful thing that could have happened to the country. I cannot believe that anyone would be so foolhardy as to make— these proposals. The Minister has not seen my next quotation. I have only received it myself today. May I read to the House a telegram? It says: White Paper disappointing. Some parts helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s does not put the farmers on easy street. This makes the taxpayer give an unlimited guarantee to the middle man. In fact, to take the Minister's own example, even with this grand two-fold guarantee the farmers will be worse off than they were under the fixed prices, known in advance, and the guarantee which we gave them. I should like to continue but I must leave time for the Chancellor to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "es of the right hon. Members for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams) and Belper (Mr. G. Brown), I should do well to remind the House of one or two speeches we have heard. My hon. Friend the Member for Antrim, North (Mr. P. O'Neill) referred in particular to the problems of Northern Ireland. I cannot go further tonight than to say that those problems are being dealt with in order to suit local conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.719.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.723.4", "colnum": "723", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "e deadlock between the trade and the Farmers' Unions. We have managed to find a scheme which shows a way through this and gives an opportunity for the future. But I would be less than frank with the House if I did not tell hon. Members that in my view, by publishing this White Paper, the main thing we have done is to settle the target towards which people must work. We have not solved the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-09", "file": "debates1953-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "20698afbb4c57fd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.730.4", "colnum": "730", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Game?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I say, in conclusion, that those of us involved in this game—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-09a.730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.752.5", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "We do not for a moment accept that there has not been a considerable worsening, if one examines basic wage rates. But to show the complicated nature of the position, if one examines earnings, there is quite a different story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.752.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In the future.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say when this is likely to be published?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.769.5", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "preceding_text": "The Building Materials Committee of the Scottish Council reports direct to the Scottish Council and I have not yet received from the Council any suggestions or recommendations on this subject. When I do I shall give them careful consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.769.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.769.7", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "I cannot express a useful or helpful view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.769.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": ", as the Prime Minister admits, against at least certain aspects of the London County Council proposals? As he admits, she was critical. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Minister encouraged the London Conservatives to send her all the objections they could think of in order that her mind might be influenced? Is that proper conduct on the part of a Minister, especially a Cabinet Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I be permitted to put a supplementary question? This is a matter of some importance. I would not press it only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.787.7", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "nominious, because it will coincide with his fall. Indeed, he will not walk out; he may well be propelled out from behind. I say that because we have seen other Ministers in the world of food and agriculture believing that all is well. We saw a Minister last night who was very uncomfortable on the Government Front Bench. I think, Mr. Speaker, that you may feel rather sensitive about these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.787.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.791.7", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "tistics published in the medical journals of the increase in height and weight of the modern child as compared with children 20 years ago. I need only to remind hon. Members opposite of the little grandmothers in their constituencies who have to look after their towering grandchildren. The reason for that is that under a Tory Administration grandmamma was filled as a child with cheap filler foods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.791.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.791.7", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "modern child as compared with children 20 years ago. I need only to remind hon. Members opposite of the little grandmothers in their constituencies who have to look after their towering grandchildren. The reason for that is that under a Tory Administration grandmamma was filled as a child with cheap filler foods—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"]—while her grandchildren under the Labour Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.791.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I will take the \"Farmers' Weekly.\" The farmers may not like the Government of the party opposite, but they always vote for the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "n a Ministry of Food report that 18 per cent. of bacon today is not taken up. This means that bacon is a luxury food for the old-age pensioner and a near luxury in the homes of the workers. It is a food which is needed by them for breakfasts, high teas and suppers. It is nutritious, attractive and easily cooked. I know that this small domestic point cannot possibly appeal to hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "rable speech last week of the hon. Lady the Member for Edgbaston (Miss Pitt). In an excellent little constructive speech the hon. Lady confirmed that the tuberculosis rate had decreased in the last few years owing to the improved social conditions. I believe she would be the first to agree that first and foremost the improved diet of the workers went to achieve this. I am not making a party point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "of life and, of course, do the recipients a lot of good. In the case of the growing child there is an overwhelming case for fair shares. An individual's body, in the early years, is dependent for its development on the quality of food and not on the quantity. I say again that in this coming year the wealthy will eat the meat which, morally, belongs ot the children of the poor, and if the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "g child there is an overwhelming case for fair shares. An individual's body, in the early years, is dependent for its development on the quality of food and not on the quantity. I say again that in this coming year the wealthy will eat the meat which, morally, belongs ot the children of the poor, and if the Minister—[ Interruption .] If that is regarded as an over-statement, then let the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How would the right hon. Lady? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Interruption .] No, I must remind hon. Gentlemen of the statements made last night. Everything I say is related to those. The Government have no idea how derationing is going to turn out. The Minister has said that he has no idea how high the prices of these foods will rise, and if what I have said is an over-statement, let the Minister tell us how he is going to control prices in the coming year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I would remind hon. Members who care to listen to me that not only before the war but during and since the war there has been a steady fall in the death rate from tuberculosis, and that children have grown steadily bigger and stronger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask your dad.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "gger and stronger. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] This was going on for a very long time before the first Socialist Government came into office. No one party can claim any special credit for it, but every party can claim some part of the credit. We were also told that if, by next June, we deration meat the wealthy will take all the meat. I do not know who the right hon. Lady means by \"the wealthy.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ice, two years ago, the country was heading for bankruptcy. All the subsidies and all the rationing in the world could not have prevented disaster if the policy of the late Administration had been pursued. We have made a good beginning in the short time during which we have been in office. The balance of payments position is far healthier than when we came in. The £ sterling has been strengthened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "wing year to £568 million, unless some remedial action was taken. Commenting on this increase he said—and I heard him say it: \"That just cannot go on.\" So, once again, a ceiling was fixed—this time at £465 million. The following year the Socialist Government reduced the ceiling to £410 million. In two years, therefore, the Socialist Government had lowered the ceiling from a potential £568 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.805.7", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "We can easily pick out different items. I can give the hon. Member something much better. I can pick out particular items at any time and show that they are going up or going down. The right hon. Member for Fulham, West did the same thing. I take it that we are on common ground in saying that there should be a ceiling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.805.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.809.5", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is it not, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, the normal custom of the House, that if a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.809.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "That is what we want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.826.7", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, it keeps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I agree, but as the bulk of the stuff is imported, it has to be eaten fairly quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.826.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "re are in this House a substantial number of people who are eminent in the trade unions. Some belong to the craft unions and some to the general labour unions. The craft unions always insist on maintaining a differential. In other words, they want a longer purse, and when one has a longer purse it means that one is entitled to buy more. Does anybody here say that we should have equality of income?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.827.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is really the doctrine that everybody should have the same pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is really the doctrine that everybody should have the same pay. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is the implication. I know Lord Citrine quite well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And sell some of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I was glad to hear from my right hon. Friend the Minister of Food that the old age pensioners take up their full ration of butter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the point?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "aim, but it was not until 12th March that the Confederation got busy, and on 29th April the Confederation said, \"Go ahead.\" On 26th May the trade unions submitted the claim to the employers. The early dilatoriness was on the part of the trade unions. Under a procedure established 40 years ago the employers and the unions have regular meetings in York. The right hon. Member approved this procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.845.3", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because the price is up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "one very interesting figure which was published in the recent \"The Times Financial Review.\" The hon. Lady the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North referred to Co-operative societies. On page xix of \"The Times Financial Review\" she will see a table printed, showing that the value of the retailed sales of meat during the first nine months of 1953 at Co-operative stores alone was 30 per cent. up on 1952.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.866.5", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hill", "preceding_text": "e grateful for it. We need a higher protein content in food and I think the Government are going the right way to produce it. When prices rise then, apart from the Minister of Food, there is considered to be a nigger in the woodpile. Producers think the wholesaler is getting the profit, while the wholesaler thinks the retailer is getting the profit and the consumer thinks all three are getting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.866.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has lost his script writer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I was surprised to learn that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House was to wind up this debate. What is the matter with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food? Is that melodious voice to be hushed? At the last General Election he was one of the principal, indeed, he was the principal, propagandist for the Tory Party, although he disclaimed being a Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ber for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro)—I am sorry he is not present—who intervenes so frequently even when he is sitting down, said with great gusto and bravado: Tory abundance is replacing Socialist scarcity.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th November, 1953; Vol. 520, c. 576.] We then had scarcity. Does anybody pretend that the scarcity, the shortages, were due to any act on the part of the Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "t to take place? Is not that it? Is it not realised now that a fatal blunder was made in reducing subsidies at a time when that was done by the Government? The right hon. and gallant Gentleman went on to say we must not rob the housewife of the elementary right to buy what and where she likes. Very good doctrine. Of course, we accept it. We believe in freedom just as much as hon. Members opposite,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " prices and shops, and she agreed that there was more in the shops. In particular, she said that there were more sweets in the shops, and that was a very good thing. She offered one to the interrogator. Then the interrogator blundered, and said, \"How about food prices. Do you find the cost stops you buying the full ration?\" Mrs. Wilson, who was being interviewed, said, \"The prices are a bit high.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "n some parts of the world as, for example, in the United States and, to some extent, in Canada, there is more to buy? The Government cannot take any credit because of these food surpluses in other parts of the world. How can they? In spite of the fact that there is more to buy this lady admitted that prices are high. There may be more things to buy, but if one cannot buy them what advantage is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We never said so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "re were shortages. Let them deny that if they like. One has only to examine the list of foodstuffs and the prices, the varying changes in prices since October, 1951, up to October, 1953, to see that there have been price changes. There has been an upward trend. That cannot be disputed, but if the Government say that there have been no increase in the price level so far as foodstuffs are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ber of consumers. The right hon. Gentleman asked my right hon. Friend the Member for Fulham, West, several questions. First, he wanted to know whether we, the Labour Party, when we formed a Government after the next Election—the latter is not what he said, but what I say to him—would restore the subsidy. The first reply to that is that the subsidy should never have been removed in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "he agricultural industry so they cannot be regarded as undesirable. It is a question of how subsidies are adapted to meet the exigencies of the national situation. For example, the subsidies that were in operation while Labour were in power, and those still in operation, are not altogether provided for the direct advantage of the recipient. They have an impact on the whole of the national economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "dy which has the effect of restraining demands for increased wages that is surely an advantage to the national economy. It maintains produc- tion at a high level, it encourages those who are producers and helps us to maintain our export position and, indeed, might help us to improve it. So my answer is that if and when Labour come in as the Government and we find that the circumstances justify it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "of debate, that the claims of old age pensioners are exaggerated. Does he believe that? If he does believe it he and his hon. Friends ought to go to the old age pensioners in their constituencies and say to them what they are saying in this House. This is the close of the debate, not only on food prices but on the Address itself. The Government had a frightful hammering in the agricultural debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "otable for the announcement of the forthcoming conference, which has really overshadowed the foreign affairs situation. But what has been interesting, and I am sure that you, Mr. Speaker, have observed it, is that although the standard of the speeches and the debate has been very high, what has really been lacking this year has been a sustained attack by the Opposition on Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ay of an Amendment from the Opposition. In 1952 the words were: My Government will persevere with measures to curb inflation … And in the Opposition Amendment last year there was reference to alleged \"growing unemployment \"—remember the million unemployed that were talked about—\"short-time and increased cost of living.\" But nothing about food prices from the Opposition last year. This year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-10", "file": "debates1953-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f4727d270028d33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ticularly in the cost of food. Even then, just before they left office, their plans and schemes did not cover all the old age pensioners, but only some of them. Let us consider what happened to food prices during the six years this country had a Labour Government. During that time the average prices rise was 40 per cent. and the food prices rise was 60 per cent. That was while they were in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-10a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-11", "file": "debates1953-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "67b911e32e127d23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Roe made its greatest contribution. The Tudor was the civilian reproduction of the Lancasters and Manchesters which were a feature of their war-time production, and which played so great a part in the bombing effort during the war. Arising out of that, I should like at some time in this debate to be told what is to happen in connection with the Avro Delta. That was designed as a military aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-11", "file": "debates1953-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "67b911e32e127d23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the result?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ember for Penistone (Mr. McGhee), and they had to change there again. From there they made their way to Sheffield and changed trains again. From Sheffield they went to Leicester without any further change. Coming back they came through Manchester Central. They had to detrain there and walk across Manchester to another station some miles away, Manchester Victoria, where they caught the local train.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-11", "file": "debates1953-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "67b911e32e127d23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1059.6", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "aking this exemption, and no useful purpose will be served in connection with defence or the economic situation, for which purposes the original Order was introduced. I contend that it will have a very adverse effect on the road haulage industry in the future. Although it may initially have the effect of fulfilling the Government's intentions of attracting small men into the road haulage industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1059.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-11", "file": "debates1953-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "67b911e32e127d23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " sure the House will agree with me that the motor car is frequently a luxury, and, even though sometimes it is a business necessity, nevertheless it is something in regard to which there can properly be restriction of credit facilities for hire-purchase. In this case, however, far from dealing with a question of Tory principle, we are dealing with the rights of ordinary working men in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-11", "file": "debates1953-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "67b911e32e127d23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Hargreaves", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Hargreaves", "preceding_text": " debate, and it is the danger which I see if the facilities provided in the Statutory Instrument are made available. I fear the extension of this heavy road haulage to the small man, which was commended in the speech of the hon. Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Rees-Davies). I fear it for a very good reason—because of the appalling toll of road accidents. What relation has that to this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-11", "file": "debates1953-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "67b911e32e127d23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that that is a very narrow point. We are simply dealing with the acquiring and disposing of these vehicles. Their condition does not arise on the Licence at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-11", "file": "debates1953-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "67b911e32e127d23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "t in the United Dominions Trust. I wish I had. As far as I know, it is a prosperous and well-run company. I have never had any contact with Mr. Gibson Jarvie, except that once at a dinner I heard him make a political speech when he criticised hon. Gentlemen opposite. But those are issues which have nothing whatever to do with the Licence. I submit that it is time that we pulled ourselves together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-11", "file": "debates1953-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "67b911e32e127d23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1100.4", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed that although the Minister has rejected the remedy proposed by the Prayer, he has not proposed any alternative which might be favourable to the industry. Nevertheless, he has spoken sympathetically and, with the permission of the House, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-11a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-12", "file": "debates1953-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b3aa7232e15101a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1139.4", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "In the first place the right hon. Gentleman asked for an estimate. Estimates given from this Bench are accurate estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-12", "file": "debates1953-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b3aa7232e15101a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "GLASSWARE ORDER (ANNULMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for having given some indication that he intended to raise this matter today. I will certainly do what is required of me in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-12", "file": "debates1953-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b3aa7232e15101a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "GLASSWARE ORDER (ANNULMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheese.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for reminding us of the defeat on the snap Adjournment Division on the coal question in the late Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1145.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-12", "file": "debates1953-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b3aa7232e15101a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1145.2", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "GLASSWARE ORDER (ANNULMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Egg.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-12", "file": "debates1953-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b3aa7232e15101a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "GLASSWARE ORDER (ANNULMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The egg situation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister reconsider the latter part of his statement, in which he said that it was proposed to make the Order afresh? As I understand the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-12", "file": "debates1953-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b3aa7232e15101a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Bridgeman Committee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "sion. I do not think any single party should accept responsibility for deciding what is to be done about this, and I would throw out the suggestion that it might be as well if what was to happen to the telegraph service were decided by an outside committee, an all-party committee, or at any rate in that sort of way, because it is not a matter over which there should be party political controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-12", "file": "debates1953-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b3aa7232e15101a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "MENTAL HOSPITALS (STAFFING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. J. M. Alport", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Much more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. J. M. Alport", "preceding_text": "ountry house cannot economically or properly be taken over and adapted to the needs of an institution of this sort. If we are to tackle the problem it must be done thoroughly by the provision of a new institution built specifically for the purpose. I am well aware that this involves considerable cost. I should say, at a rough guess, that in each case it involves an expenditure of about £1 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-12a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-13", "file": "debates1953-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "048370fa4331d012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-13a.1320.3", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "The Question is, \"That the Bill be now read a Second time.\" Those of that opinion say \"Aye\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-13a.1320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-13", "file": "debates1953-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "048370fa4331d012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-13a.1320.6", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a rush out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I have been charged with levity in calling a count. I have listened to the debate for nearly two hours, and during the whole of that time I have taken note of the number of hon. Members present on the Government side of the House. At no time has the number totalled a dozen. It is only now that the count has been called that there has been an inrush of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-13a.1320.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-13", "file": "debates1953-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "048370fa4331d012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-13a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "CHRONIC DISEASES (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ole House is very grateful to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) for raising an issue which ought to be kept constantly before the House, and for putting it in the way he has done, in one of the best speeches I have ever heard him make. There has been rather more of the heart than of the head in his speech, a marked and definite improvement so far as he is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-13a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1377.8", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ogated by one of the right hon. Gentleman's security officers and asked such questions as these: would he state his frank opinion of his Departmental chief; what politics were talked about in the office? Is he also aware that inquiries were made at the place of work of a number of this man's relatives, about his parents, his parents-in-law, his brothers and sisters, their wives and their husbands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1377.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1387.2", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister think it time that he and other Ministers ceased comparing the work done by various Governments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1413.0", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ven if we cannot solve our major problems, thus reduce the world tension. That at least is the sort of thing that I hope may develop from our talks. I am sure that there will be much more chance of a favourable atmosphere if the Foreign Secretary and I are known to represent a solidly united Britain, than if it is thought that we are playing about for party advantage over here on this great issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1418.3", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ep of the evacuation of the Canal Zone has been taken, the possibility of going down to 18 months is open. At that point the broader arguments in favour of a shorter period than two years—the effects on national economy as a whole and the social life of the country—become of almost overwhelming importance. We did not raise the period to two years with any reference to the training of our reserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1418.3", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "whelming importance. We did not raise the period to two years with any reference to the training of our reserves. [ Interruption. ] No, the training element in National Service does not for one moment require a period of two years, and nobody suggests that it does. Up to 1950, we trained our reserves on a period of 18 months' service, and no one said that it was impossible to do it in that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1423.5", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Harrison", "preceding_text": "tes and Persian and Iraq. When one is travelling commercially, trying to sell British goods, and meeting shopkeepers, wholesalers and retailers, and having to discuss these things over long and interminable meals, one gets down to what they are really thinking. On different occasions one and all said to me, \"We like to see Britain strong, because we look to her to maintain the peace of the world\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend and the Labour Government were handling the matter of conscription as well as they might. Well, I have given an example this afternoon of the handling of the Royal Air Force reservists, and the Prime Minister has something to answer for on that account. Now let us look at the Army. To say the least of it, I am not one of the great admirers of the present Secretary of State for War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ars or so because that is all the time you have before the next party—before the next world war breaks out.\" If Field-Marshal Montgomery is to be believed—he is one of the Government's chief military advisers—we have only 10 years in which to undo the damage done in the last two years by the Secretary of State for War. It is not long enough. It will take at least 50 years to undo what he has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Yes, in private.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1450.3", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my right hon. Friend is quite right in saying that the original Bill was for 18 months reduced to 12? Certainly I thought it was for two years reduced to 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1457.3", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "f the House who used words of that character. It seems to me, and it seems to all my hon. Friends with whom I have spoken, that the very fact that we have not succeeded in stimulating some of our allies to make as great an effort as we would like them to make is the most powerful reason why we should go on trying to stimulate them as long as the emergency continues to persist overseas, as it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1462.2", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "There will be plenty of chance for the hon. Member to speak later. I am being polite to him, and what I have said is quite fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1462.3", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a different revolt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Member makes a direct challenge, he must not grumble if it is taken up. I had nothing to do with the agitation to reduce the period from 18 to 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ing my own view. Others may judge which view is right. The Leader of the Opposition said that there may be a withdrawal from Egypt. That is perfectly true. All of us would be happy to see a satisfactory solution to the problem of the Suez Canal, and if that comes, no doubt it will be possible for a major withdrawal from the immediate area of the Canal to take place. But it has not yet taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "hdrawal from Egypt. That is perfectly true. All of us would be happy to see a satisfactory solution to the problem of the Suez Canal, and if that comes, no doubt it will be possible for a major withdrawal from the immediate area of the Canal to take place. But it has not yet taken place. [ Interruption. ] I do not want to be drawn on the Suez Canal problem. I have very strong views on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "at the present moment this country is, from a military and economic point of view, stretched to its utmost limit. It is not fair to say that, simply because there may be a settlement in these three parts of the world, this is the time when we can reasonably consider a reduction in our overseas forces. The hon. Member for Dudley, who has slipped out again, talked about the Army being \"browned off.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": " Interruption. ] He has now slipped in again. He talked about the Army being \"browned off\" and of units not being up to strength. To some extent the Army is always \"browned off.\" I was a Regular soldier myself for 10 years, and the hon. Member had a longer period of service than I had. We know that there are circumstances arising from time to time which make the Army more \"browned off\" than usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1472.3", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "who may be just filling in their time before call-up by taking part in crime instead of getting down to a job and taking an interesting place in society. There is the question of the employment of National Service men during their period of service. One is always hearing from constituents that their son, or a boy they know, is peeling potatoes in the Army. I have no idea whether it is true or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1482.3", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "it. But our position would not be strengthened today if we accepted the Motion. Everyone agrees that conscription in time of peace is not a system which we care for, though it may not be such a bad thing for the individual as the individual sometimes thinks. I do not think that six years in the Army did me any harm, and I do not think that two years service would do quite a lot of people any harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": ". Friends of mine in subsequent debates. I think the House will agree that that was the original purpose. The question which we must ask ourselves is whether that object has been achieved. That is fundamental. If that object has not been achieved, it is a different matter. If, however, we have produced a large body of trained reserves, which was the original intention of the National Service Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1512.2", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ote this, if they are not already aware of it. Half our force, at least in the Army, consists of tail. Do hon. Members know what tail is? It is not the teeth of the Army; it is not the biting power of the Army. It is the non-combatant section of the Army, the waiters, the batmen, the nursemaids and the gardeners. Let us have an inquiry into that, for we shall then make some remarkable discoveries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": "two considerations? Is it really wise and best that every year the whole House should say that it is up to the Government to state whether or not National Service should continue and for what period? I say to the Leader of the Opposition and to the right hon. Member for Easing-ton that if by some freak of fortune they were to win an election, for instance, next year, and were to form a Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is perfectly correct, and I do not wish to misrepresent what the Motion says. But there is the phrase \"the time has now arrived\" which suggests that there is something in the present situation which differs from the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": " independent inquiry into the manpower in the Services would have to include civilians as well as men in uniform to cover the total number of well over one million employed in the three different Services in a vast variety of complex and technical organisations. No one committee could have sufficient knowledge of that vast field to be able to recommend measures which would have any drastic effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "from the waste there has been criticism during this debate about misuse. I have not had the time to go into that in detail, but I dare say that the Minister of Labour will have something to say about it. Trained apprentices who come to the Army almost all go into their calling unless they are the very rare ones like rhododendron grafters and chicken sexers, but the remainder go into their calling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-16", "file": "debates1953-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "5f60ffef0c9640b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": " recognise it—in educating the illiterates and helping those whose discipline in life was not assisted by parents looking after them. I am aware that National Service places a great responsibility on all three Services. They have in their charge almost all of the youth of this country for two years at the most impressionable period of their lives. That turns them almost into a national university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-16a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-17", "file": "debates1953-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "64bd031d1f4acbc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1568.5", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1568.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-17", "file": "debates1953-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "64bd031d1f4acbc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1569.3", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "se to the House that a Minister shall be made specially chargeable. However, there are certain Questions which, though they appear to deal with the atomic issue, raise matters which are high diplomacy. This first one was naturally one which should be answered by the Minister of Supply, but I have asked my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary to deal with the next two very complicated Questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-17", "file": "debates1953-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "64bd031d1f4acbc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Commander J. W. Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander J. W. Maitland", "preceding_text": "rtant indeed that, as far as possible, there should be equality of sacrifice between individuals when they are endeavouring to serve their country in this way, and I think there is a case for considering whether certain boys, in certain circumstances, should not have a later call-up. Yesterday we decided by a considerable majority that we were going to continue this Act for a period of five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-17", "file": "debates1953-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "64bd031d1f4acbc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, the conscript as well as the Regular is included in Vote A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-17", "file": "debates1953-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "64bd031d1f4acbc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1611.1", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (DURATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. E. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"What about Suez?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. E. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "nsideration the facts with which we have to deal. Put baldly, the situation is that, without National Service and without a call-up for two years, we should be unable to fulfil our world commitments. Those who ask us to reduce the period of National Service now ought, to be logical, at the same time to tell us which of our world commitments they consider it is no longer necessary for us to fulfil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-17", "file": "debates1953-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "64bd031d1f4acbc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE RESERVES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "r Brixton, who, together with the hon. Members for Harrow, East (Mr. Ian Harvey) and Abingdon, delighted the House with reminiscences of the Second World War. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Strachey) then gave a Roland for the Oliver, if I may so put it, of my hon. Friend. My answer to that is another quotation, arma virum-que cano , which I am afraid I cannot translate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-17a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-18", "file": "debates1953-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "5cc68e8fe0bb85d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1726.4", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "PROHIBITED AREAS, KENYA (BOMBING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "owed to make his submissions to you before you come to any decision. It is difficult for the occupant of the Chair to change his mind when he has come to a decision. In future, I suggest that you should hear submissions from hon. Members who raise points in this House before any prima facie Ruling is given. This is not making any criticism of your decision. I remember the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1726.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-18", "file": "debates1953-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "5cc68e8fe0bb85d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1729.4", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "PROHIBITED AREAS, KENYA (BOMBING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Would I be in order, Mr. Speaker, in appealing to the Government Chief Whip on this occasion to move the Adjournment of the House, in view of the fact that the matter has necessitated a special Cabinet meeting and that the change of policy involved is of such vital importance to Her Majesty's subjects to whom the party opposite wishes to be loyal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-18", "file": "debates1953-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "5cc68e8fe0bb85d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "The refusal to reopen the Liverpool Cotton Exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-18", "file": "debates1953-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "5cc68e8fe0bb85d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "That is what I am coming to; that is the evil of the whole business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-18", "file": "debates1953-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "5cc68e8fe0bb85d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "That is what I am coming to; that is the evil of the whole business. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I will tell hon. Members why. I will give one example. Before the war, when Sudan cotton was 7d. a lb., the discount on it, because it was not tenderable in Liverpool, was 2d. The sole reason for the 2d. was because it was not tenderable against futures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-18", "file": "debates1953-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "5cc68e8fe0bb85d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "preceding_text": "ial stability of the cover scheme. So the Raw Cotton Commission have given a cover so stable as to be considered abnormal and to be described as \"artificial.\" On the second point of the Motion proposed by the right hon. Gentleman who is now Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Commission would increase the cost of cotton to the consumer, I want to quote—I hope I am not wearying the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-18", "file": "debates1953-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "5cc68e8fe0bb85d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1824.5", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "n those countries obviously benefited at the expense of the traders and workers here. That sort of thing has gone on for the fast few centuries with the development of industry. It seems to me that what we are concerned about today is the reinstitution of the Liverpool Cotton Market. Judging from what has been said today, it would appear that the quality of the cotton is determined by who buys it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-18a.1824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-19", "file": "debates1953-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "78e468d87bbfa843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-19a.1905.2", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY (PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not good enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have said that, after 1st January, the Minister of Works will answer Questions here on this subject on behalf of the Lord President of the Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-19a.1905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-19", "file": "debates1953-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "78e468d87bbfa843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-19a.1908.6", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ympathetically, of course, but the right hon. Gentleman will be aware that there have been three debates on various aspects of foreign affairs within the last month, and we thought that it would perhaps suit the convenience of the House generally, as nothing new has emerged in the last few days, if any debate on foreign affairs were to await the return from the Conference of my right hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-19a.1908.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-19", "file": "debates1953-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "78e468d87bbfa843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-19a.1925.4", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Clause 3.—(LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": " of hall-marking of gold articles, in which a committee 73 years ago recommended that the law should be consolidated and amended without delay, and nothing has yet been done. I point out to the Attorney-General that the case of the public corporation wrongdoer as regards contribution is beginning to get very near to that state of affairs. It is 14 years since the position was exposed in the Court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-19a.1925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-20", "file": "debates1953-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "050cc765ddd128bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": ". No one would want any of the representatives of the State to take over the rights which in the past have been enjoyed by private angels, who, when deprived of their financial rewards for their pluck, were tempted to console themselves in other directions. Let us consider the present situation of the film industry. Either we have to come to a new approach, or we have to continue with the old one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-20", "file": "debates1953-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "050cc765ddd128bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2114.2", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ng to teach me about courtesy. I must attend any classes he feels himself capable of giving, if he thinks himself suitably qualified to conduct them and that any great number of persons will benefit by them. But he is inaccurate in his recollection, or else I am very inaccurate in my hearing. I heard him saying, in relation to what I was arguing about the Treasury, \"What does he know about that?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-20", "file": "debates1953-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "050cc765ddd128bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "nt with honest principles as exemplified in the past by the British Treasury or whether it represents waste and corruption in the handling of British funds. Is it wise to put people in a position where duty and interest conflict? It has never been challenged that gross irregularities have occurred in the past. If I had time, I would deal with them. There are other things which are inevitable also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-20", "file": "debates1953-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "050cc765ddd128bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": ". What is the urgency for it? The reason why it is being brought in may well be that there is something urgent contemplated—the kind of thing like the Bill which brought the Finance Corporation into being—or that somebody wants to straighten out its affairs. If the necessary chorus of three which I have already described, and which I cannot repeat without risk of being called tediously repetitive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-20", "file": "debates1953-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "050cc765ddd128bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are telephoning for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ot to undertake serious criticism of the Bill, had issued a three-line Whip in support of the Bill, I would not have supported it, but would have voted against it. The least that hon. Members can do, and I hope they will do it at 4 o'clock, is to realise that they are not obliged by party loyalties, though they may feel compelled and coerced as Lobby fodder, bludgeoned and threatened by the Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-20a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-23", "file": "debates1953-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2cf0c81843937eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.8.4", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that many old age pensioners are rather loath to go to the Assistance Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.8.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-23", "file": "debates1953-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2cf0c81843937eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DISEASES (BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e: Legislation will be proposed to revise, consolidate and extend the law on the safety, health and welfare of miners and quarrymen, to provide benefit for certain further cases of disablement from industrial diseases\"— and so on. That was one of the most important statements contained in the Gracious Address from the Throne and I cordially and happily welcome this first Measure within that field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-23", "file": "debates1953-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2cf0c81843937eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.75.5", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DISEASES (BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I am not denying that this proposed change in the principle of compensation was not the original thought of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.75.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-23", "file": "debates1953-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2cf0c81843937eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DISEASES (BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman not agree that in the historical setting of the Elizabethan era—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.79.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-23", "file": "debates1953-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2cf0c81843937eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DISEASES (BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-23", "file": "debates1953-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2cf0c81843937eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (HOUSING LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": " for officers. I should say that the provision of accommodation at the rate of 1,500 square feet for every flat, unit or house is not the sort of accommodation that is intended for the men. If they get their houses through the civilian authorities, and if it is a two-bed roomed flat such as those now being built in my division, they will get something in the nature of 700 or even less square feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-23", "file": "debates1953-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "2cf0c81843937eb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "32s. 6d. and 54s.; and as a result of measures taken by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the real money value of the pension has been very nearly unchanged in the 18 months since it was introduced. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite brought in this interim index of retail prices, and they should know that, in the last 18 months, that has varied by something below 2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-23a.160.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that he is creating the impression that he wants to solve this problem by allowing this small and dwindling number of men to die out altogether, and so in that way the problem will be solved? In view of the very small amount of money involved, will he not reconsider this very deplorable position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.166.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in all quarters of the House this is regarded as an outrageous decision, and one which must inevitably have repercussions on the Government, in that there are many hon. Members on this side of the House who are not prepared to see the Service Estimates go through without a Vote unless this matter is satisfactorily dealt with?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is no answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think it remarkable that the right hon. Gentleman in the long years in which he and his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "In wishing to make quite clear that the night clubs in Tokio are not similar to those in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.172.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.194.7", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE ACTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "In relation to his first reply, may I ask the Prime Minister whether he recollects in his time the Esher Committee being set up, which caused considerable changes to be brought about in the organisation of the War Office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "veryone who uses this argument. Where does moral turpitude arise concerning the offences with which we have to deal? For example, my hon. and learned Friend has been talking about the regulations and the law regarding drink and the use of drink by motorists. Many people think that there is no moral turpitude involved there. But the more we examine the matter the more we find that people's actions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ude to the Home Secretary for using the particular power which always impresses the House—his great gift of clarity in expounding very complicated matters. He made a most lucid opening speech and I was greatly indebted to him, because until he had made that speech I had only a vague idea of the implications of what we are discussing today. I am not by any means sure that I have any clear idea now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"It has been requisitioned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " which are hardly adequate to provide a home for anyone is very high indeed. All too frequently sub-letting of a part of a house would be better than living in a house which should have been condemned some years ago. I wish to come to one or two matters to which no reference has been made up to now. I find myself in the physical difficulty that my copy of the red book has disappeared since I rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-24", "file": "debates1953-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "30ff6069f0cf4393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "oy with which the historian or the collector of antiques or objets d'art hears at long last the voice of laissez faire Liberalism raised once more in this House. From time to time in the course of correspondence in \"The Times\" we read that the voice of the cuckoo has been heard at unusual times and in unusual circumstances with great joy. But to hear from a party which supports conscription today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-24a.246.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "sing between antique shops, has become a major traffic road between north and south? Is he aware that the chairman of the transport committee of the urban district council and a master at Eton College says: …the dangers of Eton High Street and of the College area are perfectly frightful and I am very anxious lest some extremely serious accident should take place. For example, some 20 boys\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.328.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman aware that the operating company were not allowed to have a representative at the inquiry into one of their own aircraft, nor were the survivors consulted by the Italian Commission in arriving at their conclusion and producing a report which the Minister himself says is a violation of elementary British justice? Is he aware that this cannot be regarded as the end of the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.349.2", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "So far as I am aware there has been no attempt by the American Government to conceal this fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "May I ask the First Lord if he agrees with his hon. Friend that this has been a question of party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.359.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.360.7", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the fact that Dartmouth is in my constituency, may I be allowed to put a supplementary question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.360.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ens from the rest of Scotland pour into the great cities. Take one single example. In Glasgow we have built, as hon. Members know, something of the order of 30,000 houses. When we started that building we had a waiting list of 70,000. Now we have a waiting list of 120,000 or thereabouts. We have added two people to the waiting list for every single person we have taken off by building a new house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "mpled garrulity, to a Minister replying in his own way. He has asked me to define what the Corporation can do, and I say that that is laid down in an Act of Parliament to which the hon. Gentleman did not think fit to refer. I am not going to endeavour to improve upon the language of an Act of Parliament, which is part of the statute law of this country. The hon. Gentleman then asked me a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.454.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST-WAR CREDITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "ate. We all have the feeling that something is wrong in withholding this sum, even the complete sum, not to speak of smaller amounts—because I must not speak of them. I should like to read two or three lines from a leading article in a newspaper today, mentioning a speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his representative here will understand that what the Chancellor has said must be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.461.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST-WAR CREDITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "ey should now be repaid. I should like to know from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, if such an order were made, by how much the Chancellor of the Exchequer would have to say next Budget day it was necessary to increase taxation in order that that Treasury order should be fulfilled. I make no guess, but at least a shilling would have to go upon the Income Tax of all the rest of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-25", "file": "debates1953-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "0c7447bb64b2a5e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST-WAR CREDITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " upon commonsense, then it was an anomaly and an outrage upon commonsense created by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bishop Auckland. As far as I remember, it was not criticised by the hon. Member at the time, though I will give him the credit for having been very free with his criticism of the financial policy of all Governments, whether of his own party or on the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-25a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-27", "file": "debates1953-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "8cc934c17c3183f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-27a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "ROADS (MODERNISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Higgs", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And Worcestershire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Higgs", "preceding_text": "t what sounded a perfectly good case for saying that the greater part of expenditure on the roads ought to be within the built-up areas. Immediately following came the almost equally convincing case by the hon. Member for Caernarvon (Mr. G. Roberts) for the expenditure of at least a substantial part of what is available on rural roads. I shall not attempt to interfere between Lancashire and Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-27a.664.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.762.10", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (POSTPONED QUESTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "This Question has been postponed until tomorrow, Mr. Speaker, but would I be in order in wishing enemy No. 1 many happy returns of the day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.762.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.766.0", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": " aware that the income and expenditure figures quoted in the blue book, taken in conjunction with output, show a rise in 1946–47 of about 7·2 per cent. and that the London and Cambridge indices, which carry on from 1938 onwards, indicate a rise of 6½ per cent from 1946 to 1947, which indicates that there was a fairly substantial rise in price in 1946 and 1947? If the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "BRITISH TROOPS, KENYA (COURT-MARTIAL ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister a question of which I have given him Private Notice, and may I, at the same time, offer him congratulations and many happy returns of the day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "BUILDING LICENSING ARRANGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "How does the right hon. Gentleman know that his conclusions are right when he himself admits at the Box that he has no knowledge of the fox—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "KABAKA OF BUGANDA (WITHDRAWAL OF RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "ter giving him three further days for reflection, the Governor again saw him this morning and gave him a last chance to change his mind. He refused to do so. Thereupon the Governor, with my authority, informed him that, in view of his determined opposition to the policy of Her Majesty's Government, recognition would be withdrawn. His continued presence in Uganda would be a threat to public safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.780.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "KABAKA OF BUGANDA (WITHDRAWAL OF RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "reat strides in the economic, social, and political fields. Through political reform both in central and local government, through the reorganisation of the cotton and coffee industries and through the expansion of education, much has been and is being done to advance the Africans in these fields. We must ensure that today's events will not endanger the progress or future of the peoples of Uganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.785.6", "colnum": "785", "heading": "KABAKA OF BUGANDA (WITHDRAWAL OF RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "No. I said I would see the Kabaka if he wished to see me. I must make it quite clear that this decision is final.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.785.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Really, if I give way every time an hon. Member wishes to ask a question, I shall go on for too long. I want to be courteous to hon. Members who want to interrupt. I must be courteous to those who want to make contributions out of their knowledge of this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman launched this campaign earlier in a Question in this House and thus gave us the key to what he was going to do this year. He used some very misleading figures at the commencement of this campaign to prove that we had neglected repairs in order to build new houses. He said: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in 1948 we saw the largest number of houses built under the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ot true. The amount spent on new houses in that year was £400 million odd, not £808 million. The right hon. Gentleman's error in this case was only about £400 million. I have come to the conclusion that the right hon. Gentleman reads just enough to keep himself misinformed. If he would like to contradict me on that point I am prepared to give way. Does he stand by those figures, or are they wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.815.5", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir, I do represent a blitzed city whose inhabitants are suffering now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.815.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " control. What the Government have done is to dodge it. What they have done is to run away from it. What they have done is to have the maximum of demagogy with the minimum of physical results. That is what they have done, and that indeed is exactly what is happening, judging from the letters one receives from different parts of the country. I have received a large number of letters from landlords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ge the landlord in a county court. That procedure is hopeless. That procedure, surely, is not seriously intended to protect the tenant. Our experience goes to show that in a vast number of cases the tenant would rather pay the increase than expose himself to having to go to the court, employing the services of a lawyer. A lot of our people still think there is something disreputable about a court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.824.7", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "merely thinking aloud, but it seems to me also that it is perfectly just that the tenant, if he disagrees with the sanitary inspector, should be able to appeal against him, not to the court but to the rent tribunal. What is wrong with the rent tribunal? I know that some landlords do not like it. I know the Lord Chief Justice hates it, but, after all, the rent tribunals are institutions of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.824.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And the increase in the Bank rate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "d not want to publicise a Socialist Measure of that sort and concealed it from the people. I agree—I should like to say one or two kind things—that there may be a case in 1953 for the 8 per cent. increase although there was not in 1949. There is probably justification for allowing an increase in rent from 6 per cent. to 8 per cent. because of the increase in the price of materials in the meantime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "preceding_text": ". I am talking about good property that could be repaired, and if it is owned by the local authority the rent will go up as under this Bill. So if such houses are handed over to the local authority there will be no difference for the tenant. The local authorities which I know—and I know the London County Council and my own local authority—will charge a reasonable rent which will cover the repairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "ate of repair and in habitable condition, and that, as I have said, is going to be open to a wide variety of definitions. If it is to have any effective purpose, it will certainly require far more sanitary inspectors than we have at the moment. That is one thing that could arise out of it, and I hope that some effective measures are being taken to train the extra sanitary inspectors for this work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "lity of frauds, let them bear in mind that there are innumerable landlords who have been preserving their property at their own expense for a long time and who will go on preserving it at their own expense in the future, though not to the same extent as the result of this Bill. So long as we leave this property in private hands the community is getting the benefit out of the altruism of landlords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ctory arrangements are made at the minimum of cost. We shall have constructive proposals to that effect to make on the Committee stage of the Bill. We have heard a great deal for years about the effects of inflation, but we have hardly heard a word about the effects of deflation. It was in 1920 that this 40 per cent. increase for the landlord was granted. In 1922 I was married. Within a few weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-11-30", "file": "debates1953-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b1f3781ff2da593a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.912.9", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-11-30a.912.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was no Army worth talking about.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that when we were sitting on the Government side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which consumers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "Organisations representing all interests, producers, distributors and consumers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.935.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.947.5", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llewellyn", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that most people in Wales entirely agree with the terms of his reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.965.12", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is how fast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.965.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eceles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the last 30 years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eceles", "preceding_text": "working to a Whitehall target. We have found that the way to increase output is to allow some part of the building programme to increase as fast as it can. When that happens it is possible for everyone in the industry to have confidence that he will not work himself out of a job. There is no better incentive to a brick maker, for instance, than to tell him that all the bricks he makes he can sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eceles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eceles", "preceding_text": "k himself out of a job. There is no better incentive to a brick maker, for instance, than to tell him that all the bricks he makes he can sell. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the last 30 years?\"] That was not so under the Labour Government. They fixed a target a year ahead for traditional houses, and therefore the brickyards took good care not to produce more bricks than were needed for that target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The fact that the building force has remained the same, while it has been able to use a steadily rising supply of materials since we have been in office, only shows that productivity goes up when we have more freedom. On the second point made by the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) regarding unemployment, the published figures show that it is now very low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ge of resources between repairs and new building, and that fact was referred to by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale(Mr. Bevan), who reminded us of the compelling need to make good war damage when the bombing ceased. I regret to say that much of that repair work—and I have studied how it was done—was done very expensively and inefficiently, but the bulk of it was completed by 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.969.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "not be denied by the right hon. Gentleman. They give a very good picture of the way in which industrial building has been allowed to run down under the present Government. Nor can it be denied—this was also in my speech, so I shall make reference to it—that the present value of building, new factory building, under construction is still about £30 million below the peak under the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The distortion remains, because this figure of completions is not a reliable guide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to quote me correctly, he should remember that I said that if there is a limited amount of resources at one's disposal and one wants to build 300,000 houses, then a decision has to be taken as to what is going to be done without. What actually was done, as I proved in the figures I gave yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "t through this part of my speech if I may. Organisation of the site is most important, and that is steadily improving. More machines are coming into use and prefabrication is becoming more generally adopted. It is very interesting that, although there is more work in the building industry than a year ago, competitive tendering is keener and also that the price of building materials is coming down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "It is remarkable the number of landlords who keep their property in good repair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "Well, there are financial provisions in Clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.983.2", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I said \"licensed.\" I did not do anything about it because the start of any building is really the licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.983.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "er galling to notice that the day after the scheme was announced the \"Financial Times\" headlined its attitude \"property owners dissatisfied.\" As for the administrative problem, not a word was said in any speech or in the White Paper, about an emergency training scheme for sanitary inspectors. Yet there is already a shortage, not so much in the south but in the northern industrial revolution towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "The houses are taken at site value. They always have been. Quite rightly, too; but he loses every penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ddress. It qualifies because the landlords have not spent £54 in the last three years, but have spent £138 on it. What will happen under the Bill is simply that for the next three years, claiming the allowance, they will get back no more than what has already been spent in the last three years. Any suggestion that profits are going to a house which can claim the rent allowance is beside the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "I find it very easy to understand why so many hon. Members opposite suggest that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.993.8", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "lord has to prove that he has spent some money and has the right of going to court to make his case. We have heard from the benches opposite the alternative policy of the Opposition. I am not arguing whether they could or not, but they did nothing about slum clearance and we at least are trying to make a start on that. They did nothing, apart from war damage repairs which, in part, were localised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.993.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "wnership of local authorities. I challenge them to vote against the provisions which ensure that houses which local authorities have bought, acquired, or built are withdrawn from the Rent Acts. The distinction between us is that hon. Members opposite say there should be a general increase in rents without any restriction and no guarantee that any particular house has any repairs done in it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ify for the increase, will he do better by doing so? I think that is a major point. Secondly—I want to put this very briefly—I think it is common knowledge that a good many of these repairs are, in fact, done more cheaply, contrary to common opinion, in connection with the larger houses. Some of the larger houses are a better repairing proposition than some of the semi-jerry built post-war houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is good for the lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "rove his case but that the tenant will have to disprove it. The onus will be put on the tenant to get a couple of days off from work to do so. The hon. Member for Oldham, East talked about the essential justice of the county court, and we will not disagree with that, but does the Minister realise that this excursion to a county court by countless thousands of poor tenants is a sheer impossibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Now the hon. Gentleman is inciting tenants not to pay their rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Then what is he to do? There is nothing under this Bill to stop a landlord, who has not spent a penny on the property, from sending a notice to the tenant that the rent is to be increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I agree. That was the effect of my first intervention. It is true that the houses built under the standards of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale, whatever else one might say about him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1045.5", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "ore deeply in Committee, but I am not at the moment by any means convinced that it is necessary. We have been told that this is a test of the landlords' good faith, but I think the test of the landlord's good faith, speaking of them generically as a group, is that, for the most part, as my right hon. Friend and others have frequently said, houses have, in fact, been kept in reasonably good repair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1054.3", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "r. Since the year 1920, 25 per cent. of the net rent controlled under the 1920–1938 Acts, was allowed to landlords in order to enable them to keep their houses in repair. I say that if they had used that 25 per cent.—and we know that the Parliamentary Secretary was rather cynical when I interrupted him the other day and he would not allow me to get in because I think he was a little afraid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1054.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "isky thing to do, and it will get them into a good deal of trouble if they are found out. In any event, such a question, as my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, East (Mr. Horobin) pointed out in his admirable speech, is a suitable question for determination by the courts. I was glad to hear such tributes paid to our county courts by hon. Members below the Gangway who have such experience of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "y do that they are taking a very big risk. They take a double risk now if, having got the repairs increase by satisfying the two conditions, they then let the house drop out of repair. First of all, I think the tenant may come down upon them, and if he does obtain his certificate they will lose, not only the new repairs increase, but the 40 per cent. increase they were granted on the rent in 1920.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "having got the repairs increase by satisfying the two conditions, they then let the house drop out of repair. First of all, I think the tenant may come down upon them, and if he does obtain his certificate they will lose, not only the new repairs increase, but the 40 per cent. increase they were granted on the rent in 1920. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] They will lose both and go back to the 1914 control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ood, or in good condition, if he has to use all the extra rent for extra repairs? Why should he do this if he cannot add to his free income which he may spend on himself? The first answer is that many landlords do this already even with an insufficient rent. They do it when they can afford to do so, not out of the income of the house but out of other resources which they may have at their command—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Yes. I do not think I need say a great deal about the scheme itself. It has been very well received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "November, 1952, to 31st October, 1953, the number of houses built was 300,001.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-01", "file": "debates1953-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ca63f3461df81129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (COMPENSATION) REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "ly in reference to what the Parliamentary Secretary has said. As the story of steel unfolds itself we really get the facts. Whereas we were told, ad nauseam, that there would be bureacracy going mad and \"jobs for the boys\" when this industry was nationalised, it now appears that it was successfully run by a staff with a maximum of 60 and a reasonable minimum of 44. That is a very interesting fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-01a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRIESTE (FIVE-POWER CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must be content with the answer which I gave to his Question. I am certain that it is much better, on the whole, for people to keep quiet about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1138.4", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRIESTE (FIVE-POWER CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister at least give this assurance, that exactly the same information has been made available to the Yugoslav Government as has been made available to the Italian Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Woodford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If the Minister says that the quality of the meat ration varies according to the district, is he in a position to give particulars as between Dart-ford and Epping?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Jeger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Jeger", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Minister's policy is to legalise the black market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1191.3", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is quite a wrong conclusion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s to his party that he now has a majority support. For the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bradford, Central (Mr. Webb) and many other hon. Gentlemen opposite evidently take the view that all farm prices are too high and that the profitability of farming has risen to a much too high level. The hon. Lady who was, unfortunately, unable to continue her speech, was evidently developing that theme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1191.3", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "on. Lady who was, unfortunately, unable to continue her speech, was evidently developing that theme. [An Hon. Member: \"That is quite a wrong conclusion.\"] This is a most remarkable transformation and I hope it continues until the next Election, for the country will then be able to realise exactly where the Socialist Party leads us, and that is really towards the destruction of British agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The policy of the Socialist Party was to continue food rationing forever, which would mean a bigger and bigger burden on the taxpayers' shoulders and a larger and larger Supplementary Estimate presented to the House of Commons. I turn now to one or two items in the Estimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is the hon. Member one of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " hon. and gallant Friend and the Treasury Ministers with me when I say that it is the policy of the Conservative Party to buy in the Empire every ton of sugar that is available before we seek dollar sources of supplies. I have a particular constituency interest in this, because when hon. Members opposite sat on this side of the House the Worcestershire fruit-grower was in a very parlous condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "We move on from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was Marie Lloyd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am not qualified to quarrel with the hon. Member on dietetic values, but I would remind him that it was his right hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, Central (Mr. Webb) who coined the phrase, \"A little of what you fancy does you good.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1211.2", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "We are not objecting to the subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "llant Gentleman's plot failed; people were not taken in by white bread. The price differential was too great. This shows how right I was in accusing the right hon. and gallant Gentleman of having that intention in mind. He admits it now, in this Estimate. That leaves £73 million to be accounted for. How is it accounted for? Firstly, by £18,700,000 on meat. That is not due to increased consumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which Marx?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": " falling—we have had a fall in the price of feedingstuffs—but the taxpayer is paying hundreds of thousands of pounds a week to stabilise the price. What can be more ridiculous than this? When the right hon. and gallant Gentleman set forth towards this fantastic conclusion, I warned him that he would land himself in a Marx Brothers' free economy. That is what he has done—eggs at 7d. and subsidised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "The simple point I made was that that part of this Supplementary Estimate which was involved in extra subsidies was due to the buying by the well-to-do people. The ordinary people—the people which the \"Economist\" calls the lower income brackets; indeed, I believe I myself used that phrase—are not buying their rations. They are not taking them up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "lementary Estimate—to be precise, £55 million out of £68 million—goes in producer subsidies to the implementation of the Agriculture Act, 1947. The right hon. Gentleman pointedly did not answer the question which I put to him. whether his observation that the money so provided was going to the wrong people was or was not intended to be a reference to support for the British Agricultural community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1229.2", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": " an established and unshakable fact. Nor should we exclude from our minds the evolution as time goes on of still larger measures of unification, and possibly still larger measures of federation of the whole East African territories. This is the sort of idea which the man who gave his name to the Rhodesias would, I believe, have supported. That speech was blazoned in the whole Press of East Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Where was he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman was in the House when I started my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Ask him where he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman was in the House when I started my speech. [An Hon. Member: \"Where was he?\"] If the hon. Gentleman, who helped to launch this debate, is interested in its progress, he has not been very conspicuous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Party politics.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": " to assure them that his speech did not mean what he said. I feel that ordinary people in this country have had their consciences aroused at the repeated outbreaks of trouble within the Colonial Empire. They are asking where next trouble will arise. It can hardly be a coincidence that all these troubles follow in the wake of the right hon. Gentleman the present Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "All I say is that if this House does not at this time express its anxiety about Africa, it loses its right to speak for the British nation because there is deep concern which is widespread and not confined to one party, one section, or one class. But we thought that Uganda, at any rate, was immune from all this. When the decision was made I did my best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They were wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "hich, basically, does not differ from the Constitution which was in operation when we on this side of the House were the Government. The figures were given by my hon. Friend the Member for Eton and Slough (Mr. Fenner Brockway), and let me say that in opening this debate my hon. Friend put his case forthrightly and honestly, as he was entitled to do. He instanced the inference behind those figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is not on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "If the Secretary of State had waited I was about to say that we would take the Motion off the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. Henry Hopkins on)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. Henry Hopkins on)", "preceding_text": "told us that he has done everything to create confidence in the mind of the Kabaka, to create trust and foster good relations between them. But Sir Andrew Cohen has told us in terms that he has had no success at all. I should not be doing my duty by the House if I did not say, on behalf of my right hon. Friend, that the possibility of the Kabaka's being able to return to Uganda must be discounted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-02", "file": "debates1953-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "3f9acf0b36f0b8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KABAKA OF BUGANDA (DEPOSITION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. Henry Hopkins on)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. Henry Hopkins on)", "preceding_text": "t is tragic and painful that this young man, born in the royal family of Buganda, with all the advantages of education, and of an honoured father who co-operated loyally with the British Government, who has been given opportunities by the Government to participate in constitutional and economic and social developments in Buganda and in the Protectorate as a whole, should have thrown all this away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-02a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Medlicott", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that public opinion itself has been at fault for a great many years in treating the question of homosexuality as a fit subject for music hall humour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1300.5", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "In dealing with the normal Welsh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1304.3", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. and learned Gentleman tell us how much longer it will be before he names the day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "My whole purpose in life is to try to meet the wishes of hon. Members, but what the right hon. Gentleman has asked for is something quite unprecedented. The evidence has, I understand, been placed in the Library and is, therefore, to that extent available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1318.2", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Reverting to the Motion about Cardinal Mindszenty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "preceding_text": "he Bank of England could exchange one lot of notes for the other. Here is a change. Now the Bank of England is to get hold of the notes and pay their face value. Thereafter, it can destroy the notes. It is a neat little conspiracy, having regard to the relationship between the Conservative Party and the City of London—one of the neatest little conspiracies I have come across for quite a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1394.3", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (HOUSING LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " I wonder what sort of committee dealt with this matter; I presume it was a committee of the Ministry of Defence. In the case of the £40 million, it was obviously decided by the three Service Departments that the 15,531 houses should be divided as follows: 2,087 for the Navy, 7,017 for the Army and 6,427 for the Air Force. According to these figures the Air Force must now get at least about 8,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Three million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ion outstanding in relation to a total fund of £6 million, the repayment of a great deal of which is still in doubt. The Parliamentary Secretary occasionally looks at me with an air of mild surprise rather like, was it Cortez, on a peak in Darien? But that is what I understood. I understood the hon. and learned Gentleman to say so far as British Lion was concerned £2 million was still outstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-03", "file": "debates1953-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "eb186a555a95bb7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Could there be any conceivable reason? Yet at a time when we might very well be going home to bed we are kept here by what—I do not want to overemphasise it—is really obstinacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-03a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-04", "file": "debates1953-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "f0e0b4c71d2afeb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-04a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF BIRDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "e list, whereas now he is given that power, which I think is probably a good thing. Before leaving the question of individual birds, I would remind the House that it is mistaken to think that gulls have been decreasing throughout the United Kingdom. On the whole, they seem to have been increasing without any doubt. One fortunate thing about the gull is that he is an extraordinarily good egg layer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-04a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr.Oliver Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr.Oliver Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "ion we took was the wrong action, and it is to that proposition that I must address myself, and not to subsidiary points. The whole matter engaged the very deep and earnest thought of myself and my advisers before I decided upon this drastic step for recommendation to my colleagues. I now wish to put the arguments and set before hon. Members with- out any political bias what the alternatives were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "e other action, and could only take the action of complete suspension of the Constitution. He argued that if there had been a general election the People's Progressive Party would have been returned again. One of the things which the right hon. Gentleman has succeeded in doing is to make many more Communists in British Guiana and other Colonies than all the Communist propaganda in those countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They have not been made.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman, who is in this House as an heir of the traditions of the time when the Speaker protested against the arrest of five of our own Members, is himself today imprisoning elected members in British Guiana, and when he has arrested them he is declining to allow them to go to public trial and to answer, to the people who elected them, the charges that have been made against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1669.3", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to hear that, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, as I should be happy to reply to the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1669.5", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "egal procedure, but what we see going on every month that this Government remain in power is a progressive driving back of the colonial peoples from the hopes to which the administration of my right hon. Friend the Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) had led them. The Secretary of State for the Colonies gets happier and happier each week as we hear this news of continuing distress and distrust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1669.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "t swiftly. Were the Government to wait until murder and arson had taken place? If so, how many murders and how much arson? Surely the House has not forgotten the sad story of Malaya? Months, indeed years, before drastic action was taken to meet the situation there, the party which now sits on these benches demanded debates and made requests for action. I do not want to make a party point about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1681.4", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "their people. If the social and economic development which hon. Members on both sides of the House want to see in the Colonies is to be brought about, conditions must be established which will allow for the substantial inflow of investment and expertise from overseas. There can be no inflow of investment at all if there is disorder and if government is unstable. Surely that is generally accepted.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1681.4", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "n the West Indies, the statement which he and the Jamaican People's National Party issued in which they condemned the P.P.P. Ministers for their betrayal of the cause of coloured people the world over and their reckless and stupid betrayal of the people who voted for them. I also quote Mr. Grantley Adams, the President of the Barbadoes Workers' Union, a Socialist, and a man who has earned respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "top me from going into the Lobby tonight, even if I have to go in alone, because the story of the British Colonies since the present Government have been in power is a very sad one indeed. I remember reading a few weeks ago how in history, when Sheridan stood in this famous Chamber at a time when Warren Hastings was cheating the Princes in India, he made a speech in just and righteous indignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "inary use of language, to talk about \"constituting a Legislature or altering the Constitution or powers thereof.\" All one can say is that it has a certain indirect effect. With the greatest respect to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, I would point out to him that the Committee had the benefit of extremely well-qualified advice, and that it clearly came to the conclusion that it was satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " than the present emergency rule by the Governor in Council. I imagine that that would go on until some other Draft Constitution of a temporary nature more acceptable to the Opposition was brought forward. We have not heard in detail what the Opposition dislike about the present Draft Constitution and what they would like instead of it. I assume that they do not want the old Constitution restored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1721.3", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Do not be so avuncular.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "s of hon. Members take the view of our colonial responsibilities that it is our duty to get rid of them as soon as we can, to march out and leave them to their fate. That is what I understand from their speeches in this and other debates—the view that we should part company with our colonial responsibilities. Other Members of the Opposition share our view, and I think I may say they share my view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1728.3", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": " and to say that the best we could do was to withdraw the Constitution—temporarily, I hope—and to send out to British Guiana, as we are doing, trusted people to advise on a temporary alternative. I am glad to see that the Assistant Secretary of the T.U.C. is our guarantor in that respect and that there will be a good trade union, Left-wing, British democratic point of view from one whom I respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-07", "file": "debates1953-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b61cbe1d71d20ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1728.3", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH GUIANA (SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": " and the best thing to withdraw it. Dr. Rita Hinden has told us that, when she interviewed representatives of the P.P.P., she found—and these are such significant words that I am surprised that they have not had greater attention— The idea that the minority also had rights, that democracy meant government by consent; that is, by the consent of everyone governed,…was alien to their thoughts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-07a.1728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-08", "file": "debates1953-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5562fdb05be1fe53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1798.7", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Why was it that in the period of the late Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1798.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-08", "file": "debates1953-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5562fdb05be1fe53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In this matter of giving notice, all hon. Members are equal, and if one hon. Member does give notice he is entitled to be assured that his discussion will not be anticipated by the rest of the House. In that there is no difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-08", "file": "debates1953-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5562fdb05be1fe53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1819.0", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House is very much obliged to you, Mr. Speaker, for the statement you have just made, because if this were allowed to pass it would mean that any hon. Member could bring any supplementary questions, whether on a statement or on an original Question, to a sharp end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-08", "file": "debates1953-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5562fdb05be1fe53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "RURAL WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llewellyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llewellyn", "preceding_text": "re are those who say that we have already gone so far that there is no going back. That may be so; I do not know, but I believe it is so in some counties. Before embracing widespread afforestation on the Towy Valley scale, we should remember the sort of society that is to grow up beneath the trees. Last week, in search of inspiration for this debate, I was listening at home to the Light Programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-08", "file": "debates1953-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5562fdb05be1fe53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1918.0", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "RURAL WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The right hon. Gentleman has left now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "eing had all the time. The fact is that the House will have to think again about this matter before very long. This is more serious than many hon. Members think. I may not have the same justification for speaking as some of my hon. Friends who represent rural constituencies in Wales; but I was born and lived most of my life in the foothills of the Black Mountains. I know the area very well indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-08a.1918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1951.2", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I know, but I am not concerned with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1951.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1966.6", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1966.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1986.1", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "n a minute. The second condition is \"good and tenantable repair.\" That is the other condition that must be satisfied. This term has been in the rent Acts for years and has worked well since 1920. To sum up this rent increase section of the Bill, I say the whole purpose of the Bill is to give the owner that additional amount which he must have if he is to do the repair work that he did before 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1987.0", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the tenant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "He has got to show whether he has spent the money. He could be asked to produce his accounts to show that he had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1987.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1988.1", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt, but for the record we must get this correct. The right hon. Gentleman said that in the first year the landlord must show he has spent three-fifths. I think the figure is six-fifths in one year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1992.5", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "meeting between officials of local authorities and of my Department. At this latter meeting it was thought on both sides that these financial arrangements were reasonable, but I think that I should give the local authorities themselves time to consider their position more fully, and for this reason I do not propose to move the Money Resolution at this stage. We do not want to rush them in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1992.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1994.1", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector McNeil", "preceding_text": "esolution because, although he believes the associations of local authorities to be satisfied with the financial provisions, he was going to give them more time. I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that the truth is that at least two of these organisations have not yet had time to meet as organisations to consider the financial provisions. If that is the truth, it is a discourtesy to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1994.1", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector McNeil", "preceding_text": "st to the right hon. Gentleman that the truth is that at least two of these organisations have not yet had time to meet as organisations to consider the financial provisions. If that is the truth, it is a discourtesy to this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.] It is certainly a discourtesy to this side of the House, because we are people who remain in close association with our local authority colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1996.5", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman made a demand that the Bill should be withdrawn and claimed that that would meet the wishes of the local authorities. I was in close touch with the local authorities last night, and no such demand was ever made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1996.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1996.6", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Bill was printed in November.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I am, as usual, indebted to the right hon. Gentleman for his ability to be loyal to his colleagues and still not tell an untruth. The truth is, as the right hon. Gentleman by inference has now admitted, that no matter whose the fault—I do not know whose fault it is—the Scottish local authority associations have not had an opporunity, as associations, to consider the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.1996.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2006.5", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "ing in these islands. There were more subsidies for local authorities and more new houses, and if there was a chance of building new houses it was a case of, \"Let us build them in Tory constituencies in order to shake the right hon. Gentlemen opposite if we can.\" That was the policy they followed. I commend this Bill to the House. It is an attack on bad housing conditions. We all agree about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2015.6", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It certainly does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "The frivolous and infantile objections from the other side of the House are unworthy of hon. Members who pretend to have an interest in these matters. This Bill deals with slums as they have never been dealt with before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2024.1", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " of the findings of the Hutson Committee. I think the right hon. Gentleman was not wholly just in his contention. He read out certain extracts from paragraphs in their Report. But, after all, the final findings of the Committee were that the cost of repairs had gone up by something like 40 per cent., and that was not a party Committee, but one of which local authority representatives were members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2024.1", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was not representative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "mething like 40 per cent., and that was not a party Committee, but one of which local authority representatives were members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Indeed, yes; the burgh surveyor of Paisley was a member. When we are dealing with-the cost of housing in a burgh I cannot imagine a better judge than the burgh surveyor, and we had the burgh surveyor of Paisley to consider the Paisley housing accounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "t he had incurred these extra costs. Indeed, he said, in a vigorous and admirable metaphor at one point, \"The sheriff gets down off the bench and begins to assist the landlord.\" Well, what happens? The landlord has to bring forward a claim which he can justify in court. He will have to use his chartered accountant and his solicitor and will have to satisfy himself that, in the case of, let us say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2027.1", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "rong basis, the claim falls, and the expenditure, even though it be 59 per cent. falls also. The landlord gets no benefit from it whatsoever. The difficulty in which the landlord will be put will be considerable. This is a very difficult problem which will require very close technical examination. I do not think that it is fair to suggest that the scales are weighted against one side or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2047.4", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "t difficulty, are doing their utmost to preserve their property. I think it is a terrible thing, bearing in mind that this Bill will tackle and does tackle the slum problem in its early stages, that this House should consider for one moment voting against it on Second Reading, because it is then going out to the country that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are voting against slum clearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2047.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2051.5", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "w loan debt stands at £99 million, a great proportion of which is attributable to housing. At present, each year over £1 million is being lost in housing. Indeed, the finances of the housing department are getting into such a state as to be causing the greatest concern, and it may be that the day is not far off when commissioners will have to be sent to tidy up the financial position of that city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2051.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2058.3", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mclnnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mclnnes", "preceding_text": "hority turns him down, the owner can go to the sheriff. We have all that cumbersome machinery to go through. Is it not about time that we vested full power in the hands of local authority medical officers? Surely they can be trusted to determine what is and what is not an unfit house? Give them the full power, without these unnecessarily restrictive definitions and without any appeal by the owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2061.1", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "stion of the owner who cannot afford to carry out the necessary repairs until he gets the increased rent to enable him to do so. That is the first point, the man who cannot afford to do what is obviously necessary and what he wants to do because he has not the capital behind him. Then there is the question of the owner who has kept his property in a first-rate condition, but at an uneconomic rent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "Innes) and other hon. Members opposite. There would be a great agitation throughout the length and breadth of Scotland. I can well understand why the Government, dependent as they are upon a very slender majority, find it necessary to do something which, in my opinion, is not altogether justified—to make it a condition that there must be a qualifying expenditure before a rent increase can be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2090.2", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "preceding_text": "I agree. There is evidence in the Marley Report that landlords did not receive from the rents any superfluity of money between the wars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "uses, including tenements in the better-conditioned houses in Glasgow, Edinburgh and other towns, are quite splendid homes even to this day. Even though many of these houses have been in existence for 60 years, that does not mean that they have been allowed to deteriorate, and I think that the idea that all landlords have allowed their houses to deteriorate into slums is a slander on the landlords", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "In spite of the fact that the landlords did not send me the information for which I asked, I took up the matter with the Glasgow Corporation. I was informed that on the only occasion when the Corporation sat down with the property owners to deal with this problem, the property owners discovered that their old houses were equal to the value of the new houses which had been completed the day before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2110.3", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "olled houses is ill-conceived and unrealistic to a degree. The next point of the Amendment is in connection with the increase of 40 per cent. in rents to private landlords. The first thing that strikes me about that is the reference to private landlords, from which I presume that if the local authorities were to increase their rents by 40 per cent. the party opposite would not raise any objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2114.1", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I do not know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2116.4", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not under this Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ll that that is a charge that is absolutely without foundation, and that, in fact, what we are doing is to take up again with vigour the policy of slum clearance which our predecessors had to discontinue at the beginning of the war in 1939. I say to the House that already comprehensive schemes have been prepared in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Paisley and elsewhere which my right hon. Friend is encouraging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2116.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-09", "file": "debates1953-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "714da99998ff2b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2137.3", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEN MINUTES' RULE (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "n a Friday, but always on a Monday, after Government business. That applied to all the stages of the Bill until I got it on to the Statute Book. I was never directed to place it on the Order Paper for discussion. What is the sense of Mr. Speaker's asking me on what day I want the Bill if it can only be put down for a Friday? Why, when I said Wednesday, did not Mr. Speaker object? It is just silly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-09a.2137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2148.1", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Is there any reason why police reports in this sort of case should not be acceptable as evidence without the attendance of the police constable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2158.5", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Remnant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stop brewing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Remnant", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend re-examine this matter, because it is essential, if these offences are to decrease materially, to find the sources of supply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2177.8", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "With regard to the television debate, the Leader of the House will know that there is a very general—I will not say a unanimous, but a widespread—public feeling that this is an occasion on which it would be a great pity if the party Whips were put on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2177.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2177.8", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n debate, the Leader of the House will know that there is a very general—I will not say a unanimous, but a widespread—public feeling that this is an occasion on which it would be a great pity if the party Whips were put on. [ Laughter. ] I am sorry to hear that laughter, because it ignores the very general public feeling that it is a pity to drag the B.B.C. and all its affairs into party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2177.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2179.6", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Housing (Repairs and Rents) Money Resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2185.0", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "COURT-MARTIAL ALLEGATIONS, KENYA (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "As I have said, there will be two officers going from this country. I think there is a good deal in having an officer from the Army selected locally who will be able to give the court a background of the geographical and physical situation and the various other problems of operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2185.6", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "COURT-MARTIAL ALLEGATIONS, KENYA (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ative of the conduct of the Army in this sphere and others, and to see to it that they have no parallel elsewhere? My second question is, does the right hon. Gentleman not think that the inevitable moral which we must draw from this is that if the Army is given more and more of these odious tasks, which are imposed on it by the situation which has arisen from the colonial policy of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2185.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2189.2", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "NEWSPAPER ARTICLE (PRIVILEGE COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There is no point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2189.5", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "NEWSPAPER ARTICLE (PRIVILEGE COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I rise to ask whether the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Lewis), who is making an attack on several hon. Members on this side of the House, has given notice to them that he intended to deal with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2238.1", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "FRUIT AND VEGETABLES (IMPORT DUTIES INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drop a few more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "om the British Commonwealth. The big principle behind all that I have tried to say, amid interruptions from my own side of the House, is this: that to remove all tariffs and controls would benefit the whole world, especially Britain, economically. It would also be a big contribution to the peace of the world because, if goods cannot cross frontiers, armies will. I know that I have dropped a brick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2238.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2254.0", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "FRUIT AND VEGETABLES (IMPORT DUTIES INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "check that figure. I had checked it carefully this afternoon on I think, page 7 of the White Paper. Is the hon. Gentleman referring to the Order? According to the Order—I am referring to the top of page 4, and I stick to this—it states that from 1st May to 31st May, if the value exceeds 1s. 3d. per lb. then the figure, given in the next column, will be 4d. per lb., which I take it is the increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2254.2", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "FRUIT AND VEGETABLES (IMPORT DUTIES INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "I am obliged for that correction, but if the hon. Gentleman was present when I began my speech, he will agree that what he says confirms the point I made—that this is a confusing document and is most difficult to understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2255.1", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "FRUIT AND VEGETABLES (IMPORT DUTIES INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member talks about wild accusations, but I was a director of a Co-op which had a large nursery in the Lea Valley, and I am talking from practical experience of what happened. I shall be happy to provide the hon. Member with a balance sheet. In the meantime we will let it go at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2305.2", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Penicillin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "also surely to the production of industrial power and, what is becoming increasingly evident day by day, for biological purposes as well. I conceive that a rather extraordinary position might develop if the Minister of Supply, responsible for the development of atomic energy, also had to place himself in the position of becoming involved with biological considerations. That is a major issue today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-10", "file": "debates1953-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "499ac0f490561dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2319.3", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "rks has nothing to do with atomic energy. We have built all these plants to which I have referred. I have 950 professional staff engaged on nothing but drawings and designs for atomic energy plants. I visit the work that is going on as often as I can, arid very interesting it is. The whole business of atomic energy is a voyage into a new world quite uncharted and unimagined. Here are no signposts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-10a.2319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2333.6", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "o the Steel Holding and Realisation Agency of £2 million. Against that, however, one has to set off that one of the subsidiaries, John Summers and Sons, Limited, had already been got for £4¾ million, which would be added, presumably, to the price paid for the rest of the concerns. Thus there was a possible loss of £2¾ million. Whether that calculation is correct, I am not quite sure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2333.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2336.1", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "Certainly. The whole point is that when there is a fixed rate of interest in the form of compensation at 3½ per cent., people know where they are; there is a stable situation. But under the new situation, the whole thing is now a matter of gambling on the Stock Exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2336.1", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": " country, because steel goes into practically every product that we have. That is bound to affect what is just as important and it may be even more important—the prospects for our exports. Under nationalisation—I do not think this will be challenged by hon. Members opposite—the prices of steel products in this country have been the lowest of those of any major steel-producing country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2351.5", "colnum": "2351", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the former Iron and Steel Board representing the State, management, labour and the consumers. Precisely in accordance with those pledges given in two consecutive manifestos, the Iron and Steel Act reached the Statute Book on 14th May, 1953. We on this side of the House have therefore implemented precisely what we promised to do in two consecutive General Elections. It might weary the House unduly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2351.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2351.5", "colnum": "2351", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ar, hear.\"] Well, the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) must not be impetuous. I have a large sheaf of notes here with which to regale him, and if he interrupts me a great deal, I shall be much longer. It might weary the House if I referred to the Parliamentary history of the controversy arising from the nationalisation and denationalisation of steel during the period since 1946.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2351.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2361.3", "colnum": "2361", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Under nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " he will be able to tell them. The size I have selected is one well known and widely employed in the engineering and other industries. It is a good example—steel sheet 6 ft. x 36 ins. x 20 Birmingham gauge. The British price is £40 16s.; American, £45 16s.; German, £51 6s. 6d.; French, £50 15s.; Belgian. £52 5s. 6d. In every case British steel sheets show a remarkably wide and advantageous margin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2374.5", "colnum": "2374", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "—that it makes. I believe the Agency has behaved with scrupulous constitutional propriety in all these matters. I believe that nothing it has done is offensive in any way. I wind up on this note.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2377.1", "colnum": "2377", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He was lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "gency which has been created for the purpose of selling the industry back to private enterprise? I hope that the Motion will be rejected. I repeat that its terms arc malevolent, mischievous and misconceived. The reception of the Motion on this side of the House is extremely hostile. I am glad that the Leader of the Opposition has returned to his place. I am sorry that he could not be here earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2395.3", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "son) who, before he got tangled up with the consumers, made observations about the prices of shares. He ventured to say that the issue showed a profit. How he can say that, when he admitted he has little financial knowledge, I do not know. The ordinary shares, which were bought by the Iron and Steel Corporation for 30s. 4d., are now sold at 25s.; how that shows a profit is beyond my comprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2407.1", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "in going from nationalisation into the freer world. I do not think Mr. Speaker would want us at this stage to go into that again. What I am trying to pinpoint is whether, admitting there is a difference in the financial rates, the Opposition are suggesting that the financial rates as put up by Her Majesty's Government are out of line with the ordinary financial rates for the same type of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2413.1", "colnum": "2413", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "preceding_text": "ing on the Continent, although the Schuman plan has been established, and when we look at the enormous expansion and development in the steel industry elsewhere, it becomes clear to the ordinary small private investor that he has no place in such a highly cyclical industry as the steel industry. Already the shares are at a discount. As time goes on, I feel that they will go to an even lower level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-11", "file": "debates1953-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9d4d5b0afd96c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2429.0", "colnum": "2429", "heading": "DENATIONALISED STEEL UNDERTAKINGS (SALE OF SHARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that many of the things I said in my speech were inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-11a.2429.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.26.5", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Water.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and gallant Friend aware that these cheese spreads, and, indeed, most unrationed cheeses, are 25 per cent. cheaper now than they were two years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.26.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (THREATENED STOPPAGE OF WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "has met the Transport Commission later today, inform the Commission that so far as his Government are concerned they are prepared to give a directive for a just settlement of the just demands of the men concerned? In any case, the Minister will realise that it was part of the policy of his Government, immediately they came to power, to stop the British Transport Commission meeting its obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.34.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (THREATENED STOPPAGE OF WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Would it be in order, Sir, to suggest to the Minister of Labour that the best service he could render—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That may be so, but it is very unwise to discuss a point of order, as it were, in the abstract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.44.4", "colnum": "44", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. David Gammans)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why bring this Motion forward?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. David Gammans)", "preceding_text": "ndamental principle which, in our opinion, is of very great importance. I do suggest that the House ought to try to treat television generally in its right perspective, whether we are talking about television from the B.B.C. or television from any other source. The great questions that matter today are those of peace and war, of national security, the balance of trade, full employment and housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "a comfortable majority, and it is quite certain that the joint act was irresistible. I trust that we may see the hon. Gentleman and his friend not only on B.B.C. programmes, but on commercial programmes as well. Luckily, in the intervening period, some misconceptions have disappeared. At the beginning, many people seemed to think that the B.B.C. was going to be abolished, or at any rate curtailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "By listening to the debate. I suggest the hon. Gentleman should contrast the speeches made by noble Lords in the last debate with those made in the previous debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "It may surprise the right hon. Gentleman, but nevertheless it is true and I take full responsibility for giving it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"As a monopoly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "It may surprise the right hon. Gentleman, but nevertheless it is true and I take full responsibility for giving it. [HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] The Post Office is responsible for the direct supervision of the finances of the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "But were the licence fee doubled, or even trebled, I should expect evasion on a much more extensive scale and the right hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Ness Edwards) is as much aware of that as I am. I should probably have to come to the House and ask for increased powers for detecting evasion. It might result in the employment of thousands of enforcement officers, who would incur the usual odium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ne company per transmitter or more than one. It will, however, be the responsibility of the corporation to satisfy itself that the programme companies are capable of producing an agreed number of programmes per day and have the necessary finances behind them. I should make it quite clear that a quite considerable amount of money will be required before the programme companies can start operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I can be questioned on it certainly. We do not propose to allow interruptions of programme with advertising material. In fact, the general rule will be that there are no interruptions at all unless they are in what are called \"natural breaks.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I can be questioned on it certainly. We do not propose to allow interruptions of programme with advertising material. In fact, the general rule will be that there are no interruptions at all unless they are in what are called \"natural breaks.\" [ Laughter ] There is no need for hon. Members opposite to get excited about it. For example a \"natural break\" is an interval in a play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "gets from the licences. I trust we shall not hear today any argument that competition will mean that the B.B.C. must pay more to its technicians and artistes. If the B.B.C. does have to pay more—and possibly it will—it would be a deplorable doctrine, and certainly not one that we should favour on this side of the House, that it is right to use the power of a State monopoly to hold down wage rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "There are two other types of critic whom I cannot hope to satisfy. First, there are those who live in a world of slogans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is going to raise licence fees and the cost of advertising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.59.5", "colnum": "59", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They have already had the opportunity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ourably this idea or any other suggestion which may be put forward in this debate. I want to go further and say that, in preparing legislation, the Government are prepared to consider most carefully and sympathetically any schemes or any ideas put forward by anyone who is prepared to accept the principle of ending the B.B.C. monopoly, and who will face up to the practical difficulties of doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.59.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ount of piquancy to the next General Election. We shall have Labour candidates' posters all over the place saying: \"Vote Labour and lose your second programme.\" The truth is that the Labour Party knows that this prospect of an alternative and independent programme is a popular one throughout the country, and that the majority of regular viewers are looking forward to the day when they will get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"We have not got it yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "No. I cannot do so. This matter does not concern public money at all, and I cannot give estimates at this stage. Let me come back to the viewpoint of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite. Is the Labour Party going to do away with this second corporation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.64.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "There is one last word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ate is the question of advertising in association with television. The third question was in respect of a statement made by my right hon. Friend that a Labour Government would not pursue the policy which was then the policy of this Government. He said so. But it must be remembered that the policy which was then the policy of the Government was sponsoring, so it is not a fair question to put today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "oration there can be no rivalry, no competition, no emulation within the industry, is, I submit, an unjustified assumption. Far from the B.B.C. being able to determine of itself how people shall think and having a monopoly in the realm of ideas, it is the case that the B.B.C. is officially prohibited from having opinions of its own. It is prohibited under the Charter from having editorial opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.75.5", "colnum": "75", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ng alternative programmes for the very purpose of providing that competition and emulation, within the B.B.C., and in order to provide viewers' choice. Will this scheme kill that B.B.C. idea? Is the B.B.C. now to be tied down to one programme? Is it to have no alternative programme? Is there to be no viewers' choice so far as the B.B.C. is concerned? I gather that the answer is in the affirmative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.75.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"They are already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "y cabaret—especially if it is spicy—or a boxing match, he will be willing to book, or to pay more, than if the item is Shakespeare or educational or local government, or, apparently, ballet. So the revenue will largely be influenced by the magnitude of the audience, rather than the quality of the programme, and the advertiser or his agent—because the agents will be active in this matter, I gather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I have not done with the Press yet. That is really a different issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that these safeguards in this White Paper are worth much. They are set out, and then the Government ignore them. The chase for mass viewing is bound to bring standards down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Those activities, in which no one can prevent any political party engaging, could be well equalled by those of the party opposite, in various ways and under various aliases. I am told—I do not know whether it is true; the Assistant Postmaster-General will tell me if I am wrong—that although, in another place, the Liberals and the Labour Party took off the Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ic life and to the British people. I want to suggest this to the Government. The right hon. Gentleman asked for other proposals to be put forward. Is it not a pity that this matter of broadcasting should be thrown right into the middle of the Floor, that it should be a matter of sharp party division with Whips on both sides—because they cannot very well be on one side only in the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "preceding_text": " engaged in it, and that commercialisation…is fraught with dangers to those spiritual and intellectual values which the B.B.C. has nobly striven to maintain. Hon. members should note the next paragraph: We express our sincere hope that the Government will yield no further to the intense pressure to which they have been subjected by a comparatively small number of interested parties;…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.93.2", "colnum": "93", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "preceding_text": "That has nothing to do with the point that I am making. My point is that the B.B.C. is supposed to have no political views. Quite rightly, the Beveridge Committee invites the B.B.C. to give its views. If the B.B.C. has no political view, then surely its reply would be that it was not its intention to give a political view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.93.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Grey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Grey", "preceding_text": "ity when there is a fine public corporation doing a very fine work, that, because of some demand from sectional interests, the Government should try to undercut and undermine it. In paragraph 6 of the White Paper there is a reference to the Press to the effect that it accepts advertisements, as do the cinemas. There is the assumption here that the Press performs the ideal service to the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Not in the least; of course they meant it. I must say it surprised me. I can only think that one of them wrote the letter and the others signed it without giving it the full consideration which my speech will undoubtedly cause them to give tomorrow morning. I also suggest that the unanimity of their letter and the sudden production of it today suggested a whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I see that argument. Of course if there was the same direction and control it would save overheads. If there were one Sir George Barnes instead of two all direction of thought would be canalised into one hand instead of into two and thereby a few salaries at the top would be saved, but it would not save transmitters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No. Use the same masts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "he same direction and control it would save overheads. If there were one Sir George Barnes instead of two all direction of thought would be canalised into one hand instead of into two and thereby a few salaries at the top would be saved, but it would not save transmitters. [An Hon. Member: \"It would.\"] With respect, if there is to be an alternative programme an alternative transmitter is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": " it would not save transmitters. [An Hon. Member: \"It would.\"] With respect, if there is to be an alternative programme an alternative transmitter is required. [HON MEMBERS: \"No. Use the same masts.\"] If these two Government corporations can find ways by which, working together, they can save the national resources they will surely do that but, apart from that, there must be separate transmitters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": " then be £16 million, the greater part of which will be available for the B.B.C. to carry out its present splendid service and to carry on services in other channels. And, by way of answering the point made by the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) when he complained that the B.B.C. would be stopped from going into other channels, there are a vast number of channels available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "lectually, educationally and philosophically than the standard of the more popular newspapers. No one would deny that. Is it really proposed that we should avoid giving the best and the swiftest means of communication to the mass of the people because their standard is not as high as that of the readers of \"The Times\" or the \"Manchester Guardian\"? Is that what is proposed by hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"We can raise them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "andards. I want to say a word or two more about the lowering of standards and the abuses, to which the Government make references in the last paragraph of the White Paper. If we lower standards, we lower them from some previously existing level, but the whole point is that we lower them, and this White Paper visualises the possibility of lowering them from the standard previously set by the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Norman Collins.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "tion, and the B.B.C. fail to agree on which nights of the week they are to have variety and on which nights of the week they are to have some other kind of programme? This has not been thought out, unless the purpose is to hide the real intentions of the Government by this vagueness. I do not take the view taken by the other side of the House that the commercial interests already in this business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Give its name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " television already indulge in anti-social behaviour, though we are told that they will be good boys if we place commercial television in their hands. If I may use the metaphor, I do not believe that leopards change their spots. There is one advertising agency—I will not name it because the hon. Member who represents it here has left the Chamber, but it is the British branch of an American agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.136.5", "colnum": "136", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "er applications for television licences. In other words, the C.W.S. did not make the fact public. The only people—and I swear that this is true—who knew that the C.W.S. had applied for a television licence were the C.W.S. directors and myself, because I was brought into consultation with them. Yet hon. Members opposite know that the Society made the application. Where did they get the information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.138.5", "colnum": "138", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "In view of the statement of the Assistant Postmaster-General that there could not have been any leakage from his Department, I assure him there has been no leakage from the Co-operative side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.138.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Pye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "who wish to take part in the debate for me to say that I shall speak for some minutes. I must at once declare an interest. It is one which has happily escaped the major part of the censure in which Members opposite seem to have been keen on indulging. My interest is with a very great company in the radio industry that has done as much, I suppose, to advance television in this country as any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "d this is about the only time I shall defend my own Front Bench—made an extraordinary and most unfair attack upon the Assistant Postmaster-General about this knowledge that the Co-op had applied for a licence. Good gracious, two years ago, when we were talking about what was going to happen, everybody knew that the Co-op would apply for a licence. What the hon. Member said is really such nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Fell", "preceding_text": "t Postmaster-General about this knowledge that the Co-op had applied for a licence. Good gracious, two years ago, when we were talking about what was going to happen, everybody knew that the Co-op would apply for a licence. What the hon. Member said is really such nonsense. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members cannot dispute that what I have said is correct; it so happens that that is what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-14", "file": "debates1953-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a038ad8453423147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about their husbands?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "horrors? I do not feel that this nation has come to any great harm because of the advertisements on the Underground or on the buses. Indeed, I think a lot of people spend quite an amount of time looking at these advertisements and that they get a certain amount of enjoyment out of them. Certainly, women get a tremendous amount of enjoyment out of looking at the advertisements in women's magazines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-14a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "Will not my right hon. Friend agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Henley (Mr. Hay) that this practice of expansion of municipal trading is highly undesirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "MEMBERS'VOTES (PERSONAL PECUNIARY INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come with us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "tract, as you yourself have said. This matter has to be raised immediately, which means immediately after the vote has been cast. You agreed yesterday that that could not possibly be done until the next morning, when the lists were published. When I am voting in one Lobby I cannot possibly see which Tories are voting in the other Lobby, and I cannot possibly know which hon. Member I should select.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "MEMBERS'VOTES (PERSONAL PECUNIARY INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": " no suspension of the rule for this debate and we go on to the Adjournment straight away. The point which I am putting for consideration is this: the matter has to be raised the next day. I do not suppose it is possible for the Clerk to accept a printed Motion, but it has to be raised by a substantive Motion, it has to be raised the next day, and the earliest possible moment is at half-past three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.209.5", "colnum": "209", "heading": "MEMBERS'VOTES (PERSONAL PECUNIARY INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I put two points to you, Mr. Speaker? There are precedents, I submit to you, for Mr. Speaker varying the Rulings of his predecessors on the grounds of practicability or of a possible change of circumstances. May I put it to you that it really is impossible, as a practical proposition, when a number of hon. Members may be involved in another Lobby, for their potential critics to know who has voted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What page?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " critical review of home programmes of all kinds; Systematic review of overseas programmes; etc' I know that Lord Beveridge, the Chairman of the Committee, attached very great importance to the setting up of that public representation service, the head of it being a member of the Board of Management and having status equal to that of the heads of the other main divisions of the Corporation's work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.221.7", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That proves that I was right in what I said. The right hon. Gentleman, who has great knowledge of this matter, is absolutely right when he says that they came down in favour of separate corporations under a co-ordinating authority like the F.C.C.—nothing like the B.B.C. at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.221.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.221.7", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about the cable industry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "s really require some consideration. They were reinforced and have been reinforced then and since by the views of individuals of all parties, and the view of the Government is that the case for some breach in the monopoly, some competition, in the national interest, is made out beyond a reasonable doubt. That is the first proposition, the first issue of principle upon which a decision is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.221.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am applying that epithet exactly to the words which I used leading up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "In the United States there is a wide range of programmes on matters of public interest. There is a variety and vitality in American broadcasts which I think is missing from many of our own programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "o principles, then a very wide and useful field for discussion would be opened up. But unless the two basic principles are accepted, I really think that any further discussion would be without profit. Up to now there has not been the slightest hint of any sort from the Opposition that they would accept either of those two principles. In fact, precisely the contrary has bee a shown. I shall finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.226.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Practically every hon. Member opposite has strongly attacked the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "n the part of one or two hon. Members opposite, a realisation that a public monopoly of the kind now existing in television can perhaps be bad and that there is a very strong reason for doing something about it. I think we all agree that an alternative programme is necessary, but it is fair to the B.B.C. to point out that the fact that there is no alternative programme at present is not its fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.339.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"]—The original Question was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.339.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "l remark \"Order, order,\" for interrupting business, according to the Standing Order. At the time I rose I thought that the Home Secretary had not resumed his seat and I was waiting to see whether anyone was going to move the Closure and if the House wanted a decision. The Closure can be moved on the interruption of business. I am now informed that the right hon. and learned Gentleman had sat down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.339.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Just say one word, \"Tomorrow,\" or \"Monday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "I do not quite understand why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.5", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend had, in fact, sat down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.7", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "If I may be allowed to say so, nobody could have seen it better because, not wishing to interrupt my right hon. and learned Friend, I sat on the step behind him and, therefore, I had a lateral view of what was happening, and I am quite satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.9", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "If I may be allowed to say so, no one could have seen it better than I, because, not wishing to interrupt my right hon. and learned Friend I sat on a step behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.9", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "If I may be allowed to say so, no one could have seen it better than I, because, not wishing to interrupt my right hon. and learned Friend I sat on a step behind him. [Hon. Members: \"No, no.\"] Therefore, if I may say so, I got a lateral view of what was happening, but I am quite satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.11", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "Sir, you asked to what day was the debate adjourned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.340.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly satisfied, from what I actually saw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly satisfied, from what I actually saw—[ Interruption. ] I am entitled to be heard, and entitled to say what I am certain about. Hon. Gentlemen may be entitled to say other things, but I merely say that I am perfectly certain that my right hon. and learned Friend sat down before there was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ly saw—[ Interruption. ] I am entitled to be heard, and entitled to say what I am certain about. Hon. Gentlemen may be entitled to say other things, but I merely say that I am perfectly certain that my right hon. and learned Friend sat down before there was—[ Interruption. ]—any question put. I hope, therefore, Mr. Speaker, that as, after all, the whole House wants a decision taken on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which clock?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "As the Leader of the House has given his impression, I think that we can also give the impression that we had on this side, which is that, far from sitting down, the right hon. and learned Gentleman was continuing his speech and elaborating the argument, and then it appeared that after 10 by the clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. My personal impression was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.342.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It had.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I listened very carefully to what was said, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What day?\"]—and the whole issue between us is that the point of interruption had not occurred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I listened very carefully to what was said, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What day?\"]—and the whole issue between us is that the point of interruption had not occurred—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It had.\"]—because you yourself were not then on your feet though my right hon. and learned Friend had sat down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-15", "file": "debates1953-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b430a3c1b53b71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPORARY HOUSES (CONDENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "That may be quite true; I do not deny that. I was quoting the actual words that the supervisor had no knowledge of the Arcon houses requiring to be repaired and improved if they were to remain reasonably habitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-15a.351.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.381.9", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "May I say—[HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, may I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.381.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.381.9", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "May I say—[HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, may I say—[HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that I have no knowledge of this marine, that this marine is not a friend of mine, and may I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.381.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "No, I am not repudiating it. I am, indeed, deeply sorry that the Governor should be in a position of having to face this crisis which was caused by the speech of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"There are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " Colonies. I have no doubt that in this debate hon. Members opposite will look at the six years' record of the Labour Government. They will point out sins of omission and commission. That is all right in a debate, but I ask them, at the end of it all. to answer this question: Would they not like to go back to the Africa of 1951? There was trust, there was confidence, there was mutual relationship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.402.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Past experience.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ed a large body of opinion in the Colonies. The repercussions of that broadcast, believe me, are still felt. Again and again I have found in starting conferences that there was a distrust—this is the word which the right hon. Gentleman used so much—of a Conservative Colonial Secretary because that broadcast said that everything that had been done for the Colonies had been done by the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Paling", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Driven back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Paling", "preceding_text": "not working and say that if he were given more money he would work less, I remember what happened in my industry of mining. I remember coming to this House of Commons in 1926, and coal owners who sat on the Government benches imploring us to settle the dispute and go back to work. They said, \"If you only go back and increase production by half a cwt. a shift, prosperity will follow.\" We went back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Strachey) must be filled with self-satisfaction, because he did fail to produce the groundnuts. He also went quite a long way towards sowing the seeds of discontent in Kenya—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer Baldwin", "preceding_text": "ing without more practical and up-to-date knowledge of the position in the Territories named than they seem to possess. It seems unfortunate to me that four hon. Members on the opposite benches who have recently been to Africa, who spent quite an amount of time in East and Central Africa and who have expressed their views outside this House in no uncertain terms, have been kept out of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "I am not referring to the Chair at all. These four hon. Members were here for the early part of this debate, and one is forced to the conclusion that representations must have been made to them that they should not take part in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Do they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State should have considered the fact—and we say that this was a serious fault upon his part—that he was imposing this scheme upon Africans in the face of what was going on in South Africa. We have no complaint that he is in any way responsible for Dr. Malan, and I have no doubt that he and his right hon. Friends dislike the poisonous reactionary policy of Dr. Malan as much as we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "leman whether that is a situation which even he contemplates with any degree of equanimity. I for my part, and I think my right hon. and hon. Friends agree, see in that a situation fraught with great danger for the future, and we regard the Secretary of State as being directly responsible for having disregarded our warnings, repeatedly uttered during the course of the consideration of this scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What about Kenya?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "—exasperated and rightly suspicious, where can the right hon. Gentleman take comfort in the African scene? We have the Gold Coast and Gambia and Sierra Leone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "t feeling with the right hon. Gentleman as keenly as he himself has it. It is a shocking indictment of the right hon. Gentleman's administration in Kenya that it should have taken the Griffiths trial and the allegations made in the course of that trial to have prodded the Government into sending out, for the first time, an inquiry into these excesses which are commonly reputed to have taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Was it a happy speech?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "ow from Kenya to Uganda. The right hon. Gentleman, I feel sure, will know what is coming now. It is only because he is so completely insensitive to African opinion and so completely remote from it with not the faintest imagination to help him to enter into the African mind, that it was possible for him to make the disastrously infelicitous speech which he made on 30th June at the East Africa Club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.501.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Deep affection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "d of language, we feel doubly convinced that we have taken the right, indeed, the necessary course in putting down this Motion in the hope that the right hon. Gentleman may in due course be removed from his present office. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Colonies will realise that this Motion is not put down from any sense of hostility towards him personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "was taken to place the Motion on the Order Paper, and that concluded—I must ask hon. Members to take their minds back to it—one of the must curious, not to say droll, episodes in our Parliamentary history. Hon. Members will recall the series of decisions. First, the Motion was on, and, by the normal courtesies, the Government Whips were informed that a Motion of censure was down. At the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why did you not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": ", and especially the intimate colleagues of my right hon. Friend, welcome this debate. We feel that it is due to him and to the great services he has given and is giving to the Colonial Empire that he should receive a vote of confidence from the House of Commons. Indeed, at one point in these extraordinary vacillations, we did consider ourselves placing a Motion of confidence upon the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Talk it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "r the most, I will not say violent, because he is incapable of violence, but waspish speech of the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Neepsend, who can sting a little, but it does not mean much, because he smiles while he stings, and he is not capable of serious damage to my right hon. Friend—there would still be a sense of relief if, at this late hour, we decided to agree upon words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "is Motion had thought fit to say a word of congratulation. He had a little weak, watery kind of praise, but he mixed it with his usual drops of gall. My right hon. Friend has explained in detail the story of the Central African federation. The right hon. Gentleman opposite has not been quite fair to himself when he said he repeated the speech that he made in connection with the federation Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-16", "file": "debates1953-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b22d38f231e9310b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "AFFAIRS IN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Member: \"Eight minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "r country has a public court martial like this. There is nothing hushed up. When something is done it is brought out into the open. If you had been in the countries we have come from and struggled against, there would have been no inquiry, no court martial, no high-powered judges going out to get to the root of the thing.\" I think that is something to be proud of. Even in this disastrous incident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-16a.511.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.574.6", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FEDERAL ASSEMBLY, RHODESIA AND NYASALAND (GIFT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the House desires, I shall be very happy to undertake that duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": " the Middle East. On some future occasion I may, perhaps, be able to welcome an opportunity of dealing with this subject fully, but I shall not attempt to do so today. All that I can say is that our action will be based on a careful and faithful study of the merits of the problem, and will not be dictated either by the violence of our foreign enemies or by the pressure of some of our best friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "dealing with this subject fully, but I shall not attempt to do so today. All that I can say is that our action will be based on a careful and faithful study of the merits of the problem, and will not be dictated either by the violence of our foreign enemies or by the pressure of some of our best friends. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] There is no vitality in a party unless there are differences of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.592.4", "colnum": "592", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y sad that at the moment of victory, when we were led by my right hon. Friend across the battlefields of Africa and Europe to Berlin and the final defeat of our enemies, hardly had that victory been won when we started a retreat in almost every field. We evacuated Burma, let her slide from the Empire, and this action was followed by a fearful civil war. We came out of India in a most untimely way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.592.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.594.4", "colnum": "594", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "hnicians are going to be scattered about the desert and about the Canal Zone, they will be subject to far worse attacks than they are subject to now. The position may well become intolerable, and then what can we do? We must face up to things. Are we going to withdraw them? We cannot leave them to be shot down. Or are we going to say, \"We are going to support you\" and re-enter in a warlike action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.594.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "My suggestion is that the brigade should stay in Egypt and that the Egyptians should be made fully aware that it is going to stay there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Take an action for libel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " given the opportunity of stating the facts. We may hold them intensely and we may speak forth-rightly about them, but what is not fair is that one person should be attacked and not given the opportunity either of replying or of enabling the public at large to make up their minds on the facts. In the last week or so I have been maligned, abused and attacked in language most of which was libellous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Indeed, that is perfectly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "mbers are entitled to have protection from that. When millions of people are told in the country that a Member of this House has been guilty of betraying the country the facts of the betrayal ought to be known. That is what we have described as McCarthyism. That is McCarthyism—to smear, to try to establish guilt by association, to attack people without giving them a chance of defending themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Therefore, there is nothing improper in any Member of Parliament, including a Privy Councillor, writing articles which are syndicated in foreign newspapers. Is that agreed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Deal with your own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "against a Minister of the Crown, short of actual malfeasance, was that he had endangered the safety of the country and neglected its defences for electioneering considerations. Yet such are the surprising qualities of Mr. Baldwin that this dismal doctrine has now been elevated into a canon of political virtue. Then the right hon. Gentleman goes on to say in the same article of 11th December, 1936—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan:", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan:", "preceding_text": " of Pathan inroad and foray. This is the language by which the right hon. Gentleman was making the peaceful government of India at that time more difficult for the British Crown. I could go on. The right hon. Gentleman has a very good precedent for his negotiations with Egypt. The right hon. and gallant Member who spoke before me said that we have not accumulated the Empire by force but by wisdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am in the House of Commons replying to a speech made by the leader of the rebels against the Prime Minister and, in the course of that speech, a statement was made that we ought to resume our traditional behaviour towards the Empire and the Colonies. I want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. Gentleman ought not to reproach me for reminding him of the virtue of his ancestor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.608.4", "colnum": "608", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "1936 Treaty is being negotiated. Egypt may, we do not know, voluntarily concede something. But nations will not abide the presence of other nations on their soil unless their presenceis freely negotiated. What is wrong with that? Does any hon. Member opposite deny it? I go on to say: Even then, it has definite disadvantages. The presence of American airmen is tolerated in Britain but not accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.608.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.608.4", "colnum": "608", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ated. Egypt may, we do not know, voluntarily concede something. But nations will not abide the presence of other nations on their soil unless their presenceis freely negotiated. What is wrong with that? Does any hon. Member opposite deny it? I go on to say: Even then, it has definite disadvantages. The presence of American airmen is tolerated in Britain but not accepted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.608.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "i-shek. It is digging a gulf between the United States and Great Britain, and it would not be friendly to the United States not to say so. The people of Great Britain believe that China would never accept a conqueror, even of their own race, armed by a foreign Power. They believe that the People's Government of China has come to stay and they believe that recognition of that fact and the bringing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Monstrous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "preceding_text": "g those who oppose what I am saying who have acted with the best of intentions and who have the highest possible moral integrity, and also a religious belief in the Empire. But there are others who have done it because they think it is a step up the ladder. I think that the third group about which I have spoken have done this because they have not been included in Her Majesty's present Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"British Guiana.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "cial responsibilities for stewardship. I think that in all these countries our record is a very proud one. There are other examples besides this. What about Iraq, for whom at one time we had a full mandate, to whom we gave freely and by agreement her now complete independence which she has long enjoyed—a country with whom we have friendly relations? What about the far more recent example of Libya?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.693.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1953-12-17", "file": "debates1953-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "c944ae566d57fd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"India.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "te independence which she has long enjoyed—a country with whom we have friendly relations? What about the far more recent example of Libya? [An Hon. Member: \"British Guiana.\"] I do not think that is the fault of Her Majesty's Government here. I thought that had been debated before. The hon. Member can put that out of his mind, and think of Libya, a country in North Africa inhabited by the Senussi—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1953-12-17a.693.5"}