Mr Arthur Tiley: The party opposite, when in power, had to impose the first charges on the National Health Service. The Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government had to impose the first ceiling on the National Health Service. What we were doing was trying to get the Labour Government out as quickly as possible so that we could come to power and improve the service.
Mr Arthur Tiley: I am indeed thinking of them. I want to see their numbers trebled and multiplied to what they were in the days before the National Health Service started. I did not intend to retail this little story, but at the commencement of this great service there came to my office in Bradford an old man of 75 who for 35 years, and paying his own expenses, had acted as a secretary to a small nursing...
Mr Arthur Tiley: I shall get on a lot quicker if hon. Members opposite do not interrupt. It adds to the interest of the debate, but I intended to make a very constructive speech. I will go back to my notes. I am in the very happy position of gazing from my bedroom window in the house where I live in my constituency and watching a new hospital being erected. It is taking away part of the view, but I am...
Mr Arthur Tiley: I did not actually say that. The hon. Lady does me a disservice. I said that the country is sick of our introducing party politics on both sides of the Committee.
Mr Arthur Tiley: rose—
Mr Arthur Tiley: I gave way. I always do.
Mr Arthur Tiley: Together with fellow Bradfordians, I have used Bradford Exchange Station for many years and I do not remember any other serious accident there, because our railways are normally so safe. May I associate myself with my right hon. Friend in the expression of sympathy for what has occurred, and also say how much we admire the driver of the train who stayed at his post and was killed, and thus...
Mr Arthur Tiley: On a point of order. Would it be in order—[Interruption.]
Mr Arthur Tiley: In view of the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Howden (Mr. Bryan) has been so much interrupted, and is making such an excellent speech, would it be in order for him to begin again?
Mr Arthur Tiley: Will my hon. and gallant Friend bear in mind that I have known the Northern Assurance Company Ltd. for many years and have never known it to indulge in practices of this kind? As motor insurance companies have lost many millions of £s over the last few years, it is only right to say that they are trying to make the good risks pay less, and the bad risks pay more, irrespective of race, colour...
Mr Arthur Tiley: My comments apply to the Malvern as well as to the Northern.
Mr Arthur Tiley: Will my hon. Friend tell the House how, if we are to have two more international airports within an hour of London, plus a Channel tunnel, we Northerners are to get to the South? Admittedly, I have never found anything worth coming south for except to attend this place but we have to go to and travel from London Airport. In the broad survey of the country's transport, is it not time that some...
Mr Arthur Tiley: Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that, whatever is saved in expenses, the Government get it all back in Purchase Tax when the car is bought?
Mr Arthur Tiley: This is such a shocking case that I think the House ought to know the name of the company.
Mr Arthur Tiley: No, the wife says, "We want a ' fridge' ".
Mr Arthur Tiley: It is always very grand to follow a barrister. It gives me a feeling of self-esteem to be operating in that rarefied atmosphere. I always feel that hon. Members should be paid time and half on these occasions. I am surprised, however, that the hon. and learned Member for Stoke Newington and Hackney, North (Mr. Weitzman) takes issue with my right hon. Friend on the methods by which...
Mr Arthur Tiley: On a point of order. Is not all this tedious repetition, and is it not rather shocking that Question Time should be used in this way?
Mr Arthur Tiley: For many years, it has been common practice of the Post Office to deliver postcards, which all can read, on all sorts of topics, addressed merely to the occupier of the house.
Mr Arthur Tiley: Would my right hon. Friend bear in mind that the majority of people will applaud his decision to make this unprofitable part of the Post Office more profitable? Will he bear in mind that those who will benefit first will be the workers in the Post Office? Will he also remember that if we carry this objection to its logical conclusion Socialist engine drivers will begin to refuse to deliver...
Mr Arthur Tiley: It is fascinating to compare the position here with that of other countries, but it is only fair to state the whole facts. For instance, in Sweden a man retires at 67, not 65.
