I pass now to the Alleged Crisis.

We ought to be searching for the culprits who are responsible for This Alleged Crisis.

On the contrary he added fuel to the fire, insult to injury, by dilating on the association of Members on this side with an Alleged Crisis.

Now, I come to the second category, the men who after two years with the Colours as National Service men, then leave, either to resume their civil avocations or to embark on a career of what-ever kind it may be, and are then drawn back into the Service because of This Alleged Crisis or emergency and have to serve another six months.

All this shows, as we have said over and over again, that this whole Bill and all the proposals to deal with This Alleged Crisis have been the result of hasty and ill-considered action, and that the Government are now having to back-pedal as quickly as they can on almost everything they have done.

The first conclusion to be drawn from this document is that under this Government private direct investment has risen from £116 million in the Alleged Crisis year of 1964 to £135 million in 1966.

I should like to comment on the Alleged Crisis that was mentioned by the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Given that the hon. Gentleman argues that the Alleged Crisis - as he puts it - goes back many decades, will he pinpoint when it started?