I say you are in possession of India, and for Heaven's sake, in the present Crisis in Lancashire, try to get cotton there in a legitimate way.

If we do not do that and we go back to a restrictive trade in textiles then anybody can work out for himself that the present Crisis in Lancashire is as nothing with what we shall have to face.

At all events, they know there is a Crisis in Lancashire and in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the hon. Member for Oldham, East quite rightly said that the rest of the country must take that as a warning, because it may be the first sign of the consequences of the very thing to which I referred earlier in my speech, the growing independence of other countries of British goods.

It is not just the provision of day care centres that people are upset about and where there is a Crisis in Lancashire.