There would not be a single piece of benefit given to any section of the community if we attempted to put into operation a scheme which its pioneers have said would bring about the Greatest Financial Crisis this country has ever known.

Art galleries and museums are hardly essential, when we are in the middle of the Greatest Financial Crisis this country has ever faced.

But these powers in Clause 2, which are at the absolute heart of the Bill, are all about responding to an issue of the Greatest Financial Crisis and the necessity for action prior to markets being able to respond.

At a time of the world's Greatest Financial Crisis since the 1930s, the Government are reverting to electoral gimmicks.

In 2007-08 - but in 2008 in particular - we saw the Greatest Financial Crisis since the 1930s, which resulted in almost a decade of slump that was only solved by Adolf Hitler.