All that will stimulate public anxiety and apprehension, and we shall be very fortunate in those circumstances if we escape a Serious Internal Crisis.

The decision of the Government to precipitate This Internal Crisis by immediately bringing the Iron and Steel Act into operation, setting up their Corporation, and fixing the vesting date at the earliest moment, has prevented a settlement which might well have led us into a very different atmosphere than is now, I fear, to be our fate.

Tostart with, in any permanent United Nations force troops would, I agree, have to be allocated by individual nations, but, as the Congo showed, these troops can often be hurriedly withdrawn either because one nation which has contributed troops does not agree with the decisions of the United Nations, or because there is an Internal Crisis at home.

There was an Internal Crisis because the pound was rushing downwards and an external crisis because Russia had invaded part of Africa with the tools of Cuba.

If it were seen to condone a withdrawal it would fall quickly, for the simple reason that for so many years it has been staggering along from one Internal Crisis to another.

That is why there is an Internal Crisis and a sense of frustration in the league, and why I suspect that the Bill is the work more of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals than the league.

The armed forces face an Internal Crisis with their most experienced and best men and women leaving; their replacements will not make up the skills gap.

The Internal Crisis has the capacity to spill over into the region if citizens of Zimbabwe, displaced by famine or fear, seek refuge in neighbouring countries where they will add to the existing economic and social burdens induced by what we might call the "Mugabe effect".

There is something of an Internal Crisis among our armed forces personnel.

Parliament must always seek to protect and safeguard the interests of Northern Ireland, a part of our country that, despite having its own devolved institutions, must never be forgotten here, in better times as in times of Internal Crisis.

Our A and E was one of the many emergency departments across the country that recently declared a Major Internal Crisis, with ambulances queuing up outside and sick patients being left on trolleys in corridors for hours.