If the railway closes at the end of the year, there will be a National Labour Crisis in relation to exports and imports, and I am certain that the dock workers themselves will have something caustic to say if they are put to any great difficulty in moving from one place to another in the absence of buses or railway transport.

Surely, whatever loss there may be, I cannot believe that it can be the case that it would result, as the hon. Lady said, in a National Labour Crisis.