If, however, His Majesty's Government cannot say one thing or the other, Neither a Crisis before 31st August, nor an increase in the severity of rationing after 31st August, it is plain that they have made no case which could justify any responsible Member of Parliament in agreeing to an ill thought out scheme involving a great measure of hardship on the people, and we shall vote against an Order which,for all its cost and trouble and worry, appears at once panic-stricken in motive, and futile in action.