I want to say—I am going to see the Prime Minister this afternoon—that, if the Government of this country think that this is a Normal Crisis, that this is a 2283 normal situation, that they can just go away in the hope that, if the House of Commons were not sitting for a month or two, the situation would ease itself in such a fashion that when they come back things would have straightened themselves out, I hope that the Cabinet is not going to behave in such a halfhearted fashion.

We are now approaching a Budget in the Normal Crisis situation which has obtained every year since 1965.

One can see numerous instances which in isolation may be of no consequence but which together should surely have shown even the dimmest intelligence officer that this was not the Normal Crisis, the normal huffing and puffing of an Argentine Fascist dictatorship, but that something different was coming.