It is a, Crisis of the System under which we live which cannot be solved in existing circumstances.

As the hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do, we are living through a severe Crisis in the System of which he is so proud to be a supporter - the capitalist system.

I remember that during his lectures to the Marshall Society he warned that if there were another deep, profound, international economic Crisis in the System, the most terrifying and dangerous thing that could happen would be for the psychology of the business man to spread to the politicians.

The other is the major Crisis of the System-built housing of the 1960s.

When we recall that fellow who was found hanging under Blackfriars bridge, we do not have to go far away from Signor Calvi and some of the things that have been discussed in this debate because the Crisis in the System is becoming worse all the time.

On average, the Government have spent on Merseyside £170,000 on bogus schemes to take people out of the dole queues, to massage the figures and to leave those people high and dry without benefit as a result of the Crisis in the System.

That is a sign of the nature of the Crisis in the System - a crisis that will not be overcome as simply as some people suppose.

Teachers have faced continual attacks and rudeness from the Government and Conservative Members - but that has suddenly changed because of the shortage of teachers and the Crisis in the System.

We have no debates on this issue in Government time because, irrespective of whatthe hon. Member for Hamilton, South (Mr. Tynan) says - I regret that he is no longer in his place - the Government do not want to talk about pensions because they know that there is a Crisis in the System.

The fact that the Government have to have a Home Office Parliamentary Private Secretary as the only Labour Back Bencher in the Chamber reflects the Labour party's attitude to legal aid and the Crisis in the System.

In times of System Crisis, dynamic demand appliances sense the system conditions and automatically defer their electricity consumption.

If such headlines are combined with reports that because of our obligations under the European convention on human rights - fanned only this evening bythe hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash), who is no longer in his place - our Government are powerless to remove foreign criminals, there appears to be a real Crisis in the System.

There is no general Crisis in the System of paedophile supervision, but we are not complacent.

The statistics in Leeds simply do not represent this catastrophic picture of privatisation, which has been discredited, or of Crisis in the System.