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Dissolution of Parliament

No, as I am not taking any more interventions. People deserve to have policies and manifestos laid out before them, but before I finish I want to take up the earlier reference to 1979. My late and good comrade Bob Cryer began his contribution to the debate on 28 March 1979 at 8.20 pm by saying:""That is characteristic of the Tories. They are not acting from principle. Their principle is opportunism. As the Prime Minister pointed out, the SNP put down a motion and the Tories went into action to follow it up. The Tories did not produce their motion for any reasons that they could adduce about the state of the nation or the economy."" He went on to say:""The Opposition often betray a duality of standards…the chairman of the Conservative party could be receiving £30,000 per year from Pirelli, a company which is apparently overcharging the Post Office by £9 million a year."—[Official Report, 28 March 1979; Vol. 965, c. 552-53.]" He went on to talk about the individual responsibility that every hon. Member bears.