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Hear, hear! Answer, sir!
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Let me first of all
thank the Honourable Member...
:18:07
.. for his articulate contribution
to the debate.
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Since I last addressed this House
on the subject,...
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.. I have had the opportunity...
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.. to investigate this scheme
more thoroughly...
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.. and to grasp fully the ramifications
of our lending it support.
:18:29
I have to inform the House...
:18:32
.. that I was...
:18:34
.. mistaken...
:18:37
.. in my original perceptions...
:18:39
.. and that I have now taken
a rather different view.
:18:51
Ow, ow!
:18:56
I find that now I must agree
with my Right Honourable friend...
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.. that this is indeed an excellent scheme.
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A genuine opportunity.
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An opportunity,...
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.. particularly if you happen
to be a corrupt investor...
:19:20
A corrupt investor
with nothing but self-interest at heart.
:19:29
Now it is my utter conviction that
this scheme never should have had...
:19:33
.. or should ever have
any chance of success.
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It is a fraud, an infamous fraud at that.
:19:39
Our involvement would be a political fraud
of the worst possible kind!
:19:47
This...
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.. great nation...
:19:51
.. has long been
a great commercial power.
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Now it seems there exists
a growing compulsion to use that power...
:19:59
.. merely to beget more power,...