Learning on ScreenThe Chancellor on His Budget
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- British Movietone News
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- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sir Stafford Cripps on His Budget. DESCRIPTION: Sir Stafford Cripps speaks about the Budget he has just announced. SHOTLIST: GV Houses of Parliament with River Thames in f/g. Interior Sir Stafford seated at his desk speaks about his budget in MS, SCU & CU.
- Researcher Comments
- Speech: He says Last year was a wonderful year in our history, people from all over the world have said how much they admire what we did in 1948. That achievement is the result of your efforts and of your being prepared to go without things that you would have liked to have had. Now this year we’ve got to make sure that we don’t lose what we have gained. It’s only too easy to slip back and find ourselves in a worse condition than before as the consequence of trying to cash in too quickly on our recovery. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the nation’s housekeeper and like the family housekeeper I often have to refuse you all sorts of things which seems hard to you and it seems hard to me too. I only wish I didn’t have to say no, but I should betray you and what I believe to be right and true if I pretend to you that things are better than they actually are. I should enjoy telling you of lower taxes and easier times, I shall enjoy it enormously if it ever falls to my lot to draw up a budget when out national production has become large enough to enable our individual burdens to be lightened, meantime I know you want to hear the truth and not fairy stories. This year we shall have great new benefits, real additions to the family income, under the new Health Service, improved Education Services and other social services. As a family we must pay for these benefits by our contributions through taxes. The time for lightening the tax burden hasn’t come yet. I share the truth with you confidently because I know how well the British people respond to the frank and truthful account of their difficulties. Democracy is safe in Britain so long as governments tell the people the facts on which they can form their own judgement. 18 months ago when the economic crisis was at its worse I told you that if we faced the facts and took the necessary steps with determination we should come through. You agreed to take them and we have come a very long way since then. Now I tell you that if we continue in the same determined way we shall come right through to better times, more than that we’ll come out on top in a way that would preserve the freedom and decency of your living. You will also have set an example to the whole world of a pioneering democracy which only a short time ago people would have thought impossible.
- Keywords
- Politics and government
- Locations
- Treasury
- Card file number
- 51777
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Length of story (in feet)
- 314
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