I moved the amendment to ensure that disabled people are not isolated and left to live their lives on a desert island.
These people are not marooned on a desert island.
It is a fairly desert island with some 300 people.
But we are not on a desert island yet—though before certain people have done with us, we may very well be.
A cheque is of very little use to a millionaire if he is cast away upon a desert island.
I often call to mind the old story about the economist stranded on a desert island with tinned food and nothing else.
On a desert island when the food runs out everybody sinks below the poverty line.
Let it be in some desert island removed from our sight.
