That will be a double body blow, coming on top of millions of pounds of cuts forced on local authority budgets.
It would be a body blow to the industry if the boards were to be undermined.
They would need to be constructed in such a way as to give the economy and the white population in particular a real body blow.
If the existing clauses are not supported this evening, it will be one more body blow that will affect small businesses.
But in another respect it strikes a body blow at another kind of independent—the small music publisher.
I say again, such a move would be a body blow to the credibility of the life sentence system in the eyes of the public.
The arts have always been undervalued in this country and this will be a further body blow.
That was another body blow to the wool industry in particular.
