Let the world apply the economic tourniquet and that flickering flame of change will be turned into a barrier of self-defence.
It is applying a tourniquet to the lifeblood of industry.
Then a sharp turn of the tourniquet was necessary to stop our lifeblood from flowing away.
I used the analogy of the tourniquet as an example.
I fear that we turned the tourniquet too tightly when dealing with an inflationary surge.
Be that as it may, the hæmorrhage could not have been allowed to continue, and a tourniquet of some kind was required.
It took forty years to set the railways free from that commercial tourniquet.
It is still far too much: but at least a tourniquet has been applied and is beginning to work.
