The Report expressed a halting agreement that large sums of money would be required in respect of the maintenance of unemployed and under-employed, the undertaking of work of social utility, and the financing of schemes for the revival of British industry and the restoration of industry and commerce abroad. It did not attempt to discuss how this money was to be provided; it disposed of the whole question by this facile observation: “We shall be met at once by the criticism that sufficient money cannot be found to meet our demands. We do not believe it. We refuse to be put off during this grave national crisis, imperilling the welfare of the whole population, with pleas of financial stringency.” Reference was made to large sums of money which, it was stated, were being spent by the Government on unjustifiable purposes, for example, on expeditions in Mesopotamia, operations in Ireland and in other places. Money, instead of being so expended, should be devoted to the relief of unemployment. If such retrenchment of military and other wasteful expenditure did not yield the total sum required, then, said the Labour Party, “other resources must be tapped,” but those resources are not indicated. “While an increasing number of families are daily sinking into starvation, the well-to-do classes have suffered only minor embarrassments. Luxuries must go, if needs be, to provide the means of life and livelihood for those in distress.” Hardly a constructive financial scheme. Manifesto on Unemployment, 1921