London Housewives Make Pre budget Protests to Cripps London Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps had a heavy mail today Housewives from all parts of London massed in Trafalger Square then went in little groups to the Chancellors residence at no 11 Downing Streent where they pushed through the letter box petitions urging him to bring down prices in his impending budget This London housewife brought her protest up to the minute when she paraded through the squally expance of Trafalger Square before going to Downing Street 1st April 1948