David Miliband says Britain facing 1970s-style 'social and industrial disorder' He continued: "I was living for a year in America during the fire strike of 1977/78 - but I remember the social studies teacher, Mrs Fogg, telling her class of 8th graders how lucky they were not to live in Britain. And I remember watching the 1981 riots as a 16 year old London schoolboy and thinking that the country had broken down. "I don't say last year's riots were caused because not enough people were listening to "Today in Parliament." I do say that a lesson of the 1970s is that people take power into their hands when they feel there is a political vacuum at the top. Labour had to accept some of the blame for the scale of the economic crisis. He said: "No one, not the Government nor Opposition, not the Bank of England nor the FSA, warned the public about the danger of the biggest economic crisis for eighty years. No wonder people are sceptical. Mr Miliband also suggested that the House of Commons would be enlivened if ministers were given no notice of what they were to be asked in the Commons. He said: "Although Ministers come to Parliament every day to answer questions, three quarters of the topics are notified to them in advance. Yet in my experience, it is only the topical questions that make Ministers sweat. In my view we should make all questions open, topical and therefore challenging. Mr Miliband also praised his brother and Labour leader Ed Miliband, insisting that he "can" be the next Prime Minister after the 2015 general election. He said: "In 2015 Labour can win the General Election and Ed can be in Downing Street," but he warned against the party taking a victory for granted and "trying to default into power,"