OUTSIDE CRITICISM.
PARLIAMENTS DOINGS.
MR. LEE ON DEMOCRACY.
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Prime Minister's aversion to attempts by outside organisations to influence Parliament is not shared by Mr. J. A. Lee (Labour, Grey Lynn). "I take exception to the Prime Minister's objecting to them," said Mr. Lee in the House to-day. "For myself, I welcome the widest possible interest by all sections and all groups of the community in all the legislation that passes under our review. The trouble in the past has been the absence of such interest. It is a. representative Parliament, and I believe the people's interest should prevail: for three years, and not merely on polling day. I am afraid the Prime Minister is notorious for his attempts to make light of public opinion. On banking and financial questions, the people to-day no longer say of any institution, 'How long has it been in existence?' The question they ask is, 'Does it work to-day V If democracy is to prevail, the attitude of the public toward Parliament must be. a state of 'creative scepticism,' and only if the public is interested in all legislation and critical of it will democracy prevail/'
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 259, 2 November 1933, Page 22
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