POLITICS IN BRITAIN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5474, 18 February 1910, Page 3

POLITICS IN BRITAIN

THE BALANCE OF POWER. POSITION OF THE LIBERALS. JjOXDOX. Feb. 18. The l>aily News says lhat .>»r iii_Uitx>nd's utliluUt! U'.th r^S^ltCt to the <io^r ( ,-.ncnt | rti^r^njiie has i.n~oH>teilly ioicuA what may l>& duscrtl/jd as a \»b(ik'M«i.e crisis. '1 he position is some* dt'^ms gr^.yr Vi:jn hmifcVnct, and th. i*o is s ( >,ne roanon >or <xrll^ins t'rat Air .AK.rui.h w.li gi.vvj any K^virjutfos that iiih.\ I.c r. «;vi«.h;,--chl. A sm»lj jtarts- i;i taK> his." 1 * S|.t>ech i.r' a h.'iU lri,'in A.r AHuuivh in Ihe -.lll. ate oft t-lus Arfr.ir.s».:.-iii-Ho-ply will st-illee t»i make tho. c S-« r . ail tees l-tiown: l"he Daily Chronicle states 1 hut it i.s now j ri:£*.ttl !»■• that an aotpek on the -veto will be tho I'rst sifb.,ect ta'i kon in tho House of Commons after the A<lc!i\ss-in-Kciply, even though this imiy involve the risk of losing the Budget. Tho Chronic Id says : "Th/re is no certainty that the 'giving of the Budget priority would save it from tfte wolves." The Dublin, col'rcspondont of the Ti-meft Hays It. is gicnerally; lK>licve<l that Asejiilth will oRf-i* fonnsil ple<lgc*s, which at any ral« on paper will bo sufficiently stf-bH tart Dial to *a.ye Hc<lim«nd : K f"Pe. Thd Nationalists, the col-respon-dent remafks. shrink frwn the 1 tv.spect otf any election, inasmuch as they lack funds. It is understood that thchtl'v ol fhe £10,000 ra istKl hy T. P. O'Connor in America was spent on the recent ehjctioin.s. 'Jlr Kcdim>itd will possibly be willing! t-o vote for tho Budget if threatened burdens of pver-taXa.ti4>n 1 in Irelartfl arc ulimiiiatcd as advocated Ijy I'nionist orjually with somo Nationalist nowspaptrs. 51 rJ. W. F. Fulkr, a Liberal Whip, speaking at Trowljri'dpe, said that In the last three days diJTicultics\ .had arisen making 1 in quite poßSibl2 that the Commons would reject tho Budget. The two groat parties of t-he State had never ixKm so (tyiiaUy baKtmced. They did not know what attit-.idc tha Nationalists woukl assume. The LB>crals should, reltiin their organisation wiih a."\'dew- to the possibility of another election before many months.