"FORGET PARTY"
It is apparently too much to expect a Parliament constituted as the present House of Representatives is to forget party and come together to provide a non-party Ministry, The Labour member for Raglan is surely an over-optimistic idealist if hej makes such a plea with any hope of its being heeded. But it is not unreasonable to ask members to think less of party and more of the country than they have been doing. Some few members have evidently remembered the position of the country and have refrained from making party points; but the majority have fought the I party fight as strenuously as if there were no other issue before them than the old worn issue between ins and outs. This is not the way to promote co-operation. Even if it could be proved finally that Reform was right and United wrong in 1928 that would not help much in deciding what should be done in 1930. Circumstances have changed since the General Election, and the change has been so far-reaching as to call for a new start in a new spirit. If members would only stop harping on old party questions and would devote their whole attention to issues of the moment, they .could do much more for the country and do no harm to their respective parties in the process. ' ■
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 36, 11 August 1930, Page 8
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"FORGET PARTY"
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 36, 11 August 1930, Page 8
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