BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 10

BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES

(To the Editor.) : Sir, —In your issue of .Friday last, Dr. Campbell Begg is reported to have said at Maaterton that "when Ramsay MaeDonald, the Socialist, and Baldwin, the Conservative, agreed to pull together, it became almost impossible for candidates supporting any • other party to avoid losing their deposits." Dr. Begg must have been mistaken if the "candidates supporting any other , party" he had in mind were Labour Party candidates —and they could hardly have been any other. It appears to be necessary to remind Dr. . Begg that the Labour Party ■ candidates in .the British elections in 1931 polled just under seven million votes, and that very few of them'lost their deposits. Indeed, were the Labonr Party represented proportionately to its votes, it would have nearly 200 scats in the.present House of Commons. As to whether or not the Mac Donald amalgamation has been a success, it is pertinent to remark that Philip Snowdcn has severed his, connection with it, Mr. Herbert Samuel and his Liberals have acted likewise, .while the Labour Party is not only, whining by-elections but is polling much more heavily than in the 1929 General Elections, when it was elected to office on a total vote in the constituencies of approximately 8,300,000.-1 am, etc., ANTI-HUMBUG.