CRITICISM BY THE OPPOSITION
"A vital part of the machinery of Parliament is the officially recognised Opposition to the Government," writes* "K.K." "The Parliamentary system, rests largely upon the activities—and presence in adequate numbers—of persons whose principal object in life is to oppose the things which another set of persons who are in the. majority desire to do.
"Yet it is by this method of critic cism and opposition that the merits and demerits of proposals can be tested: and the best work of governing is not done when the Government of the day has only to face a Weak Opposition.
"It is too easy to drift into something very different from operative democracy, and the claims of the State are exalted to a degree which is repugnant to the British ideal of freedom.
"A State which seeks to stamp all its citizens into a common mould, and to standardise that which Nature has wisely made diverse, may gain the advantage of singleness of aim in politics. But it will soon be the poorer by the loss of that variety which is the life and soul of a country—the Individuality of its citizens."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 46, 23 August 1938, Page 10
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