POLITICAL PIFFLE1.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 19 May 1922, Page 2

POLITICAL PIFFLEI.

It is astonishing how the cableman responsible for sending overseas political news from London magnifies small things and utterly fails to observe a sense of proportion with regard to passing events. The latest instance is the much ado about nothing in regard to the catch vote on teachers' pensions in the House of Commons, where the Government was defeated by throe votes—lsl to 148 It has to be remombored in this connection that thero are no fewer than 707 members, so that the voting of only 299 is not going to cost the country either the resignation of the Government or a general election. Nor is it likoly, as the cableman would have us that Mr Chamberlain would ride for a fall upon such a small issue, especially when the defeat can be used effectively against the Die-Hards without the Cabinet going to the country. Further, Mr Lloyd George is not going to plunge his country into disaster and spoil the chance of reconstructing Europe just for the sake of a seeming way out of all his troubles by such'an act of political suicide. Flo does not need such a paltry ocuso to appeal to the country, even if this was tho time to do so.