The Hawera Star. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931 BRITAIN’S NEW SOCIALIST PARTY.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 February 1931, Page 4

The Hawera Star.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931 BRITAIN’S NEW SOCIALIST PARTY.

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The political unrest current in England has been increased by the latest action of Sir Oswald Mosley. The discontent of that representative of the younger school of politicians with the existing state of affairs was well-known and it was also recognised that Sir Oswald Mosley was a young man who would probably "do things” in the future. It was not so generally anticipated, however, that he would make his bid for at the present juncture, though a little closer thought on the subject reveals that the present time is not an unpropitious one for an ambitious man with ideas to gain an audience, if not actually to achieve his goal. 'The recent announcement of his resignation from the Labour Ministry should have acted as a warning to the public, ( for a man like Sir Oswald is never content merely to resign as a gesture and then cast himself into political oblivion. It will be noted, from to-day's cable news, that Sir Oswald has been working quietly for some time in an effort to capture the imagination and interest of industrial magnates. He does not propose to come before the public ;with a "brotherhood of man manifesto” and with promises of coaches [and palaces for all. He is bitching bis wagon to a higher star and addressing .himself primarily to employers rather than to the employed. There is much in the outline of the policy so far announced likely to prove attractive to industrialists and there is more than a hint of appeal to the primary producers of the overseas Dominions. He would be an enthusiast in the new cause, indeed, who would predict success for the New Socialist Party at the next election, but it would not be surprising, nevertheless, to find this party, despite its mushroom growth, its new ideas, and the traditional conservatism of the nation, receiving an unusually large measure of support. Times are changing and men are finding that they must change their ideas accordingly. A few years ago men would have laughed at the idea of a Labour Government ever reigning in England in our time; and when Mr'•Ramsay MacDonald first became a serious aspirant for the Prime Ministership, no one imagined that out of the junior ranks of his party would arise a new movement resembling a cross between Conservative and Socialistic thought. That is what the policy of the Hew Socialists’ policy resembles at first glance, for it will be noted that it seeks to bring a new millenium to the Empire, not to an international federation of the world; it also seeks to. restore order and prosperity from the top, not from the bottom. Further, it is interesting to see, whatever its fate may prove to be, there is a decided inclination on the part of the Hew Socialists to get back to individualism in the control of the State, if not of industry, for they recommend the appointment of an "inner executive of Cabinet, composed of five or six ministers without portfolio” and "the simplification of Parliamentary procedure,” with a view to enabling the executive to take swift and precise action on behalf of the State. This amounts to a confession by some Socialists of the failure of that part of the democratic system which lays it down that the nation shall advance only at the pace set by its slowest units.