ESTABLISHED 1875. Manawatu Daily Times. The Oldest Manawatu Journal. Conducted by E. D. HOBEN. Published Every Morning. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1910. THE BRITISH CHAOS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 959, 10 March 1910, Page 4

ESTABLISHED 1875. Manawatu Daily Times. The Oldest Manawatu Journal. Conducted by E. D. HOBEN. Published Every Morning. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1910. THE BRITISH CHAOS.

The extraordinary position in England grows more extraordinary. A simple veto resolution of the House of Commons would so far as can be seen at this [distance havo given Mr Asquitli a working majority with the aid of the National and Labour members. He oliose the other way and we see the most remarkable spectacle of a Government which considers that it would be a derogation of principle to ask the Lords to pass the budget, asking them to pass Temporary Borrowing Bills to take the place of that budget, and provide a Innd to month finance, for whioli it in paying £I2OO per day 'in interest, while it is allowing tlm taxes to go uncollected. And it also asked the passing of a Transvaal War Loan Bedemption Bill on the ground of ur. geucy though it will not send up the measure that would make its day by day borrowings unnecessary. And all this apparently beoause of the quite inexplicable rolnotance which so many English statesmen appear to have when it oomes to the crucial point to going to a country by their side and under the guns of the British fleets even a measure of the self-government wliioli has made the distant colonies, whose disloyalty, did such a tiling exist, would be a very inuoh more diffioult thing to deal with. Iu fact, there would seem to he, even in a so-called Liberal British statesman, a curious vein of timidity and conservatism on some subjects that is quite inex ; plioable to the outsider, and it is this view which seems to be holding bapk the Asquitli Government from a bold course in their present auomalous situation. When tlio'y have had a little more experienco in England of three-party-goverument they will act differently. Even if the Government'goes, to the country as one might judge to be its intention from present indications it is praotioally certain that the solution of a dominant third party would still remain.