Lloyd George Passing

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 5

Lloyd George Passing

"The Observer," a Lloyd Georgian adulator, says the time has coma for Its idol to wV-hdraw from the limelight. In.this we see the working of realism in politics. As a decoy duck for Toryism Lloyd George, in his palmy clays, was Without an .'equal, and even Lord Derby fell upon Ma neck and kissed him, but his glory has departed, and Jiis place will know u" ; m Ho more—well, not if a good many o£ his erstwhile Tory pals cai\ help it. He has been found out. Without principle, scruple or stability, he "solves" problems only to make them more insoluble than ever, he exasperates the evils "cured" by the o£ his verbosity. The result of hii pro-Greek adventure is unpaulonable —it lias caused a breach in Britain's petroleum monopoly through which France and Standard Oil will advance ■to profit. His failures have put the at a disadvantage, he has starved and ruined millions of Britons, his government menaces "the country with the election of Labour to power. •His unpopularity grows apace. He has lost his dash. He is a sucked orange. Therefore, away with him! So argue his profiteering brethren. Well, the sooner the better, if wa want politics w-thout hypocrisy and humbug.