Watching Funeral Preparations Of Labour Govt. – Churchill

Northern Advocate, 27 October 1949, Page 5

Watching Funeral Preparations Of Labour Govt. - Churchill

LONDON. Wed. 'lO a.m.' Mr Churchill tonight, blamed the Labour Government's "cramping and disastrous rule" for Britain's present difficulties. He told a meeting m his constituency of Woodford, Essex, that hi the current debate in the Commons on economy cuts, they were witnessing the “funeral preparations of the Socialist Government." Mr Churchill said his most serious indictment of the Government was on expenditure. In the last four "lavish" years they had spent £! (j. 000.000.000. m- as much as was spent in the ”0 years .between the wars.

While it. might have been necessary to make some alteration in the exchange rate of sterling, such a measure should have been preceded by a "real economy" attempt, to liberate the forces and energies in Britain, which were misdirected or cramped. Mr Churchill added: "We Conservatives offer no smooth or easy path to the British nation now fighting for its life almost as it did in the war. "Nothing will induce me to bid for office by competing with the Socialists by promises of Utopia round the corner and an easy escape from the hard facts of life. "It would be far better for us to lose the election than to win it bv

false pretences." Mr Churchill said he could not conceive that the sending of “unrequited exports" to such countries as India and Egypt should have been allowed to go on. “The Government is spending many hundreds of millions in sending exports out of this country to places like India and Egypt which we protected in the war from Japan and Italy, and in return sve are getting nothing to renourish ourselves, to revitalise our cfTorts and to re-animate ourselves." he said. “I cannot conceive why this should have been allowed to go on."