BRITAIN'S NEW VOTERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20705, 1 May 1929, Page 11

BRITAIN'S NEW VOTERS.

SIR lAN HAMILTON’S VIEWS. ; "WOMEN’S POLITICS FROM NOW.”' Sir lan Hamilton, president of the' Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London, in proposing “ The Guests and, the Ladies,’ at the association's annual. dinner recently, speculated on Uow the new women voters would vote, and enid that there would be no peace at all until the country had a lady Prime Minister: ‘ Wc are not political here.” Sir lap said, “ but we do know that the Conger-, yatives are the most'revolutionary party, in politics. Corn Laws, Suea canal ■ shares. Tariff Reform—what is all that - compared with giving the vote to hundredsof thousand's of ladies? “No one knows what’s going to happen, but at least a soldier does know ladies, better than politicians, because, until now,! he has seen more of them. So Til let you ' into n secret: They will be quite different' ■ as politicians from men. If the Conservatives had enfranchised a million men.' they'd know where they were. . Gut of sheer gratitude, the now voters would be ; inclined to give their first vote, their virgin vote, to their benefactors. There’s not a chance of it. ** Ladies leap-frog all the facts—all thereasons—and yet alight, not, as might be' expected, on their beam ends, but fair, ond. square on a perfectly sound' conolu- ; sion. They are warriors. See them attack one another in the House. Also they have got numbers. “They are going to fling themselves straight into politics, and it will be women’s politics from now on, all thetime, and no pence at alt until we get a lady Prime Minister.”