BRITISH POLITICS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16711, 22 April 1925, Page 8

BRITISH POLITICS.

FOB MM II LIBERAL MEMBER’S OPINIONS. iSnecia! to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. |)r. YY. A. Chappie, formerly M.P. for Dumfries in the British House of Commons. and for some years prominent in New Zealand polities, arrived in Wellington by the Maheno from Sydney today. J)r, Chappie is paying a- visit to New Zealand before returning to Australia to study two important questions, the working of arbitration as a method of settling industrial disputes, and the system of preferential voting. He believes that Australia, hats first-hand information to give on this subject. The Dominions, he believes, are good political laboratories, as the results there achieved are a girdle lo the politicians of Great Britain, where the problems are not as near solution as in I ho Dominions. The three-parly system in Britain, in the opinion of Dr. Chappie, means minority rule, which is a negation of democracy. At, present, there are 124 minority members in the House of Commons. In his opinionthere is not the slightest, pos nihility of I lie Socialist forces regaining power in Great, Britain. The present Government, he states, was elected mr a “siuiit” issue by terrorising electors into voting for a safe and stable Tory administration, but there was no doubt of the intention of the Baldwin Government to advance the cause of social legislation, and to put up a, record for live years along a broad, if not advanced' and liberal line, in order to justify anollier period of office. The surge in the mind and heart of Britain was a surge towards Liberal ends. There were no Tories and no Socialists in the Liberal ranks, hut both Mr Baldwin’s parly and the* Labor parl.v were charged with Liberals, who dominated both.