ELECTION PLAN

Southland Times, Issue 22457, 18 December 1934, Page 7

ELECTION PLAN

LLOYD GEORGE’S AIMS APPEAL TO UNATTACHED ELECTORS STATE BANK WANTED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, December 16. Mr Lloyd George, interviewed, insisted that he did not desire to support Liberalism, Socialism, Capitalism, Pacificism, Nazism or ,any other 1 ism. He would simply appeal to all parties to consider on broad non-party lines a series of proposals before the general election. He emphasized the fact that there was nothing revolutionary in his advocacy of national control of the Bank of England which he had always favoured. Britain was the only country where a bank which was essentially a State bank was not controlled by the Government. The political correspondent of the Observer says the fact that Mr Lloyd George first disclosed his plans only to the Daily Herald and the NewsChronicle shows that he hopes to dominate the Socialist and Radical combination in which he will hold the balance of power. Mr Lloyd George expects Labour to win two hundred seats at the general election. He believes his plan will appeal to unattached electors who like neither Socialism nor Conservatism and give him a compact group which will hold the balance between the Government supporters and Labour.