BRITISH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 136, 1 August 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

VICTOR GRAYSON'S SPEECH. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United i i can Association. Loiul.ni, .July 31. Mr Victor Grayson, ox-31.P-, speaking at Bradford, said the Insurance Bill would smash the friendly societies, destroy trades unions, and redueo workers to national vassals. Ho did not think a more dangerous Bill had been introduced during the last fifty years. AWKWARD FOrTnEW PEERS. London, July 31. Lord Stanmoro, writing to the Times suggests the Lords still possess the power to discharge a now poor from the service of the House during the remainder of Parliament.* He instances the refusal of a vote to Lord •Wcnsleydalo in 1856, when Lord 3Vensleydalo was created a life icor. (Received 1, 9.20 a.m.) London, July 31. Mi- Pointer, Labour member for Attorcliffe division, Sheffield, writing to a Labour newspaper, accused the Speaker of being a miserable, pitiable failure in dealing with the occasion upon which Mr Asquith was shouted down. Mr Lockwood, Unionist member for Epping, raised the question in the Commons, and 3lr Pointer apologised and withdrew.