HOUSE OF COMMONS BECOMING FAMILY PARTY.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 38, 19 April 1930, Page 5

HOUSE OF COMMONS BECOMING FAMILY PARTY.

LONDON DAILY EXPRESS FEATURES I STINGING ARTICLE.

It declares “Family relationship is all very well in family circles, but the less we have it mixed up in the stern business of the House of Commons or indeed any Parliament, the better. The assembly should consist of alert, even ruthlejss competitiveness ahd efficiency, which is unlikely to be engendered by the amiability of family ties. A certain amount of family tradition of course is inseparable from the House of Commons. This within limits, is not undesirable. The old and accepted idea was that father and |son should be in succession. Nobody could cavil at an occasional example, but with the arrival of women in the House of Commons relationship has taken strange turns,

WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE IN POLITICS. Press Association— Hopyrio-ht. (Received 9.5 a.in.) LONDON, (April 18. A, striking* onslaught on the family character of the present House of Commons, is made in a featured article in ilie “Daily Express”, headed “It may he. the mother of Parliaments but it must not be a family party.” The article refers to the maiden sneeehes of Mrs. Meg*an Lloyd (reorp*e and the Prime Minister’s son upon whom a host of fathers, brothers, sister .and mothers beamed from the galleries and from the floor of the House.

and we may soon have mothers and daughters and likewise sisterjs. One reason why the French run all oyer ns at conferences is because they refuse to take seriously a nation which now admits women to parliament and to* Cabinet. 4 ' Thijs sort of thing is all right in Finland and even in America, hut the continent does not expect it from traditional Britain. Many may see nothing absurd in the idea of mother, daughter, husband and wife sitting in a Parliament. which is still the capital of the' Empire, with masculine problems like India and Egypt to solve, hut millions of others do.”