BROKEN PROMISES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 1 August 1930, Page 4

BROKEN PROMISES

UNITED PARTY MANIFESTO. “POOLING THE PUBLIC.” “This is the document that hypnotised ! the people,” declared Mr. R. Semple ; (Lab., Wellington East) as he waved a j copy of the United Party’s election . manifesto during the Imprest Supply Bill debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. “This is the document that fooled and baffled the people,” he added. “It was this that brought the United Party from the backwash of political oblivion on to the Treasury benches of this country. The United Party has got something to do to live up to its promises. The United Party is like the Irishman wheeling the wheelbarrow—it has got the job ahead of it. This one document succeeded in fooling the people of this country.” ( “It still is,” interjected a Reform ( member. | “I submit that it is a very dishonest thing for any group of public men . . continued Mr. Semple, who was nterI rupted at this stage by Mr. Speaker, and ; reminded that it was not Parliamentary I to refer to the actions of fellow-members as dishonest. “Well, I will say it is unfair and unreasonable for people to make such promises,” said Air. Semple. “They were j promises that could not be carried out. ; and more than that, it was never inj tended to carry them out. We are told in the manifesto that there will be lower j taxation and cheap money. What does that mean? The petrol tax threatens to put out of business scores of struggling carriers. If the tax is imposed [ people in the suburbs who now pay a threepenny fare will have to pay more. The petrol tax is a direct tax on working people. And this is the Government that made a definite declaration that it was not going to do these things.”