HOUSE COMPETENT, BUT NOT BRILLIANT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18349, 29 December 1927, Page 1

HOUSE COMPETENT, BUT NOT BRILLIANT.

“ THE TIMES ’’ COMMENTS ON COMMONS’ POSITION. By Telegraph-—Press Assn.—Copyright Aus. and X.Z. Cable Association. * (Received December 29, 11.30*a.m.) LONDON, December 28. “The Times,” in a retrospect of the Parliamentary sersion since the complete defeat of the general strike, says: “A staggering blow was dealt to the sovereignty of Parliament. All members are adjusting themselves to the fact that England exp'ects them to be national representatives, and not the delegates of interests; also to the fact that empoyers and employed have been induced to realise that Parliament could do little to promote peace and prosperity without their co-opera-tion- This meant that remarkably little time was wasted in asking Parliament to do what industry alone could do itself. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Baldwin, at some personal cost, established a far healthier political atmosphere in the House of Commons. Sir Austen Chamberlain and Sir W. Joynson-Jlicks are the two Ministers who have mostly increased their influence. The House as a whole impresses one for its competence rather than for its brilliance. The process of recovering its balance has at least advanced sufficiently for the suspension of all talk of the decline of Parliament.”