LIBERALS IN BRITAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19973, 17 October 1927, Page 8

LIBERALS IN BRITAIN

CONSERVATIVE CRITICISM “MONEY BUT NO POLICY” LONDON, Oct. 12. Sir Thomas Inskip, the Solicitor-Gen oral, addressing a Conservative demon stration of Lakeside, Windermere, saic that members of Ihe party trusted theii loaders and believed that the rank anc file made the policy of the party, in stead of, as with the Labour Party leaving it to an oligarchy.

The latest proposal of the Labou Party was that all incomes over £5O(

should be surtaxed. It was character I istie of the Labour Party to make a I proposal for taking their money before I making proposals for spending it. They i were told that the Labour Party propos I ed to use the money to pay the National Debt, but the payment of the obliga tions which this country had at present was a heavy enough task in all con science.

The Liberal Party, said Sir Thomas, was divided into so many fragments in the House of Commons that no one knew where it was. The good opinion which the Liberal Party had of themselves was shared by very few others. The Liberal Party, however, had one great asset in the fund which was at ileir disposal. The Conservative Party was not so rich, as it once was. but. at any rate, it had a policy, even if it had little money.

The Liberal Party, the speaker added, had plenty uf money but no policy. That Mr Lloyd George should be engaged in attempting to solicit the support of the agricultural industry was astonishing to anyone who knew what was the policy of the Liberal Party. So far as agriculture was concerned, it was designed to bring that industry under bureaucratic control, which, was anathema to anyone who knew anything about the land.