IF CONSERVATIVES ARE TO GOVERN THEY MUST HAVE A POLICY
Recd. 8.20 p.m. London, Oct. 2 The Conservative Party's annual conference opens today at Brighton, and “The Times,” in a leader, emphasises that if the party is ever to provide an alternative Government it must first devise and agree on a policy, and. secondly, convince the public that it means business.
Some Conservatives argue that all Governments defeat themselves in time, and that the present Government beset, bewildered and driven by economic difficulties, is likely to achieve its own undoing in a shorter time than most, but this illusion, “The Times" points out, is not shared by the shrewder and more thoughtful members of the party. The Labour poil has indeed been falling at byelections, but politics is no longer dictated by a simple swing of the pendulum and the first, equipment of a party at the polls is a programme. Che Government has a programme, and it can only be displaced by an al ternative programme. Neither a patient nor an impatient waiting for •labour’s fall, nor mere denunciations and prophecies of woe, will be sufficient.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 3 October 1947, Page 5
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