BRITISH POLITICS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 20 December 1926, Page 8

BRITISH POLITICS.

(Per Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, December 18. The Smethwick by-election is providing a new era of electioneering in which politics, as such, have no part except in name. It has become an experiment in mob psychology of rn unprecedented kind, largely owing to the intervention of a section of the Press, which is concentrating its efforts to make Mr Mosley as notorious as possible, and Lady Cynthia, to figure as something absurd to be associated with the Socialists movement, She and her husband are the subjects of political cartoons of a quite unusual nature. Her title has been construed into plain “Missus,” while Mr Masley’s father has been dragged in with a declaration that h.o son has not done an honest day’s work in his life. The meetings are more or less like university rags. The comments of the humble folk anent Air Mosley’s social status are widely published. 10-day Lady Cynthia was hoisted by a, crowd to a precarious perch on a vail adjoining the Conservative candidates’ meeting. The opposing candidate chivalrously gave way to her, but declared he was not going to strike his colours at the bidding of any aristocratic pirates hying the Red Flag.