BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 December 1927, Page 5

BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

ITS INFLUENCE. NOT ON THE DECLINE. LONDON, Wednesday. “The Times,” in a retrospect of Parliamentary history since the complete defeat of the General Strike, says, that the strike was a staggering blow dealt at the sovereignty of Parliament,' but all members adjusted themselves to the fact that England expects them to be national representatives, and not delegates .of interests. There was also the fact that employers and employed had been induced to realise that Parliament could do little to promote peace and prosperity without their co-operation. This meant that remarkably little time was wasted in asking Parliament to do what industry alone could do itselt. It was 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 William Joynson-Hicks are two Ministers who mostly increased their influence. The House as a whole impresses one for competence rather than brilliance, and the process of recovering the balance has at least advanced sufficiently for the suspension of all talk of the decline of Parliament. —“The Times.”