Abstract

British Political Parties

Great Britain has been going through something akin to a civil war during which the still small voice of reason has been drowned by strident slogans and shut out by deaf ears. The Tory Party in England is less a political than a social party-a party of status either attained or sought; a party of visiting lists. In the House of Commons, the Government has fared badly except in the Division Lobbies, and in the debate on the final vote of censure it perhaps fared worst of all. The Labor Party steps into 1927 with the airs of a victorious party, and its trophies justify its airs. It is now plain that it holds well over 50 per cent of the votes of the industrial areas and that in the great majority of these constituencies it does not matter much whether Liberals or Tories combine against it or make a triangular fight of it.