BRITISH LIBERALS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 8

BRITISH LIBERALS.

"MONEY BUT NO POLICY." (PBOM DUB OWN. . COBBESPOKDENT.) •■ •":;:' • LONI>ON-,>September,7. ;• -.Sir Thomas Inskip, the Solicitor*G.ener*i, .addressing a. Unionist demonstration.- of. Lakeside, Windermere, said, that Unionists trusted their leaders and believed that the rank and 'fite made' the policy of the Party, instead, of, as with the Labour Party, leaving it to an oligarchy. The latest prOr posal of the Labour Party was that.aU' incomes over.£soo should be It. .was . charaeteris'tic" of the Labour Party" .to.make a proposal .for taking their money before tnaking proposals for. spending it. They were told that the Labour Party proposed to use" the money to pay the National Debt, but the payment of the obligations which this country had at present-was » heavv enough task in all conscience. . 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 i-Party had of themselves, was .shared: by,: very few-others. Tlie Liberal. p : ariy, However, had one great-, asset''in the furtd which was: at. their disposal. The Conservative Party was not so rich as it once was, but, at any rate, it bad a policy, oven if it had little, money. The Liberal Party had plenty of 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 con- . oerned, it was. designed to bring that industry under bureaucratic control, .which 'was anathema to anyone, who Lkiiewf.anything abouttho land. ; •