POLITICS IN BRITAIN.
TWO RESIGNATIONS FROM LABOUR PARTY. Members state their GRIEVANCES. (Received February 25tli, 7.45 p.m.) ' ' , LONDON, Ebruary 24. Messrs E. J. St. Loe Straeliey and Dr. R» Forgan, Labour members of the Mouse Commons, and supporters of Sltf Oswald Mosley, have separately written to Mr Ramsay MacDonaTd resigning frota the Labour Party." .Mr Strachey, complained that tlie Government had Ignored v the warnings* of the approaching economic.crisis and had rejected constructive proposals for tlie re-absorption of the unemployed, and wl.B rioW compelled to adopt its opponents' policy of reducing working-class standards of life. Dr, -JPorgan accused the Government of departing froin its election policy, of failing to undertake the task of national reconstruction, and of entering into an alliance with Mr Lloyd George, whom it ridiculed in 1929. THE. MOSLfeY GROUP. (BRiixsa omcui. wireless.) R.UGBY, February 21. It is now stated that only four of tho 17 members of the group led by Sir Oswald Mosley Will resign from the lutbdur Party. The other 13 signatories of the original manifesto declare that they cannot follow in withdrawing from the Party. MEMBERS' TRAVEL FACILITIES. THIRD-CLASS ON RAILWAYS REJECTED. (Reoetved February 25th, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, February 2-4.
lit the House of Commons,; Captain Craokshank (Conservative) moved to reduce the estimato covering vouohers to enable members of' the House <>i to travel first-class between their constituencies and London, suggesting that owing to the straitened . finances, third-class ought to suffice. It would be doubly efficacious, enabling Labour members to hear what the people were saying about the Government. Mr Jack Jonest Such paltry economy talk will furnish Chaplin, if he is present, with an idea for his next piotnre. Members of the House of Commons should be allowed aeroplanes for urgent cases. Mr R. J. G. Boothby said: Politicians who received all the kicks and no thanks were entitled to comfortable' travel.'' Third-class on the underground railways wde all right, but between Aberdeen And London it is the nearest approach to hell I know of. , The amendment was negatived by 258 to 130. -
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 11
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