BRITISH POLITICS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 13

BRITISH POLITICS.

-V,-- \ . , GENERAL election prospects

<wp»- ova ow*' coaaasro«9«MT.) LONDON, January 20. . . '■ I^Td. • Brentford, 1 - who "was . accompanied- hy Lord and Lady Craigavon, and Lord and Lady Cusihendun, spoke at a meeting in Belfast last night. He said that before very long Conservatives hoped and believed there would by a general election. It was not a very seemly thing for*the Government to hang on by its eyelashes as the . present Government was doing. '-Our policy to-day," he said, ''is that every ®an and"'woman who works with their hands and every employer is entitled to the protection of a tariff against the influx of foreign goods. On that policy we . shall ,go to th? country as soon as wiT drive the 'Soeialißt Government to the' people. It won't go until it is drjLven.. ( J£ickr it Qttt»\]£i<& 'out this Government back to the countryj make it office /the ele6to<9 whom it has duped, and make it- face the unemployed." Sir "-Thqta&s" "Inskip, speaking at „Cosham, near Portsmouth, last night, Bajd that ilnder the Trade Disputes BiU, the. General Council of the Trades Union Congress might declare a general strike which would .continue unless jomeone issued a< writ against the Council.' XJnder the lowest estimate, it wtald be three weeks before the Court could make any declaration as to the . legality of strike, and during that time the • revolutionaries would be able to do anything they liked without anybody being able to get anything out of them in the way of damages. It was almost' criminal that at this time the gotyg to, ape»s the time ,of Parliament to alter the law as it proposed. . 1 " ' ,