ANALYSIS OF VOTING
(To the Editor.) Sir,—Your correspondent "T.L." entirely misses or evades the point It is indisputable that the General Election results placed the Labour Party in a minority in the country notwithstan^ng that every available vote was polled. It is a perfectly legitimate assumption that the remainder of the votes, no matter how widely - distributed among various sections, was distinctly anti-Labour. It is equally rea-' sonable to assume then that the old saying "They who are not for us are against us" still holds. Not only was the majority vote anti-Labour, but it was anti-Coalition—the country being heartily sick of a Government that while it faced many, difficulties, grappled with them by -unethical methods and forced through legislation that was opposed to commercial principles I return then to the point that "TL" avoids: Labour is in a minority. Whence then comes the much-vaunted mandate? Authority to db things cannot be claimed by. those numerically lowest in strength.—l am, etc., '
ELECTOR.
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Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 8
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162ANALYSIS OF VOTING Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 8
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