TWO-PARTY OR THREE?
“IT there had boon a Conservative majority, it would have been' interpreted as a vote of confidence in the Conservative ' Ministry, which would have been the opposite of the nation’s real opinion. If there had been a Labour majority, it would have been
taken as a proof that the nation had been converted to (Socialism, which would have been completely untrue. A two-party system would therefore have led, whatever the result of the election, to a misrepresentation of the nation’s judgment. It was only the interposition of a third party which enabled the nation not only to give a clear verdict, hut to do what, by a large majority, if wanted to do—namely, (11 to get rid of the Conservative Ministry, and (2) to replace it "'P l ' a Ministry which would be debarred from carrying out So-inli.st measures. The twoparty system would have com pellet! the nation to submit to one or othei of two things to which, by a large majority, it was definitely opposed.— Mr Ramsay Muir.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 2
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173TWO-PARTY OR THREE? Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 2
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