MUDDLED POLITICS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1051, 15 August 1930, Page 8

MUDDLED POLITICS

Sir,— Wliat a glorious mess we democrats have got ourselves in! Mr. A. J. Hutchinson has spoken sternly of the waste, inefficiency, pathetic incompetence, ineptitude and hopeless mismanagement exhibited by our partvriven Government. He didn't use such sweetly reasonable denunciation but the implication was there. Mr. Hutchinson Is simply wasting his

breath in pointing out what everybody already knows about our wretched constitution. Bates going up. taxes soaring, inhibitions to the right and to the left all around and about —but what can' we stupid British people expect? How we love to delude ourselves over the myth of our freedom? Freedom . . Britons never shall be slaves? . . . Extraordinarily amusing! We don t know what it is to be free and never shall. Why? For the reason that we are slaves to ourselves —to our own “enlightened” democracy. We shall never be rid of the party system because we must be free people. Democracy is a mocker at freedom. The onlv force which can save New Zealand, Britain, any offspring of the British race, any n *ion which cringes at the feet of Demos —the people—is a dictatorship. How we freemen shrink from the thought. Free, yes. sir. free to go on with our British muddling. A nation gets as good a Government as it deserves, and Heaven knows democracy has won its deserts. As “Annoyed” points out, the only practical way to get rid of party government lies through Parliament itself. He says rightly that this can never be, because the members of our governing body will never vote themselves into possible unemployment. Quite so. The future, like the present, is stalemate. How delightful thing it is to be British and free. _ I’m going to join that scheme for emigration to the Kermadees. THIS FREEDOM.