BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9656, 22 November 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

PORTSMOUTH BYELECTION. ISSUES BEFORE IHE COUNTRY. A REVOLUTIONARY STEP. POWERS OF A SECOND CHAMBER. United Press .association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright, LONDON, November 19. Lord Charles Beresford has begun his candidature for the Portsmouth by-election, rendered necessary by the deatn of Sir John Baker. In a 1 address to the electors, Lord Beresford declared that Mr Lloyd George's Budget, if passed, would increase unemployment. The issue before the country, said the Admiral, was tariff reform, with a strong navy, versus Socialism. In his address at the Eighty Club, Mr Haldane said the only thing which would stimula:e Socialism into danger in Britain was a tax on food, but there was a third issue. Since the Constitution became what it was, no step sd violent or revolutionary had bean taken as negativing a Budget. The question was, said the Minister, whether a second chamber could be tolerated in a form in which; there was virtually only a single chamber when the Unionist Party was in power. The Executive Committee of the Miners' Federation has decided that Messrs Burt and Fenwick, Labour members for Morpeth and Wansbeck, cannot be exempted from s-igning the Labour ticket. 1

A LONG DESIRED OPPORTUNITY. Received November 21, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, November 21. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress urges the Government in the event of a dissolution to give the country the long desired opportunity of recording its judgment on the desirability of abolishing, the hereditary Legislative Chamber.