EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION
•In his new book. ‘’Parliamentary Government in England,” Professor Harold Laski does not give much encouragement to advocates of proportional representation. He writes: —It is important to realise that the House of Commons is not an exact mirror of the interests and opinions of the nation. If it were, it could not possibly perform its work. For those opinions and interests are so various in their formidable complexity that any House which sought to find any effective place for a considerable number of them would be too atomic in character to be capable of coherent policy. The life of the House of Commons depends upon its representation .only of such predominant strands of general public opinion as will, normally, enable a Government to be formed behind which there is an effective majority.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 2
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