PARLIAMENT AT WORK
CORRECTIVE AND INCENTIVE INFLUENCE. The work that the House of Commons is doing today in watching, questioning. exhorting or remonstrating with Ministers, comments the "Spectator." is invaluable as a corrective and an incentive to the executive and a means of keeping it in harmony 7 with public opinion. It has secured the dropping of the proposals to ration gas and electricity, and a promise to reexamine Ihe old age pension scale. It has discussed food rationing, coal rationing. and questions such as profiteering and rising prices. The Liberal proposal to appoint a Select Committee of the House to examine war expenditure has been accepted by Sir John Simon. The Government was franklytold what the country- was thinking of the Ministry of Information. This new-ly-acquired habit of scrutinising all the actions of the executive and protesting against, its mistakes has compelled the departments to remember that they are not an absolute law unto themselves.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1940, Page 6
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156PARLIAMENT AT WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1940, Page 6
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