THE POST-WAR ELECTION
Snt,—Your pronouncements, even when they fail to receive my full assent, usually command my deep respect. But dare I say that to me, as a potential prospective candidate, your suggestion of an election in which contesting candidates all swear allegiance to Winston Churchill and his policy appears a little fantastic? Would a sitting member feel very happy to see the pro-Government vote split between himself and a friendly rival while an independent bid. against them both?
On what do you base your confident assumption that the present Prime Minister must sweep the country? I venture to suggest that when we ordinary (folk have cheered the man who won the war we shall go off and vote, as we think fit. If there ever was an enlightened Conservative who deserved well of his country it was Victor Cazalet, and yet at Chippenham a rebel Liberal, with no machine support, comes within an ace of winning the seat. It is a result which should give the party managers furiously to think.—I am, Sir, yours, THOMAS LODGE. Blunham Grange, Blunham, Beds.
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