THE BRITISH RADICAL
SIR,—Your contributors to the `British Radical' series have startled at least one member of the species. Have we all, like the Mikado, got a little list? Must we all attach ourselves to one or other of the large parties and call ourselves its radical wing, flapping occasionally in an effort to make the pig fly? Or is it really our voice, not our vote, that they're after?
Isn't it true of radicalism in 1959. as in the •lifetime of Christ, that it means personal involvement and responsibility for the actions of the organised society to which we belong? How is this possible if we swear allegiance to a party which stands or falls by a set of preconceived principles such as Mr. Toynbec and his successors enumerate? if someone forms a party which undertakes simply to react to the pro- blems of government in a radical way he can at least console himself with the vote of—Yours faithfully, Lawrenny, Nr. Kilgetty, Pembs
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B. I'. EILNSHALL
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