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Siu.—So for, the third time a Tory Government has been returned by less than half the voters, despite the opposition of such independent papers as the Guardian, Observer and Spectator—surely a situation that should worry anyone of Left-wing or radical opinions.
Mr. Grimond's exciting proposal for a new Pro- gressive alliance is hardly likely to be implemented without an enormous amount. of thought and discus- sion. But couldn't a start be made by an arrangement similar to the Lib-Lab idea of fifty years ago?
It would be clearly absurd for Mark Bonham Carter' or Jeremy Thorpe to be kept out of Parlia- ment by Labour Voters; for Megan Lloyd George or Dingle Foot to have to avoid such a fate by changing parties; or for Michael' Foot or Lena Jeger to go without Liberal support. And in this constituency- Hampstead—excellent Labour and Liberal candidates share the votes that should have gone together against Mr. Brooke.
I suggest that in suitable places candidates should be chosen to stand as 'Liberal and Labour' or `Labour and Liberal' as the ease may be. Clearly thiS would not do in mining areas or where there is already a Liberal-Conservative arrangement. But it would save people like me from the agonising business of wondering which radical man to vote for when the radical voice should be sounding loud and clear—and on one note.—Yours faithfully,
83 Belsize Park Gardens, NIV3 *
NICOLAS WALTER.
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