The balancing voters who have swung across from Liberalism or
Labour to Unionism have no doubt been moved by the appalling record of the Government during the past few weeks. We venture to think that two months ago, when the Prime Minister was at his best, many of them would have voted differently. As it was, they were seized with a strong sense of what is fitting and what is unfitting, what is safe and what is unsafe, in a man who aspires to become Prime Minister of England. They disliked the whole Russian business, and when once their minds had begun to incline against the Govern- ment they threw into the scale reflections about the growth of unemployment and the rise in the cost of living, about which hitherto they had not made much fuss. The Government, they felt, in spite of all its florid promises, had " let them down."
