The week has been full of talk of negotiations and
intrigue in regard to tho Parliamentary position of the Government. The rumours will, however, not be resolved in time for our comment, since we go to press on Thursday too early to hear the result of the vote on Dr. Addison's salary. We shall there- fore only make a short comment upon the situation. It is this. If Mr. Lloyd George, as is alleged in certain quarters, is under the belief that the recent elections show that the Unionist Party and what it stands for is becoming unpopular in the constituencies, has, in fact, gone to pieces, and that he can therefore neglect Unionist principles and policy, he is greatly mistaken. What has been condemned at the polls is not Unionism but Coalitionism, Unionism dragged at the coat tails of Lloyd George-Churchill-Mond Liberalism. The victorious candidates in London and Hertfordshire were Unionists.
