Parliamentary Congestion and the Lords Everyone deplores the growing congestion
of work in the House of Commons. It has become the excuse for several " viewy " devices for " speeding up " democracy. We are convinced that the Labour Party is making a wild mistake in carrying on its musty tradition that the House of Lords must be left out of the picture. No responsible person wants a single-chamber system. So why not use the House of Lords properly ? Why not democratize it ? Is not this the way to a better distri- bution and devolution of the excessive labours which are choking the House of Commons ? If more important Ministers were placed in a reformed Upper House they could make their announcements of policy in a much less harassing atmosphere. They would be sheltered; time would be saved and the information would reach the nation just the same. These Ministers would, of course, have their understudies in the House of Commons, but these understudies would not provide such conspicuous pre- texts for the habitual wasters of the public time.
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