The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : A
protest was made at the beginning of the adjournment debate last Friday at what is usually regarded as an oppor- tunity for back-bench Members to raise the individual grievances of their constituents being used on this occasion by Privy Councillors to make set orations. It found support in all quarters of the House, for the back-benchers have already had to sacrifice all their Private Members' days in order that the Government may get through their programme. The back-benchers, however, were themselves not a little to blame for the adjournment debate becoming a field-day for the great men. Had they informed their Whips specifically what subjects they desired to raise, the adjournment debate would have become what it ought to be—a series of quick-fire speeches on a variety of subjects. The whole incident illustrates the docility, and also to some extent the laziness, of the great mass of the Government supporters in this Parliament. • * *
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