• Parliamentary Congestion A certain amount of the apathy at
the by-election • polls is probably due to the popular feeling that Par- liament is not doing, or cannot do, its work, and therefore is not worth bothering about. It was on this subject that Mr. Lloyd George gave evidence on Tuesday before the Procedure Committee of the House of Commons. He did not support any of the more radical proposals which are current, but confined himself to the idea of delegating much of the work of the ITeruse of Commons to special committees. He thought that there ought to be an investigation of the methods of other Parliaments. It may be guessed that he had in mind, for example, the Budget Committee of the French Parliament and the French vocational committees. It will be remembered that Mr. Churchill has proposed an Economic Parliament serving under the main Parliament. We published recently an article from Mrs. Sidney Webb, who would like the Social Services, which take up a large proportion of Parliamentary time, to be controlled by a specially elected Parliament. Our objection to that would be that it is very undesirable to make potential beneficiaries from public funds the electors of the people who control those funds. This week we review Sir Oswald Mosley's new manifesto, which aims at overcoming stagnation by a thorough scheme of national planning.
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