The Budget debate in the House of Lords ,was reopened
on Monday by Lord Morley. He began by arguing that the amend- ment involved a number of revolutionary changes in the Consti- tution. It would establish for the first time a deal control over finance ; it amounted to a repeal by the House of Ler& Of the Septennial Act; it depended, finally, upon the doctrine of the inandat imperatif. . He objected to the Referendum, because it weakened the sense of responsibility in the House of Commons. " If therels any one matter which cannot be usefully submitted to a plebiscite, it is a Budget. It is one of those things on which you cannot say ` Yes' or ` No." Lord Morley went on to say that the only excuse for these revolutionary Proposals was that the Budget itself was revolu- tionary, and proceeded to a detailed denial of this. He believed that the Budget would lead neither to s Millennium nor a pandemonium.
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