Once more we assert our confident belief that commonsense will
prevail and that in the last resort there will be a sufficient number of wise, moderate, and independent-minded peers to say that party spite and party fury shall not wreck the fabrics of the Constitution, but that its framework shall be retained intact in order that when the inevitable reaction comes we may be able to reverse the worst provisions of the Parliament Bill, or, to put it in a more concrete shape, to take the sting out of them by adding to our constitutional machinery the veto of the people over the log-rolling arrangements of their representatives. To ruin the Constitution utterly because we cannot at the moment prevent a temporary establishment of single-Chamber government would be the very height of political folly. Only naughty children, when they are deprived of one-half of their cake, throw down the other half in a fit of rage and insist on its being trampled in the mud.
