SLOUGH OF DESPOND
SAD news reaches us from Slough, the town already famous for not having grass to graze a cow. The Labour members of the borough council had been considering a motion, put to them by their colleagues from Farnham ward, that they should not 'speak, drink or collaborate in any way with the Tories on the borough council'. Lord Melbourne might have said that things have come to a pretty pass when politics is allowed to invade the sphere of private life, but the situation was not, in fact, without advantages. As one of Slough's Tory councillors, Richard Stephenson, observed: 'I hope it does become party policy, because their con- versation bores me, and at the bar they never stand their round.' It did not become party policy. The resolution, which said it was 'unbecoming of radical socialists to fraternise with our class enemy', was so widely ridiculed that it was withdrawn, and the branch chairman of Farnham ward resigned. It anyone doubted that the Labour Party is undergoing a mild revival, to be fostered by the weaning of a sane public face, they need doubt no longer after this alarmingly sensible decision.
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