SIR,—What nonsense Angus Maude writes in last week's Spectator, under
the heading: 'Over to the Offensive! The impression that Tory writers always try to give is that the Labour Party is 'averse to change.' As a matter of fact the situation is just the opposite—the Tories never want to change anything unless they are forced into it while the Labour Party naturally attracts all the thinkers with unorthodox views.
Then he has the effrontery to blame the present situation on the Treasury! Apparently the Treasury controls our economic life and not the Government. This after eleven years of Tory rule! Does Mr. Maude really seriously expect us to support a party which, in eleven years, hasn't solved the problem of controlling its senior Civil Servants? This is a frank admission that the present Government is not fit to govern; everyone is now beginning to realise this ex- cept, apparently, thickheaded people like Mr. Maude!
I always thought that the Tories had the largest and most efficient youth section of any political party in the Young Conservatives. What has hap- pened to them? Perhaps they have joined the Liberals or the Young Socialists! Anyhow Mr. Maude is now writing about `attracting the enthusiasm of the young.' Something must have gone wrong, some- where, because the propaganda used to be that the Tories had harnessed that enthusiasm.
So the 'liquidation of the British Empire' is a con- structive achievement. Well, well!—we live and learn, When the Labour Government gave India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma their freedom Tories didn't write about 'constructive achievement,'• ia those days. "The increasing tendency towards co- operation between nations' is to be made to appear the future pattern of mankind. Just think of all the scorn poured on the United Nations by the average Tory speaker! 'The social revolution' Is to be made to appear a 'national blessing.' After all the sneers at the Welfare State. All I can write is—What hypo- crisy! As always a Tory will say anything in order to get a vote!
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