DEMOCRACY IS a wonderful thing. Mr. Bevan has been ex-
pelled from the Parliamentary Labour Party by the majority vote of Labour MPs. This is being done because Mr. Bevan flouts the majority decisions of the Parliamentary Labour Patty and because it is thought that the resultant disunity is not popular with the majority of the electorate, and it is done although everybody knows that a majority of individual mem- bers of the Labour Party are opposed to expulsion. If the matter is taken further, Mr. Bevan will be expelled from the Labour Party itself, and his reinstatement will be refused at the Annual Conference, by a majority vote of the National Executive and the Party Conference for the same reasons and in spite of the wishes of the majority of the Labour Party. A minority of the Labour Party, therefore, who command a majority of votes at every stage, will have expelled Mr. Bevan by a majority vote against the wishes of the majority of the Labour Party in an attempt to gain the votes of the majority of the electorate. The leaders of the Labour Party seem to have heeded, in spirit at least, the advice Mr. Dooley gave to Presi- dent Kruger when he told him to give the Uitlanders all the votes they wanted but to count them himself.
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