Only very timid or very anxiously-minded people will be alarmed
or depressed by the considerable number of seats gained by the Labour Party. For ourselves, we not only accept with loyalty the decision of the voters in the various places where Labour won the battle, but are glad that the Labour Party should conic back in strength proportionate to the number of voters who evidently support its policies in the country. If a fourth of the voters in the constituencies vote Labour, it is only right that Labour should have nearly a hundred and fifty members. To us these figures prove the great good sense of the working-classes of this country, taken as 'a whole. If when the Labour Party is making a special effort it can hardly get the support of a fourth of the electorate while those opposed to its policy get that of more than three-quarters, why should we complain ? In other words, unless we arc so weak or so foolish that we cannot prevent minority rule, the people to be de- pressed are certainly not those opposed to the Labour Party programme.
