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We note that an appreciable number of Labour scats were

gained owing to the fact that the anti-Labour vote was split. In a good many constituencies the Labour vote, that is the vote which carried the day, was several thousands smaller than the combined vote for the Unionists and Independent Liberals who fought in the triangular battle. Such an anomaly ought, of course, to be in the first place corrected by Proportional Repre- sentation. But even after that the Referendum is needed to check the real drawback of representative institutions—log-rolling agreements.

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