If the Labour Party stands for a definite political point
of view, there is no reason why persons who are comfortably provided with this world's goods should not belong to the Party. The test is not one of wealth or position, but of an intellectual conviction. Indeed, those who have tried to defeat Mr. Mosley merely by turning him into a grotesque might have been expected to perceive that if the Labour Party recruits itself largely from men and women who have never earned their living with their hands, it will lose a good deal of its sting. Mr. Mosley—to take him literally— wants to level up the wage-earners to a standard of comfort comparable, to his own, but it need not be supposed that he has any idea of levelling himself and his friends down to the discomfort of which he dis- approves. The result of having more Mosleys in the Labour Party will be that the inevitable split will come sooner rather than later. The " Have-nots " will find that they have a special grievance against the " Haves " in their own Party. Those who want a quick revolution and a sudden dividing up of possessions will be resisted by the right wing of sense and moderation. The net result will be less alarming than our Jeremiahs expect.
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