No doubt the Liberal newspapers and Liberal speakers boast of
still having a good working majority, but though such talk may deceive the uninstructed for a week o r two, it will certainly not deceive the old Parliamentary hands. We may be pretty sure, therefore, that Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Winston Churchill and the other extremists will hear in private a good many home-truths from their colleagues, and we can imagine that the first Cabinet meeting after the elections will not be a pleasant one for these gentlemen. Their moderate colleagues would hardly be human if they did not, no doubt in very polite language, point out that, contrary to the instincts of the majority of the Cabinet, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of Trade had been " given their heads " and allowed to.rampage over the country making " Limehouse " speeches which were to sweep every district, coerce the Lords, and provide the greatest opportunity. that Radicalism bad had for the last fifty years. The moderates will think, and would very much like to say :— " Just look at the hash you have made of it. You have turned the greatest majority of modern times into what is really a minority, or only a majority if we count the Labour Members and the Irish, who are notoriously the hardest taskmasters in politics, and all Protectionists. From the most powerful and secure Ministry of modern times we have become one of the weakest and most unstable. But for your flogging the country into a state of wild excitement, and so raising that antagonism which violence always raises in England, we could have got our Budget. You have shown yourselves the worst possible interpreters of English opinion. If the country was all Celtic fringe, your methods might perhaps prevail; but after all, as you now perceive, England counts for something."
