With a good deal of this contention we are in
agree- ment. It is because of this flaw in the representative system that we have always advocated the Referendum and have supported Proportional Representation. But Mr. Lloyd George has not, we believe, hitherto adopted these means of correcting the bad working of our electoral system. When shortly before the 1918 Dissolu- tion our whole electoral machinery was altered, Mr. Lloyd George—unless we are suffering from a lapse of memory—made no effort to add the Poll of the People and Proportional Representation to the reforms then in hand. While he had a large majority he was oblivious to ills which had impressed the minds of many other students of politics. We shall not, however, dwell on the suddenness of his conversion, but shall be content to regard him as having definitely come over to the side of Proportional Representation and the Poll of the People. Though he does not actually name the reforms, his arguments all point strongly in that direction.
