We imagine that when Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister was shouted down
Mr. Baldwin was holding himSelf in readiness, and the course of the debate—if there had been a debate—would, no doubt, have proved to him that it was not only right but necessary that he should speak. We know that other parties in the past have resorted to the fundamental error Of substituting clamour for reason. The Liberal Party, for instance, once shouted down Mr. Alfred Lyttelton. It need not be pretended, therefore, that only the Labour Party is guilty of this abuse of Parliament. Such action is nevertheless a disloyalty to Parliamenta . disloyalty to the very meaning of the word " Parliament " ; and everything that may be said in extenuation of the Labour Party's action is, after all, only an excuse for a negation of parliamentary procedure.
