Taxi
I am quoted, accurately, of course, by a news- Paper as having said, 'Those who are sincere, devout unalterable Liberals ought to vote Liberal. If they want to stand on the burning deck, who are we to stop them?' No doubt they will. I went on, however, to argue that for any- one else to vote Liberal was to contract out of the struggle for power between the Tories and the Socialists.
I remember with some satisfaction a small wager I made with the editor of one of our national newspapers, shortly after Orpington, that the Liberals would not have ten MPs in the next Parliament. I shall collect. It is, in fact, more than a generation since the Liberal Party ended a general election campaign with more Members of Parliament than they had at the dissolution. This time one of the oldest of political jests may come true : they may be able to travel to West- Minster in a taxi.
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