Lib-Lab Pact SIR' --- Quoodle has got a nerve to complain
about the Liberal voting record on the Finance Bill. Out of 108 divisions on the Bill and the budget reso- lutions, Mr. Macleod missed forty-eight himself. For the record, Liberals averaged 68.9 per• cent attendance compared with Mr. Macleod's 55.5 per cent; we also tabled forty amendments and made fifty-two speeches, a performance much better in relation to our numbers than the Tories managed, for all their. bluster and self-congratulation. As for the vote on technology, it has been ob- vious ever since Mr. Cousins was appointed minister that the Tories are so consumed with animosity against him they they are not prepared to give him a chance. But at least Mr. Macleod might learn how to spell the minister's name.
"(nue of Commons, SW I
ERIC LUBBOCK
tQuoodle writes: `Mr. Lubbock's irrelevant letter does not attempt to dispute my contention that whereas the entire Liberal stage army was on parade
Lo support turn out Cousins only half of it Vthered to turn ottt to vote against the Finance °III. Asa result, the Liberals gave the government a Majority of six, when it should have been one— and that was Hove.'—Editor, Spectator.]
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