The Lord Chancellor in the Weekly Dispatch of Sunday last
repeated his complaint that the Coalition was " invertebrate " as a fighting force in the constituencies, and urged that it should be transformed into a single party "which will resist the pre- tensions and the political aims of the present Labour Party." He admitted, however, that his suggestion had not been well received. "The formation of such a party [the National Party of the future] may easily be postponed. It may be postponed too long." He went on to predict that within the next five years such a party would be formed, and would include all but the Socialists. Political predictions are dangerous. The recent history of Australia, for example, suggests that the two tra- ditional parties, Conservative and Liberal, though temporarily submerged by Socialism, tend to reassert themselves, presumably because they correspond to the inherited tendencies of British people.
