Mr. Lloyd George went on to draw a pleasing sketch
of the pure partisan, the man who refuses to see anything but his own side of the question. Him he can honour. "The man I despise is the man who is a bigot, who is the narrowest, bitterest of partisans, and all the while arrogates to himself the position, the functions, the feelings of a judge." Such a person was just "a hungry humbug steeped in smugness and self - righteousness." (This unctuous and affected diatribe was apparently meant for Lord Robert Cecil.) Mr. Lloyd George next proceeded to trounce Mr. Boner Law for saying that "Ministers ought to be expelled from office who are guilty of an indiscre- tion." Then followed a description of the Tory Party " rushing back from Ascot racecourse to pass a solemn vote of censure upon a semblance of gambling," a picture which gave him "an unpleasant cross-Channel sensation." If the episode of the Tories who had had " something on" at Ascot objecting to gambling bad so terrible an effect upon Mr. Lloyd George, we tremble to think what must be the effect upon him of reading the Daily News in the morning and the Star in the evening.
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