After all the predictions that thi session in Parliament would prove full of excitements, it has proved rather disappointing, and the debates that- have been struggled through on the Widows Pensions and Unemployment Insurance Bills have been not only dull but of very. mediocre quality. The main business for the; past week has been to get the Unemployment Insurance Bill through its Committee stage. This Dill is mild concession by the Jend of last September, 908,508 houses have been built in' England. land Wales with State assistance, ]while those built without the subsidy number 482,100, making a grand total of 1,890,698 houses. Yet Exeter has'a waiting list of 5003 at SheMield 7,000 applicants are waiting for municipal houses; and, during 1928, at Warrington, 544L people seeking house aecommodation were interviewed. One may reasonably wonder whether there will scon be any fields left!
Labour Government to its support ters. It does not go as far as the Government would like, but as far it dare go in the knowledge that it depends for its existence upon the backing of the Liberals. Under expenditure on unemployment insurance will be again raised by: about ten millions per annum, by increasing benefits given to unci ployed persons on account of their dependents. It also makes it very much easier than before to prove that one is entitled to got benefit at all, If only the Conservatives had
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