Of course if the crisis comes suddenly it must come on some aspect of unemployment, This is bounding up and the register returns which are well over two million only of course give a proportion of the people who are out of work, It does not cover the 40,000 agricultural workers who are out of employment, it docs not affect the large number of women who are employed as domestic work-the semi-catering trade, does not touch the vast number.
people whose income is just over £250 and who, therefore, are not insured. Tt does not touch any of the midate class workers at all who are being dropped in scores by firms which are feeling the pinch of hard times.
In view, therefore, of growing pablic resentment, and the apparent nobility of the Government to do anything, it isan open question hhow long the nation as a whole will wait before showing open annoyance. Therefore, unless the opposition parties do begin to press the Gov-ferment very seriously with the object of rejecting it from office, they will get tarred with the same brash of oblique. For this reason T think that the unemployment de-Dates in the House will very. have to be treated-as serious fand not merely governed by Party finessing. I do not think the Conservatives would object to an elec tion at all if they were only a little more united. 5 The King's Speech itself told us very little that is new, and certainly did, not suggest any fresh epoch making legislation. There is thoughts a general feeling that all Parties Jare skating upon very thin ice, and the only question is who. falls through soonest. The Government, im that it opened the session, with a State ceremony under, per= fectly ideal conditions, as regards. weather. This function is rapidly ronning the Lord Mayor's Show very close in its attractiveness from the child's standpoint. I only need add that it is impossible to be very prophetic with regard to the future. There are other attributes of a prophet besides a hopeful mentality.
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