Good-bye Walter

We could start, perhaps, by getting rid of Walter Nash. (Oh. what an awful thing to say about that dear old man, who has given such long faithful service!) By the time Mr Nash has become a dear old man he should stop being Leader of the Opposition, or he'll never be anything else. Which brings us to the other characteristic that contemporary Labour leaders seem to share (the first being that they are all Conservatives). These old men, Old Wykehamists. Old Etonians, new Earls and prospective peers—they all seem to be much more at ease as Her Majesty's Opposition than as anything else. It is a tenet of their faith that they are unlikely to be put into office except in the 1929 Depression; and if by some mischance they get more votes than anybody else they spend a bewildered term trying to avoid giving offence, and successfully raising the taxes. This last tactic sends them thankfully back to their appointed place on the other side of the House. The worker in their election posters would be closer to life if he was pocketing his depleted wages with the comment, "A man's a Joe Hunt to vote for this bunch ..."