Next comes an attempt to secure confidence for the present
Government and to discredit their predecessors by pointing out how many more letters now go to No. 10 Downing Street than went there in the old days
Unjust criticism of the Government accumulates. The public, fed on pleasing lies greedily swallowed for a couple of years, are now reduced to a condition when they decline to believe anything. Take the absurd references to the increase in the Prime Minister's secretarial staff. During the week The Weekly Dispatch correspondent who flits between 21e, Abingdon-street, and Downing-street, was struck by the procession of letter carriers depositing what the Americans call ' sacks of mail' at the Premier's residence. In the old days, beyond a few letters from Sir Edgar and Lady Speyer, Lady Diana, and the Trees, the letter-bag at No. 10 was so light that it rarely contained more than twenty letters. An official indirectly connected with the Post Office has been saying that Mr. Lloyd George's correspondence is more than ten times as large as that addressed to the head of any Government Department, and sometimes exceeds a thousand letters a morning, which the beautiful Miss Stevenson, who superintends the work of ' gutting' the mail, is said to open with an ingenious envelope-cutting device.'
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