Before we leave the subject let us say once more
that in urging so strongly as we have done that the forcing of a creation of peers would be a suicidal act, we have never for one instant failed to appreciate the badness, nay, the iniquity, of the Parliament Bill in the form in which it left the Commons and in the form in which the Government mean to force it through. But since the Government have unquestionably the power to pass their measure, and are not to be moved by argu- ment, what we have got to fix our minds on is not the badness of the Bill but how to avoid adding to its existing evils the other and far greater evils which must accompany a creation of peers. The Bill is bad, hut the creation of peers would make it ten times worse. That is the beginning and the end of the situation.
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