To L.C.C. Electors The best advice that can be given
to voters in the L.C.C. Election next Thursday is to choose the individual rather than the party. That will not be easy, for interest in the election is small, few voters have acquainted themselves with the candidates personally, and on the Labour side at any rate even individual election addresses have in many cases been abandoned, a general draft prepared at the headquarters of the party doing service in many different divisions. This means an accentuation of a party-system which has no essential place in municipal politics. The leaders of the two parties have put their cases in recent issues of The Spectator, and in radio talks, and a close examination of them reveals no differences of fundamental principle. No serious complaint can be brought against Labour's administration in the last three years ; Mr. Churchill was talking genial nonsense when he told an Election meeting on Monday that " a verdict on March 4th in favour of continued Socialist control would be a blow to the cause of prosperity and world peace." On the other hand, there is no reason to believe that the Municipal Reformers would not do their duty by the metropolis quite as well. In such circumstances the wise elector will give his vote to the candidate who, whatever his party, can make the best claim as an individual.
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