Let us mark well the face that Labour, in spite
of its increased poll, got only 11,902 votes against the 18,531 votes cast for the Liberal and Unionist candidates, who were explicitly anti-Labour. The Labour Party were notoriously building up great hopes on this election. The simple truth seems to be that the Labour Party have already overshot their mark. They have tried the nation too. high, and, the nation is saying what it thinks. We suppose it is the experience of most people up and down the country, as it is our-experience, that a great deal of resentment is expressed by manual workers themselves against the leadership which has caused wanton interruptions in the process of national recovery. Resentment is particularly keen against the minors, who have claimed for themselves something like aristocratic privileges, and have caused the figures on the sacks of coal bought by every needy housewife to rise beyond the dreams of famine.
