He says in effect that the Labour Party cannot hope
to come into power without fusion with some other party. He therefore proposes—will it be believed ?—that Mr. Lloyd George should become the future leader of a still more inflated Labour Party. Dilution is unpopular in the workshops, but it seems to have an extraordinary attraction for some of the advisers of Labour in political life. The proposal particularly interests us, as we published an article some time ago speculating whether Mr. Lloyd George, having broken the old Liberal Party and having brought the Unionist Party very low, would not next suck the blood of the Labour Party. We dare say, however, that Mr. Webb's invitation will seem to Mr. Lloyd George to be too cynical. There must be a method in cynicism. Cynicism, accord- ing to experts in the art, is allowable in politics only when it pretends to be something else.
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