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Parliamentary Problems, Serious and Trifling

3rd March 1933, Page 30
3rd March 1933
Page 30
Page 30, 3rd March 1933 — Parliamentary Problems, Serious and Trifling
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NVORLD conditions are not such that representative governmental bodies in important countries can afford to expend time and words upon proposals of an impracticable or obviously ill-considered nature, and some loss of dignity and goodwill must result when the House of Lords devotes time to Bills 04 such a purely restrictive type as that which, amongst other restrictions, seeks to limit trailer outfits to 5 m.p.h. In towns and villages.

Business hours of the Upper House have been occupied, in the past few days, with propositions of this kind, which would involve traffic congestion and consequent nerve-strain, carelessness and danger. One Bill has been introduced to compel all motor vehicles to be equipped with recording speedometers, and to establish their own records as prima facie evidence of speed.

The waste of time in these debates is serious enough, but the inevitable reflection upon the contemporary standard of Parliamentary discernment is even more grave.

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Organisations: Upper House, House of Lords

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