...one of the mevitable consequences of Democracy. A democratic State cannot become a SbczW-Democratic State unless it has in every centre of population...reactionary passed a Local Government Bill which effected a However, the ensuing years sifted and sobered us. " The Socialists," as they were called, have fallen...

...realisation of that aim would create. ' A democratic State,' Shaw wrote, ' cannot become a Social Democratic State unless it has in every centre of population...democratic in its constitution as the central Parliament.' The House of Commons he felt must develop ' into the central government which will be the organ of...

...increasing the activity of Local Government. Bernard Shaw, writing as early as 1889, declared that ' a democratic State cannot become a Social-democratic...thoroughly democratic in its constitution as the central Parlia: ment ', and in recent years, under the influence of criticism from Guild Socialists and other...

...one of the inevitable consequences of Democracy. A Democratic State cannot become a So«a/-Democratic State unless it has in every centre of population...effected a distinct advance towards the democratic municipality. It was furthermore a Bill with no single aspect of finality anywhere about it. Local...