ABSTRACT
British Labour Party is concerned to maintain the character of 'traditional' Britain, with its narrow class divisions and massive inequalities, as that Britain existed on September 3, 1939. It is concerned, if it can, to implement the Socialist principles for which it stands by the procedures of democratic consent; but, granted that it receives the authority of the electorate for its programme, it cannot allow the dissent of a minority, however vociferous and powerful, to stand in the way of its achievement. No party in the British state dare, after victory, approach the electorate without a pledge to conquer mass unemployment, to prevent the re-emergence of distressed areas, to prohibit either the ground landlord or the speculative builder from profiteering in the rebuilding of Britain. British Socialism remains faithful to the democratic method precisely to the degree that its opponents respect it.
