It is extraordinarily dangerous, for example, to assume that English public opinion disapproved the General Strike because Mayfair was indignant, the Morning Post hysterical, and Sir John Simon coldly hostile; for Mayfair and the Morning Post, even with Sir John Simon, do not constitute English public opinion.
Laski argues that the views of the elite do not represent the true public opinion of England.
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