[fratricidal strife again? Who is going to elect…]
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-09-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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fratricidal strife again?
Who is going to elect the Leader? Will the NEC decide the Manifesto? And does the leadership have the right to impose a parliamentary candidate against the wishes of the local These are the issues that are tearing apart the SDP and could threaten to blow away the SDP/Liberal alliance. All these Labour turn coats, refugees from mandatory reselection and incumbents of rotten boroughs which have moved to cleanse themselves of their rottenness, must be as sick as parrots:
Clive Jenkins: still beaming Clive Jenkins, like those inflatable Father Xmas's always seems to land on his feet.
Jenkins' union, ASTMS, recognising that in these hard times the money would be better spent elsewhere, decided to forgo its usual lavish reception. Clive was apparently not at all put out by the prospect of a drought of champers:
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