Hillhead ordeal for Jenkins

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Ken Livingstone speaking at the Fares Fair rally on March 13 back Solidarnosc SEEN BY the media as 'the most important by election since the Second World War' with 'the most educated electorate in the country', there are some other striking aspects to the Hillhead byUntil the death of the incumbent it was the only Tory seat in Glasgow.

Of course, much does depend on the result. The Tories need to hang onto what is now a marginal, and hope to win approval for Howe's Hillhead-directed budget.

Jenkins needs to win if is going to make anything his leadership aspirations in the SDP. This could be the election which will stop the so-called unstoppable SDP bandwagon.

According to the polls, Jenkins is taling behind Tory and Labour despite such initiatives as his hastily produced announcements on devolution for Scotland.

David Wiseman, the Labour candidate, is standing on Labour Party policy, with jobs and peace as the two main planks, coupled with the Alternative Economic Strategy, women's rights, and housing.

He supported the democratic changes at Wembley, and supported Benn for the deputy leadership, but denies the labelling he has received from the press as a hard line Bennite... which indeed he is not.

He has sharply distanced himself from Pat Wall's call for Labour to sweep away the hierarchy of the permanent state machine, and said that he thinks the inquiry into Militant will probably show that they should be expelled.

Going along with the idea that left-wing ideas are dangerous and need to be purged is no good basis for a leftwing party to gain support.

As a local councillor for Drumchapel area, Wiselig an man has however fought against the recent rent rises on the Labour-controlled district council, and campaigned consistently on housing.

Labour's stand on nuclear disarmament puts the party in a good position to win votes. A campaign organised by the local disarmament group and others, 'A Vote for Peace' , calls on supporters to vote for unilateral nuclear disarmament.

With Trident on the way and Glasgow a potential eye of the holocaust, nuclear disarmament is a big issue here. Both SDP and Tory made excuses for not attending a DESPITE efforts from the platform to block it, the Scottish Labour Party conference last weekend voted 414,000 to 395,000 to back the Polish workers against Jaruzelski.

The Scottish Council had not been prepared to invite a fraternal/ sororal delegate from the Solidarity Trade Union Working Group to the conference, nor had the Labour Coordinating Committee been prepared to invite one to their fringe meeting on international affairs.

Too many leading left-wingers in the Scottish Labfour-way debate organised by the Vote for Peace campaign. Labour and SNP accepted.

Gerry Malone, the suave hope of the Tories, had his own meeting the same night. You've guessed: Gerry supports 'strong effective defence'. 'Jobs and peace are both put at risk by the pol icy of the Bennite Left' Strong stuff indeed, but will it convince the electorate to have a Trident missile base in their back yard?

Wiseman has declared in favour of the Labour Party discussion document on gay rights, In a letter to and interview with Gay scotSolidarnosc and workers elsewhere in Eastern Europe fighting to organise free trade unions.

Apart from the proposer and seconder, no-one else was allowed to speak on it -on the grounds of lack of time, though at that point the conference was an hour ahead of schedule.

Conference chairperson George Galloway tried to get the composite remitted, but was challenged irom the floor. A second attempt by Galloway to get it remitted