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WITH the Alliance well below 'take-off" point in the polls, a hung Parliament seems unlikely. But suppose it happens. Should Labour go for a coalition with the Alliance to keep the No. The labour movement is already hampered enough by collaboration with its enemies. For the past four years trade union leaders have been collaborating with the Tories in the NEDC and dozens of other official committees and boards; Labour leaders have been collaborating in Parliament as a docile and 'loyal' opposition, except on just a couple of issues; and most Labour councils have been passively collaborating with Tory cuts. We need to break such collaboration - not A deal with the Alliance would further shackle and compromise the labour movement, and gain nothing that could not be gained by energetic use of the possibilities open to an indeTories out? add an extra twist to it.
pendent Parliamentary minority.
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