EXPRESS FINANCIAL TIMES The Daily Orlegraph Sum
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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•.. to Bristol East where we have just heard that the electorate has rejected extreme left wing policies of Mr Benn... Dr Owen in studio... man of stature • • increasingly, formidable Parliamentarian .. smashed the Labour Party ... completely discredited ... got to agree with Mrs Thatcher . : sink the Belgrano... jolly good shot... wish it had been the Labour Party on board... to Mr Foot... no thank you, would be inappropriate to comment .. back to the studio ... Cecil Parkinson ... well of course in tune. with majority of British people . . Labour's most extreme manifesto ever . completely rejecied ... to Mrs Thatcher . : . Mrs Thatcher ... we are the people ... we will exterminate... exterminate... exterminate... exterminate... aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhh!
LEFT wing militants within the Labour Party are set to take a terrible revenge on the only honest decent men left amidst the wreckage of their once great Scarcely had the dust settled on the ruins of a Labour campaign in which tull blooded revolutionary socialism was humiliated at the ballot box, than the grey men behind the politbureau drew the knives.
First came Red Ken, the man who opened a bomb factory for Irish murderers in London's County Hall. He expressed contempt for democratic traditions with open defiance of the most popular government since Abraham Lincoln reformed the union in the United States.
Next came Tony Benn whose prescription for a totalitarian state was decisively rejected by the entire population of Bristol who once again scorned the ballot box by saying he would take his struggle outside Parliament.
Behind him came Arthur Scargill whose brand of industrial anarchy writ large in the manifesto struck dread and loathing into the minds of ordinary decent men and women down the pits who support Mrs Thatcher. Scargill threatened to call out his troops to bayonet to death.. any. Yorkshire miner