[found to have voted Tory. What this election…]
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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found to have voted Tory.
What this election shows is.. that the Labour Party - once a receptacle for some naive bui well intentioned gesturptowards an equal society - has become the haven only for envious toads who spit at the ballot box as they try to win at it. MRS Thatcher announced yesterday that there would be a free vote on whether to bring back hanging.
Now some Tory MPs are confident that the new intake of former National Front candidates to Parliament could reverse the result last time round.
Mrs Thatcher said: 'Of course this is a matter for individual conscience, but as several ex-members of my cabinet are aware, we must have the right to use in a limited way the gallows on those in society whose crimes are so awful that they really cannot be tolerated in any civilised and democratic nation which has shown its desire to be governed by the most moderate and fair but firm government this country has ever seen.
'Besides it will be so much cheaper than passing all that legislation to abolish the GŁG.'..
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