[For God's sake! "Vague talk about 'tried and…]
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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For God's sake!
"Vague talk about 'tried and tested' ideas was not enough" Consolation for, the battered SDP came after polling day with the news that God's vote had been cast for them.
Unusually for an Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie voted. The press reported that Runcie favours the SDP.
"When I get criticism from one side, then from the other," Runcie declared, 'I think it's just possible that I'm putting God's point of view."
He has not yet made any statement on God's preferences for a successor to Roy Jenkins.
According to a Gallup survey in the Guardian, the impression given by the overall figures of a straight switch from Labour to the Alliance is largely correct. be cited as contributing to the election result: the impression of disarray that Labour gave because of the witch-hunt and the open, unrepudiated attacks on Labour policy by our own party leaders, and the embarrassed, unimaginative, timid and incompetent way in which the campaign was run centrally. But for the left the main job must be to focus on what we can and must do.
The right wing was able to retain control of Labour in the PRESSURE on the British state to shift from its policy of repression, repression and more repression in Nortbern Ireland will be increased by the election results there.
Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein won West Belfast, and overall Sinn Fein increased its score from 10.1% in the Assembly elections to 13.4% this time.
The other party mainly based in the Catholic community, the SDLP, dropped from 19.7% of the poll in 1979 to 17.9% this time. It got one MP, John Hume in Foyle.
Sinn Fein's Danny Morrison just missed in Mid-Ulster by 78 votes, and all 15 other seats went to the Unionists. Within the Protestant community, the result was a victory for the more upper-class Official Unionists as against the more plebeian and more fiercely 'Protestant Ulster nationalist Democratic Union. ists of lan Paisley. The Official Unionists got 11 seats, tbe Paisleyites, 4.
In East Belfast, Muriel Tang of the Northern Ireland Labour and Trade Union Group linked to Militant in Britain) got respectable fringe vote of 584.
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