[For an indepenthe Lords. Reds like David Ennals…]
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For an indepenthe Lords.
Reds like David Ennals. True, the death of Coli Ennals massacred the Health Service. He axed services left, right, Roach!
and centre. But that was just 1o cover his tracks. Did he axe the service as much as was necessary?
pcople will be asking.
Reds like Robert Maxwell.
Maxwell, it will be remembered, hit the headlines with his plan to Rd, London N16 allow SOCAT members a drastically shorler weck - cut at onc stroke from 39 hours to nothing. Northern Ireland, Gerry Fitt, who was unseated in the recent parliamentary election by the vote of a tiny handful of extremists.
Mrs Thatcher is understood to insist that the clear Conservative majority means the Labour membership in the House of . Lords must be decided by her. She plans to appoint Lord George Brown leader of the Labour Party in the Lords.
She suspects that one or two people on the Foot list have not yet completely rid themselves of all traces of Labour Party rhetoric. The retraining programme, complete with a list of acceptable policies, is designed to deal with that.
Responding angrily to Mrs Thatcher's moves, Michael Foot declared:
"This great movement of ours has always held, from the time of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, that the existence of a House not elected by direct universal suffrage is not in the best interests of the British people. But our policy for abolition of the House of Lords has been maliciously misinterpreted by our friends in Fieet Street to mean we should not have a House of Lords. That of course is nonsense.
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