The Big _Sleep
Socialist Press1979 1979-04-04Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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One reason Callaghan would be far from sorry to lose the May 3 General Election is that he would be spared what promises to be a fiasco of an election to the European Parliament, scheduled for June 7.
Hostility to the EEC and the impossibility of affecting anything through the Assembly is likely to produce a record low poll among Labour supporters.
To counteract this, Labour Weekly has been running • a series of subsidised supplements praising the work of the European Assembly.
They have preserved a tactful silence on the mammoth £75 million it cost to run last year: and proved very reticent about its recent record of organisational cock-ups.
In one recent incident in Strasbourg the Assembly mistakenly voted to freeze prices on a range of farm products chronically surplus, and instead of increasing other farm prices by 3% managed to wind up effectively cutting them by 17%!
The reason is clear: half of the Assembly, having collected their appearance money and expenses, had already left Strasbourg before the vote: and the other halt loaded down with EEC high-living, were almost asicey Workers are left to guess in which category the British Labour "representatives" were to be found.