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Times bosses block return to work "Colditz for the Yobbos' was how the Star greeted Whitelaw's plan for detention centres with military regimes.

It was an indication of the relief with which the press was able to greet the Tory Party conference.

No worries about how to handle infiltration' stories here.

Racism, naked class hatred, and sexism are all part of the mainstream of Tory conferences and they flowed freely through the Blackpool hall.

After the rigours of the Labour Party conference the press had come home and was able to bask in the congratulatory atmosphere of Blackpool.

The Daily Star which olnried in the 'hard line ATT7 ITT MIDTT SITTE corrective units dishing out out technology agreements.

These job losses and agreements went only part of the way towards what the Thomson management were demanding.

The NATSOPA machine room chapel which had held out longest against the proposals settled last weekwith management conceding a massive wage increase of up to 63%.

Not achieved NGA members working alongside NATSOPA members immediately-as management knew they would-repudiated their forces discipline" has interestingly only just taken a decision to 'declare' for the Labour Party, a decision which is expected to let TUC bureaucrats off the hook over their promises to launch a labour movement The Sun and the Daily Mail, which have no such pretensions and vie for the position of Thatcher's press officer, have been in seventh heaven.

After Thatcher's speech the Sun declared "Maggie blasts bully unions" and in a congratulatory leader declared:

«These were the words, this was the philosophy that ordinary people everywhere wanted to hear... she will deserve the applause of the whole country and a proud place in history."

The Daily Mail called her agreement and demanded an equivalent rise, overturning their union leadership on the question.

Despite the major climbdowns by the unions over the past year the Thomson management has not achieved the scale of job cutting that it requires.

Its threats to close the papers cannot be seen as an empty threat.

But the unions which have failed to raise the questions of occupation and nationalisation without compensation have at present •no strategy for fighting such threats. speech "a personal appeal to millions of ordinary trade union members"

Like the Sun, the Daily Mail sees Thatcher as having a place in history, perhaps in the tradition of Queen Elizabeth I.

"Listening to her and looking at her yesterday, there was something about this extraordinary woman that does nurture optimism against the odds ...

"Maybe it is just because she is a woman that she has it in her to succeed.

"A woman who leadsand after yesterday can anyone doubt that she was born to lead her country?-calls forth responses wholly new."

On that note of responses as old as capitalism itself the press, like the Tory conférence fades out to a rendering of Land of Hope and Glory.

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cross section of the conference rank and file' of Toryism - Lord John Lister reports on the ruling class in conference

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