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"Prentice has found his right ands of Labour Party members place. But an awful lot of MPs should they undertake this long signed a letter to the Newham overdue task. increases would be thrown ignominiously from office by angry voters-leaving the ex-councillors as passive spectators with "dean" consciences to sit back and watch the Tories carry through the cuts.

The Labour Party's Home Policy Committee has yet to pronounce on this half witted scheme; but it has been eagerly endorsed by Lambeth Council leader, 'left" winger Ted Knight.

Meanwhile the Party's present line of policy as spelt out by right wing Shadow Environment Secretary Roy Hattersley is-if possible-even more toothless. defy the Tories and deliberately overspend their budgets: it was simply a call for them to affiliate to the Labour Party!

choice With the Tories hell bent on their attacks on the working class, and equipped with a hefty Parliamentary majority handed to them by five treacherous years of: Labour government cuts and wage controls, workers in local authorities and the health service face a stark choice.

They can follow their existFacing both ways-Kinnock Former Coventry MP Audrey Wise has pointed out that the Labour Party cannot defeat the Tories outside until it defeats those inside its ranks.

Labour Weekly reports her telling a meeting called by the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and the Labour Loordinating Committee that:

OCK The witch-hunting atmosphere in the Labour Party and the crackdown on shadow ministers by the Callaghan leadership have had their impact on tubthumping Tribunite education spokesman Neil Kinnock.

His well-rehearsed show of spontaneous anger and demagogic delivery of anti-Tory truisms won a fullsome standing ovation at last year's Party conference.

But last week Kinnock's adamant refusal to promise that a Labour government would implement a full and immediate restoration of Tory education cuts aroused an angry response at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Kinnock-a committed reformist who has consistently argued with a view to waiting for the next General Election in 1984 declared that to make such a promise would be "hopelessly dishonest", , because it was impossible to forecast the impact of Tory policies on the economy in the next four years!

He told the Guardian afterwards that:

"I am not interested in offering unconvincing half truths to the British people or the labour moyement. .

"If they want a shadow spokesman who will tell thein that the moon is made of green cheese and that it is there for the slicing as soon as we get elected to office, they had better look for somebody else."

The immediate cause of these Callaghan-style arguments was the discussion on whether North East party saying what a splendid Member of Parliament they had."

As the Labour right wing now flexes its muscles for a confrontation with socialists within the Party, now is the time for Wise and others who talk of the danger from Tories in the leadership to take serious steps to drive them out.

they would receive the -marinara aleenthusiastic backing of thousthe next Labour government should be committed to repeal the Tory provisions allowing councils to charge what they like for bus travel and school Even some Tory MPs from rural areas have been forced to oppose the bus travel proposals which will add pounds per week to the cost of living of families outside the main towns.

Kinnock's stand represents an abrupt abandonment of earlier high flown 'left' rhetoric in which he promised that Labour would instantly abolish the Tories' 'assisted places scheme to send children to private schools.

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He once even scandalised the press by calling for the nationalisation without compensation of industries "hived off" by the Thatcher government.

But in now seeking to ingratiate himself with the Callaghan gang and distance himself from Labour's left, Kinnock is assisted by his occasional left' gestures.

One Labourite pointed out to the Daily Telegraph after the PLP meeting that there might well have been moves by angry left wingers to oust Kinnock as Shadow Education spokesman.

But they held back because he had only recently been threatened with the sack by Callaghan-for voting with the Tribune Group against the British nuclear arms With a nod to the 'left' and a curtsey to the right, Neil Kinnock is desperately clambering his way towards a career of reformist treachery.

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