Jenkins Launches 'dinner' Party
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The occupation of the Third Feather Youth Club at Earls Court reported in last week's Socialist Press continues. The club has been occupied by youth and staff in protest at the sacking because he is gay of youth leader Richie McMullan. The story so far:
Woy Jenkins and the wight Bwitain's welations with Europe PRESS William Wodgers and Shirley The pwoblem for the top THIS KLUR 15 DECUPIE ITS MEMESA By John One thing Roy Jenkins, food mountaineer extraordinary, can do is throw a good lunch.
His gastronomic reputation, already, a scandal when as deputy Labour leader he was a significant figure in British politics, has suffered nothing for his well-paid sojourn at the EEC headquarters in Brussels.
So it comes as no surprise that he can attract an everready platoon of well oiled han meet art journalists tocanar „reel genuicant after-lunch speech attacking the But Jenkins had nothing to say. The all-time general without an army, he made wellfinanced noises about his disenchantment with existing British party polities, while carefully avoiding any definite statement that might frighten off potential right wing Labour supporters or the second-string capitalists of the Liberal Party.
The main line that came through was his tear of redundancy after four years of taxfree jet setting-and his high hopes that his bourgeois friends and allies-such as GEC jobslasher Arnold Weinstock -will come forward with big cheques to help construct a pretend political party that will keep him in the style to which he is accustomed.
Meanwhile one accurate statement by potential Jenkinsite "Centre recruit Williams is that, as presently floated in the press, PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report the new party would have no principles and no values.
But there can be little doubt that if Labour's crypto-Tory right wing lose the battle against Party democracy at the October conference, sections of them Jenkins will look increasingly towards Jenkins to lead the defence of the "principles" of self interest and the capitalist "values" they hold so dear.