Foot, elected as the 'unity candidate' for To do this he is resorting to sectarian slanders.
BBC TV's 'Panorama' on Monday night. Deputy leadership ASSEMBLE: 11 AM NATIONAL MUSEUM RALLY: 1.15 PM PONTCANNA PARK MICHAEL FOOT is desperately trying to stop Tony Benn's campaign for the Labour Party deputy leadership by heaping slander upon slander upon Benn. His arguments are becoming more and more right wing.
party leader, is now leading the campaign to 'unify' the right and centre of the party against Tony Benn.
This was glaringly evident in Foot's interview on IT WAS A SLANDER for Foot to claim that Benn's campaign is responsible for making 'deeper' the 'gulf between the parliamentary party and the abide by conference policy. Big support out this Thatcher government'.
abstaining in the vote.
the Tories sabotage this fight? Tory defence defy a Labour whip Labour's vote to a post-war low. party outside'. The basis of the Benn campaign is quite the reverse - it is to bring the parliamentary party in line with the party as a whole, and with the policies of the conference. It is Denis Healey. Benn's main opponent for the deputy leadership, who has repeatedly stated his unwillingness to That is why Tony Benn has overwhelming sup. port in the constituencies. It is Michael Foot who, by championing the Healey campaign, is separating the parliamentary party from the party outside.
IT IS A FURTHER SLANDER for Foot to claim that Benn's campaign hinders the battle to 'throw Take one of the more recent attacks Foot made on Benn - when Benn voted against the Tory defence proposals. Foot publicly attacked him for not following the line of the shadow cabinet and Just how does abstention 'throw out this Thatcher government? And how does voting against What make's Foot's hypocrisy all the more sickening is the way he is constructing one law for the left and one law for the right.
For example, Tony Benn was carpeted for voting against the Tory defence proposals.
But on Monday, when the Tories Bill to prevent Irish political prisoners standing in elections was given its second reading in parliament, although the shadow cabinet has decided to oppose the Bill, Michael Foot allowed Labour MPs a 'free vote' because various right wingers had threatened to IT IS YET ANOTHER SLANDER for Foot to claim that Tony Benn could 'cost us the election'. When has the type of left wing policies Tony Benn is advocating ever cost Labour a general election? The most radical programme Labour ever stood on - in 1945 — won Labour its largest ever parliamentary majority. The most right wing policies Labour has ever implemented - from 1974-79 - plunged Obvious conclusion Adding all this up there is an obvious conclusion. Every time Michael Foot opens his mouth these days the more whining and untruthful he becomes. There is one merit only in his whimperings - they show how necessary the Tony Benn campaign for deputy leadership really is.