If the left do win control of you see that affecting the victory of a Labour govern ment at the next election?
There is no prospect of us winn ing the next general election without Benn. Heis a symbol, a focus. Labour voters who abstained iast time will vote with Benn in the leadership.
tories in the Labour Party are building the sense that the right wing conSC VOLVC SeCUOT public opinion is moving away trom hatcher to the DP 2s the best chance of keeping out a radical left government.
What we're seeing is a shift to the left on the entire British political spectrum. The Labour socialist party, not just a social arty moving to being democratic one; and a conservalve opposition moving La monetarist Thatcher position.
What you got in the recent solt in sington was a realienment, the Labour vote remained firm, so it provided the basis for a purified labour Parsocialist analienge A vestember o ty, a genuinely socialist Labour Party, taking control next time at the May elections, do SDP becoming the vative Party of Islington.
Look at Warrington.
Brush estabishment is throw. ing everything into building up the SDP in order to prevent the of left government.
If that means as capital you something else that's got a better chance, that does represent a shift to the left on the political the what's happening.
the case that the SDP is replacing the Labour Party on the left. It may be that the sheer weight establishment/media Cut erose per ale lost us the 70 but those people lost us the and "79 elections.
Working people rapidly disillusioned. What you would then have is the election oi a radical socialist Party.
Uniess theres vigorous battle against this TOrv unless knocked to its