It leader of the Labour Party' us have been arguing consistently against both cuts and rate rises, that the latter was not an option for the working class who would still be paying for the crisis. your public statements.
Does that mCau vou wouldn't put forward that policy? How do you see the relationship between Labour leaders and socialist or radical policies when they don't agree conference?
I think it's a problem we've only really thought about since I got electea nere. It's not been a problem Labour leaders have faced in the past, is it?
My initial gut response was to say that I have a right as an to fight for any position in the movement quite openly and think that case on all those issues which al c direct GLC issues.
If the Labour group here decided to go for a policy that I didn't support, I think I'd have resign. think 1t Benn became leader of the party and the party conference decision was lo continue commit troops to Ireland, well then 1 think he'd have no choice but to stand down.
But it's not likely that a party that's going to elect Benn would then turn round and start pushing right-wing policies.
The reverse is true, the election of Benn would be sense breaking a logjam and there would be a further shift to the lett in policy.
Polls suggest that per cent are n favour of troops out now, yet the Labour Party conference itself doesn't represent that position. Surely this would indicate accountable Labour conference but rather accountable mass support the working class And therefore you need a new instrument to be able to judge and gauge that.
Well to be quite honest. that vote on Ireland was engineered Ken Livingstone on the picket line. But will the pickets be out in support of him?
on this,' then they would vote for withdrawal.
So Labour Party conference honest could, in that sense, be the the body which ass suodortsand opinion inside the working class? serious We cannot jump on Labour Party conference as it now is 'Look, defeat and say this is some wonderful democrațic institution when we Kow Insult. democratise the party also cludes democratise In a sense it comes back to a struggle union. the four major trade unions
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