AS PREDICTED, the Liberal-SDP colalition has won the Huge resources, over 1000 canvassers were thrown in to the campaign Liberals. The media gave the alliance campaign enormous publicity.
Even so huge one and demonstrates some important lessons about the trends in the support for the SDP-Liberals, and the strategies needed to defeat them.
Of course the defeat of the Tories was massive - a 24 per against them. This was a huge vote in relatively against Thatcher's policies. But the fact remains that the Liberal-SDP came almost equally Tory and Labour voters -vote in fact was reduced by 50 per cent.
In Warrington, the majority of the votes for SDP candidate Roy Jenkins came from previous Tory and Liberal voters. But Croydon shows that the SDP can make real inroads into the Labour vote.
Unfortunately, Croydon was not a good test of how Labour would fare if it challenged the SDP-Liberal alliance bold socialist Labour candidate, Stan Boden, seemed to think that the best way to fight the appeal OT the SDP sonate David Owen.
Boden deliberately himself from the left policies of the Labour GLC, and left-wing speakers were kept out of the constituency.
Putting forward social democratic policies Democratic should have learnt the lesson of Doug Hoyle's near disastrous performance in Warrington -file* policy challenge the SDP-Liberal advance.
Croydon byincluding by the SDP and the alliance victory is a cent swing UTOUCTUES south deflationary alliance former the Labour policies. The is to imperdistanced Labour naturally led to a (Liberal)
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FRA BARRY PROSSER, a 32 year old carpenter, was remanded in Winson Green prison in August 1980, after being charged with criminal damage (of a doorknob in his brother-in-law's flat). On the morning of the 19 August he was found dead in his prison The Prosser family were not fooled by the verdicts of the two Birmingham magistrates who argued that there was insufficient evidence for a jury to convict any of the three prison officers, Messrs. Jackson, Price and Smith. The regime in Winson Green is notorious throughout Birmingham. Here was BARRY PROSSER:
RUPTURED INJURIES TORNWIND PIPE STOMACH BRIS Dorothy Prosser, family and friends have been picketing Winson Green every Saturday Trevor was also suspicious that the mattress in Barry's cell had never been brought before the court and the cell had been cleaned out by the next morning. think Barry refused to have an injection and was beaten up.
The police, he felt, were worried that the warders all over the country would go out if these three were convicted of murder.
MY testimony. however, that has been rulcd out is Calvin's the prisoner who was in the cell next door. The reason given for this is his low 1Q and the fact that he is a prisoner!
Galvin only came forward with his evidence at the second trial at the coroner's court because, unprisingly of Winson Green prison he said Calvin cains tat distrusted the police, he heard Barry shout out and that Price had a scratch neck, said both Dorothy and Trevor Prosser.
The Prosser family have been fobbed off throughout their eighteenone of the few papers now that hasn't replied. said they'd put it on file case had headlines.
I were descending on the Prosser family like swarm Of locusts About time too for as Dorothy Prosser said speaking to the BBC: My husband was unlawfully killed. No-one can pay for the price of my husband's ille, nobody knows what we've been through, It's been heartbreaking.
*I discuss it openly with my children DECAISE think they ought to know. I was married to Barry for 13 years and myself and the children have not beet
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