Second, about the situation in the Tory mavoe deceptive. Tory conferences are notoriously stage-managed. In general well-known opponents of the regime in power do not manage to catch the eye of the chair But in the fringe meetings the bitterness of the wets has been unmistakeable. lan Gilmour accused the government of swindling the unemployed Peter Walker denounced "19th century liberalism' Marxism, just a lew days being as irrelevant John Nott had described himself and Thatcher as old-fashioned future ones in that he was SOON OU Weighell's behaviour shows the utter contempt he has for the working Class in general and hi OWIl members in particular. On the sunday before Labour Party conference the NUR delegation met to discuss all the and mandates already been decided at on the union's CACCULTO.
Eric: Clarke, the candidate for the Labour Party's NEC, had already been endorsed by the NUR's leadership.
When Weighell cast his vote on the Monday, he did not inform his delegation that he had not sup-