new angel of vengeance, brushed aside fluence.
nounced at Blackpool. unhappy? He abstained in But Foot really the vote on Golding's proHOT against.
There was only one imbetween Foot and the right wing: he wanted Heffer to chair the crucial Organisation Comwhich will decide how to proceed with the INS COMELE tee now has a clear right wing majority.
The right wing will now go ahead with their Plan LABOUR'S RIGHT WING are back in the driving seat at Walworth Road. Michael Foot, they say 'sat aghast' as John Golding, the right's Jim Mortimer's report and drove both Benn and even Foot's supporters from any position of inFoot can't really have been as surprised. In the last week the media have been crowing about the coming coup, which was inevitable as soon as the NEC election results were ankicking out leading Milliant supincluding their candidates This will leac 10 OUCE civil war in the Party, If it succeeds it will destroy Labour's election prospects and open the road to a further five years of Thatcherism.
This is not just a defeat for Benn: it is a defeat for everyone who believed Foot could carve OLL "middle ground' in the party. It is also a crushing defeat for Foot.
Foot might have been stupid enough to believe that the right were interested in the olive branch of compromise, or he may already have given hope of compromise and thrown his lot them. It does not make any difference really. They John Golding, Labour's answer to Norman Tebbit. are now in control.
They intend to their control Labour's socialist policies, and the left, as rapidly and audaciously as possible.
The media are ecstatic.
The Daily Mail said if the right complete their attack 'voters will now have a real choice'. Sure: a choice between Tory weapons and use nucicar weapons, between attack Tory unemployment and Labour unemployment, between Torv IMF policies choice Labour the election just as surely as it did in 1979.
Just as nauseaung was the media's label for peonuclear call 'moderates'. A strange Labour name for backers nucicar blackmail gigantic bank profits.
But a note of caution seemed to creep and there: *The Bennmer are down but not out', said the Mail The Guardian was even •DeNSIMIS Foot... should b nappy al Incl Mr Benn being exile by other ass wingers. It is n decision has helf likelv that the isolation in Benn has foun since the race for ty leadership ... dust of Peckhan thfield has settle may yet regret th Found allies, ° enthusiasm LEFT These understand wh pening. Forty: cent don't want They don't unemployment.
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