ACTION personal remarks WYCIC political obseryations ill founded.
I can well understand that you will see your task as leader of the Party to be one of taking your party to a majority at Ine next therefore into a Labour (It will not that SuI DISC YUL respondingly David and I see or ask a velo muster sufficient support form an allance government). It must therefore, I well understand, have come as a shock to see your party drop 124 seats in the county elections and decline in the two opinion polls since published.
whether vou like it or not you owe it to the public to tive thought to what Will happen if the electorate decides to deprive Mrs Thatcher of her majority but to give no clear majority to anyone else. That is what the Alliance leaders have done.
The national crisis especially the scourge of unemployment surely demands that if the electorate so decides pullulcians of different parties should at least attempt to agree a priority package 0f reform and provide a sufticient v stable nient to see it through. The DUDIC will lightly forgive those who refuse to join In such an approach but who prefer instead to inflict another general election on them in the hope of securing a different result.
Rule We can rule out our mutual friend Margaret Thatcher from such considerations. As she told us repeatedly 'the lady is not even l bie A PIECE OF THE ACTION I had a nightmare in which Francis Pym joined the Labour your Any leadership yet unknown.
Fool with HENCE of your creation, recalle If Labour has majority deny this.
Indeed the and 10 per If were me your antipathy David not De the SONS to sav 'here Is my DrO gramme sanitised of items such as Ten noon take it or leave it' Without a coalition agreement we would leave it for LNO very good reasons First, such a minority government would liable to tall in anv week al any unforseen hurdle, and because of that there would be a lack of international confidence in which coveraci would itself damage the attempt at industrial would just remind you that although Labour had to sacrifice some of its policies during the Lib-Lab pact, in the 18 months' duration inflation was brought down from 20 per cent to nine per cent with only a ½ per cent increase in unemployment.
The same vigorous determination now needed to combat unemployment. That more likely to be achieved by a broadly based government, secure in parliament and representing a majority of the electorate.
Power If you are not prepared to contemplate power sharing and dusting down Lne Labour Party's pre war commitment to electoral reform then must not be surprised if the Conservative moves last in these direc tions post election and you find yourself continuing as leader of our official opposition, while we get оп with the job of restoring the nation's economy and sola smo.
Naturally I do not expect to read any reply to this open letter. Your party would doubtless not allow to respond positively. Instead of further negative arguments, what I am suggesting to you is a period of constructive silence and con templation on these serious issues Yours sincerely, David sigh of relief... A TORY MP FOR EVERY VOTE