A bit exclusive | Socialist Action 1983

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FOR • Hands Up For Democracy. TUC. THE TORIES believe in exclusive schools clubs. They also believe in having a very exclusive party.

Riff-raff like Tory canvassers or the local estate agent cannot policy-making members of the Conservative party. That privilege restricted to Tory MPs and the Tory beers in une nouse or Lords.

This ensures there is terference from the rank and file.

The Conservative Associations constituencies 'supporters clubs" which have right to determine policy. That is left solely to the leaders Westminster. exclusive pie. be is ing tell leader. dangerous step down the road no insimply But that's where Thatcher - then appoints t chairperson and decides w Until 1965 there was no election for the leadership. Instead the top people got together over dinner and decided on the must suitable chapship.

After Sir Alec Douglas Home's performance between 1963 and 1965 the MPs suspected there might be something in the idea of them elecDo iney IOOk democracy and decided to hold an the voting begins and ends. The leader — Mrs officers the party needs and then per- Office! sonally picks them.

The advantage of this system is that it stops quarrels in the leaderEverybody does what Thater tells them.

We rang Tory Central Office to ask now many members tne part had. 'No idea', we were told. We pushed them to make a guess — Half a million? One million?

The official replied: 'We don't keep records of that sort of thing. Nothing depends on it.' Well at least that's one truthful statement to come out of Central Socialist Action 27 May 1983

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Socialist Action 27 May 1983 would endorse a British Mosvah in Israel. The