NO ONE on the left can be in any doubt about the road that Neil Kinnock has There were some who thought that his deci sion to abstain in the Benn-Healey battle for deputy leader in 1981 was a tactical difference There were others who pointed to his strong defence of unilateral nuclear disarmament and his record as an anti-apartheid campaigner and thought that he should be given a chance. Many gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Neil made his views clear by April of the strike — joining those in the labour movement who attacked the NUM for not holding a ballot strike. He then boycotted the five rallies called by the NUM and denounced 'violence from both - making no distinction between the state trade unionists who were responding out of selfScoffing at accountability Kinnock has stated that whatever conference decides he will not commit the next Labour government to release and reinstate the jailed and sacked miners and Having already pushed Labour Party EEC and disarmament policy to the right, Roy and right. Denouncing the Handsworth riots as having origins in tribalism he stands four square against the demands of blacks and women in his To cap it all Neil has now spoken in favour of AUEW right-wing needed any more help!
The record of the last two years is that Neil Kinnock has moved from left of centre towards the right so fast it's devastating.
No-one need have any doubt about what kind of government Kinnock will preside over - with David Owen or without. across the ment.
JUST in case we needed reminding what nasty things Socialist government's can get up to we need only the France. After trying to Mitterand government has now admitted that French military frogmen had been ordered to sink the Greenpeace flagship, while it was moored in New Zealand.
David Lange, the Minister who defends nuclear policy, has charged the French government with 'affronting sovereignty' by carrying out what he considers an act of war and has demanded compensation. Laurent Fabius, French Socialist Prime Minister, admitted that the affair had been concealed from an official government report authored by Guallist Bernard Tricot.
In establishing a new parliamentary commisSiOn sacking Defence Herhu, the French government is admitting that some people high perhaps even President Mitterand himself.
Having unleashed racist movement in Europe today because of its austerity policies it has also refused to break with French nationalism and France's commitnent to an independant nuclear foreign policy. Hence the terrorist attack on Greenpeace.
If anyone needed reminding what right-wing social democracy is all about they just have to look across the sea to France...then watch Kinnock next week in Bournemouth.
You need just look channel at the Mitterand governGreenpeace affair deny and cover the Rainbow Warrior, Zealand Prime government's nonZealand's minister Charles involved largest right-wing
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