SOME LABOUR supporters, despairing the chaos produced by Healey and Callaghan in Labour's campaign, might be tempted to follow the advice given in last week's New Statesman.
Predicting a Thatcher landslide, it advised its readers to vote for the Alliance in 22 English constituencies and for the SNP in six Scottish constituencies.
This advice is wrong both in principle and practice. The Labour Party is still the only party that can realistically beat the Tories.
not only by target but right across the board. It effectively calls for a vote for the Alliance. This may or may not have been the New but it certainly boosted David Owen's jumping on the tactical voting bandwagon, with an appeal to back the Alliance.
Neither would a vote for the Alliance be an alternative to Thatcher.
Many of Thatcher's policies are contained in the Alliance manifesto. and Steel have said that if the Tories are the largest party in a hung parliament, they might enter into coalition with them on the basis of electoral reform and vague promises to reduce unemployment.
Remains That is why a vote for Labour remains the only possible vote for the labour movement. .Vew Statesman and all those who are thinking of repeating their movement, aiding the Alliance and consequently Only the largest possible Labour vote on 9 June can defeat, and in the worst case, deter Thatcher. those in the constituencies thev Statesman's intention, Photo Furthermore Jenkins advice are hurting the labour
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CAMPAION TOR NUCLEAN DISARMAMENT CND at work EARLIER this year the ASTMS group of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington initiated a work place CND.
The group agreed to keep it as open as unions (NUPE, G&M, and medical students.
The organising Ultra-left humbug YOUR editorial about the coalitionist tendencies one nore ront benea (SA 29 April) has to be the biggest piece of ultra-
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Advice The New Statesman's advice will be heeded