BOB CLAY, one of the thirteen Labour MPs who voted against the Anglo/Irish accord in parliament, explained to us why he had been prepared to take the steps of walking through the division lobby with the likes of Enoch Powell to oppose Thatcher's new Irish carve-up. I DOLI strengthening Ulster.
responsibility power In the responsibility repression suspect that cuse for banning Sinn Fein. pressured Thatcher Tom King regard this agreement as It gives the Southern government our witnour any Teal six That counties. will sooner later become a responsibility for increased the nationalist Having outraged the unionists by negotiating this agreement in such a deceitful and clandestine manner, the that this produces will become the exI also believe that there is some truth in Enoch Powell's assertion that Mrs Thatcher only took this small and contradictory step because she was President Reagan, who's administration is anxNATO, with American bases. THE TEN to one vote in the House of Commons for the Anglo-Irish accord will go down as Thatcher's greatest parliamentary since the vote to send the British Fleet against Argentina in 1982.
And, as on that occasion, it is a victory delivered to her leadership which politically indistinguishable from the Tories when it comes to any issue touching the vital interests of British imperialism.
No-one should be in any doubt that the Irish question is indeed such an issue. Every great turning point in victory by is
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LABOUR & IRELAND THE ACCORD