IF THATCHER has no mandate to rule in Britain with 58 per cent of voters against her, then her claims in Scotland are thin indeed. Labour MPs have already organised a meeting this week to discuss the implications of 73 per cent of Scottish voters rejecting the Tories.
Their answer should labour movement north and south of the border should relaunch a battle for an Assembly. nonsense that this would divide the class should be rejected. The best way to unite the working class is for its most anti-Tory section to fight now to weaken the rule of Westminster.
It may be argued that with a 144 seat majority Thatcher will not even cede a referendum, let alone an Assembly.
But the labour movement should fight for it by organising now through a Labour Movement Assembly which begins the struggle against the Tories right away and acts as the basis for the Assembly of the future.
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