article appeared 'As a result, defence secretary Michael Heseltine had to agree the project at a time when normal defence expenditure was already being cut to meet the costs of the Trident rop dl ever permanent programme.
secretaries. committee the intelligence services (PSIS) would have then been passed to the prime minister.' This deceit has left the red the Cabine face But Mrs Thatcher has found an unexpected ally in the Zircon debacle in none other than Party leader Neil Kinnock the start, Kinnock has been first on his feet to deplore "breaches of security defend 'the national interest'. He has laken every •CołOs to attack the Tories for not one cue o cove u! the Zircon fiasco!
Demands Hugo Young Guardian of 29 January reports that not only did Kinnock Howe's demand along Geoffrey Be ne ut for reasons of state securi but he also supported injunction against Campbell's article (ineffective because was issued after the Statesman hit the streets) and supported the ban on showing the Circon tim in the House of Commons.
The Guardian editorial described Kinnock's comNICHES 'pitiful'. pitiful indeed they are. At when the Labour leadership could have seizNew Statesman offices were raided by police after this ed the opportunity to ex government Neil Kinnock has chosen to side with Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Methods What the Zircon attal reveris KoL Lic Iccu lu tighter security, but the police-state methods of the Thatcher government Even the Liberal-SDP Alliance have approached the issue from the point of vIeW of freedom of information. David Owen and others have attacked Thatcher for 'deceiving parliament' The purpose of the spy satellite is to keep Britain up with the nuclear Jones and enhance its standing the perialis powers. The Tories are doing this at the of ordinary people's jobs and freedom — and that unpopular faci is what they are desperate to keep hidden.
GabOr S OO rollo to expose this. To compare sec euve Margaret Thather's state with the consisten growing attacks on trade union rights, on the black communities , on Irish people, and on the women of Greenham Common. To compare the waste of resources on sov satellfite with the growing dole queues up and down the country.
Instead of standing in line to support Margaret Thatcher and 'the national interest', Neil Kinnock should have been denouncing her across the land.