Ted Knight speaks at Labour Against the Witch Hunt's founding conference LAST SUMMER five people were excluded membership • of the Acocks Green branch of Yardley Labour Party in Birmingham. Three were already party members transferring elsewhere; two were new applicants.
In the case of the three, Acocks Green's decision amounts to back-door expulsion, and is contrary to the rules of the Party. Eight months later, the matter is still unresolvIn January, the general Yardley finally adopted a procedure sort out the mess: it will spend five minutes hearing statement, followed by five minutes for discussion minutes decide 100-mile-an-hour «enoc ay. does represent a shabby attempt to dispose of a problem that won't go away?
The reasons lor the five's exclusion are equally shabby. They are accused of espousing 'subversive' Photo: D FOWLER Dennis Skinner The prime minister is prattling about freedoms. Today's tremely important freedom. It concerns the 700 people who die each year as a result of industrial it is about the 275,000 people, on average, who sufICT seriou as g result of work. It is about the 900 who die each year as a result of industrial disease.
They can be seen in the Welsh valleys, the coalfields and the textile left-wing causes like Campaign for Nuclear Disar. mament, and being seen in a socialist bookshop In other words, the innuendo. Most vile of al is that the main crime of one of the women appears to be hel relation ship with one of the men rebruary's branch meeting refused to consider a motion of no con nicence age menabersmu secretary censure of the branch officers for their handling of the afTair It was ruled that a two-thirds majority was needed decide discuss the resolution. Copies of standing orders were not for thcoming, despite John Golding (right) - peace was the last thing on his mind repeated requests.
Although this vote was lost, support for the five is growing • The constituenc! meeting will be considering the matter at the end of this month This of the clearest examples to date of a witch hunt of ideas -it must be fought with the greatest vigour. for Trident is £12,000 million. The government are spending all that to Ronald Reagar happy and to provide additional work in the run up to his election, before the boom comes to a halt and we come into the biggest economic crisis that this country or the western world have ever faced.
Of course there is plenty of money in this country, ne carpet in the House of Commons costs per yard, yet we are told there is no money in this country. I am told that the Duke of Devonshire Has 10W organised his taxes so that his group does not pay any, so there must be plenty of money about.
The prime minister has had £1.5 million spent on the tax-payer on all une gallivantle lip. abroad. So of course there is plenty of mone! to finance the Health and