FEW events so illuminate the forces involved in British over Britain's EEC. budget refund In the miners' strike you see only the coarse grain of positions.
Liberals, SDP wing of the Labour Party - can all unite to condemn the miners. Over the EEC the fine detail of political currents shows up clearly.
Take first the Tory wets. The revolt of this regularly editorials of the Observer and the Guardian -not to mention in the columns of Marxism Today.
Entire strategies of the TUC and Neil Kinnock are based on waiting for Edward Heath to revolt against Margaret Pym to rebel against Patrick Jenkin.
State Needless to say these 'crucial' and long predicted revolts never take place. The 'wets' vote against the government only when they Know Its anyway.
But on the EEC there was a real 'revolt'. Heath and Pym were right into the breach announcing that under no circumstances whatever should Britain's contribution to the EEC budget be witheld and they would never support such a measure.
The SDP and the Liberals were equally rapid. Iv into the breach. Jenkins said he would have accepted what was on offer from Brussels. Owen claimed Thatcher was wrecking the EEC David Steel urged that Edward Heath should be a special emissary to sort out the problem.
The real character of the Tory wets and the Alliance — the 'EEC Party' within British politics could not have been more clearly seen. The Alliance and the wets are not going to rebel against Thatcher on anything in the interests of the British working class. But they are prepared to put up a staunch defence of capitalism's inAnd where was Labour in this mess? A MORI against membership of the EEC. The same week EEC work for us.' realism is to change the Labour Party's position on the EEC just at the moment it was in one of its biggest crises and the majority of the population were against membership. That's realism!
We had the disgraceful spectacle of Powell in Labour of having abandoned its election pledge to take Britain out of the Market. Meanwhile Kinthat Thatcher did.
Labour has got to get its policy right on the are the pro-EEC party. Thatcher likes to engage in a little Tory Gaullism to get the maximum conunder its new Eurosocialist line runs the risk of being outbid in the political popularity stakes by the thieves' kitchen of the EEC altogether.
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