Exeter Briefing editors face expulsion | Socialist Action 1983

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WHO SAID don't back where you came from'? Not Enoch Powell, but Chester Long, the recently-elected Labour leader of Exeter council.

Since May, Labour and 'Liberal councillors cobbled together a working relationship' which gives this unholy alliance a majority of one Hall. Exeter Labour Party has never been consulted.

Among the first to protest was exeter Briefing, whose three from the party Long's remark was made at a special ses sion of Exeter Labour Par ty's Executive Committee considering the expulPhoto: sions. It was addressed to the only Labour Briefing supporter the ecutive, Calbir Shukra Party chair John Shppard provided sympathetic cover: Cir Long, of course, must have been referring to the university she had recently studied at!

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