exploitation of the working class LADBROKES THE BOOKMAKERS are offering evens Government by the new year. They are on to a safe thing. National Government outside war-time was formed in 1931.
the labour movement. conference to put himself forward failed miserably.
and the distrust of some sections of the ruling class.
the middle classes deserted the Tory Party in droves, Liberals and the Nationalists in Scotland and Wales.
century. ranks. pursued by the Labour Government.
country, out a large secton or tne working class able to achieve such a victory and effective ruling class government.
on a National The last . The economic situation had the same basic characteristic as that today - a massive crisis of overproduction. But the political situation was different The trade unions had not recovered from the defeat of 1926. Ramsay MacDonald's desertion met with no effective response from the ranks of A Labour leader for a coalition is essential. But there is no candidate for MacDonald's role. Callachan. like Wilson before him. bases himself on the apparatus of the Labour Party. He knows that without the active support of the trade union bureaucracy for such a project there would be a massive swing to the left in the ranks of the Labour Party and trade No Tory politician can command sufficient support from the working class to lead a National Government. Heath's attempts at the Tory Party For a bourgeois politician to head a National Government would require a deep split in the working class and someone of the stature of De Gaulle to organise it. No deep split exists and Heath himself stands knee-high to De Gaulle. The fiasco of the three-day week earned him the hatred of the working class The Tory conference did see Heath establish a leading role for his ideas on economic strategy in the ranks of the Tory Party leadership. But Thatcher is still not threatened as Tory leader. She has played a limifed but valuable role for the Tory Party. After the February election in 1974, voting for the The loss of this support produced the lowest proportion of the vote for the Tory Party this Crushing blows Thatcher, aided by the crushing blows dealt at this section of the population by the Labour Government, has managed to pull some of that base back through demagogy on the 'Soviet menace', a reversal of Tory policy on devolution, promises of massive concessions to the homeowners, and a right-wing shift on racism. She has also managed to bring about the semblance of order and unity which characterised the conference, despite the massive divisions earlier manifested within the Tory The Tory Party split into two broad camps after the 1974 debacle. On the one hand were the remnants of Heath's supporters: Carrington, Whitelaw and Prior, in favour of the continuation of a strategy based on incomes policy. On the other stood the 'monetarist' policies of Sir Keith Joseph, centred on tight control of the money supply and massive cuts in public spending. The outcome is an uneasy alliance between the two factions (which represents a step forward for Heath), and an amalgam of the policies in the Tory policy document The Right Approach: incomes policy plus cuts plus monetary control. In fact, the same policies being This similarity of policies poses a dilemma of the Tories. They know that victory is in their grasp. The fall of the Labour Government will not be accompanied by Healey's 'rioting in the streets'. But they are unable to put forward a line which can win them a massive electoral victory. For that they need not only the support of the 'small men' of the town and It is only by weakening and splitting the working class that they will be the pre-conditions for a stable,