Steel, along with the usual array of ruling class papers, was complaining about the Honourable Algernon', a Labour Party political broadcast on television last week.
But Sunny Jim did not find it strange that Tories and Liberals should be so concerned about Labour's image. Or that the Sun, a paper renowned for its anti-working class tirades, should be so worried that any further broadcast along the same lines would 'only boomerang against the Labour Party Callaghan along Healey, Jones, Murray and all the other right-wing leaders knows only too well who are his real allies, and with whom to discuss the content of political broadcasts.
And the tale of the Honourable Algernon does not fit into Callaghan's projections. 'Algy', born in a f50-a-day private nursing home, and educated at £2,000-a-year Eton, and who only talks of a dole queue to keep his workers in line, is not really a figure to be depicted as a class enemy just now.
Indeed, he is rather a sympathetic but strong-minded gentle man to whom Labour Prime Ministers and Chancellors of the Exchequer go when they want a big loan to bail out an ailing capitalist system!