EACH TIME THE MEDIA MENTION 'BALANCE' SEND US A QUID! I HAVE to admit to u sneaking sympathy for newspapereditors and media bosses. General CICCUPIE enough io cover without the Two major parties uppearing to change places in the political spectrum.
In the past week I have had to keep pinching myself to make it some Malice in Woaderland On the little sereen and in the pages of the papers were the comforting conservatire tones of Jim Callaghun, waring against people who 'wanted to fear things up by the roots' and the more abrusive style of the Margulellal, claiming to be the modern leir of the nitur movement.
It says a lot for the gutless, policy-less mature of Labour's manifesto and the slither towards that the Tories can have the hard brazen affrontery to present themselves to the electorate as the apostles of change.
This theme was taken up by rerEne worboroe, Я me: priest of the Tory right, in the Sunday Telepraph, where cluimed and 1 think lis tongne was not in his cheek -that the Tory Party of Thatcher and Joseph emhodies the spirit of social democrucy Warming Worsthorne called for a return to the spirit of 1945 and the reforming zeal of the post-mar Labour government.
Before you reach for a stiff drink at the thought of the 8BF142 measure of interests of working people, be purty's warned: Worthorne is a subtle "moderation' dinlectician ol the right.
The Attlee gorenument, be suid, had been smusth some of the excesses of capitalism such as unemployment, poverty, poor health and lousy educulion for the maJonny But now the pendulum has swung too far and we need Tory radicals to ure us front ta modern excesses of stifling burcuucracy and stale interACTUALLY his theme, Missing from this cloquent piece of chop-logic was the fact that social democruts do not as rESE include may direction massive switch of taxation in change in the public spending and hysterical forced unionism. start probing start asking questions.
in their though they move in such Dracue favour of the rich, cals in That will penalise the poorest members of society und a mean, vicious anti-trade The press gives coverage by the acre to the ahsard rudical posturings of the Tories yet nowhere is there any analysis of this strange political animal, the reforming Conservative.
But then analysis is something of which the British press fights desperately sies: if they and analysing why, God forbid, people might PS: You won't forget. will you: please don't go unwind tearing things up by the roots. In the Lahour Party, they leave that sort of thing to the Turies Sociulist Challenge 26 April 1979 page 15
Socialist Challenge THE By JOHN HILL A THOUSAND schoolchildren expected to mais at an astonishing Marxist rally.
Tha children have " lessons " how to form pupli unions and wil! attend "workshops" on jects including sexuality.
Firebrand former Ulster MP Bernadette Dovlin- now McAliskcy-and Vietnam war protester Tarlq Ali are among the speakers.
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The one-day event are will on subMrs of by be