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THOUSANDS of out-ofwork navvies are reportedly up in arms at the allegation that they look as scruffy as Michael Foot.

This follows a weekend of feuding within the Labour Party over the leader's generally eccentric appearance.

Foot's leadership qualities apparently do not include matching the sartorial tastes of right wing Labourite Walter Johnson-a patriot whose fanaticism obviously extends to vetting the clothing of those labour movement leaders who turn out on Remembrance Day parades.

But Johnson's remarks also seem to have stung Foot. Indignantly he assured reporters that his jacket only two weeks old.

And, warming to the theme, he slammed Johnson's remarks as deeply offensive-not to Foot himself but to his wife, Jill Craigie!

She always goes to a great deal of trouble to see that I am well turned out, snarled an angry Foot.

Which only goes to prove that while Foot still obviously wears the trousers in that household (and who else would wear Foot's trousers?) the task of looking after them is firmly allocated elsewhere.

And if a potential Prime Minister is incapable of smartening himself up it's not his fault-but that of the woman he lives with! theid is all lies. The blacks are happy."

«We did not see a policeman throughout our stay", argued another, claiming that South Africa is not a police state.

By the same token any black workers unfortunate enough to bump into the tour could have concluded that there were no anti-racists in Wales-since they wouldn't have seen any in the delegation.

But in fact the hostility to the tour from the Welsh community has been so strong that the songsters were forced to masquerade under the collective pseudonym of 'Jones, and went to great lengths to conceal their identities from the British media. Some names have, however, leaked out.

Hopefully Welsh workers will keep an elbow in the hillside for those who go to such lengths to comfort the racist oppressors in South Africa.