Nec Faces Both Ways

Socialist Organiser no. 72, 11 February 1982 · scan p. 2 · about 190 words

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THE Labour Party National Executive Committee meeting on February 24 will be recommended by the Orgnisation Sub-committee to endorse the selection of Pat Wall as parliamentary candidate in Bradford North.

Ben Ford, the sitting MP, raged: "I regard this as a crunch issue, on which the party leadership must marshal its forces or suffer a humiliating defeat." Ford, notorious as a friend of MESSAGES of sympathy and thousands of offers of financial help were pouring in last night to save a national hero from collapse.

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But even Organisation Sub-committee right wingers John Golding and Alan Hadden only ventured to propose that the selection be re-run because of alleged irregularities-which the Organisation Sub-committee found "rather thin".

Peter Tatchell in Bermondsey, however, remains non-endorsed.

The Organisation Subcommittee on Monday 8th also heard that Southwark Labour Party had backed down and conceded demand from the NEC that eight right wingers should be reinstated on its list from which wards can select council candidates.