Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 98, 2 September 1982 · scan pp. 10–11 · about 298 words

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ANYONE lethargic enough to be caught watching Granada television's latest offering in their 'All For Love series on Sunday sight will, remember the Marious scene in which obe hang-dog 40 year old married man announces to his unenthusiastic 22 year old lover that he has discovered the ideal venue for their first sexual encounter - a botel bathroom!

The ensuing repeated acenes of orgiastic pleasures are unaccountably never interrapted by the hotel's atber gueste rattling the door, carrying the regulacien toothbrushes, towels, and transisior radios. But perteps there is a reason for this.

The hotel front entrance used in the play is that of the Great Western Royal at Paddington where delegates to London meetings of ASTMS are regularly boarded overnight.

Yet apparently it is far from easy for such travellers to find any bathroom at all in the place - let alone the huge Roman-style marbled edifice depicted in the film.

For a while at least ASTMS members and other visitors to the hotel are now likely to find their stay even more taxing, elbowing their. way to the head of queues of freeloaders looking for a bathroom! NORMAN Tebbit is no namby-pamby. Not for him the velvet glove when a hobnail boot is available. No weeper of crocodile tears he.

On this score he disagrees with his predecessor James Prior - who is not so much wet as soggy.

Prior had somewhat rashly described the present level of unemployment as 'intolerable'. The same empty cliché is trotted out regularly by union bureaucrats, Labour politicians, and sundry do-gooders. Tebbit disagrees.

'I don't like the use of the word 'intolerable' in relation to something which is in fact going on and being tolerated . Who is right?

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