Socialist Organiser

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

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Socialist Organiser no. 150, 13 October 1983 · scan pp. 2–3 · Patrick Spilling · about 673 words

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NOF ISIA5 -E OSMA "In public" ', she declared to the Party conference, 'Cecil is the most virtuous of all my ministers. Unctuous, condescending, self-righteous, sneering. "In private he has shown himself to be hedonistic and ruthruthampton. less. When this combination These lessons also show, however, that where full-time officials spreads throughout my team we fuse to lead, the rank and file must take a stand in defence of basic will be unstoppable. rion rights. Mrs Thatcher pointed to the Grow which the incident has caused in the Party as proof of her words. trayals. In every Tory Party Club in the country the same debate is raging. Which one of these two bak down and smash his anti-union laws. women was most to blame? Was it the loose secretary who betrayed her trust? Or was it the wife who failed to realise that a high flying husband needs more care and attention? AGAINST 'Should Cecil have stood by his wife however badly she had failed him? Or should he have WITCH-HUNT! gaven his son to-be a real father? I feel confident that any baby 55 = he afterglow of the Falki gaze is pound to be a *. = •=* == = questions • J00 ECA: a 70 Inar 87€ Hisp INT:

StE апаскес press who had =22 Some oi misg aidediy called for Parkinson to resign as falling prey to the permissive society. The Mail on Sunday for example had claimed that: 'Ambitious and well off young women of 31 do not have babies by accident. In the age of the pill and easily available abortion they choose to have them."

Mrs Thatcher said abortion on demand was anathema to her party and the fallen woman who had lured her Minister into immorality should now face the public shame of her actions.

She applauded the press for dogging the footsteps of Mr Parkinson's former secretary. •When this child goes to school, when it takes its first steps, when it travels on a bus, I hope there will be a photographer on hand to remind the public the sins of the flesh will be visited at leas: or the mother, if not the But last nighi Mr Parkinson's future was considered to be still in doubt after it was learned tha: he had made arrangemest :: = regular sum of sce : *= Ever Sas fer ie sca BDE:000 1005€ It emerged last night that Mrs Thatcher was also considering a new deal for the health service.

She is considering applying to America to extradite the Harley Street doctor who has been accused of plotting to murder his partner.

She believes that this man could do for the health service what MacGregor has been asked to do for steel and coal.

•With someone like him at the helm the health service's future really would be beyond doubt."

The Conservative Party: A Statement.

It has been suggested in some quarters that this column has been failing in its duty by not paring more attention to alleged infiltration of the Tory Party by rizh: zinE groups.

We have considered this =ite: carefully and decided ==: : mould not be in the inter= of the highest ethics of = paper journalism if we "ete to give too much space to and uncorroborated Seculation.

We take the view thai a potiaar rho declares himself or Jerself to be a Conservative should not be hounded simply because of a drawing room full lave to be poked through and iome hotheads would be bound o trespass on private property o peer through windows to see f copies of Mein Kampf were risible on the bookshelves. Of course the public has a ight to know. But we feel ertain that the public does not xpect a family newspaper to toop to such levels and our ournalistic ethics to be comiromised.

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