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THERE was something very British about the Conference Arrangements Committee's choice of emergency resolutions to take for debate. Lebanon wasn't an emergency - 'the French threat to our daily pinta" was!

The full leadership election results revealed two new 'dream tickets' A secret group of seven MPs defied every instruction from the LCC, Fleet Street and John Golding, and voted for the Bygone Era dream ticket of Shore for Leader and Dunwoody for deputy.

And the Welsh Wizard Denzil Davies had the Walter Mitty ticket when he voted No-one for leader and Himself for deputy.

I've been told by comrades that I did get an appearance on TV, selling SO outside the conference. I'm a bit puzzled as to how after my experience on the Monday morning.

As I distributed SO bulletins, MP Phillip Whitehead was standing beside me trying to shift the Fabians' expensivelyprinted Conference News. He didn't get a very good response, except from the couple of dozen well dressed young gentlemen and ladies whom the right wing always seem to be able to mobilise for their Party Conference activity.

But no matter. John Tusa was there with the BBC cameras. They took pictures of the Fabian bulletin from every angle, and then, for the finishing touch, a Fabian helper was instructed to walk past as if entering the conference, tc take the bulletin to study it as if interested i contents.

Arthur Scargill outside ference on Sunday: "It' SDP in there"

TV commentator on Militant: •There is a hard core of people from Liverpool, and other such places, who want to nationalise everything in the land and stop anyone owning a house."

Jo Richardson: * • • • my malecolleagues - that's what we call each other ... I never know why we don't call each other comrade ...Well, perhaps I do...

Ken Loach, outside the closed session on Militant on Monday: 'It did seem very much like standing outside a prison waiting for the execution notices to go up."

John Spellar of the EETPU, who was there to take notes at Ken Loach's meeting on Monday, when asked if he would support the right of all working class views to have equal access to the media: 'I think because of the legal problems it would be inappropriate to comment.

Strange visitors: four senior officials of the CF at Labour Party confere of the 'ere ce but only fleetingly.

The first visitor, on Sunday. was general secretary Alastair 'I hate Scargill' Graham. He stayed long enough to get him self on TV commenting on the leadership election, then left or Monday.

Late Monday night, the Gen eral Treasurer arrives. He bemoans the fact that he canno get a visitor's ticket, and leaver on Tuesday.

Midday Tuesday: the Presi dent and Senior Vice Presiden arrive, sit in the Grand Hote bar, hear a few minutes Foot's speech, and then leave.

The CPSA is currently con ducting a membership ballot o1 reaffiliation to the Labour Party The NEC is recommending a yer vote, but the top officials ar campaigning vigorously to sabo tage this.

Half a dozen of them cam carrying their flag in a small par ade up the pavement to the Lab our Party conference.

They were dark-skinned anı opulent, the two women dresser in expensive-looking westen clothes and wearing heav. make-up. When they came t the door of the Conference Cen tre they stopped, unfurled thei flag, and grouped themselve to be photographed around i man carrying a large portrait Then two of them went into thi conference hall.

Who were they? Iranian Roya lists ! The portrait was of thei new Shah.

No doubt encouraged by thi also remember the solid suppor Labour in office gave the Shal and his regime.

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