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Fcrhlislrflav l.-4-4; ‘.-‘Li .-.. ” fcrhlislrflav '7August1982 V0143 No-113’, /5"’ __ —__ __ _ __ _ THE first resignation of a real grass-roots mafia and were now standing as ‘In depen- Labour Party Member of Parliament has dents’ — Mellish apparently believing that again brought bubbling to the surface the /75¢’,-14.: V56’? Wrzr me these ex-Labour members would serve tne seething undercurrents within the Labour yaw 5&5? .6’;/r//'1'/PEI’/5/%@, local people, and incidentally, the real Party. Labour party, better than the new boys. Mr Robert Mellish has been a member mmu/ax/na 5/as-115’4../an As it transpired, the Independents of the party since 1927 — 55 years. And --M 04/4 were successful, presumably because they for nearly 37 of those years he has been a DE?/£A0fi/I£A/I had a record of _ work in the local Member of Parliament for a dockiand 50418.0,’ community whereas the new ‘Militant’ constituency in South-East London - candidates did not - tn say nothing of Bermondsey. the campaigns in the media against the A great contribution of service to the Militant Tendency and all its devil work. working class, you might think — if you But Mellish’s support for Independents think that the Labour Party operates in / instead of for the official Labour candi- the interest of the working class, which dates, was enough to get him into consti- we don’t. tutional hot water from which even his In his time Bob Mellish has never friends in Westminster could not save him, achieved highest office in the party but \~\_ é if __4-—-Y- the National Executive Committee now in the various Labour Governments that having to allow a fresh selection confer- __._’_,_.._- have ruled us during the years he has been _.»- —- ence in Bermondsey for their favourite a faithful party hack -— and he did reach candidate in the next General Election. the dizzying heights of becoming Chief And no prizes are offered for guessing Whip (that’s the man who rounds up who that might be, Tatchell having won members to vote in the House whenever last time by 59 votes to 7. there is a ‘vital’ vote) from 1969 to 1976, So Mellish has decided to chuck it in, -____ and he chaired the London Labour Party fed up with all the backstairs politicking for 21 years. with which he is not at all suited to com- Being a faithful party hack, he built up pete and which no doubt hurts him deeply, a faithful party constituency who voted out as a gay, being found in bed with faithful servant of the party that he is. for him by the tens of thousands, election Margaret Thatcher or uncovered as a sup- So, in the interests of all the ‘decent after election. He had one of the 20 or so porter of some Northern football club, it people of Bermondsey’ he has resigned safest seats in the country, clocking up a was unthinkable that Bermondsey would from the Labour Party, saying that it is majority of over 38% at the last election. even think of another candidate -— until no longer the party that he joined all those Being such an enormous Labour major- the Militant Mafia (as Mellish now calls years ago. He is going to continue sitting ity and thus looking such a safe Labour them) moved in. in Parliament as an Independent until the seat, Bermondsey has been a prime target Operating the now properly constitu- local party has chosen their new official for the ‘Militant’ tendency, who must also tional procedure, the Constituency Labour candidate, when he will resign and fight a have been taking into account the fact Party elected young Mr Peter Tatchell as by-election to give all those decent people that Mellish is getting to retiring age — and their favoured candidate for the next elec- of Bermondsey a chance to put down the the tiring age, too. This tends to make tion - only to be roundly condemned by new man and send good ole Bob back to people complacent and to think that their the party leader Michael Foot (who has, Parliament with flying colours. positions are unassailable, after such area- in his day,spoken alongside anarchists on Which of course they may, for oddly ord of service, but the younger Militants public platforms) following a speech by enough he might be supported not only are impatient and the faithful but dull Tatchell in which he pledged his faith in by the out-manoeuvred Right and Centre Mellish no longer satisfies them as their parliamentary democracy but did not rule in the local party, but also by some young Parliamentary representative. out extra-parliamentary methods in the leftists (supposedly of the decent Tribune Besides which, they were moving into struggle against capitalism in general and tendency) who actually called on Michael the Labour Party in order to take it over, the Conservatives in particular. Foot to boot out young Tatchell when he and it was the safe seats with massive maj- By the use of purely Parliamentary was first chosen — threatening to raise hell orities that seemed to offer the best methods (like the Central Committee themselves if he didn’t — so he did. It all chances. having the right to squash any rebellious depends on whether party faithfuls who Labour’s last annual conference est- local parties) the Party managed to hold hate the Militants will support the man ablished the procedure for making every back Tatchell’s nomination — until, still who they know or the party they used to MP re-present himself as a candidate for fuming about the mafia in the local party, think they knew . to say nothing of every election — a blow for such as Mellish came out in support of three local being influenced by the furious campaign Mellish, who had just been automatically candidates in a local council election who of hatred that the media will mount accepted time after time. Short of coming had themselves fallen foul of the same Continued on page 2 2 H-IEEDOM Continued /rom page 1 against Tatchell, though strictly speaking that ought to rally them to his side. Either way, it will be amusing to watch. TOBE | ill Of rather more fundamental interest, however, is Mellish’s remark about the Labour Party not being the party that he GOVERNED joined all those years ago. Well, of course The Observer continues to startle us by it isn’t; it wasn’t then the party it was ‘To be governed is to be occasionally publishing a perceptive art- when it was first founded 20 years before watched over, inspected, spied icle. From this week’s (Aug 1st) that. And Bob Mellish is not the same upon, directed, legislated at, So, in recent months, the hidden today as when he first joined. regulated, docketed, indoctri- attitudes of many people in authority Below we reproduce a quote from The towards the media have been exposed. Observer showing what Labour leaders nated, preached at. controlled. They think the public should be told were saying fifty years ago,when the party assessed, weighed, censored, as little as possible. They don ‘t object had already lived through its ditching of ordered about, by men who to deception on matters both large and its internationalism and anti-mi].itarism have neither the right nor the during the First World War and its col- small. They dislike reporters. And they laboration with the Tories in Ramsey knowledge nor the virtue. To prefer that ruling circles should be left to run the State without being bothered MacDonald’s coalition ‘National’ Govern- be governed means to be, at ment in 1929. each operation, at each trans- by troublesome disclosures and unpleas- Sir Stafford Cripps went on to serve in ant truths. action, at each movement, In fact, some of them don ’t really care Churchill’s wartime coalition Government noted, registered, controlled, (with its governmental conscription for much for democracy either. industry as well as for the Forces) and in taxed, stamped, measured, 1942 went to India to talk the (then valued, assessed, patented, A Pershing II nuclear missile has exploded neutral) Congress Party of Gandhi and licensed, authorised, endorsed, in a test flight from Cape Canaveral. No Pandit Nehru 8: Co, into collaboration admonished, hampered, re- one was hurt. The Pentagon has issued with the British in retum for independence several denials of reported problems with after the war. The pacifist Indian leaders formed, rebuked, arrested. It is to be, on the pretext of the missile. The estimated cost of develop- maintained offieial neutrality, but allowed ing it has more than doubled in the past British troops to travel through India to the general interest, taxed, 18 months to more than S 2 billion. The get at the Japanese in Burma . while drilled, held lo ransom, ex- Pershing II is due to start service in West- after the war, Attlee’s government had to ern Europe next year. be forcefully nudged by massive riots and ploited, monopolised, ex- demonstrations before they would fulfil torted. squeezed, hoaxed, A draft new constitution for Turkey has Churchill’s reluctant bargain. robbed; then, at the least re- been produced. Its overall effect is con- The Labour Party probably never was sistance, at the first word of centrate power in the President. He will the party Mellish thought he joined in complaint, t0- be repressed. be elected by parliament, not by the elec- 1927. It has changed over the years so fined, abused, annoyed, fol- torate.
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