campaign to defend Ravenscraig steel works from cloThe net result was a loss of votes to the SNP. The unpopularity of official Labour politics the 6000 votes picked up by Militant's tommy shendan That Labour held its position in terms of MPs elected is due to the fact that Labour was given one last chance as the arty which could at least de iver a Scottish Assemblv.
In Britain as a whole three out of five voters did not vote Tory. In Scotland it was four out of five. Once again the people of Scotland have an unwanted government imposed on them. bour MPs is the result of careful screening; hardly anyone with any left credentials got through the net.
Two who did, and seem likely the oin the Campaign Group are Billy Etherington, formerly secretary of Durham NUM, elected in Sunderland Norin, and Alan sireson, towmeo s Nottingham South.
Labour Briefing supporter John Wilton, standing against dame Jil Knight in Edgbaston, achieved a 5.8 er cent swing, but faled to win b 000 votes. Most of his extra vote: were picked up through a decline in Post-election blues BY 2am last Friday morning millions of people were utterly depressed and in a thoroughly bad temper as the election results came in.
Evidently none more than Winning left candidates who Nore Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North, where the Labour vote share went up 7.5 per cent: Bernie Grant in Tottenham where the Labour vote increased 12.9 per cent; and Ken LiNingstone where the Labour share went up 10.2 per cent The highest percentage votes for Labour leach between 67-70 DAr cent) were in the mining constituencies of Barnsley and Hemsworth in Yorkshire: and several Glasgow and South Wales constituencies. abour Party General Secre tary Larry Whitty, who wasarrested on the way home and charged with failing to stop, drink driving and assaulting the police.
Defeat means an end to old-style 'new-realism' EVERY SOCIALIST and every labour Labour * was that it would be a hung parliament, with tional Labour values' is profoundly ambigu-