Pretty obnoxious i the Socialist Reviow obituary fo David Widgery is anything to go by. It cant resist record ing that Dave always had an uneasy relatonship with the party because he only fitfully understood that thout the humdrum work of organisation and routine, Gerry Heaty would have loved r.
Watch your water
Anglian Water is to force four milion customers to have water meters fitted in 1994; most other authoribes wil follow. For this privilege customers will have to fork out 200 quid - for the privilege of paying higher water charges.
So sad Tory ex-Chancelor Nigel Lawson has sold his Loicestorshire house The Old Rectory for a knockdown 239,000 - £100,000 less than the asking price, because of the slump in property prices. Well we all have o pay the price of the recession. Lawson can cheer himself up with 200,000 a year as a non-execulive (le very part time) director of Barclays Bank. He also got 2250,000 for his memoirs.
Maxwell Bonkers workers and pensioners. He was also off his trole according to a new book by the foreign editor of the La /irror Nicholas Davies. Ai his wife's 70th birthday party he made a very long speech, without mentioning he once. Before allowing her to spend a fow thousand pounds from his vast fortune on fumiture, he insisted she agroo to sell all her jewedory - in writing. He put ocks on his kitchen to stop his daughter helping hersel to food. And he sent a long detailed letter to one of his adult sons, containing headings like Friends Amongst Young and Old and Observing the USA and Having Fun.
National Government A BBC2 poll has found strong support for a national government with John Smith as leader, Prince Charles as minister of the environment and Richard Branson as president of the board of trade. God help us.
Eye Injuries A staggering 300,000 working days were lost last ar because of eye injuries, according to Health and Safety Executive. The most common injury was a bum generally caused by welding or cutting without proper hich suffered worst was constructor THE Asylum Bill is a major attack on immigrants and asylum seekers. But, Clarke, ehind the Asylum Bill is a move by all EC governMoves Secretary nian ludicrous visa requirements are an early plication of a policy being throughout the EC.
Preparations for the EC Summit in Edinburgh include widereaching changes in Buropean policy asylum. These have been prepared in great secrecy, but leaks show what is going on.
Draft How to Make have been prepared by ho AcHoc Group Immigration, which in. tice Ministers from the This body meets in secret and is not accountable to any body. Its proposals will be adopted governmental treaty; amendments by national parliaments are effectively impossible.
most leaked draft resolution proposes grounds for TORIES' categorising asylum ap plications as 'manifestly unfounded. People 'who fear violations of their civil Paul rights should if possible remain in their own countries, and seek protection from their ! own authorities. Thisis! Kenneth absurd: how is anyone poitection from thei going 'seek by own authorities if they ap- authoritarian and oppressive regime? adopted A very sinister statement is that intercontinental movements of asylum seckers are seldom necessary for on other words - people from the third world keep out! The 'own continent provision is an entirely new concept documents in dealing with refugees and asylum seekers. The latest draft criteria drop an earlier suggestion that a list be drawn up of countries manentiy "safe. But it EC possibility of drawing suggests there that the by inter- up suen cruerla for as sessing asylum claims remains valid Over 80 per cent of the world's refugees live in poor countries. Fortress ensure that this percentage only goes up.
Published fortnightly Solidarity price £1 Strikers and claimants 25p No 32 21 November, 1992|
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