Maxwell pensioners: just the first to lose their pensions cause of his role as Michael HeseltHard faction Inside the cabinet there is a hard right faction, of whom Peter Lilley and John Redwood are key members - With discreet support from Home The hard right faction sees itself in political continuity with Thatcherism, hence its "Euro-sceptical' complexion. Its critique of the likes of Major and Heseltine is that they are not nearly right wing enough.
Redwood's speech declaring that single mothers were a major social "problem' is indicative of the utterly reactionary line of thought purveyed vociferous. by the hard right. Michael Heseltine's heart attack has probably finished him politically, tilting the balance of power in the cabinet. fatuous.
Over the past three months it has appeared that a whole section of the Tory press is frantically hostile to the government. The press campaigns veal their defence in against Norman Lamont and Michael Mates were vitriolic. This has nothing to do with a change of heart, and everything to do with a new right wing agenda.
For the labour movement, these are questions of degree. The whole of the Tory government is reactionary: they all have a totally anti-working class programme. That is ABC.
By-election But should the Tories become more and more unpopular, should they lose the Christchurch by-election, should they have more ministe rial 'accidents', then the clamour to get rid of Major will become more The idea that Thatcherism has run its course, that there are no significant further attacks to be made, is The price of non-resistance will be new and deeper attacks on the working class - and the eventual destruction of the welfare state.