Blair's line is not dramming up much support from Labour's core activists, up-and-down the country, who went from house to house, week after wook, colecting subs from members and donations trom support ers. Enthusiasts of the Clarion Cyding Club went to the vil. ages, leafets in their sarchel to spread the message Blsir's predicament is that his deserted him and he has deserted the enthusiastic activists.
As Question Time, the Prime Minister boasted that there are Tories and that crime was on remark is based on a false statistic. A recent survey showed that one-in-three in the porest section of the population has, at one time or unlawful acts.
To eliminate the causes of crime, as promised in thew Labour's election manifesto, This can not be done while we have capitalism.
There is the real criminal -apitalism. The number of children living in poverty in Encain. nerented three-fold berwee 1979 and 1996, when the Tories were in power. The sitNew Labour: Recent Unicef freunes show Sritain tourteenth in the poverty league tables. This country: one of the richest holds which subsist on half the county's median earnings than courtnes such as lunkeychange The annual nosh-up of the G8 in Olinawa, did not do much for the world's most deprived people. The wining and dining cost over 6500 mil. provide schooling for 12 milion children. in milions of villages in Afric and other parts of the so-called developing world, they are crying out for the most elementary needs - food, water. sanitation etc. This could 2ll be paid for by relieving these countries of their debts to the World Bank the MF and com mercial banks. What were they promised! Computers, Inkues with the new wint a book in drought stricken Ethiopia or in villages with no electricity. no water, not enough to feed ther tamillics
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