How ethical former chief executive of warcle storeys Pi - manutac can you get? turers of parachutes and Army inflacables: OBEs go to Phillip This column does not usually Lee, former managing director take much interest in the so- of British Aerospace Royal called honours list. drawn up to Indonesia - and Ann Minto, however, making an exception Personnel Director of arms in the case of the recent mil noustry suppect, smith Industries. The Right Honourable Tony Probably as a tribute to those Blair has seized the opportunity to give a boost to New ment for whom Aldermarston Labour's much vaunted ethical meant CND. Michael Rover.
production Manager of the noticeable for the number of Aldermarston atomic weapons weapon suppliers and manuThis by no means concludes awarded with these ludicrous the list, but this is probably bawbles. Appointed as Commander of enowen to asare our relder that the arms trade is safe in the (non-existent) British the hands of New Labour: Empire (CBE) Is Brian Taylor, New Labour has a problem. Some of its welithier support, es are no longer forking out a hey used to. Shortage of fund the 1930s and 40s there were very few multi-milionaires figure cheques to supplement he old Labour Party's coffers. How did it manage?
Of course, the biggest contri butions came from the Trade Unions and the Co-operatives who were closely banded with the labour Party politica y and, unlike today, had some say in framing the party's pollcies. But this was supplemented by thousands of send a boy to Eton: (25.000 to send someone to prison for what, former lory minister Douglas Hurd denounced as "an expensive way of making bad people worse." Yee Jack Straw boasts - yes. sands have been imprisoned since the election. three people in England have some criminal record. This last Poverty is the main cause of crime - except, of course, in the hisher echeions of criminal activity - insider speculation on the Stock Exchange; tax frauds: pilfering employees pension funds and so on, and, of course, the biggest crime of all and the real root of the matter - the exploitation of labour, the its squeezed out of th workers!
New Labour's cash problem