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A tribute for ctalwart Sid

... ough. When the boy from the valleys was cramming for his degree Sid was combining a career as a nurse with ensuring the Socialist flag was kept flying over Kettering. @ And when the Labour leader wucum'.zhhwfiulmilk tuthnl- P for “gn Sid wasa player on ...

Opposition to new Poll Tax

... cannot justify the “horrific rate increase of 26% above the Government's Poll Tax target, horrific being his own word. The Socialist controlled Derbyshire County Council has squandered ratepayers’ money, with the clear intention of ensuring a swingeing rate ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1990
Newspaper: Matlock Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 426 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Letters fo the Fditer D IREEIAVIIM Pennies from heaven weren’t warned or piein the sky?

... truth was known there are still over three million out of work. ANGRY VOTER, (Hucknall). Name and address supplied. AS a socialist, | find MAN‘?’E debate seems to exist Nllummm} cal viewpoints (something that is lacking in the Nottingham Evening Post.) ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1990
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

- %V;}RICK Labour MP rown is pwn‘ to fight de-selection as his party’s candidate in the rock-solid Edinburgh ..

... . After t.lho decision — taken at last 's constituency mo::fi: that lasted barely 50 minutes’ — he said: “Ron Brown is a socialist, and always will be.” The decision to drop the 49-year-old MP was expected after votes of no confidence by constituency branches ...

Peter Anderson

... Peter Anderson challenger at last May's elections. Mr Finding's loss has cut Tory ranks to 33. Socialists have 31 councillors, Social/Liberal Democrats have two and there is one Independent — Burton Latimer's Albert Morby. If Labour win the by-election ...

Latiers 4o e 3eliter ‘YOU’VE BEEN HERE TOO LONGY’

... record of ‘cock ups Maggie, come back Wat Tyler and John Ball, perhaps some Mayor may rid you Tories of these turbulent socialists. Murder by hanging or slow mental strangulation, is in my book, still murder my dear. In 1987, Nigel (spend some time with ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1990
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Groups united by a common goal

... has been a conflict on matters relating to the progress of Corby. “The council makes decisions which are remarkable for a socialist council — like the decision to sell houses, which had quite an effect on the housing market in Corby. “It set the housing ...

Word of caution for young voters

... should heed the accounts of the antics that accompanied the aberration of socialist government, the humiliation which the country suffered and the real hardship which socialist policies imposed on ordinary men and women. Under Labour, restrictions on ...

by John Donaldson

... contribution.” e Later Cllr Constable said: “I was just making the point that I think we are reaping the benefits of the socialist-based attitude of the 60s and 70s which was freedom of speech, freedom of expression, antiestablishment. “And now we are ...

No nastiness

... and who believed the Greens were the hope of the future for this country. Mr Peck said that while the Green Party was not socialist, it had a wide programme, the overwheiming bulk of which he agreed with. ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1990
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COUNCILLOR John Peck has left the Communist Party to join the Green Party. He is mistaken. We anticipate that ..

... their struggles to end the ?ross inequalities which exist throughout our society. He admits that the Green Party is not Socialist. The pollution of our planet is the product of two centuries of capitalism based on short term profit-making. Capitalism ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1990
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 6 | Tags: none