Socialist Challenge1983Socialist Challenge No. 283, 4 March 1983Advice
Socialist Challenge No. 283, 4 March 1983 · p. 2 of the scan · 122 words
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It's obvious that the tactical advice from Street near the end of the campaign paid off. In the last week of by-election campaign recent history' the O'Grady vote collapsed, leaving the field clear for the Tory Party to unite its vote around the Allance candidate and to clinch a crushing defeat for Tatchell.
Tory voters were openly advised 'vote Hughes to Keep Labour's extremist out' O' Grady supporters did likewise and so did many other Labour voters. The derisory vote for all olner showed the whole campaign as a straight tight for or against Throughout the last 15 months, the best ally in the keep-Labour-out paign has been the Labour Party's own leadership. Since Ther dead-body speech of Michael Foot,