I'M VERY disappointed at the large swing to the Tores. Part of the reason for this is that people were mis ed.
They were told that there was coing to be an upturn and that the economy was becoming strong again. Unfortunately the people are going to nino out une nard way that this isn't true.
Neither were the issues discussed in the campaign. Labour's campaign in particular was not hard enough or positive enough. ConEmlyn Williams IT GOES without saying Helen John Emlyn Williams, President, S. Wales miners put forward with any vigour.
If the election had been fought properly on these policies. 1 still think that Thatcher could have peen dereated did Labour could have won.
Alter the election we will see a great deal more of the sort of action we have seen at Upper Heyford, as those who atre aware dame oste take action.
The missiles will be stopped by extraparliamentary action.
WE'VE lost the election, but don't be despondent because of that.
We face the massacre destrucLon British mining industry at the hands of the hatcher particularly the growth of nuclear energy.
If more pits close there won't be jobs at other pits for miners to transfer to. It would mean large scale redundancies; our youngsters will be deprived of jobs in our industry.
But we're not going to sit back and let this happen. We RECTO OCI closures redundan• cies Jim Callaghan has done more to damage the image of the Labour Party than any other MP. He is now the only Labour MP left in Cardiff, and he's in good company with Cardiff's three Tor MPs.
conducted by of the lost the policy we're but we ve got on course. convey message . I shall be asking all those who aspire to the parliamentarians have to understand this -battle must start VuL' side parliament, and MPs and trade union executives will have to mirror that Extra-parliamentary activity will be extremel important in the coming period.
In 1970, when Labour lost, many people thought spirit struggle developed which resulted in the downfall of the second following second miners strike in 1974.
We've got to get that spirit after this defeat. The potential for defeating the Tories the establishment lies in places like this among the South Wales miners.
We must make sure that if the TUC won't take the government on, then the might of the industrial unions will be brought into play.
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