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Europe £24 Airmail £34 (Double these rates for multi-reader institutions) THE TORY Party in Tottenham is running a dirty campaign against Labour candidate Bernie Grant. But its main effect has been to create a split within the Tories own ranks.
Former Tory councillor for Haringey, Michael Conalt alolie didate in the local elections Sushil Vig, are publicly callfor a vote for Alliance's parliamențary candidate Stuart Etherington Vig told the Hornsey Journal last week: '1 may be forced to vote for him after 27 years as a Tory to try and Grant out.' Vig has already contacted "severa) hundred hardcore Tories who, he claims, will do likewise.
But the split among the in Tottenham isn't a straight forward case of tactical voting. In the last election the Tories over 13,000 votes to Liberals 6000.
The split from the fact that the PPC for their area, ervT. phy, is an extreme winger. Coney ToHa Hornsey Journal: 'He treats people like dirt. Ihe way he the behaves towards there was always going to be a backlash. And now here it Murphy, however, more than just unpleasant. He has a track-recoro as an out-and-out racist.
During the recent local lection :Murphy → who denies hes a racist - ci culated a leaflet showing a white man being hit on the head, next to a Broadwater Farm Estate sign. slogan read: "You are about mugged polled Another of his leaflets callthe ed for 'Dirt, Violence, Filth, Theft Gypsies out arises rouental Writing in The Voice of Mark right unearthed some of Mur. Ine phy's ulsavUu. y DaDE June 1986 he turned up uninvited to a race equality people committee meellng racially abused councillor and Black Section supporter Makanji.
According to Makanji's solicitor, quoted in Harrison's article, Murphy said: "Your brain comes from the sewer apartheid"
In May 19771 was fro Wood Green Tory gi The 'disruptive and table' behaviour. Li here same year he suspended from the London Cons of Association, by a 33 More recently I was suspended fror Harrison cil meetings after he cushion al the In • SLVE woman councillor phy's written "apol the Haringey chief e officer said he was s can l all lae lay Narendra and square in th where he deserved i Murphy's cand so far has divided t Tories. But, needles Murphy has nol deserve repudiated by the n Tories