last month, the West Midlands.
The events leading to the worsening of Labour's position started with the CLic.
Hat tersley other right wing MPs warillle Linda Bellos and Bernie Grant not to come to birmingham to speak at a Black Section meeting. This focussed naOna media on what woie otic wisc llave Ucci.
virtually unnoticed 1icCulc The racist hounds were then unleashed by the removal . or siaron Alkin candidate for Nottingham East by the April meeting of Labour's national executive. Having released a racist campaign, LAbOlI LICR D OCcCuCu LU reap the results in the form of a strong Tory advance.
A shift to the right cost control of the Birmingham city council in the local elections. It has PHOTO: George Makir uNteies hu Carilin ! Enterorises, PO Box 50, London N1. rimtehy anore Ld. U, Logaa do ON 11 JUNE Labour may well pay a high price for deputy leader Roy Hattersley's witch-hunting attack on the Labour Party Black Section. Polls in most of Britain show Labour advancing in almost the entire country. The one exception is in the West Midlands. Judging from the local government election results and according to several regional surveys cartied out during the general election camleft the Loteshhan tye Tories with fewer two of the parliamentary seats that Labour currently holds.
In the 1983 genera CUI Labour Dorcu» er cent of the vote in th Vest Midlands, comparec per cent for the Tories for the Anaece A pOll In showed Labour down five pol collls with the Tories up two per cent and the Alliance up three Current polls also show Labour still doing badly in the .region.
Dul Yy for Midlands Independent KAC1O shows the threat of Labour losing three senus.
Erdington Walsall South Wolverhampton North East. Channel 4 Demonstrators protest Birmingham council's decision to abandon the race relations and equal opportunities committee SUBSCRIBE 24 issues £10 48 issues £20 survey of Dudley West on Monday 1 soweene Tories had a growing lead in their seat there.
However, far 1 uLii2 campaign designed to counteract the problems that Labour is clearly facing in the West Midlands, Roy Hattersley ana le rigat wing on bir mingham council reacted goverlilell election results by shutting down the council's equal opportunities relations committee.
John Spellar, who briefly held the Birmingham-Northfields seat for Labour up to the 1983 has argued mnal Ladour must auck d wave of hostililty centred UDOI Black Sections Follows the local elections liberation' This where the Tories captured two seats councillors in the constituency.
Having unleashed
capitulated to racist wave with their WIlCO Roy HaEtersley the right in the West Midlands look likely i delive Labour a harsh blow on 11
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paign, support for Labour is seriously dropping in Hattersley's own Birmingham area and throughout