rate-making day, holds out hope of welcoming back the 'sensible of bringing to bear the pressure of local opinion.
With a Labour majority of 51 on a total council of 99. the the crucial.
SCVCL District Labour Party has censured sevel their anti-democratic behaviour in uphold the policy of the Liverpool Labour Party.
But Liverpool has gained a breathing space with Neil Kinnock. While in support of the city council's stand, he appears have changed his position that auvocallllg Liverpool stay within the law by fixing a ou per cent AS LIVERPOOL ENTERS its final week before the District Labour Party still seven' — Labour councillors so dubbed by the press for refusing to vote for an illegal budget — into Labour's fold. Over the weekend, party members held mass canvasses in the rebels' wards in the hope ment's refusal to allocate the £30 million needed by the city. And support from the trade union movement is still coming in.
It seems less likely than ever that 29 March will see an end to Liverpool's confrontation with Thatcher's It is possible no budget Liberal/Tory stitch up will get majority on budget day. With the law as it stands, Thatcher will be unable to step in under SPEAKING AT House of Commons press conference immediately after Monday's meeting between leader Neil Kinnock and a delegation Liverpool City Council Labour Group, Tony Mulhearn, chairperson of Liverpool District made the following statement:
We have now had a discussion with Neil Kinnock in connection with the strategy adopted bi Liverpool Labour Group on the citv council. ported the District Labour Partv anc the labour movement. What received Neil Kinnock was an indication that he recognises fully, sympathises with, the situation that Livernool find themselves in.
He recognises that it is a situation not of the Group's creation, but caused by the action Liberal/Tory who controlled Livernoo for the previous nine years and exacer. bated by the policies of the Tory government.
He sympathises fully with the position that we find ourselves in, and ob viously indicates that if there was government his make the they would aaK! necessary resources available to the crisis that Liverpool is forced to be in at the present time.
June case in the clearest aciegatiol the possible way that there was no attempt to strike a compromise which involved cuts or massive and that reculu alicics the Liverpool Group is determined to pursue this strategy anc out its budge Call which will protect jobs services and avoid to the council chamber on 29 March.
The campaign will continue to mobilise th maximum possible support for that budget on which the Labour Part! the was elected at the May elections.