Liverpool's pierhead Copa slabs,' predicted Liverpool's district melodramatic warning of the make a legal budget on 29 March. Thatcher has different plans.
The government treating Liverpool's firm stand seriously preparing emergency Environment Sestep ro Patrick Jenkin to step allu run the city.
Thatcher is planning pear Labour leader Ne innock on the norns o his own dilemma by asking for all-party such legislation.
auditor, a dire but as yet unknown consequences of the council failing to But Margaret It is Kinnock's position of less than wholehearted support councils - his insistence.
the face of rowing attacks from th that stay Willine aw allows the government to ly a manoeuvre to split the Labour Party ranks.
Despite pressure Liverpool Labour Group voted 36 to six last Friday to continue their strategy, making the most likely nutcome for the 29 March that no budget at all is fixand caving CILl without a legal rate. Takthis into the unknown has not prevented the majority of CONCHOS supporting the only viable stand to protect the city's working class; and it has not prevented Labour candidates in May's city elections standing on the same platform.
The local elections will follow one day after the queen opens the InternaLiverpool - not a good time for the lories to bi slogging it out on the city council's fate.
With the terms Liverpool's rate-making meeting fixed seems unlike v that the battle fo the city's future will end on 29 March. On the con trary, it will be only just beginning Il is not too late for Labour's national leadership to get off the fence and give the local labour movement the support it should must have.
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