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Labour party | Militant| What's next for Labour | 1980s Politics | Blackpool | TV Eye | 1982

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A LIVE DEBATE FROM BLACKPOOL ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MILITANT - IN THE LIGHT OF THE LABOUR PARTY'S CONFERENCE DECISION. THE QUESTION:
SHOULD MILITANT MEMBERS NOW BE EXPELLED?
FRANK FIELD MP
TONY MULHEARN - TOXTETH CANDIDATE
AUSTIN MITCHELL MP
First shown: 30/09/1982
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Quote: VT27901

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@PERCYxyz 5 ай бұрын

Austin Mitchell, in reference to candidates with links to Militant, "They are not there to peddle their own ideas that are different from ours". Also Austin Mitchell, "Militant is not being expelled for their policy views". Seems like Labour has had a long term issue with party democracy.

@anthonydiggle2926 Жыл бұрын

I thought Syd Little was on the panel until he was introduced as some guy called Peter Taaffe. 😀

@willduffay2207 Ай бұрын

Kinnock was courageous in tackling Militant, and as a consequence we have a Labour government today.

@lamalama9717 5 күн бұрын

That's a bit of a long bow to draw, isn't it? Long time ago.

@LeighRichards27 Жыл бұрын

frank field (who pulled out of the debate) is and always was a tory

@mattdavies7398 11 ай бұрын

No, he wasn't. He was a Labour man. Militant were a bunch of entryist Trots.

@PERCYxyz 2 ай бұрын

"was" 😉

@MrGoneTroppo 11 ай бұрын

Even the Trots were well-dressed and intelligent back in the day

@Red-Revolution708 4 ай бұрын

Well Trotsky’s writings were Socialist not Communist. He was from the party of the Soviet not the Bolsheviks, the Soviet’s joined the Bolshevik to form a government, a deal was done, because there wouldn’t been a government if the Soviet hadn’t joined, probably an going civil war.

@donny4855 Жыл бұрын

When left Labour backed the workers

@spartacusforlife1508 6 ай бұрын

I had many friends in the militant tendency, went to many militant meetings and was privy to watching them plan taking over constituency party's in Liverpool. I can honestly tell you this. Militant was a party within a party. It's plan was to take over Labour wherever it could and it would never have become as successful as it did without working under the umbrella of labour

@PERCYxyz 5 ай бұрын

@@spartacusforlife1508 Labour has always had factions.

@fishjj76 4 ай бұрын

The workers seemed very happy to expel Millitant.

@haydoncooper3744 3 ай бұрын

Nothing has changed it has simply changed its clothes.

@jasonayres Жыл бұрын

3:30; Rodney Trotter's dad?

@AnonymousCaveman 6 ай бұрын

Militant kept the party in a solid socialist direction... As soon as they were out... Labour took on neoliberal ideology

@1ramises 5 ай бұрын

Of course lab won 3 elections under blair how many elections did your lot win !!?

@Myndir 2 ай бұрын

That was when they started winning significant votes, right?

@markmower1746 Жыл бұрын

Thank God for Thatcher.

@leeshepherd6512 11 ай бұрын

she's dining with the devil

@Fane7 8 ай бұрын

She’s looking up at us 😄

@WorldNews92 Ай бұрын

13:01 So out of touch: Not only was Austin Mitchell a committed Eurosceptic who supported withdrawal from the EEC and then the EU right to the end, but Liverpool, Militant's stronghold, turned out to be the strongest pro-EU part of the country.

@zeddeka 14 күн бұрын

That's certainly not true about Liverpool being the strongest people EU part of the country. Liverpool didn't even make it into the top 20 areas. The top 5 most pro remain areas were Gibraltar, Lambeth, Hackney, Foyle and Harringay.