Lib-Lab pact
Sir: From the columns of a weekly newspaper, circa 1962:
'There Will be no Lib-Lab election pact because "politics are a matter of principle and not a cynical exercise in electoral horse trading", said Labour Party chairman Harold Wilson yesterday. He told the annual conference of the Scottish Labour Party at Rothesay: -We reject that Lib-Lab pact as years ago we rejected proposals for a Labour-Communist pact. The Labour movement is more than a political party. It is a moral crusade or it is nothing".'
Most appropriately this pious declaration appeared in the public prints on April Fool's Day. The present prime minister's adherence to principle is, it seems, even less pronounced than that of his illustrious predecessor.
J. D. Godber 22 Sandcross Lane, Reigate, Surrey .
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