Labour directions
Sir: Your anonymous Labour candidate , in his admirable piece The Road to Wedgwoodbennistan' (August 3) has identified the real division in British Politics today. It does not lie between Labour and Conservative, with the Liberals somehow holding the middle ground, but between those who uphold the rule of law as vested in parliamentary government and the Marxist left whomant to replace it with something irreversible: a totalitarian socialist state.
The extra-parliamentary power of organised labour has now reached frightening proportions. Already it has a government in its thrall which, largely 'through the Jacobin antics of Mr Benn and the toadying of that so-called parliamentarian Mr Foot, is prepared to ride roughshod over the desires of the electorate on behalf of its Marxist masters.
Time is running out and the crunch must soon come. In the very near future the real democrats, social and otherwise, must draw together in defence of our essential freedoms and with a sense of common purpose meet strength with strength. The survival of the fittest is a brutal fact of history, and sweetness and light, if they are not to be snuffed out, need the stiffening of an iron determination.
C. J. Arthur Belle Vue House, Low Fell, Gatesheadon-Tyne
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