this exploit as ' hi-jacking.'
Marc A ttwoodWood 44 Munster (Westfalen), Luhnstiege 8/9 Federal Republic of Germany.
Stange bedfellows
Sir: The passing of the 1832 Reform Bill was thought by many to be the end of an era. But those who opposed it in Parliament were not united when the Bill became law; of the extreme Tories, some still thought of returning to old times, while their more perceptive and realistic colleagues under Wellington accepted the new structure, aiming to make the best use of it in the defence of conservative interests,
1973 affords an interesting, though not exact parallel. The Tory right, notably the rebel element in the Monday Club, the larger part of the Labour Party, and the TUC, who last week voted by a small majority to continue their boycott of Common Market institutions, join in refusing to recognise an accomplished fact.
Monday Club rebels and the TUC make strange bedfellows. Perhaps the Duke of Wellington would have found it vaguely amusing to see " left and right unite to fight.'
Nigel Saul President, Oxford University Monday Club, Hertford College, Oxford.
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