The Chance to Vote I had rather expected a number
of replies to my paragraph the other day on the decline of CND. Of course, it is quite natural that members of the movement should dispute my estimate of its present situation — they probably regard me with grave suspicion at the best of times, so why should they believe me to be right about this? I would suggest to them, however, that there is one perfectly good way of finding out which of us is right about the degree of support for CND in the country. That is simply for them to put up candidates at selected by-elections. This would make the position both clearer and less subject to dispute. CND, after all. advocates policies notably different from those of all three major political parties: it should give the electorate a chance to decide whether it wishes to choose those policies by the normal machinery of a democracy. Then we should know where we are.
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