Clever tactics?
Sir: Mr Anthony Lejeune in his article on EEC (October 30) with all the benefit of hindsight advises Mt Wilson that his best course of action would have been to call for a national referendum on EEC entry and announce that the Labour party would oppose entrY without such a referendum. That would have been clever tactics, says Mr Lejeune. So it would be if the public did not remember Labour's legislation for the abolition of the death penalty. That was overwhelmingly disapproved bY public opinion as shown in any number of opinion polls, and the situation is unchanged today for Mr Wilson to have demanded a national referendum on one subject 'because it suited him politically and not another because, in that case it did not suit him, would have been altogether too blatent Mr Lejeune complains that Mr Wilson complains that Mr Wilson's adopted tactics gave the country .0 picture of him "standing on 'Us head in the mire." But in fact this has always been the norm of parliamentary behaviour and the public knows this very well. It is just normal human behaviour the number of people willing to sacrifice their career or prospects, for a principle, has always in every age bean very small. Why pretend otherwise?
D. G. Moss 14 Chatham Grove, Withington, 'Manchester
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