The 'third man'... and all that BUCK HOUSE TO THE RESCUE

BRITISH ruling begun a series of blatant manoeuvres to up the crisis sweeping every branch of the Establishment.

The great cover-up extends from the Cabinet room, to the Commons, to the Palace, to Scotland Yard, to Fleet Street and to the City of London. It's as if a a mouldy mattress has been turned over and all the bed bugs are scurrying for cover.

The issue is not simply a few snapshots of a Minister's night life. At stake here is the survival of the Heath government and, turthermore, the political authority of the bourgeois system itself.

It is against the background of political and economic crisis that we start to understand the deep anxiety divisions in the ruling class and each group is trying to cover its tracks while blaming someone else. Evidence of deep split THE PATTERN of events is clear enough. While one section of the capitalist Press is obediently keeping its mouth shut, the other section is being hounded and menaced by the out-and-out reactionaries.

Here is evidence of the split within the ruling-class itself.

Collapse

It is a measure of the desperate nature of the crisis that these bludgeoning methods are being used. If the name of the third minister was exposed - and the whole of Whitehall knows who it is - the Heath government would be reduced to a state of collapse.

It is only kept in office by the collaboration of Wilson and the TUC leaders.

They don't want this can and own of Poulson or LambtonJellicoe to come out.

Apart from some confused mutterings from. Mr James Wellbeloved, MP, the Labour Party has been absolutely silent since this latest affair broke.

The silence by Labour opens the door for the most right-wing Tories to come forward with their claims to moral rectitude and decency.

This group knows that for the Tory government to survive there must be the most vicious backlash against the working class.

Harsh To reimpose their authority, they will be driven to inflict harsh blows at the trade unions and the workers' movement.

That is why any time lost in forcing the Tories out is the most treacherous betrayal of all time.

the Queen THE MOST colossal evidence of the cover-up came yesterday when the Tory scandals disappeared from the front pages of every national daily newspaper.

What sensational news drove the continuing Lambton - Jellicoe affair into obscurity? Straight from the Royal warren itsell, the five-week-old engagement of Princess Anne to the walls pork pie heir!

We believe this belated announcement is brought forward at a convenient time, to divert attention away from the government scandal (why keep it a secret for five weeks?).

It is also a welcome coincidence for the Royal Family which it is rumoured is connected, through Angus Ogilvy, with the Lonrho affair.

The 'Daily Mirror' picked up this moth-eaten court announcement and splashed it on Pages One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Seven plus the two centre pages. There's nothing like a royai wedding (or funeral) to enthral the middle class and direct its attention towards the permanence and pageantry of the monarchy.

TENANTS demonstrated yesterday outside the Greater London Council's Locksley district offices, east London, in protest against housing conditions on the Haggerston Estate. ising damp nas forced George Angol, an engineering worker, his wite, Veronica, and their five children, to close up two bedrooms of their flat in Harlowe House.

The whole family Tenants demand better housing conditions Dra Lord Diplock?

IN THE midst of this contrived news, Lord Diplock's Security Commission is undergoing a transformation.

The original terms of reference were to investigate questions of 'security. But yesterday's reports show that Diplock has become a chamber of morals. It is going to find a scapegoat that is well away from the Tory government.

LORD LAMBTON The reports stress that Diplock will inquire into who took the photos Lambton and the motives for taking them'.

In other words, the central issues of the commission are no longer Lambtonaelack on sneak pimps mam ton's words) third but are and other minor players in this drama. FUNGUS NOW HOUSIMON FO FLATS in the living room. Repeale. anneals for action by the malla. their doctor, the medical officer of health for Hackney and local Labour MP, Ron Brown, have failed to move the GLC.

A health visitor and community worker have expressed fears that Mrs Angol may be close to a breakdown because of the conditions under which she and her children are forced to live. THE MOST reactionary circles in the ruling class are now gunning for the Tory Rupert Murdoch and his News of the World' for its part in exposing the Lambton scandal.

It was this paper's revelations that led to Lambton's resignation and criminal charges being brought against him for alleged drug offences.

Public-spirited journalism? Not according to Winston Churchill, Tory MP for Stretford.

'What is particularly unattractive,' said Churchill, is that rich and powerful men in Fleet Street ... should be seeking to make themselves richer by hiring criminals, hijackers, as we have seen in recent weeks, and prostitutes to write their memoirs and to make money out of what they are doing.

If it were to transpire that a national newspaper in this country had conspired with a thief or prostitute to destroy a man's career in politics, I think it would have very grave implications for political life in this country.

'Only the fullest and frankest statement by Mr Rupert Murdoch-the "News of the World" owner-can clear the name of British journalism?

DAMP the family nas informed ine council that they are considerina a court action under the Public Health Act.

Tenants taking part in yesterday's demonstration were demanding immediate rehousing of the Angols, or urgent action to put their flat right. If this was not done by 5 p.m., they said, they would take the matter before the courts.

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