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Lies and corruption the truth about Toryism

By Gerry Healy

The Newsletter, vol. 7 no. 302, 15 June 1963 · scan pages 1, 2

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TORIES MUST GO NOW!

Vol. 7, No. 302 •HE Profumo scandal has blown the lid off Tory Britain. The State, Parliament and the Church are all involved.

The secret police, Mis, responsible only to the Prime Minister, who have known all about Mr. Profumo since 1961, kept their mouths shut. Scotland Yard has charged Dr. Ward, a one-time tenant of the Astor millionaires, with living 'wholly or partly on immoral earnings"

Thus one section of the police force keep another section in the dark about what is going on.

Top Tory ministers gathered in the early hours of the morning of March 21 to work out the most plausible lying formula to explain away ihe exploits of Mr. Profumo.

Blasted The Church through Mervyn Stockwood mutters something about 'morals in high places whilst all the moral principles of the class which it has so long defended are being blasted to pieces in every edition of the Fleet Street press.

Throughout all these shattering events, more and more evidence is brought to light which proves conclusively that the ruling class and the criminal underworld rub shoulders in the same circles.

Labour leaders such as Harold Wilson tell us that the Profumo scandal is not a moral question. This is the language of humbugs and hypocrites. It is a moral question—a question MACMILLAN: HE MUST HAVE KNOWN of class morality. * Tory societyCommodity The Profumo-Keeler scandal concerns class power, class politics and class morals, where with the lid off sex is a commodity and where so-called family life is a relic pps. 2 & 3 of the Victorian era. The degeneration revealed by this episode is a product of a class system which has long ago outlived its usefulness. * The Press and The curtain has been drawn aside to reveal the lives of a section of the parasites who live and rule by the exploitation of labour. While millions of the crisis • page 4 working people toil for low wages and hundreds of Saturday, June 15, 1963 thousands starve on the dole, the ruling class lives it up and strives for the greatest possible happiness at the expense of the majority of the people.

The State with its police force is an instrument of the capitalist class. The Church is an instrument of the State because it fights to create a system of abstract morality, such as sanctity of home and family life, to justify the rule of this class.

Parliament is an instrument of the State dominated by the same breed of self-confessed liars as Profumo.

Disarray Meanwhile, the Tory Party is in disarray. Like a couple of woodpeckers on their country estates, Lords Home and Lambton feverishly peck away at the Tory Cabinet. Their anxiety springs from the knowledge that, since they rest on the same foundations, what is going to happen if they are successful in dislodging Macmillan?

Lord Hailsham, without his bell, rushes grimly from one ministry to another.

Out in the country, where the church-going Tory little people live, there have been some startling goings-on. Over last week-end, at the opening ceremonies of the church fetes, tombola shows and bran tub treasure hunts, hosts of backbench Tory MPs, who have never spoken in Parliament in their lives, have been letting fly at Macmillan.

As one old dowager put it: *We just can't believe in anyone any more."

Defence Harold Wilson, Labour's leader says it is a question of defencedefence of what?

What is this ex-boy scout talking about?

Defence today is the defence of capitalist Britain, a defence of the right of Profumo's class morality to continue. Defence, like Tory morality, is a class question. Everyone has been waiting for George Brown, the loud-mouthed member of Parliament for Belper, to speak up. When it comes to witch-hunting Young Socialists, Brown is right on top of the job.

Long ago the 'Daily Mirror", recognising his talents, made him one of its industrial advisers.

When the big boss of the Mirror, Cecil King, took over the Odhams Press group, he had several private discussions with the late Hugh Gaitskell and George Brown.

Fourpence Were the 'moral issues' during these discussions?

The Daily Mirror ranked amongst Mr. Gaitskell's most ardent supporters. He was their man.

Now listen to what it has to say about the Labour Party and the Profumo case:

*The Labour Opposition is prudent to concern itself with national security rather than private behaviour.

*Dammit, it is only half a year ago since a boy of sixteen was freed at the Old Bailey after a judge reduced a charge of murder to manslaughter, and a jury said "not guilty" without hearing the defence.

'A man had made homosexual advances to the boy. The boy picked up a decanter, hit him on the head, and killed him.

The man who died was Mr.

George Ivor Brinham, Chairman of the Labour Party in the year 1959 to 1960.

*Yes, the less said about political morals the better."

['Daily Mirror' *, June Worthy?

Not very complimentary, is it Mr. Brown? One wonders if the labourer is any longer worthy of his hire.

Cecil King is, of course, giving Mr. Wilson his marching orders.

He says, there are too many skeletons in your cupboard, so keep your mouth shut and concern yourself with the defence of the right to keep the cupboard doors closed on the skeletons.

The 'Daily Mirror' is, in fact, twisting the arms of the Labour leadership behind its back. It poses as the apostle of purity in Fleet Street of all places, like a drunken parson in a Tory brothel.

Mr. Brinham was the nominee of Gaitskell and Brown for the chairmanship of the Labour back page, col. / → HAROLD WILSON Ex-Boy Scout worried about defence.

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Mr. Macleod, rose before a packed house and begged leave to make a personal statement. Such a statement, in parliamentary terms, is extremely rare, con-

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