Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 11, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday october Maverick loses seat London up Here is How some prominent personal ties fared in the British Gene r Al election thursday Dick Taverne a labor defect february general election lost it to attractive labor candidate Jackson. He ran under the Label of demo cratic labor. Edward Short Deputy Leader of the labor party held new Castle Central. Earlier., this year he was involved in a controversy Over his connection with a local government official jailed for corruption. Barbara. Castle 63, social services minister and a leading Cabinet minister held the Lancashire Riding of Blackburn which she has represented since 1945. Joan Lestor 43, Vancouver born left Winger holding a Junior. Ministerial Post in the foreign office held her seat at Slough with an in creased majority. Sir Keith Joseph 56, formerly conservative social services minister who has outs Okenly criticized the efficiency of the anti inflation policies of both try and. Labor. Parties held Leeds Northeast. I prime minister Harold. Wit to Liverpool seat of Huyton Bya majority. Comfortable Fie by Carol Kennedy i 0 n a o n up labor women candidates made a Strong showing Early in the British general election returns thursday with labor s first gain going to a political unknown named Margaret Jack son who unseated Dick to Verne at Lincoln. Taverne was a rebel la borate who. Fan successfully in the last election As cratic labor the dark haired attractive miss. Jackson a 31-year-old labor party research worker said she was staggered at winning the seat at her second try with a majority of 984. Veteran Barbara Castle 63 year old social services min ister in the last government increased her vote in the Lancashire Riding Oli Blackburn which she has represented since 1945. Mrs. V i o u s 1 y held transport and labor portfolios and is a Lead ing Cabinet member. Joan Lestor the bouncy Vancouver born -.1 e f Winger who held a junion minister s Post ins. Office bumped majority in Eton and Slough feat she his rna based ejection v Andler Veteran left mrs. Renee Short held Wolverhampton Northeast. With a it slightly majority. One of the Campaign s most colourful characters women s rights candidate or Una Kroll was crushed in the suburban Riding of Button and Cheam which went heavily tory or. Kroll Brash entert Taining Campaign based on the old time Only 298 votes arid lost her de posit. Most Early seats declared were labor strongholds in the Urban Ridings but one of the first conservative. Casualties was mrs. G Fenner former. Tory spokesman on prices who was unseated at Rochester and Chatham by labor lecturer Robert bean. The first tory woman candidate returned was mrs. Sally Openheim in Gloucester. One spectacular labor gain was the unseating of the tory s former Junior minister. Lord Bauniel at Welwyn and Hatfield by labor s pretty Helene Lewerk a 25-year-old social worker fighting her second election. Home Secretary Roy Jen. 53, former Chancellor of the exchequer arid Leader 01 labor s pro common Maricl faction retained Al Birmingham Stechford " Robert Carr 47, former tory Home Secretary and Shadow Chancellor of the exchequer held Sutton Carshalton conservatives. R Liber Al Jeremy Thorpe 45, held Devon North with conservative Leader Edward Heath was comfortably reeled de but with a reduced majority in Sidcup. Christopher Mayhew who crossed the floor of the House from labor to the liberals was Defeated by a conserva be in bidding for the Bath constituency. For the Liberal party. Cyril Smith Gargantuan and colourful Liberal held his seat at Rochdale which he won from. Labor at a 1972 Bielec Tion. Employment minister Michael foot 61, eloquent Leader of labor s left Wing Back benches until his Cabinet appointment last held the late Nye Sevan s old seat of Ebby Vale. Peter Shore 50, outs Okenly anti common Market Trade minister retained Stephhen for lab. Anthony Wedgwood Henri 49, controversial Industry minister who favors widespread nationalization was re elected in Bristol Southeast for labor. Winston Churchill grandson if Britain s second world War Leader was re elected to lament on his 34th birthday thursday. polled votes against for. A la borate opponent in Trelford an i n d u s t r i a 1 suburb of Man Chester. F o r e i g James Callaghan held. Cardiff Southeast for labor. Reg Prentice 51, education won Newham Northeast for labor in doing so Vanessa red g r a v e who represented the trotskyite workers revolutionary party. Veteran Laberite Harry Selby Wuh Glasgow gov Anand thus inflicted a second Succes Sive air scottish nation Alist Marge Macdonald. Votes Don t i ddts to seats by John hat London up the labor gets Mai Prity j j continued Tion. But i must Point out that be ship the Mon Market. Could feel Gral fiet Over the downfall of. The two renegades. But development in Scotland and Wales were not so pleasing to Wilson s follow ers. Though initial gains scored by the scottish National party sep came at the expense of the tories a prediction that the nationalists might emerge from the election with possibly a dozen seats was bound to arouse fears among All their opponents about the apparently of the separatist movement. North of the Border. Yet the party s performance this time was not As spectacular As some had anticipated. The sep had seven seats in the last House while the Welsh no. But plaid Cymru had As of thursday night strengthened its parliamentary footing at immediately labor s expense. The period election last february proved getting the most. A British election tee a parly the a u the 5. The can Mons. In by in Anil As in Ings inevitably hold. Differing numbers of voters. So a party might win a com Mons seat. By polling votes in one. While an other1 could win the seat Down the Road with Only votes. In the feb. 28 general Tion the conservatives won slightly More than 13.9 Mph votes and took 296 Ridings but labor won Only 11.6 Mil lion votes for 301 Ridings. The. Riding system hits the third running. Liberals hardest. If commons seats were awarded according to their proportion of the total vote of 31.3 million they would have won 123-seats in the 635-s eat House with their six million votes in fact they got Only 14 seats. That explains Liber als have been the loudest sup porters of proportional repro Power in line with the popular vote. It also helps to explain Why pre election Public opinion polls in the last two campaigns have turned out wrong in predicting which party will form the gov e r e n t. The Gap Between winning votes and winning seats has been too wide. Ahead is certain to feature frantic speculation about the future of Heath who prior to thursday had lost two elections to Wilson while winning be. Reporters repeatedly pressed of members of the tory party thursday night about their feelings toward Heath and the Ype of Campaign he had con designed to show the former prime minister As a conciliatory figure interested above All in. A government of National Robert former tory lome Secretary displayed irritation when interrogated about the future of the conservative leadership. While Carr insisted he remained Loyal to Heath party chairman William Whitelaw admitted he Felt a Little disappointed Over what happened in the election. , tipped As a possible successor to. Heath hailed the an absolutely straight Forward Man whose Campaign policy of Tell ing what tories considered the truth about Britain s crucial problems would one Day be vindicated. Before the there were re ports of discontent among some conservatives Over the. Emphasis placed by Heath on the idea a1 hazy National Union concept which lacked any specific policy promises and was even unclear As to whether it actually involved formation of. A coalition government. As election results t rolled in thursday night Heath smilingly Louk of tory setbacks and told reporters he did t think., the vote necessarily meant rejection of Tobx National Union principle. For his part Wilson conceded he would have liked a her. Tier parliamentary margin adding that while he Felt gratified at some of the result he was disappointed in one computer prediction estimated his Lar vote night finally constitute Only 40 or 41 per cent of the. Total. By s o Nie commentators at extra Brake on any radically socialist aspirations b o r might Harbor. In any. Wasfi the conserva Tive supporting asks in a gloomy editorial today a by socialist policies. Such evidence Avail suggests that the Oday whether the. Electorate iad really voted for. Sweeping1 Able t r u 1 y socialist collectivist aspects of the contemporary l Abor party were not what the majority v o t e d the Telegraph argues. These were minimized and kept away from the television cameras by or. the biggest source of anxiety in Britain remains inflation a topic of heated debate Between the parties during the Campaign which was the second election race this year. Wilson based la s anti inflation policy on the principal of a social contract Between government and Trade unions in which worker wage restraint ton meets his Waterloo by Hugh a. Mulligan London a the Duke of Wellington drove the sound truck. The Duchess ran the local tory Headquarters. But their son the marquess of Douro met his thursday at the hands a former railway clerk lady Jane Wellesley. Frequently seen in. The company of Prince Charles kept a tight rein on her Emp hons and her. Pet australian terrier Napoleon when the town clerk read the results show i n g her brother Charles Douro had been buried under a labor landslide in his first attempt to win a scat in parliament. Douro wearing a Blue conservative Rosette on his ele a n t Chesterfield Topcoat took the microphone and graciously conceded his defeat in Islington North a London suburb by labor candidate Michael o Haloran to Only Nanny who had All four of the disk e a children and a lib t spent the Day making Tea and sandwiches at c a m p a i g n Headquarters wept loudly into her kerchief. She wanted to. See Young Charles Rise to prime minister one Day like his great great great grandma the first Duke. For Oxford bred Charles Douro a company director at 29, the Battle was lost on the playing Fields of Islington a Public housing projects. Still the locals had never witnessed like it. There was lady Jane ringing doorbells in faded Blue jeans and a labor Turtleneck sweater. There was the marquess standing up to a Brassy voiced female heckler you Ain t never been Down a Coal mine in your have you my 1 there was the Duchess Manning a Battery of Tele phones directing her cohorts on election night to Knock up every available which is British for waking them up and making sure that they go to the polling station. And there was the Duke himself driving the Lan drover from the ancestral estate in Hampshire with the sound gear on the roof beamed to maximum volume to drown out labor s Mobile s All they la let me do in the Ruddy he Al most outlasted the sound truck. I can t even vote you know. In this country Peers criminals and lunatics Are banned from would be forthcoming in sex for social ref Orr legis lation. Wilson made much of the Stormy confrontations Between the unions and the government when Heath was prime min ister. It was during the climatic crisis produced by this conflict last Winter that Heath Callic the first of this year s elections. Though it commanded an Over All commons majority be fore the feb. 28 Heath s party ended up second to labor in the election standing. And after the try Leader failed to woo the liberals into a coalition he gave Way to minority adm Nistra on thursday night Wilson put the accent on ending National divisions in the face of economic adversity. We All have a Job by what Ever Means we think is right to unite the country to fight this he said. Wilson s left Wing Secretary of state for Tony Benu today promised a pro Gram of Radical socialist change will be implemented in the next one thing Wilson will do is try to intensify renegotiation of Britain of membership in the european common mar Ket hoping to Complete this Early next year. He has pledged to let Britain decide by ballot Box within 12 months whether to remain in the common Market. Faced with horrendous eco nomic problems excluding an annual inflation rate of 17 per cent and an expected foreign Trade loss this year of Bil lion Wilson offered the country a controversial package of Rad the key element is the fundamental redistribution of the National wealth in. Favor of poorer labor would tax annually wealthy families Worth More than its nationalization program key industries under state control among them the ports aerospace shipbuilding and North sea Oil and Gas. All three major party Lead ers won their Comfort Able margins. Wilson was returned in his constituency at Huyton a suburb of Liverpool. The prime minister s slightly increased plurality reflected the trend across the country. Heath was returned with votes trimmed off his Plu r a 1 i t y at Sidcup in Kent Thorpe who mounted an ener Getic. Lost off his plurality in North Devon. Party standing at dissolution of the last parliament labor 297 conservative 295 Liberal 15 scottish National party 7 plaid Independent labor 1 democratic labor United Ulster unionist 7 Ulster Vanguard 3 protestant unionist democratic and labor party 1 speaker and Noh voting deputies 3 a Hani seen continued Gwynfor Evans has been pres Dent of the party since 1945 and his win showed Clear Evi Dence of tactical voting by both conservative and Liberal voters a. In results from other parts of he country. In Lincoln the Sage of social Democrat Dick Taverne came o a close As the official la Jor candidate narrowly de rated him. He went Down by less than votes after win Ning one by election and one eneral election against his Lormer party. Another fired labor candidate Eddie Griffiths of Shefield Brightside failed to de. Feat the official labor candidate. Edward Heath for whom this defeat views an Early move within his party to replace him As Leader told a television interviewer the Shadow of february has been Over this election. This was a reference to the Larsh restrictions of the three Day week imposed by Heath himself in his major Confron tation within the miners. He stuck to his Campaign thesis that a majority for the labor party will be fatal to his the opinion polls were again proved inaccurate As the sup posed swing to labor of up to 40.5 per cent actually turned out to be nearer two per cent. A steady trickle of tory mar Ginal seats fell to labor under the influence of such a swing. It was a disappointing night for the liberals who failed in their hoped for communists meet Warsaw a communist parties from Eastern and Western Europe will. Hold a consultative meeting oct. 16 in Warsaw the official polish news Agency Pap reported thursday. 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