Summary
HAROLD Wilson once told the House of Commons: 'The Labour Party owes far more to Methodism than to Karl Marx.' What he meant was that the pioneers who founded the party were men of high moral standing who believed that they could build a New Jerusalem of upright citizens; of communities that looked after one another and helped to resist the temptations of modern society.
Yet the party they created has today formed a government which, at least in one particular, seems to have abandoned that ambition. It intends to encourage virtually unregulated gambling in every town.See the full content of this document
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Betraying the Values My Party Stood For
The founding fathers would describe that plan in the plain language they always employed - as a betrayal of all that their party once stood for.
I was brought up on stories of my grandfather's obsessive gambling. He was a man of huge talent and immense charm, but the horses destroyed him...See the full content of this document
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