No-confidence vote in Avon
Sir,—Mrs Batchelor, M.P. for Avon, claims that: Mr Piesse and his followers on the electorate committee supported the no-confid-ence vote against her. The least we should be able to expect of our M.P. is accuracy. 1. I did not support the no-confidence vote. 2.1 do not have followers on the committee. The persons she so describes are loyal members of the Labour Party who expressed abhorrence at their representative associating with a person who was betraying the Labour Party and its principles by voting with the Government in moves attacking working people. Mrs Batchelor was not only indiscreet in her public association with a renegade, but also chose to publicise criticism made of her for this action by her own electorate committee. If she must poke a stick into a wasps’ nest, she cannot bleat if she gets stung.—Yours, etc., PAUL PIESSE. February 29, 1984.
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