Tight belts
Sir,-“The Press” of August 10 quotes the secretary of the Federa-
tion of Labour, Mr Douglas, as saying, “The F.O.L. would not tighten its belt while the capitalist sectors stomach stuck out” — a mixed-up metaphor. Mr Douglas is not the slimmest of people and his fellow-traveller, Mr McLean, who was at the centre of the Marsden Point dispute and helped to cause the petrol price rise, has a waistline no industrialist could afford. Presumably the present Prime Minister merely has an O.S. socialist girth and all those tubby trade unionists I see on television overhanging their feet have just over-tightened their belts. — Yours, etc., G. STEVEN. August 12, 1984.
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