71.   It was further able to influence important sections of the expanding local Labour parties, which grew most rapidly away from the Distressed Areas.

72.   For the first time local Labour parties were given some sense of common identity, which had been lacking on the political wing since the disaffiliation of the ILP.

73.   Communists joined almost any organization which was prepared to have them and some secretly enrolled in local Labour parties from which they were ostensibly excluded.

74.   They were based in the main on constituency Labour parties although Communists and, for a short time, members of the ILP worked within them.

75.   Any electoral agreement with radical Liberals would have produced an embarrassing position for the Labour party.

76.   Alan Winmill says the Labour party has lost direction, but his former colleagues say they wanted him out anyway.

77.   He has done a lot of thinking and he has concluded the labour party is finished for him and I think a lot more people will do the same.

78.   The Labour party have lost their majority which has enabled them to do a lot of stupid things.

79.   Both they and the Labour party are calling for an immediate change in the law to allow them to sell second-hand toys as before.

80.   The Labour party and trade unions say farmworkers need to be protected and need to be treated as a special case.