I must have been at a different NUT conference debate on Iraq and Palestine from the one your correspondents attended (SR 6) They say that the 'conference was united in opposition to the war..." I believe the motion carried was an unprincipled fudge that the right wing cleverly engineered and which most of the left fell for.
The union officers cut to pieces the original motion submitted by the left on the spurious grounds that it was outside union rules."
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mistake They left in one sentence in the original motion which read: 'Conference condemns the government's failure to operate any kind of ethical policy.' Having recognised their error, they decided to put an amendment to delete this. In order to get the left to accept this, they inserted phrases 'Conference expresses its profound concern about proposals to attack Iraq...* Since Blair, Hoon and others in the same camp also said they shared this To the account of Co-operative Bank, 78-80 Cheapside London EC3V Bank sort code 08-02-28 Account number 70186297
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