tinytel's ‘Freedom Group! has been distributing in the middle clras areas of marginal constituencies «4 orenpnid postal reply questionnaire, The questionnaire asks a number of questions, end then goes to say: "If you are not a Member of the Conservative Party are you prepared to join and help persuade your local Association to back this kind of programme?" Which shows that one the aims must be to recruit people to the ‘ginger group! which it declares itself to be in the statement of aims and objectives, working 'to influence the Conservative Party to return to first principles, and calling “apes it to sbandon the eee a bribery of the electorate by offering = form of pink socialism.’
Just what these 'first principles! are can be gleaned by some of the questions: "THE COMMONWEALTH: that determined rioe be made to.draw the Commonwealth, and particularly the white Commonwealth, together agein. oeeeDEFENCE: that Britain works in close harmony with the other Western powers and plays her part in NATO but thet she builds, maintains and controls her own independent nuclenr deterrent...sTRADE UNIONS: that the Government should set up a Royal Commission to enquire into tho stetus and activities of trade unions end pending its report, should institute temporary legislation making it complusory for a secret ballot to be held by an independent (sic) Returning Officer of all the workers concerned in a dispute before the strike can be considered legal. Illegal strikers not to be imprisoned or fined but to forfeit all rights to National Assistance, and to be subject to dismissal without notice or compensation.