ligrtel's 'Freedom Group' has been distributing in the middle clas areas of marginal constituencies a pre-paid postal reply auEetionyeeys The questionnaire asks a number of questions, and then goes to says If you are not a Member of the Conservative Party are you prepared to join a 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 object= ives, working 'to influence the Conservative Party to return to first principles, and calling upon it to abandon the attempted bribery of the electorate by offering e form of pink socialism.'
Just what these 'first principles' are can be gleaned by some of the questions: "THE COMMONWEALTH: that determined attempts be made to.draw the Commonwealth, and particularly the white Commonwealth, together again. eeeeDEFENCE: that Britain works in close harmony with the other Western powers and plays her part in NATO but that she builds, maintains and controls her own independent nuclesr deterrent....eTRADE UNIONS: that the Government should set up a Royal Commission to enquire into the status and activities of trade unions and 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. llegal strikers not to be imprisoned or fined but to forfeit ell rights to National Assistance, and to be subject to dismissal without nctice or compensations WELFARE STATE: That the excesses of the Welfare State should be curbedee.