from a Glaggow reader The split in Glasgow's Tory forces deepened last week when several Progressive (the name under which the Conservatives have generally fought elections in Glasgow) Councillors indicated that they would like to contest the Parliamentary by-election in Pollok, thus splitting the right-wing vote in retaliation for the Conseravtive Party's recent declaration that they would put forward candidates in the 1968 Glasgow municipal elections, This confusing situation has developed from the Central Office of the Tory Party deciding to put the Glasgow Progressives in their place, Politically, there is no real difference between the two groupings but relations are very strained indeed, After the losses in the 1966 General Election, the Tory Party Central Office decided to put local groupings - both those directly Conservative and those who posture under a variety of other labels - in their place. The Tory chiefs decided, probably correctly, that the choice of Parliamentary candidates by these associations and the generally cliquish atmosphere prevailing in them did damage to the party's national interests, Whilst the Glasgow affair has some local peculairities it fits into this pattern. However, if the threat is carried out it could cost the Tories a much-needed victory.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 7, No. 2, 12 January 1967
Tories Fall Out
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