ingham Constituency Labour Party has struck again with the expulsion of Cir. Stephen Evans from the The motion for his expulsion was passed by 31 votes to 21 at the Constituency's General Management Committee at the recommendation of its Executive Committee. The fight is now on to get Cllr. Evans reinstated, and he is appealing to the National ExVarious charges were laid against Clir.
- some of them downright trivial Above all, he is said to have committed the crime of 'embarrassing the Labour CLLR. STEVE EVANS rarty by ms vanous questions and mo tions at City Council meetings and by his more general political activities.
What, then, does the City Council's Labour Group have cause to be embarrassed about? Last year Cllr, Evans opposed planning permission for a pres tigious new office block near the City centre because a shortage of building labour and materials of the type that woud be used o oute suc a Dock wa already holding up the Council's house building programme. Cir. Evans got invovca in a camoan when eventually The Knives came out — he had the Lab our whip withdrawn and was thus expelled from the City Council's Labour caucFollowing this issue the gulf be IOE НОOP А ВИР СРАТ АА01С 11А3M41. ine nas continually wiened. The general issues of homelessness and the inadequacies of the Council's housing policies were taken up and the Labour Party was embarrassed still further sume mysteries oi some very profitable land deals for obscure companies were probed in Council question time. Motions were put on the Council's agenda about protecting Council emplovees against inflation and redundancies but found no seconder.
Finally, a motion was put down by CIr. Evans 'viewing with alarm' the expenditure cuts by the Government in Its Housine romanc was amended out of existence by John Carroll, leader of the Labour Group, so that it recognised the necessity' of Budget cuts, claiming that they were being made m such a way as to mummase an effect on essential housing programmes' OPPOSED CUTS In one way or another most of the issues taken up by Steve Evans have been related to the issue of public expenditure cuts, and he has linked his campaign for reinstatement to the fight against actual and Impending cuts. He claims that it the Labour group controlling Nottingham City Council really wish to fight for working class interests then they should oppose the cuts, acting in a similar manner to me cay cross councitors and mooilising the support of the working class locally and nationally.
Motions and letters of protest from trade union branches and Constituency Labour Parties against the expulsion should be sent to the leader of Nottingham City Council's Labour Group - John Carroll. 38 Watson Avenue. Bakertield. Nott ingham. Send a copy to Steve Evans, 7 -30 Victoria Centre, Nottingham.