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[unclear: xriil] Credit has always tried to avoid normal forms of political [unclear: acterisation.] As recently as two years a League spokesperson told Vic [unclear: ents] at a forum that Socred did not [unclear: be] a unified coherent social policy. This because, as a League, the common [unclear: Dr] in the membership was fidelity to the [unclear: all] policies. League members covered a [unclear: range] of political and social thought, [unclear: vert] told.

[unclear: s] a viable political force, Socred doesn't end that anymore. Every candidate who [unclear: i] ever stood in Wellington region has noted reactionary ideas: the unions [unclear: lid] be made to realise that the interests [unclear: usiness] are their interests; the state [unclear: ild] only help those who help themselves [unclear: beneficaries] by definition do not help [unclear: nselves]); abortion is a crime and the [unclear: lan's] place is in the home, etc, etc. [unclear: y] leader Bruce Beetham and the [unclear: istchurch] Central candidate in the by- [unclear: tion], Heffernan, share these views.

[unclear: xred] draws it support, in town and [unclear: itry], from small business people, [unclear: pkeepers], small farmers, the people are being squeezed out as the New [unclear: iland] economy gets further [unclear: lopolised]. In other parts of the world, [unclear: i] parties have come to prominence in a of severe economic repression, and [unclear: e] tended to fall prey to those on the [unclear: rne] right wing.

[unclear: nice] Beetham is no Adolf Hitler. Far [unclear: n] it. But the promises of overcoming the [unclear: nglehold] of monopolies, keeping the [unclear: 5ns] in their place, and making life [unclear: an] again for the people caught in the [unclear: die] are all too familiar. There was a programme shown on West German television recently, in which people reminisced about exactly these things that had attracted them to the Nazi Party.