Labour council budget march Photograph.

Format:

Image

Contributor:

Mirrorpix, owner.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

England--Liverpool.

Genre:

Photographs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 photograph).

Production:

[United Kingdom?] : Mirrorpix, Barford, 1984.

Summary:

Archival caption: Labour leader John Hamilton (Third from Right) and Derek Hatton (seventh from right) lead 50,000 marchers prior to the Council meeting at the Town Hall to support the Labour group deficit budget proposal. However, no budget from any party gained a majority. It was the Conservative government cuts to the Rate Support Grant for the city which the Militant tendency of the Labour party claimed was unfair. It argued that £30 million was stolen from Liverpool by Margaret Thatcher's government. Derek Hatton and Tony Mulhearn prominent Labour/ Militant supporters argued that the Council should set an illegal deficit budget, spending money on the needs of the people of Liverpool, even if it exceeded the councils income and should demand that central government return the stolen money to balance the books. 29th March 1984.

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Reference: 00541786.