(Tuesday) Even Bill Grundy of Granada commented on Chairman Boyd's heavy 'sleight of hand!’ yesterday, Key resolution in the Education debate was Composite 24 calling for reorganisation of 'secondary education on comprehensive lines and for "public, direct grant and other fee paying schools' to be brought within the state system in the life time of the present Government, Put to the vote on a show of hands, delegates were clearly equally divided, Boyd declared the motion lost and refused repeated calls for a card vote. The Constitution, of course, says that "Voting at Annual Party Conference shall be by cards..." a fact which Boyd cooked up over lunch, Challenged on 'Boyd's Law' by the delegate from Bolton East, he was forced to accept the Conference Arrangements Committee's advice to hold the ballot on Composite 24 at the end of the afternoon session, The whole episode was a salutary lesson in party democracy - and gave a glimpse of the pressures and manoeuvres with which A.E,U. members have to contend.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 8, No. 15, c. 12 October 1967
Carron's Law or Boyd's Bloomer
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