Well the reason I wouldn't join the SWP was that I didn't agree that aggressive politicisation of people was the right way to go. It sounded far too manipulative for my liking. Propagating your ideas, getting people to get more involved in their trade unions, workplace meetings, encouraging turnouts on picket lines, raising awareness...all great strategies, but even in those days I was picking up from some quarters a vibe that sounds very much like the radicalisation that we hear about these days and condemn. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. The legitimate way to win people over is with argument, not polemic, not rhetoric. If you can't manage it that way, you'd better look to your philosophy. Blair Peach would have agreed with me. In fact, I remember, one night in a pub on Burdett Road after a few pints, that he did!