 In 1947 Bessie was elected to the Labour Party 's National Executive Committee ( NEC ) . She was generally identified with the left wing of the party , and was for a time associated with a grouping known as the " Socialist Fellowship " , which espoused a programme of colonial freedom , workers ' control and reduced arms expenditure . She resigned from the Fellowship in 1950 , along with fellow @-@ MPs Fenner Brockway and Ellis Smith , when it condemned the United Nations intervention in the Korean War . She continued her wholehearted campaigning on behalf of the poorest in the country , pleading with parliament to " remember the queues outside the Poor Relief offices " , and castigating the " New Look " fashion of 1948 as wasteful , " the ridiculous whim of idle people " . Bessie 's fiery reputation did not harm her electorally ; in the February 1950 general election , with the Exchange constituency greatly increased by boundary changes , her majority rose to 5 @,@ 344 . Nationally Labour lost 76 seats , and its parliamentary majority was reduced to five . Attlee 's second government was short @-@ lived ; in the October 1951 general election Bessie increased her personal majority again , to 6 @,@ 834 , but nationally Labour was defeated by the Conservatives and went into opposition . 
