Loony Left Wing Spot

The loony left is a pejorative term to describe those considered to be politically far left. The term was widely used in the campaign for the 1987 general election and subsequently both by the Conservative Party and by British newspapers that supported the Conservatives as well as by more moderate factions within the Labour movement to refer to the activities of more militantly left-wing politicians that they believed moderate voters would perceive as extreme or unreasonable. The label was directed at the policies and actions of some Labour controlled inner-city councils and some Labour Party politicians. Although the labels hard left and soft left reflected a genuine political division within the Labour Party, loony left was by far the more often used label than either. While academics have depicted the era as of the "new urban left" (such as the rate-capping rebellion) as a throwback to earlier municipal militancy (e.g. Poplarism), wider media coverage tended to focus on the personalities of city leaders such as the Greater London Council's Ken Livingstone and Liverpool's Derek Hatton.

Links to Peel
Peel used the term Loony Left Wing Spot as a sarcastic remark in 1986 and highlighted an artist or track that had left wing connotations on his programmes. It seemed he started the feature in spring 1986, but abandoned it sometime in the summer of that year.

List of records
Below is the list of records on his shows that he called his loony left wing spot:
 * Hard Left Video (Tackhead featuring Gary Clail) March 1986: Jackson Browne: Lives In The Balance (LP - Lives In The Balance) Asylum
 * 25 March 1986: Jackson Browne: Lawless Avenues (LP - Lives In The Balance) Asylum
 * 23 April 1986: Gary Clail And Tackhead: Hard Left (12") World
 * 06 May 1986: Bible: Red Flag (LP - Walking The Ghost Back Home) Backs
 * 14 May 1986: Redskins: It Can Be Done (7") Decca