Wilson 1964-70
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- Created on: 08-04-14 09:47
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- Wilson (1) 1964-70
- '64 election:
- Votes L: 2,205,000 C: 2,201,000
- Scandals tainting C Party 63-64 - unemployment over 80,000, 1963 rejected EEC app.
- More youthful image
- "plain talking Yorkshireman"
- Votes L: 2,205,000 C: 2,201,000
- ROY JENKINS
- 1967 abortion act - legal abortion
- Sexual Offences Act 1967 - permitted homosexual relationships
- Divorce Reform Act 1969: allowed divorce on more liberal grounds
- Race Relations Act 65 and 68 - prevented discrim. and racial hatred
- Abolishment of Death Penalty 1969
- 'National Plan' 64
- Creation of Department of Economic Affairs under George Brown
- Aimed at stimulating industrial production + exports
- Modernisation - New Ministry of Technology
- "white heat of technological revolution"
- Modernisation - New Ministry of Technology
- Quietly disbanded in 1967 - Brown loud + drunk
- Issues with Unions
- Inflation was the enemy and wages had to be controlled
- Pay freeze in 66, angered many unions and left of the party
- Strikes over pay in 66 and 67
- "white heat of technology speech" emphasised a divergence from restrictive practises
- 'In place of strife" white paper attempted to curb union powers - 69
- Brenda Castle - 28 day cooling off period before a strike went ahead - strike ballots imposed
- 50 MPs ready to rebel to stop it going into action
- Brenda Castle - 28 day cooling off period before a strike went ahead - strike ballots imposed
- 'In place of strife" white paper attempted to curb union powers - 69
- Pay freeze in 66, angered many unions and left of the party
- Inflation was the enemy and wages had to be controlled
- EEC failure 1967
- application prompted by home economic fears
- feared Britain would be left financially behind
- Opposed by 36 L MPs
- De Gaulle vetoed again
- application prompted by home economic fears
- Stayed out of Vietnam - underrated achievement? - but did support
- Claims of indust. + ec. revolution
- Unfounded?
- created Open University - reducing class divide?
- Balance of trade improved - difference between imports and exports
- Built Post Office (BT) Tower
- Devaluation
- Should have devalued in 64 when the deficit inherited was £400 mil
- X-change rate too high but Lab "not the party of devaluation"
- november 67 - had to devaluate
- £1 = $2.80 to £1 = $2.40
- Made public distrust Wilson - left too late
- £1 = $2.80 to £1 = $2.40
- Should have devalued in 64 when the deficit inherited was £400 mil
- Commonwealth Imm. Act - Feb 68
- limited 'right of return' to Britain for non-white Commonwealth citizens
- due to issues over Kenyan Asians that prompted E Powell - 'rivers of blood'
- limited 'right of return' to Britain for non-white Commonwealth citizens
- '64 election:
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