James Callaghan's Premiership 1976 - 1979
A short summary of James Callaghan's premiership.
- Created by: B_R_D
- Created on: 28-03-14 15:17
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- James Callaghan's Premiership 1976 - 1979
- Plagued by union troubles
- 68% rise in days lost to strikes
- Fireman's strike, Grunwick photographers, Ford motors, lorry drivers
- Unions become more militant
- Should have called an election in '89 but waited on too long
- Winter of Discontent
- Strikes organised to attract media attention; bodies unburied, rubbish uncollected
- Callaghan refused to acknowledge a crisis; Sun headline "Crisis, what crisis?"
- Relaxed style of leadership was at odds with Thatcher's dynamism, which was, perhaps, seen as what Britain needed
- Plagued by union troubles
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