[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by arista

"Yes, it has never really had a chance."


It Fecking Did
Rubbish Pilled up on our Streets
1978

Pure Labour then
Anti Europe

You can be very selective at times arista, I recall reading of the horror of the 3 day week and power cuts galore in 1973/early 1974 under Edward Heaths Conservative govt.

Labour gets accused of being in the Unions pockets, yet this was a Labour administration helped to have been brought down by Unions in 1978/9.

I say Labour administration because it wasn't a majority Labour govt,it had the support of the LIberals in Parliament until 1978,it had no overall majority from late 1976 and so in effect was a party in office that could only govern with the will of Parliament as to what it could do.


Also, in 1978/1979 the mass of the Labour party under James Callaghan was in no way anti Europe, we had just had 3 years earlier a vote by the UK to be in Europe by a solid majority.