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Blog Source: openeuropeblog.blogspot.com
| 9 days ago
Both David Cameron and Chancellor Merkel would therefore be playing with fire if they tried to buy off the British electorate with trivial concessions, as Harold Wilson did in 1975. The public won't wear it and Germany would risk finishing off
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Blog Source: spoilsofoffice.blogspot.com
| 9 days ago
In 1975 just over 67% of voters supported Harold Wilson's Labour government's campaign to stay in the EEC. So what would happen if a referendum were held today? The latest YouGov (April 2013) polling puts the margin at 43-35%, with ...
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Blog Source: theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com
| 9 days ago
At the same time they revel in the allegations that recent governments have been under suspicion from the State's own secret services because Harold Wilson was thought to be a Moscow agent, and that the service chiefs were planning a ...
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Blog Source: tvrnaltervezs.blogspot.com
| 14 days ago
Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are the political titans of the era that changed flygbussarna Britain. To flygbussarna coincide with the opening of the new Wales Coast Path in May this year, the new series of Bro on S4C will follow this coastal ...
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Blog Source: bellacaledonia.org.uk
| 25 days ago
On 19th November 1967 Prime Minister Harold Wilson made his famous “Pound In Your Pocket” speech. His government had just announced a devaluation of sterling and Wilson was anxious to reassure Joe Public that the everyday value of ...
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Blog Source: redmolucca.wordpress.com
| 25 days ago
Harold Wilson, who won four general elections for the party was a friend of mine. I used to visit him, after his retirement in his rather gloomy flat behind Westminster Cathedral where he would demonstrate his tremendous powers of recall on ...
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Blog Source: www.political-rant.com
| 25 days ago
The one thing that made me mad this week was Tory ministers claiming Labour didn't care about the mining industry because Harold Wilson closed more pits than Thatcher. But as someone who was there and had a family who'd been down ...
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Blog Source: votingandboating.blogspot.com
| 1 month ago
Baroness Thatcher, with Harold Wilson, Ted Heath and James Callagan, at the Cenotaph. This is one of the photographs from my collection of political memorabilia. It is a Press Association original, taken at the Cenotaph in the early 1990's ...
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Blog Source: blogs.reuters.com
| 1 month ago
In the 20 years she spent in parliament before becoming prime minister, Thatcher first saw Harold Wilson's Labour government wrecked by currency crises and trade union militancy; then Ted Heath ousted by a miners' strike; and finally James ...
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Blog Source: www7.politicalbetting.com
| 1 month ago
It's majority of three won at the October 1974 general election was now a mere memory and so James Callaghan (now Prime Minister after the resignation of Harold Wilson) along with Jeremy Thorpe (the leader of the Liberal Party) agreed the ...