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1970-79 : Years of survivals : the seventies - Coggle Diagram
1970-79 : Years of survivals : the seventies
1970-74 The Heath Administration
Trying to follow the promises made in the Conservative manifesto
1970 G.E
PM Ed Heath
pro europe
1970s unending eco crisis
"A Better Tomorrow"
tax reform
-- gov intervention
TU reform to boost eco
TU relations got worse
1971 Indus Relations Act
gov pow of intervention in strikes
"gov abused his pow"
1971 Immig° Act
end to non-white immig° from commonwealth countries
1970-74 external circumstances affected the admin°
1973 oil crisis
++ inflation
unemployment
difficulties in N.Id
Heath tried + failed
long term planning to improve brit eco
greater eco competition
UK = EEC
Europe
Heath saw Europe as a capital for the eco interests of Britain
Minority of Labour MPs supported Heath to get the bill to join EEC
New pbms
pro-eur under Heath
eurosceptics under Thatcher
Gov hoping for expected growth from joining
--- taxes
credit restrictions
disastrous results
deficit : 900M by 1973
Heath had to drop all long terms plans
crisis management
The economic + political crisis
++ Inflation + Unemployment
unhealthy eco situation
Heath changed his course
froze prices + income
to reduce public expenditure
tried to ctrl inflation w Income Policy
MASSIVE FAILURE
FEB 1974 : G.E "Who Runs Britain?"
labour victory very narrow
1974-1979 The Bleak Labour Period
PM Harold Wilson again
2 G.E 1974
FEB
OCTOBER
Dealing w the T.Us
Labour PM
miners' strike ended BUT large number of pay demands
WIlson proposed social contract
social contract
Conciliation + Arbitration service
Voluntary restraint on wage increases
worked well
lab part popT +++
ano/ election in oct 74
42 majT
1974-1976 Harold Wilson's immediate action
Wilson x easy position
crisis period
split in lab party over eec joining
demands of T.U....
renegotiate terms of EEC
1975 referendum on memebership
1st national referendum
67% remaining = scot + ireland //2016
Eco crisis + ptcal instability (v small lab majT)
wilson trying to survive
March 1976 retired suddenly
Callaghan
1976-1979 from bad to worse : Callaghan Years
1976 IMF CRISIS
Ch of Ex Dennis Healey
apply for urgent loans
IMF insisted on -- public expenditure ; -3M over 2 years
Brit forced to abandon Keynesian eco
end of post-war consensus
1977 T.Us asked end social contract
Callaghan imposed restriction of 5% on any wage incease
1978 ++ unemployment
+1M
1st since 1945
pub sector went on strike
1975-1979 : The rise of M. Thatcher
1975 elected Cons Part Leader
v right wing leader
opposed to Butskellism consensus
welfare state = nanny state
// Keynesianism
Result of Callaghan decisions
78-79 winter of discontent
worst series of strike
paralyzed the country
T.Us out of control
unable to find agreement w T.U
1979 gov fell
G.E
1970-1979 The state of Britain : disillusionment + civil unrest
the troubles in northern ireland
Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
Ireland had been partitioned
N. Id = Home Rule, parliament in Stormont
Until 1968
Stormont Parliament contained ethnic conflict but did nothing to solve it
1970
Provisional IRA
terrorist warfare
1972 Bloody Sunday
1958-2010 Saville Inquiry
rebirth of IRA activity == Protestant counter violence
Ulster defense association + UVF
Brit attempts to end conflict
Heath suspended N.Id Parliament
direct rule from Westminster
N.I MPs sat in Westminster
secretary of state or N.Id created
73 Sunningdale Agreement
1st attempt of ptcal settlement in N.I
pow sharing executive
support from cath + prot groups
agreement never ratified
parties member x agree to it
N.I pbm = burning sore
Society's reaction to the crisis
new forms of criticism
art + novels
punk music
cult expss of violence
Sex Pistol own version of God Save the Q
dangerous in terms of social unrest