James Callaghan was a huge personality ,who scaled to the highest office despite all the difficulties he had to surpass and overcome. History will be kind to him in the long run.
@cosmicmusicreynolds3266
8 ай бұрын
I must admit though during the winter of discontent only in liver were bodies not being buried. That strike was over played by the Media. The economy made worst by a loan later to be discovered not to be needed. Capitalism now is coming to an end
@user-dq6kr2gd1y
10 ай бұрын
A man of great stature, and a true patriot ...
@syedadeelhussain2691
4 жыл бұрын
will remember his 1976 speech to the Labor party delegates at the conference! what a remarkable speech that was. A Glasnost and Perestroika Moment for the Socialists in the UK! Callaghan was to the UK what Gorbachev was to the USSR before its breakup. A Socialist who knew command mechanisms, planning, Keynesian economics and commanding heights of the economy under bureaucratic control won't work!
@ianreynolds8552
4 жыл бұрын
In more recent times , the so called heights of the economy such as some of the train services being back under government ownership , down to the health service sell off, control was necessary because some got to greedy for capitalism. Callaghan government was the last gasp of hope for those in working jobs who need state reliance industries was a necessity. . Instead it was callaghan government who sold off most of the rights of north sea oil , take an over estimated loan from the IMF which led to the winter of discontent. There is an irony in all of this , that state controll works sometimes Let's see if Richar,d, (no tax paying) Branson gets an interest free loan from the tory government. What seems like the free market is nt so free afterall
@amyalexis7328
Ай бұрын
A great PM
@willhovell9019
2 жыл бұрын
A fighter and undervalued by journalists and political analysts. Pity he sided too often the Trades Unions & anti Europeans in the late 60s and early 70s A modest man with great intellect and practical person & farmer.
@Dbdbe1
6 жыл бұрын
Pedantry, but Callaghan beat five Oxford educated men, not four - Foot, Jenkins, Healey, Benn, and Crosland
@dlamiss
4 жыл бұрын
Not a fan of Callaghans politics but must say he was one of THE great British politicans of the second half of the 20th century. His own people did for him
@willhovell9019
2 жыл бұрын
Only two were of working class backgrounds , Healey and Jenkins. It was the Trots & some public sector Union fanatics that ushered in a decade of Thatcher despair and waste of the North Sea energy windfall . She was only saved politically by the Falklands war.
@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1
5 жыл бұрын
Callaghan was right about trade unionists going too far.
@stevebbuk
4 жыл бұрын
That anecdote about health workers turning off the boilers was shocking.
@ianreynolds8552
4 жыл бұрын
No it was the government lack of seeing the IMF loan as a the con is was , as it was nt even needed. Devaluation was only force on Britain because la our was not prepared to back Johnson in Vietnam
@ianreynolds8552
4 жыл бұрын
@@stevebbuk was that from the daily mail
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
Those nastey tyrant bastards detroyed British commerce and industry.
@AlekWheeler
5 ай бұрын
Sonething tells me this was recorded pre 2007. 10:59 sounds like a Brown reference.
@davidbeeney3751
6 жыл бұрын
MrDavey2010 Has there ever been a Prime Minister who didn't have a nasty edge about them in one way or another? I don't think someone would have what it takes to become Prime Minister if they were purely nice. Mrs Thatcher was certainly a bully.
@stuartwilliams-fw4vo
7 ай бұрын
Best prime minister of my lifetime.
@stevehillier7018
6 жыл бұрын
Callaghan was 64 when he became Prime Minister not 62
@lennylaa1686
Жыл бұрын
I wonder how many decent business men were driven to despair, depression and suicide by Tax Collector Callaghan?
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