Steve, I absolutely love your work on "unscripted". I'm a politics nut and your contributions are masterful
@VincentRE79
3 жыл бұрын
Yes he is certainly on top of the subject.
@zeddeka
4 жыл бұрын
The winter of discontent happened in early 1979. When Callaghan was considering calling the election in the autumn of 1978, the winter of discontent hadn't happened.
@bebmeister656
4 жыл бұрын
Correct 🙂
@BossySwan
Жыл бұрын
Bit like Brown’s fabled 2007 election
@The4preston
Жыл бұрын
Richards is a bit all over the map on this one and makes several mistakes. Maybe he should switch to 'Scripted Reflections"
@zulkiflijamil4033
10 ай бұрын
I don't know about that. Anyway, thanks so much. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
@andrewhuckle803
3 жыл бұрын
I love listening to Steve he's brilliant. But Steve I'm sorry but it was March 76 when Wilson resigned not October.
@notreallydavid
Жыл бұрын
On my eleventh birthday!
@johnbreen3177
Жыл бұрын
Very enjoyable Steve Just found it You make it..sound, clear ,unbiased And most importantly Informative
@stevehillier7018
6 жыл бұрын
I thought In place of strife was 1969 and James Callaghan became Prime Minister in April 1976
@The4preston
Жыл бұрын
You are correct. Richards is brilliant, but sometimes gets his dates wrong.
@philipetownend
22 күн бұрын
Japanese 📺 have shown films of Orleave miners strikes
@bunkerbill
6 жыл бұрын
These are absolutely wonderful.
@richardabbot8724
3 жыл бұрын
Oh for the days when you could remove a failed administration via the ballot box .
@MaterLacrymarum
2 жыл бұрын
Still alive and well today. The Americans got rid of that idiot Trump. Truss beat out Sunak.
@GA-wq8xq
3 жыл бұрын
Heath only just lost in 1974 so the country was split in saying “not you”. It is interesting that three different PMs lost because of the unions, Thatcher was required so we tamed inflation and the unions. Things the country continues to benefit from to this day. Callaghan had logic on his side that he was a friend of the unions and yet still they were irrational. Therefore of course people wanted a Government to tame the unions and they got that.
@VincentRE79
3 жыл бұрын
Thatcher was clearly brought into to do the jobs her predessors were unable to do. If Callaghan had been re-elected the country may have got into a terrible economic state.
@GA-wq8xq
2 жыл бұрын
@@VincentRE79 the country was in a state because of the sixties and seventies economic consensus. The unions needed to be tamed and that had failed under both Conservative and Labour governments. Thatcher did what was necessary.
@VincentRE79
2 жыл бұрын
@@GA-wq8xq Yes and she broke the concensus and it made her deeply unpopular. I would not like to think what the economy would be like now if she had not been elected. At the time all the concern over coalmine closures and due to climate change they would all have had to be closed anyway now. She was very much ahead of her time.
@BossySwan
Жыл бұрын
@@VincentRE79 amen 🙏
@perkinscrane
3 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the lecture he would however have been more fluent if he had prepared a script beforehand . He would then not be “pushing levers” or citing “Cameron “ when he meant Callaghan .
@GA-wq8xq
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting thought about people brought up in the 1930s. But Thatcher was also brought up in the 1930s and 40s.
@philipbrooks402
2 жыл бұрын
I noticed that as well. Born in 1925, only a few years younger than Wilson or Heath, I imagine the 1930s Grantham was hardly a boom town.
@vincentsmit1935
2 жыл бұрын
@@philipbrooks402 Wasn't the age gap between Wilson and Thatcher ~9 years? That's still quite substantial
@briandelaney9710
Жыл бұрын
@@vincentsmit1935yes. Wilson was a minister in the Attlee government. Thatcher didn’t get to Parliament until 1959
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