UK General Election February 1974 - Harold Wilson Speech

[TheJaaysog]

this man ended capital punishment, legalised gay relationships (not marriages,that was blair) and has the best record on income equality. Good old mr Wilson!

[Coneheadedweasel]

@RichardElden

Ah the wit and wisdom of the lesser spotted Sun Reader!

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

@RichardElden

Rubbish. Claimants vote for a variety of parties and many don't vote at all.

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

@RichardElden

Keep spouting out your crap you sick fuck.

I hate the Tories, but I wouldn't wish those things on them.

You are a fascist and a fanatic. 

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

@RichardElden

Looking at your lovely trend of comments, I suggest you get medical help

Or join the Tea Party

[winifredatwell]

Heath, whose later friendship with Tony Benn over international peacemaking efforts should be remembered, would today be considered to the left of figures like Tony Blair on many issues. Heath was a brave and impressive man in many ways. He was not an opportunist, and his principles never hardened into unreasonableness and dogma. He gained a deserved reputation for his respect of the parliament.

[winifredatwell]

Heath, whose later friendship with Tony Benn over international peacemaking efforts whould be remembered, would today be considered to the left of figures like Tony Blair. Heath was a brave and impressive man in many ways.

[ChrisCarter1983]

@RichardElden I hope you can sleep at night. Ever had anyone in your family with Alzheimer's or Cancer you heartless moron?!

[JACKANDJAY10]

Total legend of a prime minister with the amount of shit he had to deal with on his plate.Was'nt helped by the Sun newspaper constantly lampooning him.

[shahideurope]

@RichardElden you sick bastard

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

One of our greatest modern premiers

[Gusdocs1]

More like a Leg-End he was a total disaster as prime minister thanks to Labour for my £7.70 a week dole money in the 70s still hate Labour Tories and Lib dems bunch of money grabbing wasters

[Gusdocs1]

More like a Leg-End he was a total disaster as prime minister

[EllyMcCormack]

@Scampirat Because Saddam Hussein was using Iraq as a place of refuge for terrorists that wanted to attack us, & letting them use iraqy diplomatic passes so that the West couldn't arrest them. Saddam Hussein had also killed hundreds of thousands of men, women & children, with & without chemical weapons. The argument is not why did we invade, the argument is why didn't we invade sooner?

[mossfitz]

@EllyMcCormack first part of your posting is just nonsense. Not even Bush´s warmongering liars could ever be so brazen as to tell such a whopper. I think you are confusing Iraq with Afghanistan

[EllyMcCormack]

@mossfitz Abu Musab Al-Zargawi, one of the worlds most wanted men for terrorism, working outside of an Iraqi Government Office. I could give you more examples, but I'd have to look for them again. Read, "Love Poverty and War" by Christopher Hitchens, there are some great examples there. Thanks for your opinion, but I offered facts. Bye! :)

[Aleeraize]

Indeed he was a great Prime Minister.

[ToaJoe]

JuanMacready is a nazi troll. Ignore him. Nobody who spends their time trolling Labour videos does not deserve to be talked to

[BAhern63]

John Lennon once called him "Harrassed Wilsod"!

[TheDustpile]

@Scampirat And today?

Johnathan Leftwinger MP's special message:

"VOTE LABOUR and at least redeem something of your tattered and twisted reputations Public! DON'T give us a hung Parliament - you'll only force us to cling to power in alliance with the Lib Dems! (And we want power all on our own as it should be!)"

Click my username for: NEW LABOUR'S TOTALITARIAN ANTI-CHRIST DRUG DEALERS DESERVE AT LEAST POLL DEATH!

[xandy1959]

and he set up the open university

[oldsouthafrica]

Jordie slob

[jacclar]

@oldsouthafrica He's not Jordie you ignorant half-wit....

[NevilleGoanna]

Wilson or Heath.....mmmmm or should I put it..........

KGB spy or Gay Pedophile

Methinks the start when UK hit the shit. Nev.

[3NUNS]

@NevilleGoanna : Good on yah Nev.

[lawro04]

greatest prime minister this country has ever had. same that labour has gone so far to the right now, My family & I don't have to heart 2 vote 4 them anymore in general elections.

[JuanMacready]

Wilson was a useless piece of shit.

[angryman9]

@JuanMacready

And you are?

[JasonJason210]

@JuanMacready

May be you'll have that one day...and remember what you said here.

[LunarEcli]

@JasonJason210 ignore him. he trolls every video of labour leaders there are to get a raise out of people :p

[mts1977]

@Scampirat

Agreed. Johnson put huge pressure on him and he kept us out. Thank God for that.

[StephenHP62]

You underestimate the difficulties ALL governments faced in the mid- to late 1970s. It was a period now recognized to have been a turning point in the development of the global economy. The key is to judge governments by the choices they made: did they preserve what was good, make progress in certain fields, and, above all, avoid making a bad situation worse? By those standards, the 1974-79 gov't deserves more credit than you allow. The unions cooked their own goose in the Winter of Discontent.

[StephenHP62]

Labour came to power in inauspicious circumstances and were faced with the task of dealing with daunting economic problems. Fortunately in Harold Wilson the country had a gifted leader whose cabinet was of the highest calibre (e.g., Denis Healey as Chancellor, Roy Jenkins at the Home Office, James Callaghan as Foreign Secretary, Michael Foot as Employment Secretary, along with the likes of Anthony Crosland, Shirley Williams, & Tony Benn). In retrospect, Wilson & Callaghan did a remarkable job.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

They were a FUCKING DISASTER !

[StephenHP62]

Given the crisis conditions of the time, the record of the Wilson-Callaghan governments stands up rather well. They ended the coal strike and the 3-day week, brought down inflation from 25% to 10%, and mitigated the rise in unemployment (which more than tripled under the Conservatives in the early 1980s). Just as importantly, they protected the welfare state and even advanced it in some areas (eg. set up the State Earnings Related Pension). They also showed respect for the regions.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@StephenHP62 Winter of discontent, the dead unburied, unions dictating, mass unemployment, Britain bailed out by the IMF, immigration a mess - sure that is some success story! :D

[Dalek1230]

@StephenHP62 LOL

[Dalek1230]

@StephenHP62 LOL what bulshit, Thatcher got the biggest majority ever because of their massive failing, your living in fantasy land. WHOS WITH ME?

[StephenHP62]

@Dalek1230

Thatcher's parliamentary majorities were built on a remarkably thin level of popular support . The Tories won the 1979 election with 44% of the popular vote--not a bad score, but a lower level of support than any incoming Tory government had won to that point in the post-war period. As for Thatcher's "biggest majority ever" ( I presume you mean the1983 election win), that victory was built on an even smaller share of the popular vote: 42%. Surprising, perhaps, but true.

[Dalek1230]

@StephenHP62 Point is this muppet was hated,and 

[Dalek1230]

@StephenHP62 Point is this muppet was hated,and people can make up lies all day, but the people voted