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Crisis? What Crisis?
Britain in the 1970s
by Alwyn W Turner
published by Aurum Press

A selection of images representing Britain in the 1970s, including: Hughie Green with the Black & White Minstrels; Jeremy Thorpe, Harold Wilson & Edward Heath; Sir Keith Joseph; Michael Foot & James Callaghan; Enoch Powell; Tony Benn; Roy Jenkins; Joe Gormley; Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who; Jack Jones, Arthur Scargill; the Queen; Grunwick picket-line; Margaret Thatcher; Annie Walker, Bet Lynch & Betty Turpin; Kenneth Williams & Sid James; The Sweeney; George & Mildred; Lord Longford & Malcolm Muggeridge; Cliff Richard & Mary Whitehouse; John Hurt as Quentin Crisp; Get Carter; Richard Allen's Skinhead; Adam Ant & Jordan; Love Thy Nieghbour; A Clockwork Orange.

With commentary by Hughie Green and music by Bob Sharples

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  • Britain was hardly alone in its' misery back in the 70's. America had Watergate, the failed Ford and Carter administrations, stagflation, two energy crisis and racial tensions that were always on the verge of turning into full-fledged rioting in places like New York, Detroit and Chicago.

  • Hughie Green was born in London in 1920 but emigrated to Canada, married a Canadian, took Canadian citizenship, served in the RCAF and acquired a Canadian influenced accent.

    1908 wtf did that come from?

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  • uhhhhhhhh i was looking for a Supertramp video.. lol... 

  • Thanks Hughie for this vomit inducing shite, we've had 32 years of neoliberalism, and the country is still in the doldrums.

  • The 70s wasn't just about politics, there was some great things in the arts (music (pop and classical), poetry, comics, animation, experimental film etc)

  • @pardeepsinghk Ya they did, privatizing the Bank of England which allowed them to set interest rates way too low. Also I agree with Brown that this was an American problem that spilled over to us.

  • @timwmartin Sorry but America never had the IMF bailout, winter of discontent and 25% inflation. Britain was unique in it's socialistic misery.

  • @NIKFANTASTIC Your opinion is correct

  • @david552  Regardless, he was a cunt. An utter worm of a man.

  • In Australia we had similar problems - crippling strikes, high inflation, rising unemployment, a sluggish economy, governments in crisis, petrol rationing, credit restrictions. It was the nature of the decade that the social contract broke down in those dark days - and never really was put back together. This video is nostalgic but a thinly veiled attack on the Labour Party - the problems were (and are today) much more complex than that.

  • Did the Conservatives ever criticise Labour's economic policy from 1997 to 2008?

    NO!

    Because it was a continuation of Major/Thatcher.

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