Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Edward Heath
- The "Quiet Revolution"
- introduced free market policies by
abolishing ; the NBPI and IRC
- First budget by
Anthony Barber
- cutting corporation tax
- ending provision of free milk
to schoolchildren
- cutting government subsidies for
council housing rents
- raising prescription charges
- overall Barber managed to cut
government spending
- got rid of the quangos which were
previously established by Labour
- 1971
- Barber Budget - big tax cuts
and cuts in government
spending
- August - Industrial Relations Act
becomes law
- October - Heath wins the vote in
House of Commons for entry into
Europe
- NUM begins over-time ban
- 1972
- NUM begins national strike
- November - statuary wage and pay-freeze
- return to prices and incomes policy
- 1973
- Britain joins EEC
- October - Arab/Israeli War
sparks oil crisis
- November - Miners' begin
second over-time ban
- 1974
- January - 3 day week to ration electricity
- Feburary - Miners' strike and
General Election
- Wilson returns as Prime
Minister - ends miners strike
- negatives
- abandoned his original economic policies
and therefore gained a reputation for
inconsistency and a lack of courage
- union policies antogonised the unions,
worsening industrial relations
- between 1972 and 1974 heath had
declared a state of emergency 5
times
- public associated the government with
crisis measures
- Industrials Relations Act proved to
be unenforceable
- 1973 OPEC crisis quadrupled oil prices,
limited amount of coal, created an
energy crisis.
- state of emergency
- reducing the working week to 3 days
- lowering the speed limit to 50 m.p.h
- ending television broadcasts at 10:30pm
- unemployment rose between 1970 and 1973
- inflation rose throughout Heaths time as PM
- increased government
intervention
- created public work schemes to create jobs
in "special developed areas"
- nationalised Rolls-Royce and Upper Clyde
Shipbuilders
- increased spending on pensions, NHS and
Education - after the spending cuts by Barber