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THE END OF POST-WAR
CONSENSUS (1870 - 1879) -
HEATH'S GOVERNMENT
HEATH AS
LEADER
Had served as the LONGEST
POST-WAR CONSERVATIVE LEADER
since Winston CHURCHILL.
5
years.
The FIRST Conservative leader to be
ELECTED by the members of the
CONSERVATIVE PARTY themselves!
Had been EDUCATED at STATE
SCHOOLS, rather than the
traditional, stagnancy of
'Establishment' / 'Old Etonians.'
Good at POLICIES,
but not POLITICS.
NOT politically
skilful.
Too HONEST for his
own good; 'lacked a
BACKBONE.'
Not
DEVIOUS.
Stiff and prickly
demeanour.
At the time of his rise to leadership, Heath seemed
WELL PREPARED for GOVERNMENT; AS HE HAD spent
his time in opposition for developing detailed
ECONOMIC MODERNISATION and INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS policies.
The SON of a
BUILDER.
He declared that he was adopting, "a new style of
government," and that he intended to, "reduce the
rise in prices, increase productivity and reduce
unemployment."
Heath DIFFERED from Wilson in that it was his
intention to BREAK with the POST-WAR CONSENSUS
that had broadly dominated STATE INTERVENTION in
SOCIAL and ECONOMIC matters!
Edward
Heath
Had been the CHIEF
NEGOTIATOR for the FIRST
APPLICATION FOR E.E.C
ENTRY between 1961 to 1963.
Margaret
Thatcher
The KEY CHALLENGER to
Conservative Party
leadership.
DEFEATED Heath, and
took over CONSERVATIVE
LEADERSHIP in FEBRUARY, 1975.
Evoked right-winged
policies compared to
Heath.
"By his humble background, by his
grammar school education and by
the fact of his democratic
election."
Had STRAINED
RELATIONS with Heath
for the rest of his political
career!
Speaking about Heath in
2005, following his death.
This attitude summed up the term,
'SELSDON MAN,' or the, 'NEW RIGHT,'
-- the 'new type' of
CONSERVATIVISM.
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
POLICIES POLICIES
CONSERVATIVE PARTY
CONFERENCE
January, pre-1970
election.
Selsdon Park.
Announced a POLICY
PROGRAMME that introduced the
foundations for the
CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO at the
1970 election...
TAX reforms.
Better LAW and
ORDER.
Reforms to TRADE
UNIONS
CUTS to PUBLIC
SPENDING.
CONTROLS on
IMMIGRATION.
END of PUBLIC SUBSIDY
for 'LAME DUCK'
INDUSTRIES.
An industry that is UNABLE
to COMPETE and SURVIVE
without STATE SUPPORT.
Heath believed in, 'ONE NATION
TORYISM,' and the POST-WAR
CONSENSUS.
REFORMS
The SELSON PARK PROGRAMME was NOT
intended to be an ENTIRE REJECTION of the
POST-WAR CONSENSUS POLICIES!
SCHOOL LEAVING AGE was
RAISED from 15 to 16.
The introduction of
DECIMALISATION...
100 pence instead of the
144 old pennies in the Ā£
RESEMBLED other
EUROPEAN
CURRENCIES.
The IDEA was
put forward in
1971...
... but didn't come
into practice until
1971.
1st
September,
1972.
Anthony
Barber
New Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
STAGFLATION
Introduced TAX CUTS to encourage
INVESTMENT, but instead a RAPID
RISE in INFLATION took place!
The 'BARBER
BOOM.'
Introduced CUTS in
PUBLIC SPENDING.
This was NOT accompanied by ECONOMIC GROWTH!
Instead, UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES ROSE, ā an
unexpected turn of events to occur during a period of
inflationary increases ā and subsequently led to the
coining of the term, āstagflation.ā
Unemployment started to edge
towards explosive figures of ONE
MILLION!
Initially, Heathās government had promised to
reduce state intervention in industry, but by 1971,
the nationalisation of Rolls Royce and state loans
into, ālame duck,ā industries such as the, āUpper Clyde
Shipbuilders,ā evoked feelings of hypocrisy...
... This showed a rejection of free-market policy
because the government were now intervening within
key industrial relations; a factor that they had been
adamant to avoid in doing within the Conservative
Partyās manifesto.
The
'U-TURN.'
WHY?
This showed a rejection of free-market policy
because the government were now intervening
within key industrial relations; a factor that
they had been adamant to avoid in doing
within the Conservative Partyās manifesto.
A 1969 memorandum written by the
marketer Nicholas Ridley had advocated a
complete government withdrawal from UCS
but this kind of ideological approach was,
even after Selsdon, in reality unacceptable.
Pragmatism (Heathās underlying motive for
political policies) āa concern for the effects on
employment and therefore on votesāresulted
in a large government loan...
... Then, in February 1972, during a
debate on unemployment, the
decision was announced to bail out
this latest "lame duck" with state aid.
THE OIL
CRISIS
October,
1973
An unexpected
turn of events...
UNEMPLOYMENT had
actually FALLEN to 500,000
GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT into
MODERNISING INDUSTRY
appeared to be successful.
The YOM KIPPUR WAR in the Middle
East caused O.P.E.C to announce a
SUDDEN BAN on OIL EXPORTS...
... OIL PRICES
accelerated to 4
TIMES above normal!
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