11 - Problems For The Labour Government

Question 1

With what sector did Labour have poor relations with? What did this disrupt?

Answer 1

Industry

Distribution

Question 2

Where did The Troubles begin in the UK?

Answer 2

Northern Ireland

Question 3

What groups did Labour initially have strong relations with? What did they not work in?

Answer 3

Trade unions

Harmony

Question 4

What type of unrest was present in the 1960s? What damaging strike took place in 1966?

Answer 4

Industrial unrest

Seamen’s strike

Question 5

Why did the Prices and Income Freeze of 1966 fail?

Answer 5

Unions struck for higher pay

Question 6

What White Paper was produced in 1969? What did this restrict?

Answer 6

“In Place of Strife”

Strikes

Question 7

What was needed to strike under the White Paper? What periods were proposed?

Answer 7

A proper ballot

Cooling-off periods

Question 8

What would employers have to honour under the White Paper? Who would they have to consult to undergo changes?

Answer 8

Agreements

Trade unions

Question 9

What did the White Paper split? Who particularly opposed the document?

Answer 9

Government

James Callaghan

Question 10

What groups refused to co-operate with the Paper? What were they threatening Labour with?

Answer 10

Trade unions

Budget cuts

Question 11

What happened to the White Paper? What did a lack of policy contribute to in 1970?

Answer 11

Abandoned

Election defeat

Question 12

What is Northern Ireland also known as? What did part of Ireland form after splitting in the 1921 settlement?

Answer 12

Ulster

Independent Irish Republic

Question 13

Where was Ulster’s parliament located? What did it take responsibility for?

Answer 13

Stormont

Domestic affairs

Question 14

What religious group dominated Stormont? How did they retain power in elections?

Answer 14

Protestants

Gerrymandering - unfair political advantage

Question 15

What did Ulster’s Catholic minority face? Where did this take place in particular?

Answer 15

Discrimination

Housing and jobs

Question 16

What Ulster group was seen as an organisation of repression by Catholics?

Answer 16

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Question 17

By what time were tensions and violence mounting in Northern Ireland? What time period did this contrast?

Answer 17

Late 1960s

Peace of the post-war period

Question 18

What rights did Catholics demand in the late 1960s? From who did their protests come under attack from?

Answer 18

Civil rights

Protestants

Question 19

Where was there a serious outbreak of Catholic and Protestant violence in August 1969? How did Labour respond to this?

Answer 19

Londonderry

Sent out troops to restore order

Question 20

What organisation was formed to get the Irish to take back control of NI?

Answer 20

The Provisional IRA

Question 21

How did NI see the Provisional IRA? What did they feel could be reached if they left the Protestants alone?

Answer 21

As a colonial power

A settlement

Question 22

Who opposed the Provisional IRA?

Answer 22

Protestant Ulster Unionists

Question 23

What 2 groups did the Protestant Ulster Unionists form?

Answer 23

Ulster Defence Association (UDA)

Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

Question 24

What was the state of Ulster like religiously by the early 1970s?

Answer 24

A civil war between Protestants and Catholics