heath | Small Answers Flashcards
Why was Heath Voted Out in ‘74
- Unemployment
- Strikes
- 3 Day Week
What Caused the Economic Crisis in ‘74
- Yom Kippur War
- Miners strike
- 3 day week
What year did Britain join the EEC
‘73
Effect of Liberalising the Banking System
- Higher Lending
- Therefore Inflation
What did Heath do to appeal to the EEC?
- VAT Tax
- Decimalisation (100p in a £, not 144)
- Relaxed Exchange Controls (exchange of currency)
What did Tax Cuts ‘71 cause
- High Economic Growth
- Low Unemployment
‘Selsdon Man’
- ## Anti-Union Cooperation
’70s Economic shock caused by
Yom Kippur War - Oil Crisis
The Position of Trade Unions in early ’70s
- Very Influential (most powerful point)
> When demanded 45% pay rise, Heath had to capitulate
Flying Pickets
Strikers who go to pickets in places where they don;t work to support the strikers
- Keeping pay incomes board
- “In Place of Strife”
> resisted by Unions
> would make negotiation easier and mandatory
Authur Scargill
- Communist (revolutionary)
- Wanted to seize control of the Miners
- Influential figure
Industrial Relations Bill ‘71
- Meant to “curb” Unions’ Power
- Worker-Employer Agreements legally enforceable
> Industrial Court set up
Shop Stewart
- An elected worker to represent the other workers in discussions with Management
TUC
Organisation that supported Trade Unions
Industrial Relations Bill ‘71 LOOPHOLE
If Unions refused to Register then the Court could not reach them
75 ELECTIONS - Heath’s failures
- U-turns
- Miner’s strikes
- Stagflation
75 ELECTIONS - Feb results
Con - 297
Lab - 301 (not a majority)
75 ELECTIONS - Oct results
Con - 277
Lab - 319
75 ELECTIONS - how was Wilson different
More serious and lacklustre (beginning to get dementia)
