The title is clickbait. Within the first 2 minutes of the interview, he says he is in favour of joining the Common Market, just not on the specific terms that the Heath government were taking us in on. Wilson was not anti-EEC and wouldn’t have been a Brexiter. Stop the clickbait lol.
A Fairly fundamental distinction, so hardly click bait …we still face the same dilemma. Uk integrationists never seem to look to the failure of Europe to respect nation states as a cause of their european strife…something they might work upon.
His economic judgement was certainly in decline. 1974/5 dishing out 30% plus pay increases to the grasping public sector which resulted in 27% inflation, UK's highest ever rate.
Wilson sold out Australia, NZ, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei in the late 1960s with his withdrawal from the Indo-Pacific under his "East of Suez" strategy. He had no intention of preserving Commonwealth trade preference despite his protests here. The Commonwealth saw the writing on the wall with applications by MacMillan and Wilson to join the EEC and made other arrangements throughout the 1960s.
This just shows that Wilson was the last leader and PM who really believed in Britain, it's people and who did the best socially and economically for the country.
Despite enormous pressure from the U.S. he kept Britain out of the Vietnam war, possibly his greatest achievement.
Great to see history like this available
How much freer were party leaders to speak their mind
The title is clickbait. Within the first 2 minutes of the interview, he says he is in favour of joining the Common Market, just not on the specific terms that the Heath government were taking us in on.
Wilson was not anti-EEC and wouldn’t have been a Brexiter. Stop the clickbait lol.
A Fairly fundamental distinction, so hardly click bait …we still face the same dilemma. Uk integrationists never seem to look to the failure of Europe to respect nation states as a cause of their european strife…something they might work upon.
What a shame by 1976 his powers were in decline.
Pure cognitive dissonance. I love it.
His economic judgement was certainly in decline.
1974/5 dishing out 30% plus pay increases to the grasping public sector
which resulted in 27% inflation, UK's highest ever rate.
Wilson sold out Australia, NZ, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei in the late 1960s with his withdrawal from the Indo-Pacific under his "East of Suez" strategy.
He had no intention of preserving Commonwealth trade preference despite his protests here. The Commonwealth saw the writing on the wall with applications by MacMillan and Wilson to join the EEC and made other arrangements throughout the 1960s.
The British suited themselves, and did the Commonwealth. All were grown-ups.
Possibly the greatest political speaker who's ever lived. He absolutely never slipped up ever.
But you couldn’t trust a word Harold Wilson Said! 😟😔😞
@@liamb8644 But Harold Wilson left in 1976 , and Margret Thatcher stayed! 👍
Blair
@@liamb8644 No , Blair Had the same policy’s As Maggie! 😉 👍
@@liamb8644 No , Blair had the same policy’s As Maggie! 😉 👍
A brilliant man.
What a political operator this man was. There was no question that could phase him
This just shows that Wilson was the last leader and PM who really believed in Britain, it's people and who did the best socially and economically for the country.
Wise words
He didn't oppose Britain's entry into "Europe" just into the Common Market/EEC.
True socialists hated the EU like Tony Ben not sure about this chap though