Word: antimarket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of what to do about the British economy became intertwined with the question of what to do about Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn, whose impassioned antiMarket campaigning had made him the darling of the Labor Party left and the pariah of its right. Business leaders, panicked by Benn's grandiose plans for public control of industries and investment, had been demanding his dismissal from the Cabinet. On the other hand, powerful union leaders including Jack Jones, president of the Transport and General Workers Union, had warned that any demotion of Benn would be taken as "a grave affront...
...Labor Party divisions over the EEC. Even now Wilson cannot afford to purge the union-backed left, but the referendum has seriously undermined its claim to speak for "the people." (In South Yorkshire, the strongest Labor county in Britain and the scene of the most intensive union-backed antiMarket campaign, the vote was 63.4% pro-Market.) With his authority thus strengthened in dealing with the unions, Wilson is shortly expected to reshuffle his Cabinet in a way that will reinforce the position of Labor moderates on economic policy...
...wing Laborites who defied Wilson on the Market issue, Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn stands in greatest danger of being hoist with his own petard. It was Benn who in 1972 first proposed the Common Market referendum. At the time, opinion polls were reporting a solid 2-to-1 antiMarket majority. Benn saw the referendum as an ideal vehicle to propel himself into leadership of a populist left-wing movement that would assert its supremacy over the pro-Market establishment in the Labor Party. With the help of enormous and largely hostile press publicity, he turned the referendum into...
...Britain faces a divisive three months before the vote during which pro-Market industry and antiMarket unions will line up on different sides. Laborites will fight Laborites, and many British families will be more politically divided than they have been since the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. In short, Wilson may have worked out a formula for saving his own political neck-at the cost of hopelessly dividing the party that elected him as its standardbearer...
...will also have trouble when he seeks "fundamental renegotiation" of the terms under which Britain entered the Common Market. He hopes to obtain lower food prices for Britain and a reduction in London's contributions to the Market's budget. Any renegotiation must partially satisfy the strong antiMarket feelings of Labor's left wing and of Renegade Tory Enoch Powell (who claims that his endorsement of Wilson during the campaign won the election for Labor) and yet not go so far as to unite the pro-Market Tories and Liberals. Wilson has set a twelve-month deadline...