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Barb Grimes Chalfont, Pennsylvania AOL: TchrBarb...
...Chalfont...
...began Britain's election campaign last week in search of additional votes that would bring him back to 10 Downing Street with a majority rather than a minority government. For a time, though, it seemed as if Wilson was off to a bad start. First of all, Lord Chalfont, a Labor peer who held sub-Cabinet posts in Wilson's first two administrations, resigned from the party to protest what he called the trade unions' "virtual dominance" of party policy. Then Sir Leonard Neale, former chairman of a Labor government Commission on Industrial Relations, disclosed that...
...Social Contract." Clearly, Britain's rampant inflation rate (approaching 20% annually), and what to do about it is the main campaign issue. But a secondary one is the political influence of the unions. According to a recent National Opinion poll, a surprising number of Britons share Lord Chalfont's misgivings: 73% feel that the unions are too powerful, while 66% believe that they are more powerful than the government. For obvious reasons, Wilson would like to keep the union issue out of campaign debates, but the Tories may not let him. In a speech last week, Tory Lord...
...There are doubts that the Parliament elected next month will be able to solve the country's problems. 'Real power,' notes former Labor Minister Lord Chalfont, 'is moving away from the elected legislature' and toward mighty nonelective bodies such as the trade unions. Polls indicate that only 10% feel that the government is the real power in Britain; 66% think that it is the unions. Heath's disastrous confrontation with the coal miners revealed the limits to an elected government's ability to enforce its policies...