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Hellish Job. Much of the election pivoted on just how hellish that job will be. Tory Leader Edward Heath, who is now expected to step aside in favor of Party Chairman William Whitelaw, said it would be hellish indeed. During the final week of the campaign, he described the fall of the British economy in elegiac, black-bordered tones. "We shall be cutting our own throats if we think that collapse cannot happen here. It can." Heath argued that only a government of national union could deal with the country's problems and promised that if the Tories...
Slimmer, more amiable and more relaxed than he used to be, Wilson countered by admitting that things were serious, but not all that bad. Heath, he charged, was selling Britain short. "Britain faces a grave economic crisis, but it is not heading for catastrophe." Wilson compared himself and his government to a soothing family doctor beside the sickbed and sarcastically derided Heath's call for a national coalition as a desperate ploy by a man who knew that he could not get in any other...
...Evening. Heath may well turn out to have been right about the unhappy state of the British economy-quite a few experts, at least, agree with him -but it was clearly more than most voters wanted to hear. Beyond that, much of the electorate believed that Heath had brought on last winter's confrontation with the coal miners and feared that another dark winter might be the prospect if he were returned to 10 Downing Street. Another factor was Heath's personality, or lack of it. "Even his best oratory is about as exciting as a wet evening...
...Britain headed into the homestretch of the second electoral campaign this year, the mood of the country and the sharply contrasting styles of its two major parties could not have been more clearly drawn. Offered a choice of Laborite Harold Wilson's balm or Tory Ted Heath's gloom, the voters seemed to be opting for the former...
...lean back and let the other fellow bear the brunt of the approaching disasters, then move in on a landslide to pick up the pieces. Perhaps this is part of the reason none of the younger, less tarnished politicians of either party have pressured their shopworn leaders into resigning--Heath or Wilson's last, greatest service to their supporters could be to serve as scapegoats...