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Accelerated Pace. Worse still, the powerful trade unions have blocked efforts to make the British economy more competitive. Former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath provoked a showdown in 1973 with the miners' union over their wage demands, and lost. His defeat set the stage for Laborite Harold Wilson's return to power. The Labor Party, which is heavily dependent on union votes, is not even trying to reform any labor practices that preserve jobs. Instead, left-wing members of the party are using the present crisis to accelerate the pace of state control of British industry, although...
...playing second fiddle in Britain's Conservative Party these days, but former Prime Minister Edward Heath still calls the tune occasionally. Heath, who was ousted as head of the Conservatives in February, made his continental debut as a symphony conductor last week before sellout audiences in Bonn and Cologne. At the invitation of Maestro André Previn, Heath led the London Symphony Orchestra through a 15-minute performance of Elgar's Cockaigne overture while West German TV cameras recorded the event. "Scintillating," applauded Bonn's General-Anzeiger. "Heath probably took Richard...
Strauss's advice that economy of gesture can be more effective than the manners of the grand dompteur," praised Die Welt. Heath, who won an organ scholarship at Oxford in the 1930s, had a ready explanation for his greater success as conductor than Conservative Party leader. "The orchestra has 120 musicians," he observed, "and Conservatives in the House of Commons number...
...important implication of this argument is that no man has a right to goods that must be provided by someone else, such as education, heath care, food, etc. Such a right would imply a right to the person who must produce them. The right to such goods would imply the right to force someone to work the hours necessary to provide them. It would imply that some people have a right to determine what shall be done with parts of other peoples lives (the hours necessary to produce the goods). Someone is said to own something...
...went on record as being opposed to such a device on the ground that it was unnecessary in a parliamentary democracy. He agreed to the referendum in 1972 only to avoid a split within the Labor Party-and to put the former Conservative government of Edward Heath on the defensive for refusing to let the people have their say about Market membership...