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WHAT IS HAROLD WILSON trying to do? Once again he has demonstrated his ability to surprise and, probably, to outwit the motley crew the British call their politicians. He has announced his intention to resign without calling a general election; the first time a Labour Minister has done...
...simply wants to get out of politics before the roof falls in on Britain. His statement that he is resigning because of advanced age, lacks credibility--Wilson is only 60 years old. On the other hand, Wilson entered politics young and has been in the upper echelons of the Labour Party for more than a quarter of a century...
...last, and probably the most likely explanation, is that Wilson's move is yet another in a long series of political maneuverings that have made him the least trustworthy leader of the Labour Party since J. Ramsay McDonald...
...extremist left-wing Labourites combined to defeat the measure in the Commons by 28 votes. A defeat on such an important question, while it did not constitutionally require the government to resign, immediately called into question its future existence. Wilson cancelled his birthday party Friday and made the Labour leftists see the light. Although it had to resort to the expedient of bringing in MP's on stretchers, the Wilson government won in a replay of the budget battle and assured its short term survival. In the course of the debate, Healy had morally offended many of the hard core...
...have always found it strange that a nation whose prosperity is based entirely upon cheap immigrant labour should be so unrelentingly xenophobic...