What Was Our Finest Year? ; a Think-Tank Claims 1976 Was Britain's Best
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IT IS remembered as much for its rampant inflation as its soaring temperatures. But this week a Leftwing think-tank came to a surprising conclusion when it declared 1976 as Britain's best year on record. Here, a leading historian passionately argues that 1976 was, in fact, our nation's worst year, while five distinguished writers nominate the decade when we really did never have it so good
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What Was Our Finest Year? ; a Think-Tank Claims 1976 Was Britain's Best
WHEN I saw that 1976 has been named by an economic thinktank as the best year ever for Britain, I had to doublecheck that there's still a fortnight left until April Fools' Day.
For, in fact, unless one is a blinkered and extreme socialist, 1976 was the single most disastrous and shaming 12-month period in recent British history.It was the year that marked the nadir in the post-war fortunes of Britain, the English-speaking peoples, and indeed the Free World.The three major political parties in the UK in 1976 were led by Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Jeremy Thorpe, only one of whom had the first idea about how to save the country from 16.7 per cent inflation, 83 ...See the full content of this document
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