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Somewhere between a Bevanite & a Bennite
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This is very much a shot in the dark here, but I'm hoping to get some ideas from learned colleagues and friends on the subject. Suppose that Heath manages to win the Feb. '74 general election with a reduced majority as most of the polling at the time indicated. Still undergoing a major problem within the party itself, Heath either resigns or, more likely, is deposed and replaced with someone else who pursues a government policy closer to the early years of the Heath ministry and is willing to hold their nerve regarding rising unemployment *cut to a handbag being placed on the desk of No. 10 Downing St.*
Labour, meanwhile, lurches to the left after Wilson's second defeat and we have an earlier SDP-style defection form moderates and social democratic right-wingers. As the economy continues to be in crisis and the trade unions are still using their power to cause no end of problems for the Tory government, Labour adopts an equally radical proposal - essentially, Tony Benn's Alternative Economic Strategy.
My question is what would be the reaction, both domestically and internationally, to this proposal in addition to its potential implementation should Labour manage to win in the next general election?
Labour, meanwhile, lurches to the left after Wilson's second defeat and we have an earlier SDP-style defection form moderates and social democratic right-wingers. As the economy continues to be in crisis and the trade unions are still using their power to cause no end of problems for the Tory government, Labour adopts an equally radical proposal - essentially, Tony Benn's Alternative Economic Strategy.
My question is what would be the reaction, both domestically and internationally, to this proposal in addition to its potential implementation should Labour manage to win in the next general election?