#Huddersfield #Sheep #HaroldWilson

@HandgunYoga

Indeed this remained the case with much official documentation in #britain well into the last century. The late and great #haroldwilson - #PrimeMinister from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976 - used to chuckle slightly at the official statement that "the male pronoun is taken to embrace the female"!

Harold Wilson's resting place on the Scilly Isles

#scillyisles #haroldwilson

[1974] This Week - Public affairs series probing the news behind the headlines. On the even of a snap election that eventually saw Harold Wilson with the largest party, Llew Gardner interviews the Leader of the Labour Party Harold Wilson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaasnLeYdIE

#OldBritishTelly #LlewGardner #HaroldWilson

Boris has no humanity or humility, only hubris.
This is true of many of the failed leaders of this generation. #JohnMajor #haroldwilson We have done better.

#socialistsunday #HaroldWilson was a much unappreciated Labour Party PM who was undermined by the Whitehall & Westminster Establishment elite and MI5 - one of the few good guys, along with #TonyBenn & #DennisSkinner.

[1979] Friday Night, Saturday Morning - Chat show with a revolving guest host. In this episode former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson interviews Pat Phoenix and Fred Trueman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmVMeX4igPw

#OldBritishTelly #HaroldWilson #PatPhoenix #FredTrueman

@orangutanwriter

Well I guess if we had a world war and mobilised several hundred thousand into the army..... the conditions for a second #attlee might obtain.

But we are more in a state like that #haroldWilson had to face - and it looks like #labour could use a leader more like him. Failing that, I think #starmer will do

#left are pushing myth current labour leadership are some sort of tories in disguise - this says we will find out they are not after #nextGE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

Interestingly, the interest in #HaroldWilson as the #LabourParty leader whose experiences & actions might be the best template for #KeirStarmer continues (with today's column by William Keegan in The Observer) - certainly for my parents generation Wilson (along with Barbara Castle) were the heroes that rescued us from 13 wasted years of #tory government
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/22/wilson-won-after-13-wasted-tory-years-starmer-can-do-exactly-the-same

@MatthewToad42

No signs either #starmer has a messianic enthusiasm for overseas wars......

one of my political heroes, #haroldWilson kept us out of #vietnam - pity #blair ignored the lessons of history

Article in Guardian today instructs #Labour to be like #HaroldWilson and "Take office, proclaim a more civilized society, then prove it". What are the chances?