Conservative Resurgence

I. Jenkins’s assessment of the economy

II. Wilson loses to Heath

III. Industrial Unrest

IV. Industrial Relations Act, 1971

Europe

I. Elimination of obstacles

A. Heath makes nice with Pompidou

B. Denmark and Ireland also join

C. Commonwealth is assuaged

II. Europe is sold to the British

A. White Paper of July 1971

III. Parliamentary Vote

IV. Britain joins the EEC, 1 Jan 1973

Economic Challenges

I. Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

II. Oil Crisis

III. Inflation

IV. Strikes

V. “Who Governs Britain?”

Wilson, Callaghan and Labour Governs Britain

I. The Third-Parties Govern Britain

II. Devolution

III. Referendum on Europe

A. Collective Responsibility

IV. “Stagflation”

V. “Social Contract” with the unions

VI. “Crisis? What Crisis?”

VII. “The Winter of Discontent”

Northern Ireland and “The Troubles”

I. Failures of Stormont Parliament

A. O’Neill’s attempted reforms

II. Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA)

III. Dispatch of troops

IV. Internment without Trial

V. “Bloody Sunday”, 30 Jan 1972

VI. Provisional IRA retaliates

Fall of the Callaghan Government

I. Failure of Devolution

II. Defection of Scottish National Party (SNP)

III. “Labour Isn’t Working”

IV. Rise of Mrs. T