Anyone that hasn’t seen this whole drama documentary about The 1968 and 1974 coup plot against a democratically elected Left wing Labour Government under Harold Wilson should do so. The Social democracy and Left wing of British Politics is only now found in the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru. Consider all the cultural hype regarding the 1960’s, Harold Wilson was Prime Minister for much of it and its engime was really the post war Labour Governments social reforms. The 70’s is painted still by the 1979 Satchi and Satchi campaign of Labour is not working, The Gnomes Of zurich ( actually we should look at Basle and the Bank of International Settlements for the behind the scenes enablers of the Wall Street and City of London crooks these days). Anyway point of ramble is that Current Main Stream media will not give you a context against which to guage the real underlying political potentials for community action and political accountability. Go Green, Go SNP Go Plaid reject the CIA moulded Neo Liberal ( fascist) branded big budget fake products of the LIB LAB Cons. They are all Packaging and no substance. I wonder What Nye Bevan would make of it all thse days. ‘I thought’, said Nye, ‘that you were a Yorkshireman but your Dad has been telling me all about Manchester. Where were you born, boy?’ With a Yorkshireman’s natural pride, I said, thinking of Sheffield’s steel, ‘Yorkshiremen are not born; they are forged.’ ‘Forged were you?’ said Nye in that musical Welsh lilt of his, ‘I always thought there was something counterfeit about you!’Harold Wilson, “Memoirs 1916-1964: The making of a Prime Minister” (Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London 1986, p.
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