THE CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO 1979

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A Tory Government would put all this at risk. At work, they would substitute confrontation for cooperation. democracy. We will fight against crime and violence which affect all Western societies. We will continue changes. It also means easing the costs of rapid industrial change for working people. The use of crude necessary to free the world from poverty, inequality and war. We condemn violations of human rights

The Labour Government will legislate to ensure that British ministers are accountable to the House of Labour is committed to save our inner cities. With the inner city partnerships, the new Urban Area Act, andReduce EEC support prices; and press for more scope under the CAP for national support arrangements, This is a positive strategy for industry, based on cooperation between Government, trade unions, and than in the past. More by-passes will be built. Highway inquiries will also be more open, wider in scope,

Britain is almost alone among major industrial nations in achieving energy self-sufficiency; our resourcesLabour councils, responding to the squalor and overcrowding of Victorian and Edwardian cities, and the graphic failure of private landlords and developers to deal with it – indeed the glee with which some of them exploited it – had constructed much of Britain’s early municipal housing in the 1900s. Labour councils and governments carried on building it in large quantities for the next seven decades. By the early 70s some Labour local authorities were even buying up whole streets of decaying inner-city properties from private landlords, and turning them into council homes – a tangible and potent demonstration of state power making up for market failure. By 1980 the proportion of all British housing in state hands was “large ... by international standards”, write Jones and Murie, “almost one in three households”. Most Labour politicians believed there were few reasons, electoral or moral, to risk unravelling the housing safety net that made a congested country habitable for tens of millions. The majority of our people still depend on public transport. Labour believes in maintaining and improving international cooperation. The Labour Government will, therefore, continue its policy of strengthening PUB 332/4/3 - A Strong Britain in a Strong Europe: The Northern Ireland Conservative Manifesto for Europe 1994. [Format: A5 booklet, 58 pp.];

The media made much of Callaghan’s apparent obliviousness to the Winter of Discontent, with The Sun newspaper publishing the famous headline ‘Crisis? What crisis?’. Though the Prime Minister had never said these exact words, the public nonetheless had reason to believe Callaghan was out of touch with the hardship his policies had wrought. Labour’s weak majority The Labour campaign was hampered by a series of industrial disputes and strikes during the winter of 1978–79, known as the Winter of Discontent, and the party focused its campaign on support for the National Health Service and full employment. After intense media speculation that a general election would be held before the end of 1978, Callaghan had announced early in the autumn of that year that a general election would not take place that year, having received private polling data which suggested a parliamentary majority was unlikely. [1]The Conservatives campaigned on economic issues, pledging to control inflation and to reduce the increasing power of the trade unions who supported mass strikes. They also employed the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi who had created the " Labour Isn't Working" poster. which will ensure that public sector workers, including those who are low-paid, receive fair wages that are in

demands for decent homes to rent. But Labour will continue to oppose the sales of council housing in Agriculture has always flourished best under Labour Governments. We have already taken many steps to

will guide the nation in the critical years ahead. In this manifesto, Labour puts forward its policies for the