1970s Bread dispute | 1970s Strikes | Bread shortages | Trade unions | Roy Hattersley | 1977
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- Tony Bastable and Joan Shenton looks at the 1977 bread dispute and how the measures brought in by Prices Secretary Roy Hattersley in 1976 a decision to abolish the 22.5 per cent maximum discount on bread.
First shown: 28/01/1977
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This was amazing. Everyone spoke so finely. It was heated and they were all passionate... but there was a baseline of well-spoken respect and decorum which I have to say is sorely missing today. What a wonderful clip.
It's more a symbol of how prissy TV was then. If you got out onto the streets, I can assure you that the 1970s was very much lacking in decorum.
@@th8257 Ha! Of course, TH. Street trash have been with us for hundreds of years. It doesn't change the fact that there are (and have always been) classy people in the world, too. They don't even have to speak with nice accents, necessarily. But I would rather hear English spoken well, because I was never convinced that being rough was a sign of authenticity. (Laziness, perhaps.)
I get the feeling of the average UK voter around the late 1970s that the unions were too big for their shoes. You're a transport union representative, and you should not be interfering in another problem. Demanding that the minister should see and answer you on a problems which isn't a transport problem is really overstepping the mark. Astounding, even then.
It all sounds as if the people in charge always face the dilemma of 'which of my feet to shoot first?'...
I have to say the Tesco guy seemed a little shifty to me. He is still around, now 86, and was knighted in 1989 and then ennobled as Lord/Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth back in 1996. He started at Tesco as a trainee manager in 1959, then worked his way up to eventually join the board in 1970 and then chairman from 1985 until 1997 when he retired. He also became chairman of Vodafone after that. He was also a member of the ECB and MCC (Cricket). Wiki for more info. Supermarkets though - shafting us, and farmers, since the dawn of time.
Because even back then supermarkets really only cared about making money and putting prices up..while at the same time claiming they are or want to make them cheaper
Used to work for them a badly run company. Whereas lidl is efficent
Lol....this undoubtedly seems like a joke to most people, and quite frankly I'm laughing myself. However, I actually lived through this. Unless you lived in England during the 1970's you will have absolutely no idea what is going here. NO BREAD. BREAD STRIKE! A decade of sunshine, 4 day work week, 3 days of rotating electricity going to bed by candle light!
Whoever that Mr Jackson is or was, his body language was objectionable and his respect towards the women on the panel was non-existent! For example, c 7:28, the smug look makes me mad. I don’t know enough about this issue to know whether or not he’s right or wrong, but he clearly shows more deference to the men than the women on the panel. The fact that the accepted norm was that women (this breed known as “the housewife”) were perceived as primary buyers of groceries in effect ghettoised them - so that arrogant tossers like Mr Jackson here could collectively show them no respect. I’m actually quite left wing. I approve of unions, and support them in the current 2023 wave of strikes. What I don’t approve of is arrogance.
Oh I missed that! I wrote earlier about he was too big for his shoes, and this only strengthened my view. Interfering in matters were that Union didn't have any say, and reacting like he did (Thx Thames!) on a good reaction from mrs. Macintosh. Really very irritating, probably also at the time. And probably one of the reason of the Tory win in 79.
Maybe, but he posed the question - not answered - that reducing or increasing the price of bread wouldn't improve £ going to the producers for manufacturing it, the reason for the bread strike. A question of profits.
This exchange looks like the crap we see today where folks interrupt each other and don't let anyone finish a sentence.
@thamestv might want to add warning to the racial slur used @ 9:42.
why? retroactively applying modern day sensibilities is a slippery slope. 50 years from now your grandchildren will disown you for things you say casually today. reap what you sow
Why? Will somebody die hearing it? This show is almost 50 years old, its not offensive, it is what it is.
@concore is not condemning the use of the term, as you say the programme is almost 50 years old. They've just made a suggestion to include a warning that language, which is no longer acceptable today, is used in this video. Either that or just bleep the word out.
I'm white, approaching middle age and not particularly woke, but it still shocked me to be honest! 😮
In the context of the period it reflected a generational attitude in terms of the now offensive phrase of a racial nature... morals and language change so much over time
@@samanthatee6617 how do you people fail to realise that you are condeming yourself to the same treatment. in 50 years time would you be happy for people to put a disclaimer in front of you for using the word foreigner, woman, mother etc
absolutely mental, I still use the word nigger and if youtube want to ban me for it they can do one!
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exactly
Vote Labour in 2024 and you will get more of this crap. I know, I lived through it
Strikes now in 2023 under a TORY government, and you are worried about Labour coming in next year??
good joke
@@scrottydyer_6821You definitely never lived through a Labour government, so simmer down.
The last living Tory supporter in Britain
@@liamb8644perhaps you'd care to list which strikes upset you during the Blair government ?