Conservative party | Edward Heath Interview | 1974

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  • The Leader of the Conservative Party Edward Heath discusses the issues facing the electorate when deciding who to vote for in the up and coming 1974 General Election.
    First shown 21/02/1974
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  • @thomascullimore9693
    @thomascullimore9693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Compare Edward heath's grasp of detail to Boris Johnson's, a complete contrast.

    • @adampowell5376
      @adampowell5376 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Heath was a vastly better than Johnson.

    • @zachsmith5515
      @zachsmith5515 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Compare Harold Wilson's grasp of detail to bungling Keir Starmer, a complete contrast.

    • @harrynewiss4630
      @harrynewiss4630 ปีที่แล้ว

      But his judgement was consistently wrong

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    8:48 - Llew would have been aware that John Davis was paid £50,000 salary in 1973, which would have been subject to 75% income tax. He did not mention that in this discussion, under Heath the top rate for over £20,000 a year was 75% - later increased to an eye watering 83% by Harold Wilson in 1974.

  • @tancreddehauteville764
    @tancreddehauteville764 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Heath should have delayed the election until 1975 and then he would probably have won.

  • @tubularbill
    @tubularbill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Heath narrowly lost that election. Won the overall popular vote but feel electorally short in MP seats. This and next October 1974 loss led the way to Thatcher....

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He could have possibly managed to form a coalition with the Liberal Party if he was prepared to go along with some of their policies, which he refused. I think the Liberals preferred to prop up Labour than Conservatives back then though if required, and indeed Labour and Liberals formed a pact in the mid 70s

  • @daisuke9022
    @daisuke9022 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    very cogent, honest interview by Heath - regrettably not what people wanted to hear for him to win an election

    • @ossyable
      @ossyable 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      神妙大輔Daisuke だいすけ very much so in comparison to the vacuous May. Watching these 1970s interviews and debates I cannot help but be impressed by the honesty and serious mindedness of the likes of Heath Wilson foot powell Jenkins and Benn. I don't know whether it was because they grew up in more austere times and had the shared hardship of world wars but many of today's sound bite politicians come across as frivilous and insincere in comparison.

    • @gazarmstrong3218
      @gazarmstrong3218 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was a poor prime minister and replaced by a better man, Harold Wilson.

    • @KearnuPhoenix
      @KearnuPhoenix 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/WcZ2bZO3oVk/w-d-xo.html

    • @handsoffmycactus2958
      @handsoffmycactus2958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was an evil paedophile.

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like or loath his policies he comes across as a competent and capable statesman, Modern day leaders seem to lack any precision or grasp of detail. They waffle and flip flop and duck for cover with every transient opinion poll shift.

  • @keshavabhat8695
    @keshavabhat8695 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Voters in that country voted and selected for better prime minister of that time.

  • @jodyburrows977
    @jodyburrows977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He was straight talking

  • @jean6872
    @jean6872 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hard-hitting tough interview that impressed the English voters.

  • @wilsonfisk6626
    @wilsonfisk6626 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman."

  • @craigwilson5232
    @craigwilson5232 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Politics has been diminished in substance if you consider Boris Johnson in his last few days as primeminister.It probably says as much about the electorate that we have such disgracefully shallow people holding power , and not using it for the good of the nation. Where are the Heaths and the Thatchers? We could do with this calibre of politician now.

    • @MaterLacrymarum
      @MaterLacrymarum ปีที่แล้ว

      I take it you weren't alive during the times they were in power. Thatcher was terrible for the working man, Heath was no better. It's sad that not only do we have shallow politicians these days, but we have a working class who are equally shallow and self-interested.

  • @Deepakverma-yb5ro
    @Deepakverma-yb5ro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The 1970s were great for me, I used to enjoy watching old locomotives in Oldham, and I enjoyed watching the TV programme like morecambe and wise show, Kenn dodd they were proper TV programmes

    • @stevebbuk9557
      @stevebbuk9557 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes and Coronation Street was better.

  • @tomgibson6801
    @tomgibson6801 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    count everytime eddy says pawer

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The best female prime minister the Labour party ever had.

  • @Deepakverma-yb5ro
    @Deepakverma-yb5ro ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wished we could live that time again and see lots of old things that we once saw. The 1970s were great .

    • @callumclark4021
      @callumclark4021 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We're basically living through it now!

    • @Evolutionator944
      @Evolutionator944 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@callumclark4021 to true I feel like I’m in the 70s to be honest

    • @b.p4958
      @b.p4958 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@callumclark4021not really, there’s no strikes by miners and militants, coal is in short supply, there is no war with the Arabs with oil prices, no war in the Middle East etc

    • @th8257
      @th8257 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Troll

    • @highdefboxing8056
      @highdefboxing8056 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@b.p4958 No war in the Middle East? Your comment hasn't aged well.

  • @yankygluck6921
    @yankygluck6921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We are going to take measures to deal with property speculators. WTF.

  • @psychonaut1502
    @psychonaut1502 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He sort of sounds like a deeper voiced Patrick Stewart.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Patrick would hate the comparison, as Patrick openly said he is a socialist and a member of the Labour Party.

    • @harrynewiss4630
      @harrynewiss4630 ปีที่แล้ว

      His accent is nothing like Patrick Stewart's. Heath was from Kent and despite his attempts to put on a plummy voice that kept poking through. The Python boys did a whole skit about what a weird voice Heath had.

  • @stevebbuk
    @stevebbuk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "We did everything humanly possible to settle with the miners."

  • @themelidenstar7040
    @themelidenstar7040 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Is the interviewer meant to look a bit like Michael Howard and John Majors love child?

    • @zippymo672
      @zippymo672 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thomas the Travelling Stargazer Looooool

    • @thedativecase9733
      @thedativecase9733 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      OMG He really does, doesn't he ! Im now have the hideous image in my mind of those two engaging in sexual congress ! Aaaaaargh! Must think of something else .....

    • @simonlilley
      @simonlilley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Interviewer is Llew Gardner, a much respected ITV interviewer.

    • @sal.salvador202
      @sal.salvador202 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Thom", what are you on about idiot , and the correct word is bastard not "love child"!.

    • @___UN
      @___UN 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sal.salvador202 "GABRIE'L", what are you on about idiot, and the correct name is "Gabriel"!

  • @jodyburrows1253
    @jodyburrows1253 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    To be fair he is straight talking

  • @andrewhuckle803
    @andrewhuckle803 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who governs ? And the people said " not you mate" ! February 1974.

  • @luigicellauro4624
    @luigicellauro4624 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I WAS IN ENGLAND IN 1974, 2 MONTHS, BUT I FID NOT KNOW WHO WS PRIME MINISTER. I THINK I WAS NOT INTERESTED. I WAS INTERESTED ONLY IN FRANCE, AND ACCESSORILY ITALY.

    • @zachsmith5515
      @zachsmith5515 ปีที่แล้ว

      why are you shouting and why would ANYONE be interested in France? yawn

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    How did Heath ever become Tory party leader in the first place?

    • @nicoladouglas3270
      @nicoladouglas3270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He was part of a special club!!!! Involving children!!!! Dolphin square!!!

    • @Compleme_Cunm
      @Compleme_Cunm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Chaz Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for selecting the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

    • @frankdsouza2425
      @frankdsouza2425 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Easy, John King. He was correctly perceived as a truly outstanding man

    • @ainnochaim9450
      @ainnochaim9450 ปีที่แล้ว

      Easy to blackmail...

    • @eujrvision2296
      @eujrvision2296 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nicoladouglas3270 that was proved to be bollocks

  • @martin123abcd
    @martin123abcd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    John Dais 50000 pounds a year 1974 ,Denise Coates 421 million pounds in 2021 how times have changed

  • @jodyburrows977
    @jodyburrows977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He comes accross well

    • @harpsailorharp6716gg
      @harpsailorharp6716gg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      evil man

    • @Evolutionator944
      @Evolutionator944 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was a pedophile his victim was a man who spoke out before he died I mean the victim like Savile people were taking in by his charm and smile apparently he sexually groomed him When he was young if you don’t believe me look it up man was a Nonce

  • @adamh542
    @adamh542 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There is a disruptive element, the irony, yes Mr Heath that element you and your MPs.

    • @MrDustpile
      @MrDustpile 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Strikes brought down the Heath government, the Callaghan government and twice they attempted it with Thatcher in 1981 and '84-'85. And its debatable they threatened the Wilson governments.
      In the end, strikes broke the unions, or clipped their wings a bit.

  • @luigicellauro4624
    @luigicellauro4624 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    HEATH IS A GREAT SPEAKER! NUMBER 1 IN THE UK.

  • @leehighland5435
    @leehighland5435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Politicians are responsible for the state our country is in, no one else.

  • @jameswebb8273
    @jameswebb8273 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello, Sailor😁😉

  • @Anime9100
    @Anime9100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:30 “[...]2,000 million pounds a year.”
    ....that’s not a number.

    • @ewan.cartwright
      @ewan.cartwright 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This was common parlance before the american definition of a billion took over in Britain

    • @Anime9100
      @Anime9100 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ...so, you’re saying that you all didn’t have definition for a number past million except saying, “ ____ thousand ____ million?”

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Anime9100 Thousand million was a "milliard" but nobody used it, then 10^6 was a billion (a million million).

    • @blueb0g
      @blueb0g 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Anime9100 Of course there were, but not for what we now call a billion - that was a thousand million. Not so very different from saying a hundred million, really. If you said "one billion" in the 1970s that would have meant a million million.

  • @michaelcox545
    @michaelcox545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hell isn’t hot enough for this creature

    • @earlgrey3660
      @earlgrey3660 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How so?

    • @PBI45
      @PBI45 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      apparently there were covered up sex abuse claims against Heath ​@@earlgrey3660

  • @elora179
    @elora179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Traitor. It took us 46 years to get out of his mess.

    • @Android3008
      @Android3008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly, other countries will follow

    • @GoldMario5500
      @GoldMario5500 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks to the bloody remoaners who have listened to Heath he already been paid by Soros to dragged us into this mess

    • @GoldMario5500
      @GoldMario5500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Android3008 Italy is the second country wants to leave I'm not surprised

    • @mrjohncharlesbrown
      @mrjohncharlesbrown ปีที่แล้ว

      Nah mate we are fucked we're too small .....we have no manufacturing we should not left the EU we are a fucking joke not the British Empire you're delusional

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was the common market then which was beneficial for trade but after Maastricht Nice and Lisbon it became too autocratic.

  • @briandelaney9710
    @briandelaney9710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Heath was such a bore

    • @KearnuPhoenix
      @KearnuPhoenix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bore? th-cam.com/video/WcZ2bZO3oVk/w-d-xo.html

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Nicholas Ennos Nicholas you met him? When?

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Nicholas Ennos Oh dear, what age were you when Heath came there?

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Nicholas Ennos I have read those rumours and it doesn't look good.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Nicholas Ennos He comes across as a robot. I never warmed to him at all. He seemed cold as ice with ice water in his veins.