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30 de jul. de 2010 · Even Harold Wilson, the prime minister, offered his support. “There is too much knocking of Britain,” he said. “What we want is ‘back Britain’ not back-biting.” Within a week the typists...
"I'm Backing Britain" was a brief patriotic campaign, which flourished in early 1968 and was aimed at boosting the British economy. The campaign started spontaneously when five Surbiton secretaries volunteered to work an extra half-hour each day without pay to boost productivity and urged others to do the same.
What happened was that the British economy was in one of its periodic periods of crisis – Harold Wilson had just devalued the pound – and at a heating engineering firm in Surbiton, called Colts, the managing director suggested that if everyone worked an extra half an hour a day for free productivity around the country would soon rise.
Listening to Harold Wilson boast that Britain “is going to be forged in the white heat of this (technological) revolution” at Labour’s annual conference in 1963, one of the party’s brightest candidates, Brian Walden, later a television star and Sunday Times columnist, scratched his head in puzzlement: “I didn’t understand what Wilson was talking...
13 de feb. de 2023 · Strikes, devaluation and rejection from the Common Market are making Prime Minister Harold Wilson's life a misery. After the heady days of the Swinging Sixties, a cloud of gloom now hovers...
1 de abr. de 2022 · This is reminiscent of former prime minister Harold Wilson’s “I’m backing Britain” campaign of 1968, which sought to encourage UK workers to become more productive and consumers to buy British goods. The campaign quickly fizzled out, and a similar policy today is fraught with difficulties.
Slogan Doctor - I'm backing Britain. In the winter of 1967, Harold Wilson's Labour government was desperate to promote exports. by John Morrish. Sterling had just been devalued, renewing the competitiveness of British goods.
