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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...
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.
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...
"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.
12 de ago. de 2016 · Even Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister, pledged his support to the campaign and many more businesses soon joined. The campaign didn’t last too long, as soon unions began to raise concern about employees working unpaid overtime, but it goes to show what impact a small act can bring.
25 de sept. de 2018 · Britain's economy is teetering on the brink. Strikes, devaluation and rejection from the Common Market are making Prime Minister Harold Wilson's life a misery.
Robert Maxwell took out “Buy British” ads in the papers and people were encouraged to sport T-shirts and badges emblazoned with “I’m Backing Britain” over a union jack. The Duke of Edinburgh even lent his support saying it was “the most heartening news I’ve heard in 1967”.
