Talk:Labour government, 1964–1970

I could be wrong, but I worked for the Parliamentary Labour Party from the middle of the Profumo crisis until the spring of 1967. I recall everyone listed in the the Wilson governments covered here, except one name. David John Mauerman. I think this must be a misprint, but who on earth for escapes me. I don't have access to the Votes of the time, nor, just now, to the right Hansards, but I hope someone else might.Delahays (talk) 21:26, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned references in First Wilson ministry
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Reference named "ReferenceC": From Second MacDonald ministry: The People’s Party: the History of the Labour Party by Tony Wright and Matt Carter From Harold Wilson: Labour's First Century by Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane, and Nick Tiratsoo From First MacDonald ministry: Labour’s Great Record: An Outline of the First Six Months’ Work of the Labour Government, by Labour Publications Department, 3 Eccleston Square, London, S.W.I From Clement Attlee: Labour in Power, 1945–51 by Kenneth Morgan From Charles de Gaulle: Perry, K. (1976) Modern European History, WH Allen, ISBN 0750604824 

Reference named "A History Of The British Labour Party": From Labour Party (UK): Thorpe, Andrew (2001) A History Of The British Labour Party, Palgrave, ISBN 0-333-92908-x From Harold Wilson: </li> </ul>

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Defence policy
I've read elsewhere in Wikipedia that "the Wilson Government decided on significant reductions in the defence budget, with defence being the primary target of the government's efforts to reduce public spending due to wider economic problems". Being this the case, shouldn't this article include a section focused on Wilson's defence policy? Regards, DPdH (talk) 10:46, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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Education section
The section is a bit of a mess. It fails adequately to distinguish between England and Wales on the one hand, and Scotland on the other. The Education (School Milk) Act 1970 is touted as an expansion of free school milk, whereas in fact it was necessitated by Labour's ending of free school milk for secondary pupils (some schools were designated as secondaries but had younger pupils). It also needs better linking. DuncanHill (talk) 20:49, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

I'm just a little bothered by the impression this creates that nothing much happened to disturb the impression of orderly, consensual post-Butskellite UK government, especially in Scotland or Wales, not to mention Ulster. Not a mention of the Highlands and Islands Development board, or the emergence of Scottish nationalism - though Willie Ross was a major influence in the complexion of the first Wilson government. Or the loss of Labour control of Glasgow City Council in the late sixties Not a mention of the racism in the 1964 Smethwick camapaign, which Wilson himself attacked in his first Commons speech as Prime Minister, and also brought an end to the career of Patrick Gordon Walker - his choice as Foreign Secretary. Or the first appearance at Westminster of an Irish Republican Labour MP, Gerry Fitt. The devolution of the 1990s had deep, and tangled roots. and the white heat of the technological revolution was blazing simultaneously with a nationalisation of iron and steel. 90.192.200.27 (talk) 22:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)