Like an old-fashioned movie serial, the British Parliament broke off for its summer vacation at a moment heavy with menace and unanswered questions. Is the whole country about to plunge over the brink into some unimaginable disaster? Can Harold Wilson and his Labor Government escape from the trap into which they’ve fallen? Will Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives come to their rescue? See the next episode—next week, next month, next year . . .
A frightening wave of socialist legislation was also left hanging in the air: the Community Land Bill, which will virtually nationalize all building land; the Industry Bill, which will give the government almost unlimited power to interfere with, or take over, private business; the Employment Protection Bill, which is a vastly expensive catalogue of workers’ benefits; the Wealth Tax, which within a generation will destroy family firms and farms and ancient homes.
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