Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jeremy Thorpe at Cenotaph 1970s postcard

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  'Lest we forget..' - Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and Jeremy Thorpe with poppy wreathes at the Cenotaph on Rememberance Sunday - unusual card and rare to find one featuring politcians of this period.
• Publisher:  Kardorama
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician. One of the most prominent British politicians of the latter half of the 20th century, he served two terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, first from 1964 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1976. He emerged as Prime Minister after more general elections than any other 20th century premier, contesting five general elections and winning four of them (in 1964, 1966, February 1974 and October 1974). He is the most recent British Prime Minister to have served non-consecutive terms.

Harold Wilson first served as Prime Minister in the 1960s, during a period of low unemployment and relative economic prosperity (though also of significant problems with the UK's external balance of payments). His second term in office began in 1974, when a period of economic crisis was beginning to hit most Western countries. On both occasions, economic concerns were to prove a significant constraint on his governments' ambitions. Wilson's own approach to socialism placed emphasis on efforts to increase opportunity within society, for example through change and expansion within the education system, allied to the technocratic aim of taking better advantage of rapid scientific progress, rather than on the left's traditional goal of promoting wider public ownership of industry. While he did not challenge the Party constitution's stated dedication to nationalisation head-on, he took little action to pursue it.

Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005) was a British Conservative Party politician who served one term as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath's accession marked a change in the leadership of the Conservative Party from aristocratic figures such as Harold Macmillan and the former Earl of Home, to the meritocratic Heath and Margaret Thatcher, his successor.

Publicly noted for his enthusiasms for classical and church music and for sailing, his shoulder-shaking laughter and bachelor status, as a statesman he is remembered as the prime minister who successfully negotiated Britain's entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973. His premiership was also marked by an escalation of The Troubles in Northern Ireland and the industrial disputes of the early 1970s.

John Jeremy Thorpe (born 29 April 1929) is a former British Liberal politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Devon from 1959 to 1979, and was leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. His political career was damaged when an acquaintance, Norman Scott, claimed to be his former lover, and ended when he was charged with conspiring to murder Scott, though he was acquitted of the charges.