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Originally Posted by Lucysgirl
My late husband was a regular in HM forces during Harold Wilson's reign in the 1960s. Maybe you'd like to explain why Wilson cut their allowances and cut their numbers making tens of thousands redundant in that period. It was noticeable that the men with most experience and thus had larger wages were the target of the cuts. It was a period when Kenyon Asian refugees were streaming into Britain, which meant long council housing waiting lists and not many job vacancies.
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Ya Lucy and wasn't it Harold Wilson's Government that is the only government ever to cut spending on the NHS, think it was back in 67 round about the same time that the pound has ever been devalued