The Winter of Discontent was driven by a combination of different social, economic and political factors which had been developing for over a decade.Дivisions in Labour Party over macroeconomic strategy 10.3 As 21st-century Conservative talking point.6 Media response by Callaghan and Thatcher.1.5 'Stepping Stones' and hardening of Conservative position on unionism.1.1 Divisions in Labour Party over macroeconomic strategy.It is credited to Larry Lamb, :вЂЉ254 then editor at The Sun in an editorial on. The term 'Winter of Discontent' is an allusion to a famous quote from Shakespeare's play Richard III. In the late 2010s, after the more left wing Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader, some British leftists argued that this narrative about the Winter of Discontent was inaccurate, and that policy in subsequent decades was much more harmful to Britain. Thatcher, and later other Conservatives like Boris Johnson, have continued to invoke the Winter of Discontent in election campaigns it would be 18 years until another Labour government took power. Once in power, the Conservatives, who under Thatcher's leadership had begun criticising the unions as too powerful, passed legislation, similar to that proposed in a Labour white paper a decade earlier, that barred many practices, such as secondary picketing, that had magnified the effects of the strikes. Union membership, particularly in the public sector, had grown more female and less white, and the growth of the public sector unions had not brought them a commensurate share of power within the TUC.ДЄfter Callaghan returned from a summit conference in the tropics at a time when the hauliers' strike and the weather had seriously disrupted the economy, leading thousands to apply for unemployment benefits, his denial that there was 'mounting chaos' in the country was paraphrased in a famous Sun headline as 'Crisis? What Crisis?' Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher's acknowledgement of the severity of the situation in a Party political broadcast a week later was seen as instrumental to her victory in the general election held four months later after Callaghan's government fell to a no-confidence vote. Many of the strikes were initiated at the local level, with national union leaders largely unable to stop them. Labour's internal divisions over its commitment to socialism, manifested in disputes over labour law reform and macroeconomic strategy during the 1960s and early 1970s, pitted constituency members against the party's establishment. The unrest had deeper causes besides resentment of the caps on pay rises.

Additionally, NHS ancillary workers formed picket lines to blockade hospital entrances with the result that many hospitals were reduced to taking emergency patients only. These actions included an unofficial strike by gravediggers working in Liverpool and Tameside, and strikes by refuse collectors, leaving uncollected rubbish in London's Leicester Square. Later in the month many public workers followed suit as well. At the end of the year a road hauliers' strike began, coupled with a severe storm as 1979 began. ДЄ strike by workers at Ford in late 1978 was settled with a pay increase of 17 per cent, well above the 5 per cent limit the government was holding its own workers to with the intent of setting an example for the private sector to follow, after a resolution at the Labour Party's annual conference urging the government not to intervene passed overwhelmingly. Some of these industrial disputes caused great public inconvenience, exacerbated by the coldest winter for 16 years, in which severe storms isolated many remote areas of the country. The Winter of Discontent was the period from November 1978 to February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing, against Trades Union Congress (TUC) opposition, to control inflation.

James Callaghan, Prime Minister during the Winter of Discontent, in 1978

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