Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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Dia menggambarkan bagaimana, sebagai anak laki-laki berusia 14 tahun, ayahnya telah menyusuri lubang penambangan, pamannya telah menyusuri lubang tersebut, saudara laki-lakinya telah menyusuri lubang tersebut, dan tentu saja dia akan turun ke dalam lubang tersebut.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.