Plus ça change...
Exasperated by his officials' incompetent efforts to predict immigration numbers, the Prime Minister scrawls on a draft document: 'This isn't statistics - it's astrology.'
Jim Callaghan made a catastrophic decision to abandon plans for a snap general election in 1978 - which cost him dearly when the country was plunged into the 'winter of discontent' of 1979
Meanwhile, British forces are revealed to be so disastrously ill equipped that they cannot hope to defend themselves or their country.
Oh, and Number 10 is incensed by the 'over-lavish expenditure' of the BBC, which the PM accuses of being dominated by hippies. Meanwhile, the corporation's chairman admits that too many young producers adopt a foul-mouthed, fourletter attitude towards authority.
Welcome to Britain in the Wilson-Callaghan era of the mid 1970s, as described in official archives released yesterday.
Curious, isn't it, how little things have changed?
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Coronation Street - Ep 8682
Monday 13th July 2015 - 1st Ep
In the church, Emily recognises Robert Preston [TRISTAN GEMMILL] as Tracy Barlow's [KATE FORD] ex-husband. Deirdre?s funeral takes places and as the congregation sing, Tracy sobs uncontrollably for her mum. Whilst Emily delivers a bible reading, will Ken Barlow [WILLIAM ROACHE] be to mask his anger towards Tracy any longer?
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