Chapter 1521 Fodder for the army and horses

Leaving the negotiation site, reporters from major newspapers had already gathered outside, apparently waiting here in the hope that the Cabinet Secretary would give them a big story.

“This round of confrontation is not justified, this winter has been exceptionally cold, and now gas stations everywhere are overcrowded, filled with cars waiting to refuel. This move to hold the government hostage by striking at the drop of a hat is outrageous.”

Allen Wilson grimaced as he spoke into the microphone stating the unanimous view of the government, “If there is a pay raise without adequate supplies this will only cause prices to skyrocket, the result of which will be that everyone gets a raise in their paychecks but will also be confronted with higher prices, an increase in inflation is inevitable but the unions are clearly not listening to our explanations.”

Allen Wilson got up when he finished speaking, leaving Armstrong to continue dealing with the press, not letting areas short on supplies wait until the truckers arriving on the mainland from overseas were in place.

The department that generally shows the most execution at times like these, is the military, and leaving communication to the media to the Deputy Secretary General, Allen Wilson went directly to the Ministry of Defense, and since Prime Minister Callaghan was visiting, it was the Secretary of Defense who proposed to pass a decision to mobilize the military to supply fuel to the homeland, and to keep the highway system open for the time being.

That is, using the military to control the refineries and transport the fuel, however, the implementation of this plan would require the declaration of a national emergency in order to pass the takeover of the oil companies, and it would be appropriate to declare it so on the grounds of a natural disaster, which the Minister of Defense was skeptical of, “The existing military forces in the homeland are not sufficient to accomplish such a huge substitution.”

“We don’t have the military replacing truck drivers all the time either, it’s just disaster relief, can’t our military even do disaster relief?” Alan Wilson spoke up, “Overseas truckers will be arriving soon, once they land we will arrange for a replacement, Honorable Ministers, what is the situation now, the unions are opposed by their representative, the Labor Party, and continually backing down will only allow the union side to gain an inch, this time they are asking for a forty percent increase in pay, what about the next time?”

“There’s no such thing as next time or don’t say it, strikes have become more and more frequent in recent years and the demands made have become more and more unacceptable. The strangest thing is that those striking workers who claim to be proletarians have no idea what it means to be a proletarian and have learned a term to clamor before the government.”

“It is imperative that citizens are expected to express their support for the government’s actions to restore the supply chain, this cannot be delayed just because the Prime Minister is away on a visit and I think ministers should be equipped to govern the country.”

Alan Wilson set out Whitehall’s view of the current situation, it is already freezing cold, the striking workers are certainly in their numbers, are there fewer citizens paying the price for accompanying the striking workers in these wintry months?

Since it was convinced that the demands made by the strike were unjustified, another public opinion had to be allowed to silence the public opinion of the strike in the electoral state.

The Cabinet then decided to impose a national emergency in the future and to use the army for the transportation of essential supplies, and the trade unions accepted a list of necessities and released the army for their transportation. Meanwhile anti-strike marches broke out in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, with some laborers wanting to stop the strike and return to work.

During Prime Minister Callaghan’s visit, Alan Wilson, in the name of Whitehall, commanded the military to withstand the paralysis of the roads brought about by the strike, as a basis for a protracted battle with the unions.

“Victory shall be ours!” Alan Wilson was not just consoling his Whitehall colleagues, but a large number of overseas civil servants from Hong Kong and Malaya had returned at the same time as the recruited truck drivers.

The local civil servants couldn’t communicate with the recruited truck drivers because of the language problem, but fortunately the civil service family wasn’t only local.

Strikes in the UK are not really big news internationally, the big news of international concern at the moment is Pahlavi’s exile, and the massive protests in Iran started last year, except that Alan Wilson was a spectator, and there are no broad British interests in Iran, which was taken back by Mossadegh, so what’s the concern?

That is the private territory of the United States, attention is also self-seeking, if the Pahlavi particularly offended religion, may also wrong the Shah of Iran, but to say that the Pahlavi always in the spiritual level of the anger of the religion of peace, this is absolutely true.

The Shah’s regime celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire in Persepolis in 1971, which was criticized as profligate, with “foreigners drinking and carousing in contradiction to the taboos of the Religion of Peace, while the Iranians were excluded from the celebrations, and some of them were even still starving.”

Five years later, the Shah angered the devout Iranian Pacifists by changing the first year of the Iranian solar calendar from the first year of the Pacifist calendar to the year of the accession of Cyrus II of the Persian Empire, so that “Iran jumped overnight from 1355 Hijri to 2535 Hijri”.

His Majesty the Shah did not use his own government to persecute religious scholars, but Pahlavi always suppressed religion.

This is the equivalent of Pahlavi not displaying immense military power, but always giving religion a bad rap every now and then, a purely spiritual attack.

If it were any other presidency, Pahlavi would have been perfectly capable of wiping out the opposition with the support of the US, but unfortunately it was the Carter presidency, and the Iranian revolution wouldn’t have been able to make such a big splash so easily if it weren’t for Carter.

The United States believes that if the Pahlavi dynasty is overthrown, the new republican government will also choose to be pro-American, after all, Iran and the Soviet Union is a neighboring country, the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union’s predecessor, Imperial Russia, can not be trampled on the dignity of Iran.

Even if Iran is out of the monarchy, the new Iranian government will choose to continue to be pro-American, after all, the example of Afghanistan has been in front, the Iranians will certainly be very wary of the status quo in Afghanistan.

The whole process of changing the situation in Iran can be seen as an earlier version of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which lasted more than a year before and after, except that the United States eventually played it off.

This is also the reason that after the destabilization of the Soviet Union, the United States repeatedly assured that it hoped that the situation in the Soviet Union would stabilize, because the example of Iran is in front of the United States, the United States really do not dare to guarantee that the new government will not become more anti-American.

The USSR was really taken down by the pro-American faction, a result that even US President George Bush Sr. was deeply shocked by, the world is so marvelous.

Now that Pahlavi has only just gone into exile, the United States may still be looking forward to the new government, believing that the road before Iran has no choice but to be pro-American.

As for the British side, it is not interested in the changes in Iran, even if the second oil crisis comes, so what, that is the responsibility of the United States, Britain still has its own things to do.

For example, while dealing with the strikes, it is discussing the internal affairs of other countries, such as the change in the general line of reform and development, which establishes a “multi-component commodity economy that operates according to the market mechanism and is managed by the state and adheres to the direction of socialism”.

“The Prime Minister’s visit is coming to an end, in fact, for the United Kingdom, the current opportunity if we can be the beneficiary, there is no doubt that we will return to the traditional market.” Alan Wilson and the presidents of the two major foundations to discuss about returning to the traditional market.

Who said that the UK has a poor relationship with a major country, and as far as British-owned industries having to withdraw, isn’t that a tragedy caused by the times, and belonging to an unfortunate change between the development of the two countries?

That can be an unfortunate change, and likewise at the right time, can be the beginning of a golden age.

“We have also found the Sino-Japanese relationship hot.” John Hunt mused, “As the Secretary General has said, our competitor in Asia, at least for the last thirty years, has been Japan.”

“The suppression of the yen at the Jamaica conference has been beneficial to the development of relations between the two countries today, what can the yen do? But it is able to buy expensive Japanese goods, at least for the time being, the pound is still able to buy what is needed in a number of countries.”

Alan Wilson smirked, “Our advantage also lies in the fact that we have a good relationship with all the Chinese tycoons in Asia. I think right now, the face of the patriotic Chinese is still very big, which is also beneficial to the UK in every way.”

Such as? It doesn’t even need to be for example, a talented person who has been nurtured for over ten years makes a trip to the UK, and there is a ninety percent chance that he or she will never want to go back. The cost of training does not have to be borne by the UK, and the trained talent serves the UK, isn’t this an advantage for the UK?

This is just a very small example, in fact, this step is inevitable, as long as you open the door of the country will happen, there is no shortcut to take, no exception anywhere, the first ten Hong Kong girls in Hong Kong, the vast majority of them have either emigrated, or married a foreigner or a Chinese overseas Chinese, just that some places go a little faster, and some places go a little slower.

This world does not exist both both also want things, some suffering necessary to eat, the problem of brain drain a certain big country are not ranked, sound big country that is the benchmark country.

The result of the discussion of the three people is that the total reserves do not move! First let the Malayan and Xiangjiang Chinese tycoons to take the lead, from the point of view of blood is thicker than water to establish a network, in the Chinese tycoons to expand their network at the same time, the British companies should be ready to return to the traditional market, for the development of innovation and openness to make a contribution to the development.

Back home, Alan Wilson in the posture of the head of the family wrapped his arms around the body of the richest woman and asked, “Is there any interest, in this year to conduct a trip to China.”

“I’m just a businessman, dear.” Pamela Mountbatten cocked her head and replied, “I think you said that businessmen in the Eastern world don’t have a high status.”

“There’s always a gap to be inserted, you definitely received unprecedented attention when you went there. It’s more appropriate for you to make arrangements when Su Yang and the others bring good news.” The supreme authority replied with certainty, in the early stage of innovation and opening up because of social change, it does cause some people to have wrong values, for example, it elevates foreign enterprises to a point where they shouldn’t be, it’s the best time for British enterprises to move in at this time, and what generous conditions that is all well and good.