Chapter 1528 The Caretaker Government
The Labor Party was the majority party in the House of Commons, but it was impossible to lose such a vote without a Labor MP abstaining, the Speaker of course still had one more vote, but with Labor trailing the Opposition by two votes, it was unlikely that the Speaker would be able to help Labor salvage the situation even if he had voted.
In response to the result Speaker George Thomas did not choose to cast his own Speaker’s vote to keep the resolution at the original number of votes, and after announcing that the Callaghan government had stepped down, Conservative MPs began to celebrate the victory, while Labor MPs sang the party song, “The Red Flag” in unison.
Whitehall was also in the midst of hand-wringing, with heads of department asking the Cabinet Secretary what to do now, following Labor’s dramatic defeat.
“I suppose, all this being the case, the strike will naturally not hold, and who will the unions talk to now? Gentlemen!” After Alan Wilson asked a rhetorical question, then said, “The current situation, the Prime Minister is not free to care about us, whether it is the Prime Minister or Ms. Thatcher, the most important thing at present is to prepare for the next general election.”
This result, in Alan Wilson’s opinion, is not entirely bad, he is, after all, delayed until this dramatic vote, did not reach an agreement with the striking parties unions.
Simply put, it saved money, and the striking unions couldn’t find a target until a new government eh elected, and with the government gone, the target of the strike was gone, so what’s the point of striking?
As soon as the words fell out of his mouth, on live television, after the motion of no confidence was passed, Callaghan announced that a general election would be held, calling for “holding fast to our duty to the nation”, and Parliament was not immediately dissolved, but left a period of cleansing, and the general election, which was originally planned to be held in the fall, was brought forward to May.
Britain was effectively left with a caretaker government, so naturally all the work that had been done before was put on hold and left to the new government to sort out. Alan Wilson immediately withdrew his representatives from the trade union negotiations as a way of maintaining Whitehall’s neutrality, and left the trade unionists, who had been negotiating the pay rises, out to dry.
Maybe even go to Hawksin to relax and take it easy and wait for the new government to be formed, at the invitation of Princess Margaret, Alan Wilson also went to the princess’s house to have a lunch, “This is the biggest fish in freshwater, don’t you say that many foods in the East are about nourishing the yin and replenishing the yang, how about trying it.”
“It’s best not to let the striking workers know about this kind of scene, I still remember Haile Selassie, it was under almost similar conditions that exposed the photo of feeding meat to lions.” Alan Wilson chucked a piece of giant bony tongue fish and said with an appetite, “That’s the sort of thing that would give my daughter another furious scolding if she knew about it.”
“Your daughter is a typical double standard, she’s the one who told me that giant bone tongue fish is delicious.” Princess Margaret sniffed and muttered in dissatisfaction, “My son Ross, I’ve never seen you hang on to it with such pride.”
“Margaret, that’s something I really can’t proudly hang on to Turing’s child like you said.” Alan Wilson replied bitterly, did his sister-in-law even know that this was a sensitive issue? Shouldn’t he be concerned about what Pamela thought? The respect was all mutual.
“Recently, my body is not feeling well, later on, give me a bone straightening.” Princess Margaret did not continue to go deeper in the previous topic, but took the initiative to issue an invitation.
Her Highness’s body that is a big deal, Allen Wilson naturally can’t object, and inevitably will have to engage in some lip-synching again as a way to express respect for the royal family.
Strike although temporarily hung out to dry, Allen Wilson but do not dare to slacken off, may be he was born to be laborious life, circling the middle of all the forces, are to this age is really difficult for him.
“How to me, as if the whole person is atrophied?” Anna is very dissatisfied muttered, British-German goodwill relations in this case how to develop.
“It’s not letting the strike get the better of me, even so, I still work hard and don’t dare to have a strike at all.” Alan Wilson did not dare to shout, who let others handle in hand.
“Count on you still know what you’re doing.” Anna said so, but the foxiness didn’t abate; it was unlikely that she had gone to some old woman, and even more unlikely that there might be more than one.
God forbid, Alan Wilson swore on the Yellowstone volcano that he definitely hadn’t been to Paris lately, but what could he do if people came of their own accord? Couldn’t they be allowed to come?
Before getting down to business, discussing a few miscellaneous things, like seeing if they could bring over the Santana sub-brand, Anna was straight up reluctant, “Transferring German goodies to Pamela are we?”
“Anna, how can you say that, it’s really not possible to have half of one family, it’s considered a British-German joint venture.” Alan Wilson used practical actions to show that the bottom line of supreme authority is that there is no bottom line. Being able to poke through with a single word from the little dragon rider, the bottom line is completely only symbolic.
In this kind of thing Allen Wilson are not as ethical as politicians, after all, business matters is the existence of a win-win possibility, all can be talked about, nothing can not be talked about.
Taking advantage of this period of time before the election, Alan Wilson is busy with the Anglo-German joint venture this matter, sometimes think about it, eat alone really is not good, Alan Wilson also made a special introspection on this, since there is such an environment, then the benefit of the community can not be limited to a country, this is a reconciled world, should seek common ground while reserving differences, but also can not be too selfish.
“I’ll ask Hans to talk to the Volkswagen Group.” Anna finally sympathized with the plight of men of the same status as her husband, and kind of didn’t make things difficult for Alan Wilson.
The Volkswagen Group and Britain also had a connection, because it was in the British Occupation Zone, after the end of World War II, in 1945, Volkswagen was taken over by the British military government. Under British administration, the Beetle was put into mass production, and after the end of the military officers, Allen Wilson personally subscribed to some shares, which were then resold to the two sisters of the Heilmann family.
Allen Wilson has always been adhering to the idea of wanting to share the benefits equally, never swallowed the German star enterprise as a foreigner, and the benefits received during that time ended up in the hands of the two sisters.
In terms of funding, he believes is not a problem, Pamela Mountbatten will not let the Volkswagen Group suffer, will certainly take out the right price to complete the acquisition of the sub-brand.
Again back to Whitehall Alan Wilson, put into the forgetful work, dedication in the Whitehall internal widely praised, and sometimes go to Buckingham Palace, expounded on the government’s views on the direction of the Queen and his wife to solve the problem, and Prince Philip in the walk, saw the Crown Prince Charles let loose that, Alan Wilson a face of non-committal.
“Our Crown Prince is quite energetic.” Alan Wilson looked at the big baboon’s happy face and said you don’t know how many years enough for a record-breaking career as Crown Prince has only just begun.
“Alan, we’ve all been young, this sort of thing is perfectly normal, and it’s important not to be too strict in disciplining your children.” Prince Philip carries out the maxim that a son is absolutely his own good, while side-stepping Alan Wilson’s management of children, too strict.
“It’s better to be strict.” Alan Wilson didn’t give in to the fact that the other party was the Queen’s husband, “The Crown Prince’s openness to his partner doesn’t suit anyone else, after all, there’s only one Crown Prince.”
As for Prince Philip’s comment about what we’ve all been young, Alan Wilson didn’t even bother to answer, Prince Philip may have had countless mistresses and illegitimate children, he wasn’t like that, his were ladies of equal status to his wife, and the children weren’t illegitimate.
Prince Charles and Diana noticed the movement and came over to say hello, Alan Wilson froze for a moment and after a few seconds of recollection responded with his wife’s mentioned courtesy before speaking to Diana, “What a beautiful lady, Pamela and I have mentioned you.”
“Pamela is the one I idolize, she lives a free life.” Diana replied politely, very proper throughout.
“So much for that.” Alan Wilson made a helpless look, he didn’t feel that Diana’s words were a compliment, if this was a different person, he would have felt that the other party was scolding him.
If it wasn’t for the Crown Prince’s father being right next to him, Alan Wilson was not in a good position to show too much obviousness, he would definitely have had a good chat with Diana and left the baboon aside. If it was not for the Crown Prince not being able to control the two or two meat inside his pants, the British royal family would not have to be so embarrassed in the future.
Since he could not do anything to the Crown Prince, Alan Wilson brought the topic to the Iranian revolution, a topic that is certainly not of interest to young people, and Prince Charles and Diana left after a while.
The Iranian revolution has indeed reached a very critical time, the old dynasty has gone away, the new government is what it looks like, or caused the attention of the countries, in the legislative vote, people know the answer to this.
In addition to the Iranian president, the new constitution deliberately created a more powerful Guardian Judge Ruler for Khomeini, a position that can control the military security services, but also has the power to appoint a number of important government and judicial officials.
The new constitution also increases the number and powers of the Constitutional Oversight Committee, which can administer elections and even laws passed by the legislature.
Khomeini’s assertion that “don’t use the word ‘democracy’, it’s a western style” disappointed the liberals who supported a democratic form of government, and Alan Wilson once again warned Washington that he knew it would be useless, and that’s why he warned, and that Britain would not be able to help if the United States did make a move. can’t help, right now the Tories and Labor have no time for Iran, they are busy with the election.
According to the results of the last time, in addition to Callaghan’s Labor Party and Thatcher’s Conservative Party, David Steel’s Liberal Party and William Wolfe’s party also have some seats competitive, outside polls generally believe that Thatcher can be elected prime minister but it is difficult to form a majority government, because in the post-war period, Labor’s voice is much greater than the Conservative Party.
“Don’t believe the pundit predictions, they can’t predict anything except when they can predict this.” Alan Wilson said to his wife, “We’re about to have the first female Prime Minister in British history, don’t believe me watch.”