This period featured a number of acts which would have been illegal if a white paper entitled In Place of Strife had passed ten years earlier. In order to resolve this crisis, Operation Drumstick proposed calling troops back from leave, but was not pursued largely on the advice of John Hunt. This calamity was exacerbated by footage showing a man swimming at a conference in Guadeloupe. A nonchalant
This period featured a number of acts which would have been illegal if a white paper entitled In Place of Strife had passed ten years earlier. In order to resolve this crisis, Operation Drumstick proposed calling troops back from leave, but was not pursued largely on the advice of John Hunt. This calamity was exacerbated by footage showing a man swimming at a conference in Guadeloupe. A nonchalant press conference at an airport lead to the famous headline "Crisis? What Crisis?" in the Sun.  Typical images bandied about showed rats on piles of rubbish at Leicester Square, and a factory in Speke storing piled up coffins. This period heavily damaged the incumbent government of James Callaghan, and threw support to the Conservative Party of Margaret Thatcher. FTP, name this period of widespread strikes in 1978 and 1979 in Great Britain, which takes its name from an expression in Shakespeare's Richard III.
This period featured a number of acts which would have been illegal if a white paper entitled In Place of Strife had passed ten years earlier.
Winter of our Discontent [accept descriptive answers such as 1978-1979 General Strikes in the United Kingdom or 1978-1979 Strikes in Great Britain before 1978 is mentioned; do not accept the "Coal Miner Strike" or "UK Miner's Strike", as even though there were some coal miners on strike, this event was not called that and that term refers specifically to another incident]