An Ode To...Harold Wilson, the PM, who smoked a pipe, and envisaged a better tomorrow

This is a vignette of...Harold Wilson, it features a timeline of his life, some details have been truncated, or omitted.

From the "Red threat", to the "White Heat of Technology", came a man called Harold Wilson, his vision to change society, still affects us today...and for the better.

The "old boy", that shaped the modern UK. Wilson belonged to a world where political giants like Hugh Gaitskell, Aneurin Bevan, James Callaghan, to name but three, roamed the corridors of power.

Some may not recognize their names, but their achievements are still with us, to this very day, shaping every facet of our modern life.

Their visionary policies of yesterday, that have on to become a part of our reality, today.

Threats of a coup d'état, spies, and a bit of peccadillo, all adding to the “spice of life".

Modern politicians, are lightweight in comparison, giving timescales in years, for changes, men like Wilson, did their changes overnight, such was their will to change the country they governed, something that the current politician can learn from, and the future politicians can take heed.

Enjoy the “Ode to Harold Wilson”, the man who had two bites at the cherry, to run this great country.