The crisis that would the following year lead to the downfall of Edward Heath's

Conservative government had arguably been exacerbated by the Industrial Relations Bill, formulated by the Labour government of Harold Wilson but eventually passed under Heath. Mr. Scanlon, a hard-line union man, gives no quarter. HS: "If it were a matter of basic human rights, I would have to agree with you. But I submit to you that the question of the relationships that exist between management and workers is not a question of basic human rights." WFB: "Yes. Well,... Suppose I worked in your union and you called a strike. Would I have the basic human right to defy that strike and proceed to my station at work if I chose to do so?" HS: "I don't think that that is a basic human right." WFB: "Why not?" HS: "Because I believe the principles of democracy are that the minority will obey the will of the majority." WFB: "But suppose that the Parliament, representing the larger majority, says it is one of my human rights. Then am I not right in observing

the democratic franchise so formulated?" HS: "You are right in obeying it, but you

equally can't deny our right to disobey it."