Labour Party and the Unions

[Max B. Sawicky]

. . .  After the Labour Party's defeat in 1979, union leaders' disappointed
by
the leadership declined to restrain the left of the party, who briefly
imposed their own bizarre vision of a return to the 1945 government on
the manifesto. After the electorate rubbished this exercise in left
nostalgia, the project of modernising labour was quietly and slowly put
into operation. . . .

This is a little compressed.  It sounds like there was an attempt
at a left turn, upon which you heap much implied scorn.  Can you
elaborate?

mbs