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Did you know... that the briefly popular "I'm Backing Britain" campaign in 1968 suffered embarrassment when a number of t-shirts bearing the slogan were found to be made in Portugal?
I find this campaign very interesting. I was wondering if it did have any effect on the economy, GDP, etc... ? I think that would be a good and interesting addition to this article. Rej5y7 (talk) 15:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to find any analysis of the economic effects but could only come up with the anecdotal report of Supermarkets from March. It was presumably too difficult for anyone to ascribe macroeconomic changes to something which was a fairly nebulous and loosely-linked campaign in the first place. 1968 saw a series of public spending cuts and a tax raising budget, but the British economy did recover quite significantly, especially in exports. All of this would probably have happened anyway. Sam Blacketer (talk) 16:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
McCartney's "Back in the U.S.S.R."
Can anyone provide some believable backup for the statement that "Paul McCartney thought the campaign was ridiculous and it inspired him to write a song called "I'm Backing the UK", which eventually became "Back in the U.S.S.R.""? The claim is wicked funny, I like it, and I want to be true :). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.198.151.44 (talk) 12:11, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
