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Originally Posted by Chris
Yes, she did. Political parties have been changing the law to suit their agendas for as long as there have been political parties. This is not surprising, nor is it somehow underhand or criminal. It's what we elect them for, in fact.
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..and at that time she did have fairly substantial support from the British Public. The unions had pretty much abused their power for sometime before Thatcher came to power so union bashing was popular, especially those nasty miners who deprived our power stations of coal meaning we had to have power cuts.
IMHO Thatcher got personal and took it too far, destroying communities and families in the process.
She forced Scargill's hand at a time when she knew she had 5 aces.
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Originally Posted by Julian
Exactly.
I wonder what year it will be before some people stop blaming Maggie Thatcher/The conservative governments of the 70's/80's for all the ills of today/tomorrow.  |
From the experience of when the public stopped blaming Labour and the Unions for the ills of the 70s, I would say it should stop around about the date of the next General election.
