Originally Posted by harmitage

..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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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.