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Originally Posted by Doug P
It was awful. Everything from power to the post office and railways to the docks were on strike and making people suffer. It just made bankrupt and inefficient industries even worse off and drained more money from the taxes paid by the workers.
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I remember riding my motorbike and all of a sudden the street lights, house lights - everything went off. I actually thought there was about to be a nuclear bomb explosion! Horrible days.
May be some of the younger folk could do with carrying out a bit of research on what life was like pre privatisation and some of the older folks (Arthur) need to turn off their selective memory