Are you referring to the stroke of '84? The miners went on strike because they had little choice about it. They weren't actually holding the country to ransom as there were huge stockpiles of coal. She had a deliberate policy of destroying the trades unions, and the miners were not the first to get the treatment
No. I'm referring to the strikes of the 1970s and events such as the 3 day week which made breaking the Unions a good idea. Thatcher then stockpiled coal in order to be able to prevent the miners striking and forcing another 3 day week.
And no, I don't believe they were random aggressors. I do believe, however, that any organisation that can force the country onto a 3 day week and then throw their weight around (rejecting a 20% pay rise in 1979) and where the leadership is arrogant enough to call a general strike without a ballot (Scargill in 1984) needs breaking. The miners may not have been random aggressors, but they were hardly random victims.
Here, it would be bad, bcos we get bugger-all back for it.
Only because we spend bugger-all on it.
My favourite supporting statistic is that we spend less per head on healthcare than the US Government does before you take private care into account - we probably have the most cost-effective first-world healthcare system in the world.
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No. I'm referring to the strikes of the 1970s and events such as the 3 day week which made breaking the Unions a good idea. Thatcher then stockpiled coal in order to be able to prevent the miners striking and forcing another 3 day week.
And no, I don't believe they were random aggressors. I do believe, however, that any organisation that can force the country onto a 3 day week and then throw their weight around (rejecting a 20% pay rise in 1979) and where the leadership is arrogant enough to call a general strike without a ballot (Scargill in 1984) needs breaking. The miners may not have been random aggressors, but they were hardly random victims.
Here, it would be bad, bcos we get bugger-all back for it.
Only because we spend bugger-all on it.
My favourite supporting statistic is that we spend less per head on healthcare than the US Government does before you take private care into account - we probably have the most cost-effective first-world healthcare system in the world.