chissitt wrote:Right so all the people of the North who voted labour were the only people who felt the fall out from the fight between the government and the unions, people such as myself and my workmates who weren't in a union who didn't have a union to fall back on because back in the day unions were frowned upon in private enterprise to a large extent and we were shopping at different shops, what you are saying also is that we were exempt from relative hardship due in the main to the weaker labour governments getting into bed with the powerful union leaders and pleasing them at all costs to the tune of jobs for the boys at whatever price to stay in government, which inevitably led to the confrontations with Thatcher and bully boy Scargill and his cronies who thought that they should run the country and decide there would be no redundancies whatever the cost to the general public wherever they chose to live
It's good you agree that the unions needed tempering because it was not funny having no lighting and heating due to power cuts brought on by power crazed union leaders fuelled by greed, and one last thing, I do hope the we got a damn good kicking from the Tory establishment isn't just reserved for you because a lot of innocent people felt the hardship due in the main to Scargill.
I take it that your not a Scargill fan ?
Seriously though, the jobs for the boys comment is quite strange, given that this is exactly how the country works (on both sides of the political divide). Nepotism is alive and well at both ends of the political spectrum.
The "kicking" from the Tory establishment as part of the collateral damage from Maggie's fight with the Unions clearly hit everyone "up north" and for 2 or 3 generations, you could argue that, in economic terms, "we" still haven't fully got over it.
The point I was trying to make with this is that, the population of the North felt the full effect of this.
Yes, they also endured the hardship and difficulties of the 3 day week and the effects of the endless strikes of the 70's but, they also hit the hardest in terms of the change to the industrial landscape and the decimation of heavy industry.
Unions or not, it was and still is a huge price to pay for a political battle of wills
The so called "great leader" looked after her own to the detriment of those outside of her Tory voting public.
the mans a clown, only difference is he's not as big a clown as that muppet from your embarrassing lot, speaking of which, there's a couple of Wakey posters on here what make things up to suit they're political agenda, on that basis I just try and redress the balance as I don't think your party would have done any better, oh and I've put the extra T in chissitt for yer all reet, btw did I ever tell you how I got my user name 
