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Given what had happened during the 74/79 labour governments time in office Thatcher was what the country needed. For all the young socialist folk.....I give you Harold Wilson speech (19Nov1967) - YouTube Yup who inherited a dire economic problem from the tories who had had the unions and the...

I worked in Manchester during the late 70s,the good old days of strike after strike,the dog days of the Wilson,Callaghan government. I worked in a large sub-post office and was asked to go to the main sorting office (Spring Gardens) in Manchester to collect a very large amount of cash so that...

Correct and the blame lies where? Scargill who thought he could do a Heath job as per Gormley on Thatcher

Correct.If Scargill wanted to run the country he should have stood to be an MP and not try to bring down a government,like it or not,that was elected by the populace. His political attitude took the miners down the road to nowhere and there in truth lies the blame.