Quote Originally Posted by Once U shop, U can't stop View Post
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Bob, you are not reading my post with understanding - it was primarily to do with the 1970s.
And you are conveniently totally forgetting the 1973 miners strike.
I have a clear picture of postmen's strikes. My father-in-law was a postman. They would go on strike at the drop of a hat. Surely you will acknowledge that.
BTW, I was a member of a trade union in the 1970s - and have never voted Conservative.
I’m hardly forgetting that 1973 strike when I mentioned it in one of my earlier posts.

I can remember the guy with the handlebar moustache, name of Tom Jackson, who was the leader of the post workers union, just as I can remember all of the seventies strikes that had a big impact on people’s lives, but it wasn’t like that in the eighties, things had changed no matter how much Scargill tried to make out they hadn’t. There was no need for the matter to be resolved in the manner it was, but Thatcher and her party were out for revenge and communities have been paying the price for that for nearly forty years.