10th April 2013, 08:13 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:The miners didn't strike in 78-79, the power stayed on
Which year was it then - they certainly played havoc with some of my exams?
All I seem to be able of the 70s seems to be strikes and it was the best decade of TOTP. Didn't this country have British car industry once? (pre-1970s) GPO strike anyone? - think the modern world would collapse without phones (or the modern equivalent, the Net)...
The coal industry in general wasn't paying its way and needed trimming, and even the profitable pits that were kept have long since gone bust which rather proves the point. Interesting comment from Neil Kinnock of all people that it was Scargill who was the villain of the Miners' Strike, not Maggie.