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Originally Posted by joeysteele

You can be very selective at times arista, I recall reading of the horror of the 3 day week and power cuts galore in 1973/early 1974 under Edward Heaths Conservative govt.

Labour gets accused of being in the Unions pockets, yet this was a Labour administration helped to have been brought down by Unions in 1978/9.

I say Labour administration because it wasn't a majority Labour govt,it had the support of the LIberals in Parliament until 1978,it had no overall majority from late 1976 and so in effect was a party in office that could only govern with the will of Parliament as to what it could do.


Also, in 1978/1979 the mass of the Labour party under James Callaghan was in no way anti Europe, we had just had 3 years earlier a vote by the UK to be in Europe by a solid majority.

It was the miners that caused the problems with Heaths government, that held the country to ransom, forced power cuts and a 3 day week. It was directly because of that, that Thatcher set out to destroy their capability to do that ever again.

Labour were responsible for the rubbish in the streets, its just not correct to try and blame others. The Callaghan government was absolutely awful. It was labours abysmal record during that period that prompted the voters to elect Thatcher. Of all the governments from the 60's through to the present day, the Callaghan government was the worst by a country mile.