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Originally Posted by Mancie
But there was no negotiation offered to the miners.. it was take it or strike..to try to make a case that that strike lead to the selling off of the national gas or electric is rubbish .. the tory cabinet in there untold wisdom had decide to sell off any public owned industry to anyone..people forget the reality of the strike in '84.. and people are to easy with words when they say the public are against the strike by BA staff... BA staff are members of the public like you and me.
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They also dissembled and sold the railways - and look at the mess that has landed us with. I grew up in the glorious days of steam which, I grant you were filthy, smoke and soot belching monsters, but boy: they were spectacular.