DingDong

[Dinosaur]

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.

[Dinosaur]

Don't confuse the scraps from the table for anything other then that.

So you've dug as a vol taking home less than £20 a week then? [luckily beer was cheaper then] However s**t the wages are now they're still better than being being on the dole - MSC (one of Maggie's) wacked up the wages for diggers lucky enough to qualify, and PPG16 (why-another of hers, amazing!) whacked them up a whole lot more, and continued to do so until quite recently...I think it's just a little unfair laying a downturn in the digging profession that happened more than a decade after she left office at her door?

[GnomeKing]

LOL

[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk"]
[/URL]Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead' closer to number one spot as it reaches midweek top ten following Margaret Thatcher's death




"A CAMPAIGN by internet trolls to get Judy Garland's 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' into the charts in reaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher has almost succeede" !!! :o



hmm...

http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/forum...b48c9daf53

http://www.anarcho-punk.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=69661
beardy23? - "I am an old anarcho hippy peace punk from Dundee in scotchland"


err...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014449473#post1
"The creators of a website called Is Thatcher Dead Yet? – set up in June 2010 – have been receiving threats on Twitter after the death of the former prime minister."

http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/

i.c.




(lol @ > "Cher fans were left worried after an unfortunate hashtag meant it was read as #[B]NowThatChersDead[/B]... http://dspy.me/YItHpS ")
[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk"]

Dr_Tad


[/URL]

[Kel]

Which year was it then - they certainly played havoc with some of my exams?

Think that was the Three-Day Week January to March 1974, part of the 1973/4 "Winter of Discontent". I remember playing board games in the evenings by the light of a Tilley lamp. Some of the few occasions on which our father interacted with us kids on a congenial basis. I rather enjoyed it.

[kevin wooldridge]

Think that was the Three-Day Week January to March 1974, part of the 1973/4 "Winter of Discontent". I remember playing board games in the evenings by the light of a Tilley lamp. Some of the few occasions on which our father interacted with us kids on a congenial basis. I rather enjoyed it.

That's right and lest we forget that was under a Conservative government that included a minister called M Thatcher......

[pdurdin]

Wow, nearly as much bile in this thread as in the Time Team one.

[Kel]

Think that was the Three-Day Week January to March 1974, part of the 1973/4 "Winter of Discontent". I remember playing board games in the evenings by the light of a Tilley lamp. Some of the few occasions on which our father interacted with us kids on a congenial basis. I rather enjoyed it.

Hang on, I'm getting myself completely tangled up here.

Three Day Week was 1974 under Heath and the Conservatives. Strike action by miners which resulted in dwindling coal supplies and rotating planned powercuts.

Winter of Discontent was 1978-79 under Callaghan and Labour. That involved strikes by lorry drivers, nurses, gravediggers and bin collection. No powercuts as a result of strike action, but it was very hard winter so those would've have been happening from downed power lines and the like, as we've seen this winter.

Looks like neither political persuasion had a monopoly on stuffing it up.

[CARTOON REALITY]

Looks like neither political persuasion had a monopoly on stuffing it up.

That's the crux of the matter - and while it used to be unions steering the ship, now it's banks and lobby groups.

(ahem.)

Goodbye
Mrs. Thatcher
As they lower her
Don't catch her.
Caulked inside
The crate
While below
The miners wait.

[Dinosaur]

None of the same in the 80s though? - that I recall anyway, though most of those might have passed un-noticed in the standard dig accomodation of the day that Carrickavoy seems to think we should be returning to (tents with no tv or money to buy a newspaper)

[kevin wooldridge]

None of the same in the 80s though? - that I recall anyway, though most of those might have passed un-noticed in the standard dig accomodation of the day that Carrickavoy seems to think we should be returning to (tents with no tv or money to buy a newspaper)

Apart from the Miners strike...and the steelworkers strike.....and the Poll Tax strike..and the Greenham protests. Mark Steel ha a piece in the Independent about Corby - a whole town killed by Thatcherite policy..not a million miles away from one of the largest archaeological excavations carried out in the 1980s. I guess a lot of archaeologists didn't realise what was happening on their doorstep....