[BossMark]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

So it seem this ludicrous government created "panic" was from a deliberate policy to try and make the union look bad.

“This is our Thatcher moment. In order to defeat the coming miners’ strike, she stockpiled coal. When the strike came, she weathered it, and the Labour Party, tarred by the strike, was humiliated. In order to defeat the coming fuel drivers’ strike, we want supplies of petrol stockpiled. Then, if the strike comes, we will weather it, and Labour, in hock to the Unite union, will be blamed.”
source....http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...-anything.html

Yeah I remember the coal miners strike well (being one myself) Arthur Scargill walked straight into that evil cows trap. If he had taken a ballot on all his members he would have got the vote and the backing of a lot of other unions, (like the dock workers union) and the out come would have been totally different.