":::Jerry::::" wrote in message
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"John Cartmell" wrote in message
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:::Jerry:::: wrote:
Do you really think that paying ten people to do one mans work
was
efficient, that was British industry BEFORE the '80's!

That's what you were told. You obviously believed it. It was a lie.

snip Jerry babble

I'm not talking about her vindictive approach to some unions but
her
realisation that UK industry was un economic.

Because it was very badly managed. It was changed to be extremely
badly
managed.

...and who were trying to tell the management how to manage?...


Re reading the Labour Manifesto of '79 I suspect that Callaghan
had come to
the same conclusion and would have used oil revenue to re
structure the
countries industry, if only he had gone to the country in '78 -
before the
'Winter of Discontent'...

Absolutely. But the 'Winter of Discontent' was almost 100% tabloid
fiction.

By that I take it that you are no
more than about 30 years old

Jerry, that winter was few high profile strikes. There was no mass
employment or deprivation.

The mainly successful attempts by the Labour (with Liberal)
government to
reduce the 'through the roof' inflation of the previous Tory
government had
hit especially hard on the lower paid. Letting go after a period of
restraint
is always particularly difficult but the government were (mainly)
managing it.
The Liberals bailed out of the coalition in order to reduce the
political cost
at the next election of being in government and the tabloids
scented blood.
Thatcher solved the very tricky and delicate problem of possible
re-inflation
by destroying industry and letting unemployment rip to way over 4
million
after being elected on a 'reduce unemployment' ticket.

That is your take on the facts,

Jerry, that is 100% factual..

Getting back to something close to uk.d.i.y. I worked at finding
jobs for
people in the building industry during the 70s and managed a
close-on 100%
success rate to get joiners, brickies, plasterers, H&V Engineers,
&c in work
at the end of a six-moth training course. Employment prospects
never got back
to that in the 80s and 90s - and house prices didn't go down
because that
'over-employment' had disappeared.

'Finding jobs', were they real jobs or were they created to keep
people off the dole?

Jerry, they were real jobs.