"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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john james wrote:
Just as Thatcher was elected to do a specific task, take on and reduce
Union power for the good of the non Union nation,

That isn't what happened. That's what she decided to do once elected
and it was a pretty close run thing whether she got to do that too, it
was only the Falklands that saved her bacon and allowed her to do that.

What was quite interesting was the idea - still in force now - that the
only reasons for strikes etc was a lack of true democracy in unions. The
majority being sheep lead by a few wolves.

Must admit the idea of the majority of hairy arsed miners (or whatever)
being bullied into something they didn't want by a handful seemed
ludicrous to me.

And the introduction of postal ballots etc made not the slightest
difference in practice.

Yet the same views are still expressed today.

Always seemed odd that MPs (and governments) are happy to be elected by a
small percentage of those eligible to vote - but want different rules for
others.

There isn't really any viable alternative with MPs except
compulsory voting and that has real downsides too.