"michael adams" wrote in message
o.uk...

"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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Don't be a sap. D'ye think that in the 50s/60s, people were not getting
fed up with unions, wild cat strikes, sympathy strikes, picket lines,
flying pickets, closed shops, and possibly other things I have
forgotten?

The majority of self styled working class people certainly weren't getting
fed up with unions, wild cat strikes, sympathy strikes, picket lines,
flying pickets, closed shops or any of those things.

Apart from some affluent factory workers in the south in the late 30's
and factory workers on piece rates during the war the 50's and 60's were
the first and only time when that section of the population ever got what
they
regarded as their just deserts.

By that you mean they wanted more. Wota surprise.

But as with the middle class houswives who tired of post war rationing

Even sillier than you usually manage.

and made their voices felt and eventually succeeded in unseating Labour,

Labour didn’t lose because of post war rationing and middle
class housewives didn’t vote Labour before that anyway.

there's no doubt that middle class differentials were being undermined in
the 60's.

It would be more accurate to say that the working class was
a lot better paid in the 60s than they had been before that.

Maggie got in because people had had enough.,

They'd had enough of "Sunny Jim", that's true enough. Who was forever
promising to deliver the unions and was failing to do so. His Heathrow
press conference following the Guadaloupe summit, regaling shivering
reporters in a winter bound Heathrow with his tales of swimming in the
warm Caribbean between sessions is what prompted Larry Lamb to run to the
wholly aprochryphal "Crisis what Crisis ?" headline in the next day's
"Sun".

Elections are there to be lost as well a won and it was a combination of
a wholly complacent "Sunny Jim" who should have gone in the autumn
but didn't, and accelerated and guaranteed Council House sales, what
swung it.