On Wednesday, 9 September 2015 09:51:13 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 09/09/15 08:35, Jaffna Dog wrote:
PM Edward Heath made the decision to restrict electricity supplies to
three days a week, and then blamed the unions. The public didn't
swallow it, that's why the Tories lost the election in 1974, and they
still blamed the miners and took it out on them in the 1980's pit
closures.


As an example of how to rewrite history to fit bigotry and prejudice
this has to be one of the finest examples every produced.


The unions did not make the decision to restrict supply to a three-day week, Ted Heath did for political reasons, and it backfired. Continuous supply could have been maintained until coal stocks at power stations were exhausted, and then sections of the grid around oil and nuclear plants could have been islanded, and the North Scotland Hydro-Electric run independently from the rest of the Grid.

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