On 10/09/15 08:38, Jaffna Dog wrote:
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.


Wonderful! I love the plot line where a man holds a gun to your head and
tells you to rob a bank or else, and then claims it was all your own
doing, for selfish reasons of self preservation!

Have you considered a career in professional lying? Law or Marketing
would be perfect, or politics.

-- New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your
heart in the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your
hand is in someone else's pocket.



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New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in
the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in
someone else's pocket.