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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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!

Fighting for better pay or conditions of service is holding a 'gun to your
head'. Or, of course the more usual 'holding the country to ransom'. But
then hyperbole does tend to be a tool of the extreme right wing.

Did you actually live through that period?

Of course it's far better now. Loads of the poorest on zero hours
contracts at minimum wage. Just what big business ordered.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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