Post by redintheface on Sept 14, 2024 14:01:09 GMT
Sept 14, 2024 8:16:04 GMT eca said:
From memory it was the Conservative Party under Heath that caused all the country to come to a stop You are remembering the three day week in the early 1970s when the three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom in 1973–1974 by Edward Heath's Conservative government to conserve electricity, the generation of which was severely restricted owing to industrial action by coal miners and railway workers.
Nothing to do with the endless car strikes of the 70s etc and the winter of discontent all of which resulted in Mrs Thatcher winning the 1979 general election.
''The Winter of Discontent was the period between November 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing''