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You’re the one re-writing history, Fans. In the 1980s the unions were holding businesses to ransom and refusing necessary changes to improve efficiency and productivity. Print unions were a classic example as new technology was desperately needed while the unions wanted to continue with practices dating back decades.
As for the miners’ strike, Scargill should have listened to Deerey. The coalmines were, like so many industries at the time, very inefficient and closures were increasing. Scargill thought he could do to Thatcher what the unions had done to Callaghan in the late 1970s, but as I recall no ballot was held to support the strike by the members. I couldn’t stand Thatcher but there was no doubt the unions were supporting completely outdated working practices and something had to be done. Now we’re seeing history repeating itself with outdated working practices on the railways that desperately need to be reformed.
As for the free market making energy prices go rampant, you couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s the Government that is forcing net zero on the markets. If wind energy was as efficient as being claimed then we wouldn’t be needing the gas and coal now being used to prop-up the failing renewables; and if net zero wasn’t being forced on the markets we’d still have the investment necessary to keep the gas flowing at an affordable price.
What’s more, it’s highly likely that Putin would never have been able to afford his invasion of Ukraine had he not been in a position to hold the West to ransom as a result of insane net zero policies.