The Blackouts Of 74....

[ToraToraTora]

Have you seen this? This is the era that made me hate unions.Can any of the TGL haters possibly tell me that she was not needed?

[webbo3]

I think you forgot the link TTT.

[ToraToraTora]

no link,it's a TV show.

[webbo3]

Oh, sorry.

[THECORBYLOON]

WEBBO, you need to top up your mind-reading pills...

[THECORBYLOON]

It's on Channel 5 in case folk want to know.

[retrocop]

Best Prime Minister since Churchill and no one in the offing to equal her in my lifetime unfortunately.
I recall leaving the section House in Molyneaux Street Paddington with my supply of candles and sit in the bar of the Laurie Arms with my colleagues. Fortunately electric disruptions did not affect the tills or the Ale dispensers as they do today. Bit like the blitz spirit I suppose. Sup up and screw the unions. :-)

[Buenchico]

Info link here, for anyone who needs it:
https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-yqn4fj/the-blackouts-of-74-when-britain-went-dark/

Programme available for streaming here:
https://www.channel5.com/show/the-blackouts-of-74-when-britain-went-dark

[ToraToraTora]

yes retro,BA, I find it disturbing the abuse she suffers,10cs for example more than once, yes she saved them, he is nasty about her. I can only assume that he's embarrassed how right she was about these union Casserole.

[douglas9401]

Yes, she was needed, possibly not for quite as long as we had her for though.

Don't get yourself so worked up about a here today, gone tomorrow politician, plenty more coming down the tracks to save us.

Apparently.

[emily1890]

I wanted to see this, but forgot what channel it was on. thanks.

[Old_Geezer]

She caused more misery, strife, division, than she ever or could ever have compensated for. Needed ? No. Although she did seem to have a healthy skepticism of the CM/EU. About the only plus she had for most of the population.

[barry1010]

I'm confused. The documentary was about 1974. Why are you talking about Mrs Thatcher?

[wolf63]

Mrs T had more balls than the rest of the party. She was a strong leader.

But the unions were there, initially, to protect the workers from their employers and to ensure that they were treated fairly. Unions had/have a place. But they became more militant and forgot what they were there for.

[Buenchico]

>>> I'm confused. The documentary was about 1974. Why are you talking about Mrs Thatcher?

A good point, Barry. Maggie didn't become PM until May, 1979.

[wolf63]

I *think* that the OP is referring to the stranglehold that unions had in some workplaces before MT came onto the scene.

[douglas9401]

And the strange thing is that none of it would have happened if Dennis hadn't remarked one night that he rather enjoyed seeing the police beat up minor stars.

Now I don't know if it was his posh accent but, next thing you know Scargill's getting a seeing to.

[Ellipsis]

> Have you seen this? This is the era that made me hate unions.Can any of the TGL haters possibly tell me that she was not needed?

The problem was in the 1970s. Power cuts, rubbish in the streets, dead unburied ...

Margaret Thatcher followed that, took on the miners and castrated many unions.

Striking trains over the FA Cup final shows that there is still a way to go. At the same time, both sides should be forced into negotiation, with legislation if necessary ...

[zebo]

It brought back memories! We had a group of friends who luckily didn't live too close so when we had out 3 hour power cut we would go over to one of the 'on' houses. It also made us decide to go and work abroad 'for a couple of years', it became 12 years and we came back much better off financially and with two children.

[barry1010]

Confusion over, it daned on me that TGL in the OP is Mrs Thatcher.
I enjoyed the documentary, it was one of the better 'talking heads' and old clips programmes

[10ClarionSt]

The Great Lunatic was a despotic tyrant who manipulated and destroyed the manufacturing base of this country so that her husbands' venture capitalist cronies could make fortunes out of the devastation she wreaked on this country. She should have been publicly hanged in Parliament Square. I would gladly have pulled open the trap door on the gallows. When she died, there were street parties in some villages in the north, one of which I went to. A really enjoyable day. Good riddance.