This Was Britain
It is 25 years since strike action at the Cortonwood and Bullcliffe Wood collieries led to the year long national strike action by the National Union of Mineworkers, which became known as ‘The Miners’ Strike’.
Spitting Image puppet, Roy Hattersley popped up on the BBC last night, accusing NUM leader Arthur Scargill of being a ‘romantic’ [...]
1974 Ridley Plan ‘Confidential Annex’
1978 Economist on the Ridley Plan
Published in The Economist May 27, 1978
(1) The Conservatives intend to demand that each nationalised industry achieve a set rate of return on (variously defined) “capital employed”. This rate of return, once laid down, would be “totally inflexible”. If managers did not achieve it they would be replaced. They would, however be supported in whatever [...]
