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Country getting close to anarchy??
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<blockquote data-quote="Swarfmonkey" data-source="post: 6858561" data-attributes="member: 144242"><p>[USER=10610]@glasshouse[/USER] </p><p></p><p>The truth is that the Labour government of the time bore the majority of responsibility for the fuel crisis, mostly stemming from Shinwell allowing the NUM to get away with bullsh!itting over coal extraction rates. He'd been warned about it in the autumn and did nothing about it. Needless to say he blamed <em>everyone</em> but himself and the NUM. A lot of employers ended up shutting down due to the rolling blackouts he instituted, with the result that 4 million ended up on the dole.</p><p></p><p>Shinwell himself was an interesting character to say they least, and a monumental hypocrite. He was all for nationalising UK industry but he didn't like it when other states did the same to British assets in <em>their</em> countries. When he was Minister of Defence (a job he was given having been booted out of the role of Minister of Fuel and Power) he wanted to send troops in to protect British assets that the Iranian government was nationalising. </p><p></p><p>4 million unemployed, high taxes, rolling blackouts, many not being able to get enough coal to heat their houses, rationing. Not a combination that made for a happy population.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swarfmonkey, post: 6858561, member: 144242"] [USER=10610]@glasshouse[/USER] The truth is that the Labour government of the time bore the majority of responsibility for the fuel crisis, mostly stemming from Shinwell allowing the NUM to get away with bullsh!itting over coal extraction rates. He'd been warned about it in the autumn and did nothing about it. Needless to say he blamed [I]everyone[/I] but himself and the NUM. A lot of employers ended up shutting down due to the rolling blackouts he instituted, with the result that 4 million ended up on the dole. Shinwell himself was an interesting character to say they least, and a monumental hypocrite. He was all for nationalising UK industry but he didn't like it when other states did the same to British assets in [I]their[/I] countries. When he was Minister of Defence (a job he was given having been booted out of the role of Minister of Fuel and Power) he wanted to send troops in to protect British assets that the Iranian government was nationalising. 4 million unemployed, high taxes, rolling blackouts, many not being able to get enough coal to heat their houses, rationing. Not a combination that made for a happy population. [/QUOTE]
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