Here it is btw. Well worth a watch in an idle hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYWsUXQrLYw&t=1s Another amusing section is 50 minutes in when they are discussing bringing the Army in to repl… (View Post)

I wonder if deploying the Army would have split the Labour movement? We'll never know. I remember seeing a documentary recently with a senior Labour figure of that time who blamed the unions for… (View Post)

You think it has killed nationalism stone dead? (View Post)

There could have been something she had done as LotO or as a Cabinet Minister under Heath, or something in the Conservative Manifesto. I agree, the decline in support between 83 and 87 needs some exp… (View Post)

Looking at those numbers, it's not obvious that it's Mrs Thatcher, as she won as many seats in 1979 and 1983 as did Ted Heath, nor is it the Poll Tax, because the Conservatives won more sea… (View Post)