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Originally Posted by Peter Mallett
True Tim, but these days we have even less industry in the UK than the seventies so at that time, when the strikes hit home, it was immediate. Nowadays we all rely to a greater or marginally lesser extent on the markets, money makes money, not industry these days. That means we are all exposed to the losses where in the 70's we weren't.
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Peter, I was thinking along those lines the other day. We used to have massive manufacturing, coal and steel industires, to name a few, to fall back on. Now they are all gone and once the finance industry is dead as we are now just a nation of warehouse keepers what will keep that afloat?