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    That's a laugh there Howard.

    Are you suggesting that the country was any less divided before 1979?

    It was a mess, industrial relations all built around 'them and us', Unions rampant destroying whole industries with restrictive working and strikes. That really was a divided nation - I remember in the late 70's being taken to a secret location for a meeting where action was planned 'in support of the civil power' to break a threatened general strike.

    The fact that the country is less divided now than then is down to the success of the post-1979 Conservative government. The old trade unionists who loved their bullying ways of the 70's and socialists may resent what has happened but we are a better country as a result.

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