Deadly December is shaping up to be as traumatic as the miners’ strike of 1984 and the winter of discontent of 1979.
Industrial action grips virtually every part of public service. Workers are up in arms. But there are big differences between this winter and those dramatic events of almost half a century ago. I know, I was there. Today’s Tory politicians were not.
These are not the same strikers. They are the sons and daughters – grandsons and grand-daughters – of workers in those momentous years.
