@fixingmylife
Regards water, take a look at:
Water scarcity: MEPs to debate how to ensure every European has access to water | 16-10-2023 | News | European Parliament (europa.eu)
UK weather seldom results in droughts and water shotages. The last I remember was in 1976 when you could be fined 5 pounds for using a hosepipe.
Removal of free school milk commenced in 1968 under a Labour Government.
Also, imagine if you were one of the mining families. Her "Iron fist" shouldn't be applauded. She forced miners to work in dangerous conditions
I am from a mining family. Both my father and his father worked in the North East coal mines.
My grandfather died before I was born. Cause was a throat problem which prevented him from eating well.
After 34 years working in mines, from age 16 to 50, my father was happy to take the redundancy package of 1500 pounds per year of service and 7/8ths pay for rest of his life. He later worked for the NHS.
After the strike was over, even the younger ones were happy as they had a big chunk of money to spend and being young enough to find something else. It happened as his two younger brothers found employment locally not long after the strike.
The strike was a battle of ego's. The NUM had never been defeated before. That the PM was a woman was also an issue.
In the mining villages, the husband was usually the only one that worked. The wife's duty was to run the house and do as they were told. If not, a heavy clout often followed. Reporting to the police on the beat made little, if any, difference as there were men too.
So, the miners fought out of pride, even though they knew the redundancy packages would be good, but never dreamed they would lose.
My father blamed Scargill for making the strike illegal which enabled the government to confiscate NUM funds. As time passed, they went back to work as they had families to feed.
What the NUM and the miners overlooked was Thatcher's preparation methods. Coal was stockpiled. The Army and the Police were bought with good pay rises.