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ACFM Trip 31: Strikes

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The De-Industrialization of the British Economy

The de-industrialization of the British economy was a completely intended consequence of the policies pursued by the Thatcher government. The banks had always been more powerful than industrial capital and the manufacturers at least apart from maybe during the 50s and 60s took a concerted collective decision in the end of the 70s to do away with it. It wasn't an accident it wasn't an unintended consequence I mean this is the disagreement I would have with like you know friends of mine who were maybe liberal centuries or even sort of heath I one nation Tories. Those those people can't organize yeah they're historically much harder to organize much less likely to organize and less likely to put pressure on you so it's

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