Unions not having an abundance of good will is a pretty sad excuse for bad policy Thatcher was voted in for one reason: that taxpaying voters had just experien

Unions not having an abundance of good will is a pretty sad excuse for bad policy Thatcher was voted in for one reason: that taxpaying voters had just experienced the Winter Of Discontent and wanted something doing about it once and for all. Whether that's good or bad is a matter of perspective but that's the context in which it happened.