When a Little Shrewd Action Trumps Asking the Boss
The time when Lionel Ritchie said ‘Hello,’ Stevie Wonder ‘Called To Say I Love You,’ but in Britain, ‘Two Tribes’ Went To War’
Constable Harry Carmichael had more courage in his little right toe than the entire top floor of senior management, and he’d lost that toe to one of the first commercially available hover lawn mowers in 1979. One minor slip on a grassy embankment and it was gone.
Five years later, Lionel Ritchie said ‘Hello,’ Stevie Wonder ‘called to say I love you,’ but in Britain, ‘Two Tribes’ went to war.’ It was 1984.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dominated the Tory party, demanding their subservience. And if left to it, that fearsome woman would have had a good go at implementing George Orwell’s totalitarian vision.
Arthur Scargill led the Miner’s Union to industrial action in the face of Thatcher’s long-term strategy to destroy the mining industry. Underneath his ginger comb-over, he banged the drum. Bang, bang, banging out his protest in his distinctive staccato Barnsley accent.
Scargill’s rabid rhetoric and confrontational tactics made it clear he was determined to pursue the miner’s strike, no matter what hardships his union members endured.
