They are a pack of thieves When I was able to vote, at the age of 18, I did vote for the Labour Party for two elecetions; I thought they were for the working man but that soon changed, how? During the late 1970's, the party line changed as they were run by the Unions, and each time any Trade Union asked for a pay rise they got it, this lead to endless strikes, and a horrorific inflation rise. Contrary tiopopular theory, Margaret Thatcher saved the UK, she didn't break the Miner's strike, their leader Arthur Scargill did by asking more than the country could pay for coal. The situation became so bad, it was cheaper to pay for coal from Sweden , than to mine ours, add to that he had his men working three shifts on double pay, and the seams soon died off; the only coal we get from the UK now, is called sea coal where the seam has collapsed, and the coal is found on the beach. In more recent times, Bristol City Council , which is run by Labour, made me redundant with th