Originally Posted by
Deeranged
Lost my job in 1980 as a direct result of Thatcher and her 'big bang', as some see it, policies. Just out of school, got a decent job then the witch kicked Scotland square in the nuts - wonderful woman (bitch). My brother had been working for the same company for five years, also out on his ear. She pulled a trigger and shot Scottish industry right through the brain, taking all and any worthwhile work down to Tory voting Englandshire; that was the only 'big bang' I perceived at the time.
It did force both of us to look elsewhere, and if I'm being honest we both did well enough, but we also had to spend years back studying when we could have been earning. We were lucky enough to be able to return to study, some people couldn't and ended up well and truly scrapped.