Half of Tory Voters want energy re-nationalising.

In 1970 I worked at the Electricity Council in Milbank Tower. This co-ordinated the work of the generating and supply boards.

Taken from Wikipedia -

"The council's responsibilities included

advising the Secretary of State for Energy on matters relating to the electricity supply industry in England and Wales
helping the Electricity Boards in England and Wales to improve efficiency
advising on the financing of the industry in England and Wales
organising certain research
maintaining the industry-wide industrial relations machinery"

The Council became defunct with privatisation in 1989/90 and was finally wound up in 2001.

I remember that there was a cable between Lydd and Boulogne which supplied electricity from France to the UK. It came into service in 1961 but it was subject to disruption because of damage by fishing nets.The cable was laid upon the sea bed.

There have been others since.

Listening to the radio today it seems that Truss is set upon cutting back on employment legislation. There are many areas which are no longer unionised and the work force has suffered because of that.

An example is hairdressers. My niece trained with one of the large chains after leaving school. If someone was ill they were allowed up to 4 days off sick and then had to get back to work. Even with sick notes.

A downside was the closed shop, as operated by the print unions, whereby job vacancies went through the union office and an candidate had to be signed on by someone who was already a member. The was also the falsifying of employee records using fake names such as Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck.

The saddest thing, IMO, was the Wapping Dispute of 1986, which eventually resulted in the removal of the newspapers from Fleet Street. I was working in an office just behind Fleet Street before and during the dispute and the buzz that came from the buildings when the presses were working and the vans hurtling out along Fleet Street to deliver the bundles of papers was amazing.

During the next two years all the newspapers moved to Wapping with new equipment and a much smaller work force and Fleet Street, as the centre of news died.
At the start of the strike more than 6000 employees received dismissal notices.