Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 5/3/83; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!ncg From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: A Medal For Colonel Wilford Message-ID: <4818@ukc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 11:01:52 EST Article-I.D.: ukc.4818 Posted: Mon Feb 4 11:01:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 08:46:04 EST References: <390@bonnie.UUCP> <123@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: ncg@ukc.UUCP Distribution: net Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.flame:8265 net.politics:7472 Summary: In article <123@ihlpg.UUCP> jcgowl@ihlpg.UUCP (r. gowland) writes: >> >> On Sunday, January 30, 1972 Lt. Colonel Derek Wilford led his troops >> of the 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment in an operation which > >This is not an attempt at humour, but a statement of feeling by >an expatriate Brit concerned about people. Why did Col Wilford do >this twelve years early and in the wrong place. He should have >been set onto Arthur Scargill and his rent-a-mob pickets. >This is probably not a view which my employers would have, so I >had better disassociate this personal view from any connection >with anyone who might be regarded as my employer. Just watch the U.K. for the next couple of years, and you may see it happen. Whatever other criticism you may/may not level at Margaret Thatcher's government, who can deny that it has been divisive? With the sole exception of the tiny Kent coalfield, the Miner's strike has been a conflict between the South and the rest of Britain( ie the wealthy, employed South vs the others). It never used to be like that. There already exist Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Nationalist Armies. I wonder whether we will see Northumbrian or Cumbrian ones. I am speaking as a WASP, English Southerner, who voted for her in the last election. Nigel Gale