Militant medics are destroying the NHS

Militant medics are destroying the NHS

As soon as Margaret Thatcher came into power in May 1979, she instructed senior ministers and civil servants to draw up secret plans to win a confrontation with the National Union of Miners. She had seen how their strikes, supported by other key unions with targeted picketing of ports and coking plants, brought the country to a standstill and destroyed Ted Heath’s Conservative government with power cuts and a three-day week. Thatcher was determin