succeed wrote:
Legal implications set aside, ( as clearly our own Education Secretary doesn't think they are relevant

) I have to say, even I was astounded by his latest suggestion. Is it just me, or has this man completely lost his mind? I would be interested to hear what others think....
Modern History GCSE, Paper 1.
Answer one question. Do not write on both sides of the paper at once.
1. Did the Winter of Discontent secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible? Or did it, as others have suggested, usher in seventeen years of Tory mis-rule during which the Labour Party engaged in a civil war which destroyed its electoral credibility for a generation. Discuss.
2. Did the Miner's Strike of 1984 secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible? Or did it, as others have suggested, give the Tory party electoral support to destroy an already weakened trade unions movement, while the Labour Party engaged in a civil war which destroyed its electoral credibility for a generation. Discuss.
3. You start with far-fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council -- a Labour council -- hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers. How far would you agree with Neil Kinnock?
4. For minority Conservative government whose major policy initiatives have run into the sand and whose popularity is waning, a public sector strike complete with trotty posters is like all their Christmases come at once. How far would you agree with Ed Miliband and Ed Balls?