> Tis true, the General Strike has been written out of history, in our
> lifetimes, Robbie.
Joking aside, this really +isn't+ funny. As if Vietnam didn't exist for the
Americans.
And it's not just our lifetimes -- you're of an age with me, so it's both
our grandparents: TWO generations.
Silence, fucking silence. A hole in what we're allowed to imagine.
The only exceptions I can think of are both Scottish -- Cloud Howe and The
Drunk Man.
Feeling mildly paranoid at the moment (waiting for the Stranglers on R2 in
half an hour). But it's not just the media -- my father (bless him) didn't
talk about it. It was from a casual aside he made that I found out my
grandfather worked the trams.
And that was Glasgow -- I could look out the window and see Gallagher as an
old man walking down the road.
So how did Middle England deal with it? Churchill with his tuppeny tommy
... That's the iconic image.
Robin
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