nostalgic for the control and the values that we had. people talk about the winter of discontent and the excesses of the trade union movement as it s styled and as it s caricatured by the press, which was extremely hostile. i m nostalgic for the balance that we were creating. i think society was becoming rebalanced in the 70s. thatcher not only crushed the trade unions, she brought in the big bang. she got rid of paternalism in companies. when you worked at a factory, notjust in bournville, in cadburys, but nestles as we used to call it in west london where i used to work, any of the brewers, any of the factories had football fields, social clubs. some of them had housing. my first house i bought was a railway house, provided by british rail and provided by the great western railway. all of that has gone. people now disregard the workforce as something that s under their shoe in some ways. not if you re an office worker, but if you re doing refuse