No-one's nostalgic, but 23 years after the Winter of Discontent, Britain could well be heading for another season of industrial strife.
For years the Conservatives used the Winter of Discontent to warn voters not to trust Labour again. they hope to do the same with debt, the banks and that obscure rate few of us understand, called LIBOR.
The analysis shows that national income per head dropped much more sharply in the four years to mid-2012 than it did after the recession which came in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and the 1979 oil shock.
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But - within almost the same breath as insisting the firefighters were too sensible to think they could return to 1979 and the winter of discontent, or 1984 and the miners' strike - he repeated his message that "industrial militancy to pursue political ends is not on".
The hot summer weather during the early stages of the 1984 strike meant Britain did not suffer a second Winter of Discontent.
Without ditching his arsenal of ironic inflections and his nonpareil ability to make knowingness hilarious as well as smarmy, Murray takes Phil all the way through a prolonged winter of discontent and into a pixillated serenity.
Boycott pointed to England's winter of discontent, where they struggled on and off the field, as a major reason for their difficulties.
When I first became a journalist in the mid 80s I was asked to research a film on a new winter of discontent.
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