DMcG the comment I was responding to was the following:

McGrath of Harlow - 08 Jul 17 - 04:29 PM

"The '70s was in many ways a pretty good time"

Which was rather rapidly downgraded by the same person to:

McGrath of Harlow - 08 Jul 17 - 08:39 PM

"It wasn't a perfect time, no time is."

Then you yourself chipped in DMcG with the following:

DMcG - 09 Jul 17 - 04:07 AM

"The 70s was a complicated time - as they all are - and there were plenty of problems including but not restricted to those Teribus listed."

Seems like we've come a long way from the 70s being "a pretty good time" with strikes just being mildly inconvenient for a just few directly involved.