Yes, Richard, I do have a memory.
I have a memory of being on duty to provide fire fighting cover for the Firemen's strike in 1977.
I have memories of one of the troops on my squadron going to Glasgow to clean the streets of rubbish in '78.
I have a memory of being on standby for going to Liverpool to bury bodies at the same period.
I remember RCT lads driving oil tankers past picketts of striking hospital porters when they'd stopped the civvie drivers from delivering fuel oil.
I remember the same strikers vetting people trying to get to hospital casualy departments to see if they were sick enough to pass.

That is why I am a Tory and that is why I will never vote for a socialist in any form.