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From: dbrown@watarts.UUCP (Dave Brown)
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Subject: Re: A Medal For Colonel Wilford
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 23:30:27 EST
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> 
> Just watch the U.K. for the next couple of years, and you may
> see it happen.
> 
> Whatever other criticism you may/may not level at Margaret Thatcher's
> government, who can deny that it has been divisive?
> With the sole exception of the tiny Kent coalfield, the Miner's
> strike has been a conflict between the South and the rest of
> Britain( ie the wealthy, employed South vs the others).
> It never used to be like that.
> 
> There already exist Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Nationalist Armies.
> I wonder whether we will see Northumbrian or Cumbrian ones.
> 
> I am speaking as a WASP, English Southerner, who voted for her
> in the last election.
> 
> 
> 
> 			Nigel Gale
  
As a Canadian born from Northern English parents, I hasten to tell
the Southernor that people in the North have long resented the
South. It's just that now the politics have increased the resentment
to boiling point.

   Sincerely yours,

                    Dave Brown
 P.S.  I didn't think there were any coalfields in Cumbria?