Chapter 1548 – The Great Layoff

“Why?” Queen Yoon Lisa Bai wondered, since she had decided not to interfere with the running of the government, an early solution to the problem at hand would suffice.

“Or to use this to make the Prime Minister understand that not only is Her Majesty more beloved than she is, but in fact Her Majesty is more beloved than all Prime Ministers.” Alan Wilson replied, “After suffering the steelworkers for a while, I still have some scheming to implement, and I promise nothing will happen.”

The Queen could theoretically veto the Prime Minister, and the reason why she doesn’t move it is because it’s also sort of the limit one for one, and once that power is used to replace Margaret Thatcher, the new government could find a way to take it away in Parliament around that one power.

Surely the Queen would not want to lose this one power that will never be taken away if it is not moved, because of a Prime Minister.

Still, Alan Wilson, thinking about the operations of other monarchies, found a lesson in strengthening the authority of the monarch in Thailand, a country with a very powerful monarch very rare in modern times.

In fact, this and Rama IX’s personal inseparable, in fact, in a certain short period of time, Thailand’s monarchial power has received a great weakening, it is Rama IX personal in the midst of one after another political turmoil, and the forces of all sides of the combined, and the king of Thailand’s power to bring up again.

Thailand is very much like Japan before it was occupied by the U.S. If the U.S. hadn’t won the war against Japan, and Japan had avoided unconditional surrender, Japan would have been another Thailand, and wouldn’t have had the development it has had, much less become a supernumerary member of the European and American blocs.

In the 1930s, the authority of the then King of Thailand had vanished into thin air, and the kneeling ceremony had been abolished. After Rama IX succeeded to the throne, it took ten years to push the royal family, which had become almost transparent, to the front of the stage again, and the kind of kneeling ceremony in Thailand, in which the king stands and you kneel, and the king sits and you lie on your stomach, was restored at this time.

Thai king never personally participate in politics, good things such as donate money ah, build schools ah, all do it yourself, and do good things must leave a name, Thai primary school students to stand up before class to thank the king to give them books, Thai people watch a movie, the credits have to play the king’s big picture, and then the movie theater people stand up to pay homage to the king.

Bad things like arresting people for disrespecting the royal family, plundering the royal franchise, massacring democrats and protesters, that kind of thing is left to the government.

Queen Elizabeth has been on the throne for thirty years now and many of the monarch’s pulling the strings of the people are very foreign to many British citizens nowadays.

Doesn’t Britain now have a government that has just finished suppressing the steelworkers, and a Prime Minister who has been notorious since his days as Secretary of State for Education.

So this time with the steelworkers’ blood eucalyptus, Queen Elizabeth should still express her sympathy, it helps to increase the influence, and from a personal point of view donating money to take care of the families of those who died should also be done.

“Her Majesty just needs to express sympathy for the striking steel workers, and when the Prime Minister makes this round of suppression, the Queen can take care of the orphans of the dead from a personal perspective.” Alan Wilson persuaded the Queen and her wife that while it would be good to run into things and hide from them, it would also be good to make good use of the fame that had been built up over the thirty years of the succession to the throne to extend the positive influence of the royal family.

Leaving Buckingham Palace, Alan Wilson saw the sky is late, first let the prime minister to wait a day, let Radwicky sent himself to Princess Margaret side, he so defended the royal family, can not enjoy enjoy it? There are some treatment on the promotion is also deserved.

Defending the monarch, Alan Wilson spoke with abandon, connoting that important members of the royal family are not hygienic, and no one believes it when it is passed on.

Princess Margaret exasperated by the PUA, aggrieved self defense, “all shaved clean, if Pamela you certainly dare not say so.”

“Pamela is much more hygienic than you.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to strike his sister-in-law’s confidence, with a not too big or not too small voice dripping, “screwed up I have no interest at all …… in Moscow I still want to come back early, but it turned out to be treated like this, it would be better to stay for two more days.”

The supreme authority was not only given physical pleasure, but also mental suppression, poor Margaret, ah, was played with.

Early the next morning, Alan Wilson, who had been busy all night communicating with the royal family, relayed the Queen’s concerns in front of Margaret Thatcher, “Margaret, don’t worry, Her Majesty still understands that it’s not easy for the government, it’s just that this one caused bloodshed, and it really did shock the Queen to the extreme.”

“It’s work time.” Mrs. Thatcher stared into the man’s eyes and reminded, how many times had it been said that she could no longer call her by her first name during working hours, and the other party acted on it. Even old acquaintances couldn’t do that, she was Prime Minister now.

“The Prime Minister must have been under a lot of pressure lately, but the end result was good.” Alan Wilson thought to himself it’s not just a name, he shouted Margaret all night last night.

The toughness in dealing with the steelworkers has brought good results, that is the dead and wounded may not see it that way, but there is no denying that the steelworkers’ strike is de facto over since the RUC went out and scored one of the rare cavalry victories in modern times.

These rogue unionists, who had wreaked havoc during the Labor years, were for once finally getting the treatment they had long deserved, and could they make any more trouble than the RCMP? Alan Wilson suggested that the RCMP should be given a commendation to show the government’s toughness in the midst of this riot.

Margaret Thatcher nodded her head in agreement, “The army and the police service, have an irreplaceable role to play in defending the law and order of the country.”

“The Prime Minister is so right, at a time when Britain is facing a critical transition, the government must make a firm move to defend the country’s interests, the government can never please everyone.”

Alan Wilson gave Margaret Thatcher verbal support while dragging the Soviet Union out to lie down, “Only a country like the Soviet Union, which treats people as if they were machines, has that unrealistic idea that everyone is equal. The world is full of lazy people who just happen to have been born in Britain to have the life they have now, put them in India and they wouldn’t be much better off than Indians, maybe worse off.”

Alan Wilson’s words were not accepted in their entirety by Margaret Thatcher, but at this time, when she was under immense pressure, it was comforting enough for her to have supportive voices. Of course, it was not easy to really take control of the situation.

Margaret Thatcher realized that her first and foremost task was to repudiate the Labour government’s established policies, to perform major surgery on Labour’s economic policies dominated by Kainzism, and to abolish Labour’s package of socialism, including the nationalization policy.

Britain is at a time when unemployment is breaking into the millions, a record high since the thirties, and skepticism is rising from all quarters, not to mention the fact that she doesn’t even have a unified Conservative Party. As Alan Wilson said, there was only one day’s road ahead of her and it had to work.

If halfway through, she would be nothing more than a failed Prime Minister in the eyes of the British citizens, and would be mentioned mainly in derision, and only success would reverse Margaret Thatcher’s current predicament. At this point in time Alan Wilson once again reiterated that he would be behind it with firm support.

“Margaret, nothing is a problem as long as ultimately you are able to reform successfully.” Alan Wilson kind words of comfort, unknowingly walked behind Mrs. Thatcher and said, “Citizens are also forgetful, don’t look as if every aspect is dissatisfied, in essence the vast majority of people as long as we throw them a bone that can fill their stomachs, they will be like a dog wagging their tails and rushing up.”

“Hmmm.” Mrs. Thatcher just hmmm, her shoulders were once again supported by a pair of hands, and could not help but cough a reminder not to go too far, the two of them now only have a working relationship, but the thought that she still has things to cooperate with the other party, but also decided to show a bit of femininity, “The civil service is too big, it must be dealt with to be able to do so.”

“Our coworkers, they are all national pillars who have served the country for their entire lives.” Alan Wilson mused for a moment, just now the warmth disappeared, “Let’s just get the steelworkers out of the way first. Dealing with enemies on different levels at once is a taboo of war, the Germans suffered twice on two fronts.”

Mrs. Thatcher nodded back after a moment’s thought, perhaps there was a bit of a rush now, and it really was time to ride out the steelworkers’ strike after it had been suppressed to bring things to a grand finale.

Sir Michael, the Queen’s press officer, declared in a statement to the public on this day that he was worried about the evolution of the steelworkers, but that the Queen had finally decided to adhere to the idea of not interfering in the running of the government, although the Queen had every right to do so, and in the meantime the Queen and her husband were willing to donate one hundred thousand pounds in order to provide humanitarian help to the families of the victims by order of the Crown.

Queen Elizabeth’s stance has won her the praise of the vast majority of the media, which is only natural, as the Queen’s approval ratings are perennially higher than those of any Prime Minister.

On the other hand, Margaret Thatcher’s side held a cabinet meeting to discuss the response after successfully suppressing this strike. At the cabinet ministers’ meeting, everyone expressed their own views, but Margaret Thatcher had already made up her mind to take advantage of the steelworkers’ failure to ride out the strike without doing anything else.

Eventually Margaret Thatcher announced, to optimize the British steel industry, aimed at steel industry global competitors to enhance the competitiveness of the plan to enhance competitiveness of the specific method is to close the equipment backward and loss-making steel mills, layoffs and optimization and integration, to achieve the turnaround of the steel industry to profitability.

After the cabinet meeting, Alan Wilson got the optimization and integration plan of laying off half of the workforce, picked up the phone and called British Steel, “I’ve tried to block it as much as I can, but it’s failed. Half of the steel workers are going to lose their jobs this year, well, let’s change the vocabulary and call it layoffs and re-employment. That’s it!”

As the document was issued, the layoffs that would ripple through the British steel industry would begin immediately, with only half of the steelworkers retaining their jobs during the year. The news was a windfall for the steel industry.