Tory voters are deserting to Reform UK - not Labour

Not really, in 1978 I had my first civilian job, as a closed shop I was forced to be a member of the AUEW and be told to go on strike regularly. The shop stewards ( mainly Liverpudlians and Glaswegians) were conducting class war against the Company we worked for, they damaged the management and cost me wages, all for no reason other than their own agenda.
Mrs Thatcher came along, binned all that rubbish, the Company did well, (still is doing well) and I earned more money for my family.
That was the reality. 

I recognise that agenda, It had been building up for some years as loud mouthed trouble makers on the shop floor took advantage of the pissed off attitudes of so many British workers who were fed up of being financially abused and of seeing profits being fed to the investors at the expense of investment into industry and job creation. 

My problem with that period is that all too often the truth about the lack of investment into into job creation along with decades of economic mismanagement of the economy is always blamed on the workforce.  

Thatcher came along with her callous corner shop ideology. You were one of the fortunate ones, there were up to 4 million people without a job and that meant millions of workers/families and their children suffered relative poverty. They paid the penalty and carried the burden of the failure by governments, the Captains of Industry and the people with the real power i.e. the extremely rich and powerful who just carried on buying the latest BMW or such like. Yes it was the workers who got the blame. One right-winger insinuated that people should get on their bike and go and find work, that's part of arrogantly dishonest political propaganda that was floating about. Thousands of businesses were closing down but if you don't have a job, that your fault.

Yes they inherited a bust economy in 1964. (and in 1974) I guess you remember Wilson's 'red hot heat of industry' in the late 1960s as he offered financial help to industry, that failed almost certainly because industrialists lacked the brains to see how best to take advantage of the opportunity. Certainly not the fault of the workers even though restlessness amongst workers was obviously on the increase at the time.

NO, its not resentment, its common sense.

If profits are paid out to investors at the expense of reinvestment (and maintenance of machinery which I personally witnessed) then profits and job numbers fall.

Of course, but you really do not need to explain the obvious to me.

Skilled workers are good at what they do and they are good for the company. They may well have their own investments in some way somewhere, but they are not business people.

Trying to compare management with skilled workers is a case of apples and oranges.

I did around 30 years in engineering (before retraining into a professional position) and I can say with absolute honesty that I have argued on the shop floor that 'if all the company you work for can pay you is two bowls of rice a day well that's it. But if the company is making big profits and is giving all of it to the CEO and his top people then there is cause for trouble.

 Ditto, if the company is paying all its profits to its investors there is cause for worry.

Your position is not in dispute.

If you had followed the thread you would have known I was referring to a particular period in history, i.e. the period when Wilson offered financial help to industry, there was a complaint at that time that businesses were paying out all their profits to investors at the expense of reinvestment and maintenance of machinery.  

Your reply to SM doesn't answer the question.