In the thread about the miner's strike, I'm reading some comments that suggest Thatcher acted because the unions were trying to control the government rather than the electorate and one of the union biggies (Scargill?) had no problem with that.
(Pushing the government to expand coal-powered plants so that the union's grip on the country's short hairs would get even tighter. That strikes me as not a whole lot better than OPEC commandos sabotaging alternative-energy projects, only done through the mechanism of the state.)
So how might we get it so Britain is de facto a soviet state--not part of the USSR (no upper-case "s"), but one in which the state is controlled by the unions and not the electorate?