It is very easy to point the finger at the end of our favourite bike directly at the unions, but as with most things to take an incident in history is to forget history itself. Some might say that the start of the demise was the spanish war, compounded by the Dictator Franco and the way workers under the socialist government held restrictive practices. To have such a devisive dictator who was only deposed on death meant a lurch to the left, as much as anything to facilitate entry to the then EEC.
We all regret Bultaco closing and if indeed the workers ended up on the breadline there is nothing really to be grateful for.
(the accuracy and simplistic short nature of the above is obvious)
