* Respectively, the Transport and General Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, the General and Municipal Workers’ Union, the National Association of Local Government Officers, the National Union of Public Employees and the Confederation of Heath Service Employees. The other common acronym of the day, ASTMS, referred to the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staff.

* The nickname was coined by the increasingly conservative journalist Paul Johnson, after the self-made Caribbean despot in Eugene O’Neill’s play The Emperor Jones (1920).