Another difference was that the Welsh and Scottish referendums - unlike that of 1997 - took place as the Callaghangovernment slowly ended amid economic and political meltdown.
In the UK, the Callaghangovernment of the 1970s flirted with the idea of setting up an oil fund, but in a time of mounting economic crisis it was too tempting just to grab the money.
In the end, it was the unions themselves who put her into office by smashing up the James Callaghan Labour government in the winter of 1978-79 the so-called Winter of Discontent enabling the Tories to win the election the following May with a comfortable majority.