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**Chris** · 13-03-2009, 13:06

The strike ended when the NUM declared it ended and marched back to work. That was after 12 months. It may have been broken earlier than that, but the time it took for Scargill to realise he wasn't going to be allowed to act like a tinpot revolutionary isn't something that can be laid at Margaret Thatcher's door.

Deep mining in this country is something that is very, very difficult to do profitably when cheap, strip-mined coal can be brought in from elsewhere. A number of deep mines existed post-privatisation. Virtually all of them have now gone, even the ones that had undergone the modernisation that (ostensibly) was one of the things the miners objected to. On that basis I find it hard to agree to the conjecture that many of the mines that were closed pre-privatisation 'could have survived'.

I'm not saying that the destruction of families was a myth. I'm saying the notion that Thatcher is Destroyer of Families is a myth.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,090	Re: The Miner's Strike - 25 years ago yesterday.. The strike ended when the NUM declared it ended and marched back to work. That was after 12 months. It may have been broken earlier than that, but the time it took for Scargill to realise he wasn't going to be allowed to act like a tinpot revolutionary isn't something that can be laid at Margaret Thatcher's door. Deep mining in this country is something that is very, very difficult to do profitably when cheap, strip-mined coal can be brought in from elsewhere. A number of deep mines existed post-privatisation. Virtually all of them have now gone, even the ones that had undergone the modernisation that (ostensibly) was one of the things the miners objected to. On that basis I find it hard to agree to the conjecture that many of the mines that were closed pre-privatisation 'could have survived'. I'm not saying that the destruction of families was a myth. I'm saying the notion that Thatcher is Destroyer of Families is a myth.