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Originally Posted by Chris
Very funny. You know what I meant. Do you seriously believe there was any likely scenario whereby the miners could have won?
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Hard to say, perhaps they wouldn't have toppled the government, their tactics were working though, we were going through those reserves hoarded before the strike even began, had they had support from the dockers, steel workers and more importantly the Labour party itself it could have been different, Maggie herself said “
We were in danger of losing everything,†the strike “could indeed have brought down the government.â€