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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
http://news.sky.com/gallery/1500355/...-miners-strike
I think the decision not to have an enquiry on this, is disgusting.
I have a feeling that if there was an enquiry, it would brings up things that Margaret Thatcher ordered the police to achive, whatever it took to destroy the miners - which it did
And probably give the miners the names of the culprits in government like Thatcher into disrepute.
What Thatcher to do was crush the Unions, which she achieved. But what it did was to rip the hearts out of a community.
Which is still going on now, where families wont talk to each other.
I remember going to Wales on the M4 and seeing convoys of Lorries with Police Escorts coming towards London. And it was a sad sight
This is what Cameron is trying to do today, by crushing the Unions.
The Unions are there to protect the workers right.
There should be am enquiry, and my god would that blow things out the water
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As sure as night follows day, as sure as flies land on a cow pat, there's an opportunity for Thatcher bashing and Arthur's there.
Some facts, even though you will doubtless ignore them:
1. Harold Wilson closed more coal mines than Margaret Thatcher. *Everybody* knew that Britain's aged deep mines were on their last legs.
2. The miners strike was illegal, even by the more relaxed union rules of the time. This was the ruling of a high court judge, not some crazed right wing toffee nosed miner-hating Tory minster.
3. Arthur Scargill was attempting to use the power of the mob to bring down a democratically elected government. That may well be the sort of Britain the miners wanted to live in; it was not the sort of Britain everyone else wanted. They lost, and deserved to. Thatcher, of course, went on to win (again), two years after the strike ended, with a larger Commons majority than Cameron has today.