You obviously haven’t followed the thread. You are deluded in thinking that Scargill gave a toss about pit closures. Pit closures, which would have happened anyway and did under a Labour Govt., were merely a false premise veiling his tactically inept grab for power. Scargill himself criminalised picketing and made it illegal by not having a democratic secret ballot of his members, which he was advised upon by some of his sidekicks as something he would lose. If this idiot had called a ballot prior to striking there would have been a lot more public support instead of as it turned out practically none.