Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
Yeah, but Scargill was correct, as shown in the documents in 2016. Thatcher and Mac gregor lied through their teeth about pit closures and the police were instructed to attack miners and criminalise them for picketing. It was an attack on the working class.
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.