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Once U shop, U can't stop
This is such a crass comment.
The bottom line is, yes it's about economics.
Remember that in South Wales, a good proportion of miners were men who had moved from the West Country to find work and for years were paid better that farm workers. Sure, the owners made money, but the miners earned a living too - better than they had.
Out of work miners after the strike were helped financially. They weren't left entirely in the lurch.
And your mindset is entirely anti-Thatcher.
I didn't and don't support her, but I know that much of this trouble was stirred up by Scargill and his red cohorts who had their own agenda and used their union members as pawns in their political game. How much of the woes of the miners and their families can be laid at Scargill's door?
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