Quote Originally Posted by pomeroy View Post
IMO and many others saw Scargill’s ill judged attempt to overthrow the Thatcher govt. as a perverse last stab by a major union to have some kind of power sharing, if not outright power, in the body politic. It failed dismally because the vast majority of people didn’t want to know. The following years saw substantial dismantling of union power by parliament which has not been rescinded since by parties of any persuasion. Even though there has been an increase in union membership for the last 4 years trade union membership in 2020 was only 23.7% of all employees.
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.