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Whupsy

Yoo were used as political pawns by Scargill to bring down the government, you were his troops, his canon fodder, and YES you were right about the hit list of pit closures, in 1984 I believed the list existed and so did everyone I spoke too about it, but that wasn't the reason for the strike, the Tories had, had ten years to prepare for the next confrontation with the miners, and the damage was done in 1972 when during that miners strike the power stations were picketed by flying pickets, which in effect meant that the power would stop to be generated in a matter of days, and then there was the mass flying picket at Saltley LINK

That was what 'forced' the heath government to conceded to the miners, and it was to easy for the miners, so they did it all again two years later in 1974 and they brought down a democratically elected government, and the Labour government just gave the miners what they wanted for the rest of the 1970s, but then after 1974, every bugger and his dog went on strike, the country was broke, they had to go cap in hand to the IMF in 1976 for a loan.

Whupsy, you are always making snidey comments to me about 'Thatcher' yoo accuse me of being a supporter of hers, but Whupsy, in life you should get to know your opponents, and get to know what you are up against, Scargill should have realised that Thatcher would never back down, and would do whatever it took to win, and a shrewd man would have realised that it may have been preferable to have waited until Thatcher had gone, before launching an attack, but Scargill was too thick to think that way ......