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Hey, I have to say, I'm so sorry all.....I'd completely forgotten about this post and I've only just found it again. Sorry!
You're all right of course from differing views and recolections of the time.
Coming from a NW coal mining village near "Fiddlers Ferry" I felt it greatly, even though I'd long since left the industry by then. Families were and are still to this day torn apart by family members who went back to work after almost 12 months of striking for their jobs. Yes! their Jobs! ..Not as many a Tory would have you believe..Money.
It was their JOBS they were fighting for and the belief in their industry to provide for the future. IMO They (and Arthur Scargill) have been proved to be right. WE are now at the mercy of the world coal price cartel which has risen along with the oil price...
Arthur said it was folly in 1984................IMO he was right.
One thing for you people of a "right" persuasion....We should have listened to Ted Heath, The Miners I believe could have done business with him for a far better future outcome for our Nation. He at least tried...alass he failed, though not for the want of him trying..
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