General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Whups

From what I saw in the documentary at the weekend, Thatcher and the then Tory Government had started planning after the previous Gormley led strike which defeated a Tory government that they were out for revenge with an immdiate plan to kill off the mining industry and the militant NUM by training certain Police forces like the Metroplitan Police trained storm troopers and the non-mining areas in army type tactics, use of the army which I have been told included the SAS, stockpiling coal, controlling the media etc, and even perlonging the strike to make mining families and communities suffer and weaken the solidarity of those on strike.

And as much as my Wife and I had given 100% support of the strike as previously stated, we had enough sense to realised that that the tactics of Scargill and his National Excutive left a lot to be desired, especially the decision to not hold a national ballot which was put across to the general public by the Tory controlled press as being undemocratic and all Scargill was interested in was the downfall of a elected government.

You only had to listen to some of the comments of striking miners who after the strike realised that the strike has acheived nothing except a year or so of poverty and hardship for themselves and their families together with the loss of small businesses in mining communities from which many have never recovered even after so many years.