Being from the North the miners strike is the most bitter memory indeed my facebook yesterday is full of ex miners/families rejoycing her passing.

The same people though choose to ignore it was a strike orchestrated by a fame/power hungry Scargill who wanted nothing more than victory over the tories.

Scargill SHOULD have had a ballot but was that hell bent on the strike he couldnt wait or risk losing a ballot.There was no way fresh from the Falklands that MT was going to lose and imho her war wasnt actually against the miners but solely against Scargill and others like him.

Yes the pits did create jobs but no one since has really turned a profit running a mine have they?