tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212152.post-89920908488504157892008-05-10T07:52:00.000+01:002008-05-10T07:52:00.000+01:00Sorry to go on about the miners strike but I think we should try to generate light rather than heat.There was more than attack on third parties at Glasson Dock South Wales and South Yorkshire inter alia.The Police did not turn up en mass on spec it was a response tothe mass picketing initiated by Scargill so while not all striking miners were involved in murderous attacks ther was a huge amount of bullying and intimidationand I must come back to the nub there was no ballot and the Tories had won an election on a perfectly clear prospectus given that and the history of the miners you didn't need the gift of prophesy to work out what would happen. Scargill misjudged hugely split the NUM and hastened the end of the mines. Its what socialism does.Of course it is sad that that British workers are denied the chance to work in dark dangerous pits get lung diseases and die young but strip farming hand loom weaving and candle stick making werefine and noble occupations that have gone that is what capitalism does.<BR/> When this authoritarian has finished removing the right to remain silent has introduced 42 day detention without trial stopped waging a pointless and expensive war in Iraq and given up on taxing the poor do please mark me down as a friend and admirer of Margaret Thatcher along withall those who bought their own council houses privatisation shares and did a little to get out of the thrall of the state.slippernoreply@blogger.com